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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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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the other hand, If everyone would use adblockers, maybe content creator market would evolve into viewers supporting their favorite creators directly, or youtube having a subscription model that is much better than a current one in a way of user experience and creator support.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

i tried to "unblock" my ads for some channel owners, nope instant bombard with tons of ads.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trust me, there's no way people are going to fund creators that much.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.minmaxedrpg.com/

Literally a bunch of martial arts YouTubers that keep getting asked by fans if they would play D&D together, so they started a patreon/gofundme and got back almost 500% of their funding goal in only 2 days.

People absolutely would/will fund the creators they care about.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

i think people are unaware that google takes most of the ad revenue from them, thats why they use PATREON as a source.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 1 day ago

If Patreon was enough, youtubers wouldn't enable midroll ads