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YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Patch@feddit.uk 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription)

Well I should bloody well hope so, considering you also get far less than cable.

YouTube is still mostly amateur or indie content, most of it short-form, and most of it frankly just not very good. There's still stuff on there worth watching, and I know some people really do consume a lot of content on there in the manner of watching TV back in the day, but objectively it really isn't the same thing as professional studio content. I can watch some random guy in Ohio do a 15 minute review of some niche thing I'm interested in as much as anyone can, but there's no way I'd consider that worth the same value as a long form TV series or feature film.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Less? I'd argue YouTube gets you way more than cable

There's a buttload of high quality content