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Scare screens Irrelevant (startrek.website)
submitted 21 hours ago by pEg@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The people say "just pay for premium" don't seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 minutes ago

I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.

You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube's slop filled premium family.

Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don't want their music, i won't use it, the quality is crap.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What are scare screens in this context?

[–] Logical@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

I think it's referring to the "you can't block ads on YT or we might ban you" popups you get on YT occasionally, if you're using an adblocker. I have only had it happen once or twice before I did a quick online search and found an extra filter or two to add to uBlock Origin, and then I stopped seeing them.

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 1 hour ago

What is a scare screen?

[–] b0ber@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

A big chunk of ad revenue goes to content creators, so you at least support them.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

While this is technically true, this only works because of the scale. Each individual user contributes less than pennies.

If you really want to support a creator, donate 5 dollars to them every year and you will be more valuable than any ad viewer.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's just not true... When you have YouTube premium, you pay the creators you watch proportionally to your watch time of their content out of your subscription. You are giving them more of your money the more you watch that specific channel.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 minutes ago

A cap of 50% of your youtube premium goes to the creators.

Small creators are given a pittance, large creators get the lions share, even with equal watch hours.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, of all the subscription services I don't think YouTube is very egregious. The people you watch earn way more from you that way than watching ads.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

I block all ads. Content creators earn more than I do by shilling for any company giving them 2 cents. They can fuck right off if they start crying about adblockers.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

They show screens about that ? I haven't seen any !

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 points 32 minutes ago

Yeah and they are pretty bad in terms of wording. It’s like „Try premium now for free“: „Yes“ or „Next time“

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

On desktop I get the "Video running slow? Disable your ad blocker" popup in a corner. But videos loaded normally.

On mobile everything was fine until recently. In the last couple of weeks, videos do have a small lag before loading. Still preferable to ads. And I'm just using the browser's in built blocker.

[–] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 minutes ago

I would not be surprised if Google deliberately introduces slowdowns to some ad blocker users.

[–] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Unlock origin always always always free

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