alt Hacker NewsIt's not a product where you are the user. Your attention is the product being sold to advertisers and the videos are a harvesting/production mechanism.
It is not in the interests of either YT or the advertisers to allow you to opt out of features that are proven to be lucrative for eyeballs.
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tsimionescu • today at 5:09 AM
This line of argument would make sense if they did allow paying customers who don't see ads to disable these anti-features. They don't.
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ajkjk • today at 5:26 AM
joke's on them, I have not consciously experienced a youtube advertisement in ten years
charcircuit • today at 4:56 AM
YouTube has multiple different products. YouTube as a company do not call your attention a product. There isn't a product team that is in charge of people's attention as a product.
I’m a Premium subscriber. I don’t see ads, and YouTube added a feature so I can easily skip in-video sponsored sections.
It seems like the incentive for Premium subscribers should be to keep them happy, so they keep paying, and minimize how much they watch, as they’ll be a cheaper user using less bandwidth.
Am I missing something?