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A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I don't know man. This is actually pretty genius. Because this way creators still get paid. I wouldn't mind using such extension on Firefox. Problem is I still want to block all trackers and other nonsense...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Doesn't the creator only get paid if someone actually clicks on the ad? Pretty sure the creator gets nothing if no clicks are accumulated.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Haha two exact opposite answers. From what I remember, the advertiser can chose the payment model. They can either say "I will pay YouTube a tiny amount for every time the ad is shown" or "I will pay YouTube a less tiny amount for every time the ad is clicked". But it was a few years ago that I read about it so it might have changed since then.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I tried actually searching for info about it, but it seems that YouTube and Google want to be as vague as possible about how it actually works.

    Yes, let's be a YouTube creator and base my income on something extremely vague and shaky. Sounds like a good life decision.

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