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A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by atrielienz to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 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...

[–] Tattorack 3 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, on YouTube you also earn from impressions.

[–] viralJ 3 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] Tattorack 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kronlid 1 points 1 year ago

Yes its all about click through rate(CTR)

[–] CheeseNoodle 2 points 1 year ago

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