YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    4 days ago

    They have a literal monopoly on the service and the analytical data the sell makes more money then advertising ever could.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      3·
      4 days ago

      Analytical data they sell to a very authoritarian government that verges on totalitarian.

    • Vince@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I don’t doubt that they sell data, but it would have to be monumental to actually fund all their hosting needs.