YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users::undefined

  • Zana@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I open a stream, get a 45 second ad, close the stream, and go do something else. Congrats, you just killed any enthusiasm I had about your platform.

    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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      1 year ago

      Preroll ads never made any sense… those first few seconds are when you’re deciding whether to watch that streamer or go elsewhere. An ad makes me go elsewhere without the streamer even getting a say.

      Some streamers never use ads, but I think the bigger ones are contracted to do so.

      • Zana@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah they definitely have an X amount of minutes of ads per hour in their contract.

    • BURN@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      100% of the time I do the same thing. I subscribe to 1 streamer max per month and get ad free there, and pretty much don’t use the platform outside of it