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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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[-] goatinspace@feddit.org 20 points 5 days ago

Businesses pay youtube to show ads and viewers pay youtube to not show ads.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I don't pay not to watch ads. Especially as "paying for no ads" has long turned into "watch less but precisely selected ads".

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I want to be the tube

[-] Chonk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

We should rather start paying the content creators on some other ad free platform.

[-] VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Isnt that what Floatplane is? I'm broke so I can't find out lol

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The funny part is that the people who can afford to buy the products in the ads are the ones paying to not have ads.

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