>>100234592both platforms are in a pretty bad place right now
twitch saw some BR streamer who shows ads more than he streams but has a large audience and thought "this is the model streamer, you should all strive to be like this" while also putting in 30 seconds worth of unskippable ads unless you pay for twitch turbo. They also are actively paying adblockers to whitelist their site which is why things like adblock and ublock don't work most of the time. They pay more money to force you to watch their ads thean on fixing the website
youtube refuse to back down. You're not watching ads so you must suffer. Popups about blocking ads, popups about your account will be banned because not watching ads is against TOS, and now the big thing is their own system that searches for the right place to put in an ad. How does it determine where to put an ad? it just guesses. Or it searches for those few seconds of a black screen within your video and puts it there.
But the catch is, even if you do this there's no guarantee you'll get an ad there. And also you cant earn revenue otherwise.
Watch our ads or your favorite youtube will be culled
why is this happening? because people have developed this almost face blindness to ads. They can recognize an ad anywhere, (You) can recognize an ad when you see one and it's very likely that (You) are willing to go out of your way to block ads (i.e. download brave, download different extensions, things like that)
and these companies know that, but they don't care. That's fine, you don't have to watch our ads... but we're going to punish your favorite content creator if you don't
I doubt there's much they can do about livestreams, but I really hate to see the day where you're forced to put ads in your vods after stream or earn nothing on it
