A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads

Technology@lemmy.world – 552 points – 11 months ago

Clever workaround speeds YouTube ads up instead of blocking them [Video]

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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The "Look at what they need to do to have a fraction of our power" Invincible meme comes to mind.

Pathetic to be satisfied with sped-up annoyances when they can be easily skipped altogether with a browser not controlled by the ad company.

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...

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.

No, on YouTube you also earn from impressions.

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.

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.

Sounds about as stable as asking the all mighty magic 8 ball how much you should be paid. Maybe yt should just do that for the creators and let them in on it. /s

Yes its all about click through rate(CTR)

Agreed, I'm testing it on opera and might have it installed for the soel purpose of watching youtube (with firefox for everything else)

Firefox and just pay for a reasonable 30 second YouTube ad which is just a blank screen with the text "Use Firefox Already"