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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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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 42 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I recommend Peertube. There's not much there yet, but myself and others are trying.

Also, did you know you can upload your video to Peertube and have YouTube pull it via RSS? That's what I'm doing!

All of my stuff you'll find on Peertube and I don't have to do anything else to get it up on YouTube.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

No one will create content without ad revenue. Peertube is doomed to fail.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 hours ago

Lots of people did it on YouTube for years. Even more on other platforms.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot survive off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago

Flash..... flash macromedia... the golden age.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Well, no. It's been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.