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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot survive off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Flash..... flash macromedia... the golden age.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Well, no. It's been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.

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