thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here’s a random day example from mine:
Unfortunately I can’t see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can’t see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the “unknown” buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don’t want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a creator, how do these things make you feel? Do you understand the users of sponserblock or …?
Ive legit always wondered if creators were always fully against adblocking, or if they understood those users and wished it was different. Idk :')
thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh yeah I don’t care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don’t make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won’t deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn’t take much, anything else is just a bonus.
You’d probably get a different answer from someone who’s into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.