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YouTube is now hiding the skip button on mobile too (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Iirc the skipped ads don't generate any revenue

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 months ago

So we suffer and they don't even make money... Hmmm

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

That’s actually interesting if true… considering they still have to stream us video, Pay the bandwidth and all but don’t generate any revenue. Makes me almost want to Let the whole ad play but skip it at then last second so it only costs them money.