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YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ladies and gentleman, this is why competition is desperately needed. It's only going to continue downhill from here...

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There's no competition because there's no money to be made here.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, and that's where the issues lie. It will never get better because there is no competition to force Google to improve and they know that. Therefore, free reign.

[–] glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

Competition is useless, better to have federated networks and do videos for profit and find other ways to pay for content to support content creators if they need support. Block ads everywhere, work in those fields is better than calling for competition and creating competitor that will win over google and become new google.

There will be adblocker to block this also don't worry.

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 4 points 6 months ago

And sadly the biggest competitor is Rumble and it's terrible