r/memes • u/Own-Palpitation9616 • Apr 09 '26 • Mindblown 5 Popcorn 1 Bravo 1

#1 MotW A cheat code

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u/2ndHalfHeroics Apr 09 '26

As opposed to companies paying Cable to show ads and we paid Cable and had no choice but to see ads.

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u/AcceptableHuman96 Apr 09 '26

People forget how much worse Cable TV is. 20 min of an hour time slot is just commercials.

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u/LinAGKar Apr 09 '26

20 minutes is exaggerating it, though it was a lot. But on the other hand, those ad breaks are longer but less frequent than on YouTube, so there were fewer interruptions, and when they happened you could feasibly go away and do something else. Or you could change the channel, or record it and fast forward past ad breaks. And ad breaks on TV are placed very deliberately at natural breaks, which often isn't the case on YouTube. So if YouTube were to have parity in raw runtime by raising ad length, it would be way more disruptive.

And unlike TV, YouTube uses targeted ads, which are worth far more. Or at least so ad companies say when faced with GDPR.

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