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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

They can't do that because of YouTube premium. They know they're making a lot of money from people who don't want to see ads.

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

the problem is not the premium. The problem is the personalized ads.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not talking about the EU's issue, I'm talking about why they could never embed their own ads in videos. Because people pay for premium specifically to not see ads and they would have a mass cancellation on their hands.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is a non issue, on twitch if you sub to a streamer you don't see ads and they are embed in the stream for non paying users still, and it's pretty hard to block for free.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I was responding to:

I feel like they’re eventually just going to embed the adverts directly into the video streams. No more automated blocking, even downloading will make you see ads.

That would be embedding the ads directly in the videos, which I do not think they will do.

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

yes. This is what I replied at. Having a version with ads and a version without ads is not that big of an issue. The issue becomes huge because the ads are personalized which means that they cannot even have a version with ads since the ads are different for each user.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's an issue of storage space if nothing else. It means doubling all of their videos. Why would they do that? As others have pointed out, they have other options when it comes to dealing with adblockers which don't violate any EU regulations and even this is pretty tenuous. So they don't need to do that. They can just prevent the site from working properly if you have an adblocker.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Then those users would get the ad free stream.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which users? The ones who pay for Premium? That's the whole point of Premium.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, those users.

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