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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

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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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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] Vince@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

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