... that Youtube puts into videos, often right in the middle of someone speaking.
Honestly, I'd rather have to sit through as much as a minute or so of unskippable commercials at the beginning of a video than I would having to see even 5 seconds of a commercial that happens right in the middle of a sentence.
Either creators need to provide special marks in their uploaded videos which can indicate to youtube when commercials may possibly be inserted, or youtube should not allow the video to be publicly viewable unless the video has already been suitably sponsored and Youtube would not need to insert commercials into it anyways. Youtube could even provide tools for creators to assist in this, so that they may optionally provide time indexes after uploading a video which are points where Youtube can insert commercials if it wants to.
Youtube could even provide tools for creators to assist in this, so that they may optionally provide time indexes after uploading a video which are points where Youtube can insert commercials if it wants to.
I believe YouTube already have the tools [google.com], they're just not being used.
What you are seeing there is mostly pirates monetizing OTHER people's stolen content. That particular flavor of criminal is getting paid by the google for the ad clicks.
When I submitted the story I should have included a list of the forms of abuse. I'd only rank that one third or fourth from the top. I think the worst abuse is actually the fake news sites using YouTube to spread their lies and propaganda with viral marketing approaches.
It seems like there;s already a way to do this. Lotts of the ASMR videos I watch / absorb are an hour or two long. Most Youtube videos of that length would have several ads inserted in the middle, but somehow the ASMR channels I watch get all the ads inserted at the beginning. Laying down to go to sleep only to get yelled at by Liberty Mutual 30 minutes later, would totally destroy this type of content. I'd quit using YouTube overnight. It seems to be too specific to that kind of content for it to be a coi
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I hate those random commercials.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Honestly, I'd rather have to sit through as much as a minute or so of unskippable commercials at the beginning of a video than I would having to see even 5 seconds of a commercial that happens right in the middle of a sentence.
Either creators need to provide special marks in their uploaded videos which can indicate to youtube when commercials may possibly be inserted, or youtube should not allow the video to be publicly viewable unless the video has already been suitably sponsored and Youtube would not need to insert commercials into it anyways. Youtube could even provide tools for creators to assist in this, so that they may optionally provide time indexes after uploading a video which are points where Youtube can insert commercials if it wants to.
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Youtube could even provide tools for creators to assist in this, so that they may optionally provide time indexes after uploading a video which are points where Youtube can insert commercials if it wants to.
I believe YouTube already have the tools [google.com], they're just not being used.
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What you are seeing there is mostly pirates monetizing OTHER people's stolen content. That particular flavor of criminal is getting paid by the google for the ad clicks.
When I submitted the story I should have included a list of the forms of abuse. I'd only rank that one third or fourth from the top. I think the worst abuse is actually the fake news sites using YouTube to spread their lies and propaganda with viral marketing approaches.
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It seems like there;s already a way to do this. Lotts of the ASMR videos I watch / absorb are an hour or two long. Most Youtube videos of that length would have several ads inserted in the middle, but somehow the ASMR channels I watch get all the ads inserted at the beginning. Laying down to go to sleep only to get yelled at by Liberty Mutual 30 minutes later, would totally destroy this type of content. I'd quit using YouTube overnight. It seems to be too specific to that kind of content for it to be a coi