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I pay for YouTube so all I get is paid creator promotions for VPNs and Squarespace unless it's someone being sent a free thing in exchange for a review Normali

I pay for YouTube so all I get is paid creator promotions for VPNs and Squarespace unless it's someone being sent a free thing in exchange for a review Normalize paying for things instead of selling your attention to the highest bidder.

cryptoegorophy 1y ago
Buying YouTube premium is the single best online decision one can make.
- BLKNSLVR 1y ago
  So, now we should all pay money to avoid being advertised scams? That's a pretty good scam.
- gishh 1y ago
  I choose to not watch YouTube. I was born in the 80s, am a software engineer, and I’ve watched maybe 10 total hours of YouTube, all 100% of those hours were car-repair related.
reaperducer 1y ago
Normalize paying for things instead of selling your attention to the highest bidder. But you just admitted that you pay for YouTube and it shows you creator promotions. You are literally paying to see ads, then telling people not to do the same. Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here. I haven't been on YouTube in at least a decade. I see no difference between a blogger pushing a VPN and Google showing an ad for a VPN. The big draw for cable TV was that you could watch TV without ads. Then ads started appearing on cable and people said it's OK, because the content is higher quality and not available elsewhere. Then that changed, and now there is no difference between broadcast, cable/satellite, and streaming services. Except that you don't have to pay for broadcast. (Yet. It's coming.)
- jldugger 1y ago
  > Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here. I haven't been on YouTube in at least a decade. Youtube Premium is fighting back against the sponsor segments with this "commonly skipped segment" feature. You hit a fast forward button and it automatically skips ahead to the place most people jumped to.
  - QuercusMax 1y ago
    A year or two ago somebody asked Adam Ragusea about whether this type of skipping causes problems for creators - and what he said was basically that if viewers see the brand name / call to action at the end of the ad, that's mostly what matters to sponsors. No idea if that's been borne out in practice, though.
    - jldugger 1y ago
      So blipverts with humans clicking buttons to confirm they saw them. Neat.
- stickfigure 1y ago
  If you don't like youtubers with sponsors, don't watch those videos. Not all do. Personally I pay for youtube and I don't mind the sponsor sections. They're easy to fast forward through and income goes directly to the creator. Youtube doesn't take a cut. These are the only kinds of ads that work on me - in the rare case that the product is something I'm interested in, I go out of my way to make sure I use the creator's link. The long story short is that there are creators I like and I want them to devote all their time to making more content. I'm glad some of them get sponsors. For many I just straight up give them money on Patreon.
- macintux 1y ago
  > But you just admitted that you pay for YouTube and it shows you creator promotions. It's easy to skip creator promotions. You can also choose not to engage with creators that conduct ads. I'm fine paying YouTube not to force me to watch their ads. I can deal with product placement on my own.

cryptoegorophy 1y ago

Buying YouTube premium is the single best online decision one can make.

BLKNSLVR 1y ago
So, now we should all pay money to avoid being advertised scams? That's a pretty good scam.
gishh 1y ago
I choose to not watch YouTube. I was born in the 80s, am a software engineer, and I’ve watched maybe 10 total hours of YouTube, all 100% of those hours were car-repair related.

reaperducer 1y ago

Normalize paying for things instead of selling your attention to the highest bidder. But you just admitted that you pay for YouTube and it shows you creator promotions. You are literally paying to see ads, then telling people not to do the same. Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here. I haven't been on YouTube in at least a decade. I see no difference between a blogger pushing a VPN and Google showing an ad for a VPN. The big draw for cable TV was that you could watch TV without ads. Then ads started appearing on cable and people said it's OK, because the content is higher quality and not available elsewhere. Then that changed, and now there is no difference between broadcast, cable/satellite, and streaming services. Except that you don't have to pay for broadcast. (Yet. It's coming.)

jldugger 1y ago
> Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here. I haven't been on YouTube in at least a decade. Youtube Premium is fighting back against the sponsor segments with this "commonly skipped segment" feature. You hit a fast forward button and it automatically skips ahead to the place most people jumped to.
- QuercusMax 1y ago
  A year or two ago somebody asked Adam Ragusea about whether this type of skipping causes problems for creators - and what he said was basically that if viewers see the brand name / call to action at the end of the ad, that's mostly what matters to sponsors. No idea if that's been borne out in practice, though.
  - jldugger 1y ago
    So blipverts with humans clicking buttons to confirm they saw them. Neat.
stickfigure 1y ago
If you don't like youtubers with sponsors, don't watch those videos. Not all do. Personally I pay for youtube and I don't mind the sponsor sections. They're easy to fast forward through and income goes directly to the creator. Youtube doesn't take a cut. These are the only kinds of ads that work on me - in the rare case that the product is something I'm interested in, I go out of my way to make sure I use the creator's link. The long story short is that there are creators I like and I want them to devote all their time to making more content. I'm glad some of them get sponsors. For many I just straight up give them money on Patreon.
macintux 1y ago
> But you just admitted that you pay for YouTube and it shows you creator promotions. It's easy to skip creator promotions. You can also choose not to engage with creators that conduct ads. I'm fine paying YouTube not to force me to watch their ads. I can deal with product placement on my own.