“Let’s work together and put an end to attention theft.”

I remember a time before YouTube...it sounds like I will be living that time again

Why not give credit to the artist?

Soren Iverson https://www.instagram.com/soren.iverson?igsh=eGd3d3N5dzc0ZDYy

How many people would be unable to use youtube because they have a broken camera or dont want youtube to access their camera

Why track you when they can make you be unable to look away?

"There will now be a short questionnaire on the ad you watched to see if you actually listened to it. If you get below 90%, we will show two minutes of ads."

See, I have no doubt they would if they could, but i doubt such things are actually feasible.

Like right now I just refresh the page to skip ads on my phone.

I remember there being some Android phone (some generation of Samsung Galaxy S series probably) with a "feature" where it pauses video playback if you look away from it. Good thing it didn't catch on.

How to make me lose interest in whatever I was about to watch 101

I can't be arsed to modify a gravestone with youtube logo on it, but that's what it would look like to me if they pulled that off.

Just bye, good luck.

I'm already surprised how people fell into the short content trap/addiction loop. That in itself was a eye opener for me to take a step back.

This will be the death of YouTube for me. I pay for YouTube premium so this day may never come for me.

Unrelated, but seeing "2025," my first thought was "haha that's so far in the future". Jesus, for something that's six months away, that's a futuristic ass sounding date

Black Mirrorverse

People still running content blockers and piping video links in 2025: "You guys are still watching ads?"

Just stick a photo of yourself on the camera

Here's how this is going to happen:

1. Someone rolls out this technology, everyone of course, fucking hates it, especially since a lot of people have Youtube videos on for background noise.
2. Someone else uses this tech for shock value, perhaps a company putting something horrific that people can't look away from as a misguided way to get the ad in people's heads.
3. These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China getting up in arms and banning the tech.

Seems like what we're moving towards

Funny stuff, but in reality I hope they realize that if all the free users leave, that could get a lot of content creators to branch out, and they could also take the paid users with them.

I pay for premium because I watch YouTube all the time, multiple people in my house watch it on multiple devices, and we even get use out of YouTube music. It’s worth more to me than all other streaming services combined. But I’m there for all the creators and the content they put out, not for anything else unique about the YouTube experience. All they have on their side is install base, infrastructure cost, and inertia. Those are big things to overcome, but if they drive enough people away things could definitely change.

not real in 2025. 2040? not so sure

They won't do this. They can't even force you to watch every ad. Reloading the video after the first ad plays will skip the rest of the ads.

This will be me using YouTube in 2025.

\o/ McDonald's!