▲ 450 ▼ YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know (www.tomsguide.com) submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 137 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sag@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago (5 children) Next What???? Removing Title, Only Thumbnail. permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) It's currently a race-to-the-bottom in big IT & tech, where they don't look how they get you to like them but how much they can get away with, without repelling most of their userbase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don't want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you. permalink fedilink source parent [–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gemini Ai makes up a title for you. That's as cursed as I can make it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago The endgame will be Gemini generating videos based on the information they've harvested off you. permalink fedilink source parent [–] simonced@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago The title will be text to speech on mouse over. The future is here. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago* Remove the user generated videos. Only title, videoads and comments allowed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago Removing the homepage entirely, replacing the entire UI with the shorts-style format of "view video right now, tap button to see next/previous video". If you want a specific video, you must search for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) It's currently a race-to-the-bottom in big IT & tech, where they don't look how they get you to like them but how much they can get away with, without repelling most of their userbase. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don't want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don't want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gemini Ai makes up a title for you. That's as cursed as I can make it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago The endgame will be Gemini generating videos based on the information they've harvested off you. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago The endgame will be Gemini generating videos based on the information they've harvested off you. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] simonced@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago The title will be text to speech on mouse over. The future is here. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago* Remove the user generated videos. Only title, videoads and comments allowed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago Removing the homepage entirely, replacing the entire UI with the shorts-style format of "view video right now, tap button to see next/previous video". If you want a specific video, you must search for it. permalink fedilink source parent