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Sorin’s YouTube channel is under threat from YT’s algorithms !
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ebastler:

--- Quote from: gabiz_ro on October 14, 2023, 06:46:07 am ---I'm not sure Sorin explanation is 100% true based on that video.
Asking viewers to disable adblock but nobody knows what percentage of them comply to his request.

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Not only that, but he is also basing his theory on one little spike in a very noisy curve. I would like to see more data before jumping to such a conclusion.

Also, how would this approach make sense from Youtube's perspective? Putting pressure on users (to disable their adblockers) by punishing the creators does not make much sense in the first place, since Youtube can nag or block the offending users directly. But let's assume that they want to take this approach: How is this scheme supposed to work, i.e. affect user behaviour, if they keep it a secret?!

I am not ready to buy into Sorin's theory at this point.
AVGresponding:
I've moved as much of my viewing as possible away from YT to Odysee because of this.

The adblock argument is mostly bullshit; most views are on mobile these days which is harder to adblock so most people don't bother. As Bicurico pointed out, interrupting a vid with an unskippable ad with super-compressed sound is more likely to turn someone off from a product than on to it.

Some people use YT Premium, and some allow the ads, there should be space for people that want neither; limit the video resolution or framerate for them, perhaps.
tooki:

--- Quote from: karpouzi9 on October 14, 2023, 02:00:23 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on October 13, 2023, 12:55:05 pm ---If Google behaved like an upstanding citizen I’d be much more inclined to give them money.

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That's the funny thing about Google/YT. People expect Google to be an upstanding corporate citizen, maybe because it gave away everything from GMail to GMaps to YouTube for decades.

When was the last time anyone said that Shell was being a schoolyard bully for charging money for the gasoline it dispenses? Or that Costco was being miserly and greedy by still charging money for their hotdogs?

Google did this to itself


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That's not what I meant.

What I mean is that I refuse to willingly hand over cash to a company that operates like a thug: it doesn't listen to viewers (which, in the case of Premium, are customers), offering no meaningful customer service to them. It doesn't listen to content creators, offering no meaningful customer service to them if they're not among the top 100 or so. (Even channels big enough to have channel managers frequently encounter radio silence as soon as they have any real issue.) The way they handle copyright strikes is borderline criminal.

I have no problem with charging for a service. It's that even if you pay, they're a scummy company that I do not want to give money to. And that the methods used to make you choose to pay feel like outright bullying.
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