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Youtube is allowing Youtubers to advertise their merch even for premium users (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw today new “merch” section below comments. I’m a premium users for a reason, I want 0 ads.

I just canceled my subscription and moved to yattee / invidious for good.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am against abusive youtube ads (long unskippable ads, more than 2 ads per video etc) but to me, merch is fine. Merch allows viewers to directly support youtubers since they get the largest percentage of profit from merc sales vs from youtube views. Many of them take the effort to make their merch ads interesting and funny too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because you are paying YouTube for no ads not the channel.

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

Ooh guess you'll have to adblocker + premium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's an extension called SponsorBlock that automatically skips past that if you want

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

Definitely needed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

YouTube premium does allow adblock, just turn it on

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a very extreme view, my friend. A lot of Youtubers come up with good products. For example, LevelOneTechs has come up with a pretty good KVM that a lot of mainstream companies haven't been able to perfect. So I enjoy it when Youtubers advertise their merch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was so close to getting LTT merch once. Glad I avoided that.

Not that I'm opposed to YouTuber merch tho (owner of a Frank the Snake longboi plush here)

Edit: Looking at the KVM switches, I could go for one tbh. Expensive but I def have a use for it.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Dang bro, how much boot can one person lick?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People don't seem too upset about this, so I'll go off in another direction! The Youtuber doesn't understand basic capitalization, in titles or sentences, and even the channel name is botched. To add some irony, the channel has "Learn" in its name.

I'm not expecting English majors be consulted for every statement, but the most basic grammar, that small children learn, is certainly not too much to expect from an "educational" channel. That's bottom-of-the-barrel, and they still can't be bothered. Hell, there are dozens of websites that you can just drop text into, and the site will automatically fix your capitalization, instantly, for free.

They describe themselves as an "advanced level" education channel. You can't even get away with that kind of sloppiness in junior high, so the actual channel "level" is likely below that. If they can't be bothered with such a basic detail, we should not trust anything else they have to say.

Apologies for the digression, and the rant. This is mildly infuriating, but I feel better now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowledge or choice on application of grammar rules is unrelated to military knowledge and education.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I strongly disagree. How does one even acquire knowledge of military history without language skills? Youtube videos, TV shows, and movies are not "advanced level education" (their words), but writing research papers is. Even if they somehow soak up the knowledge without reading, if they can't write at a higher level than what I'm expecting here, they're going to fail their classes. Hell, they won't even make it to college.

This person is either lazy, sloppy, ignorant, apathetic, or some combination of those. Why on Earth would I want them as a teacher, when there are millions of other educators who don't have these issues? It's a red flag is all; that's my entire point. Of course, there are brilliant educators who cannot write, but the vast majority of people who have gone through higher education know how capitalization works in sentences. Again, just a red flag, not an absolute. There's no need to gamble; we owe this person nothing.

Basic language skills aren't an above-and-beyond expectation from someone calling themselves an educator, it's baseline. When even that's not met, it brings doubt to everything else they may say. Maybe you're fine with that, I am not.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine paying for youtube premium lmaooooo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's worth it personally. I use it for hours everyday for YouTube and music , you can't expect to be able to use a service ad free for free indefinitely and expect it to be able to survive. I think people are spoiled and want everything for free . I won't pay for most streaming services just to barely use it . But if it's a service I use alot I'm willing to pay for it . I wouldn't even mind ads as long as they don't interrupt or obscure the video . I do pirate things I don't think are worth paying for .

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Youtube premium isn't worth paying for. Streaming services provide content that cost millions of dollars to produce. Youtube hosts content that someone recorded in his basement in 10 minutes or so.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This isn't an ad. It's just an opportunity to purchase something related to the video, or that you've searched for, or that the algorithm has determined you'll buy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The interface, however, is very much intrusive like an ad. It will display a big banner in the lower half of the video with nothing but a "shop" button until you click up or click on it. If it just showed up in the MORE section of the description that would be perfectly acceptable.

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