For babies crying I just come to the YT premium threads on HN.

Admittedly don't watch LTT because basically the content is the advertisement. Maybe it's changed.

It’s crazy to ram as they did a revenue breakdown recently and the sponser segments was way tinier than I expected - like 10% or in that range. I was annoyed just knowing they shit on their videos just for that tiny profit boost.

Oh just get the screwdriver already, will you?! :)

LTT does have some interesting videos, but yeah, most of their output is full of ads.

How does Twitch do it? They're super aggressive and even using third party clients that do a good job and not displaying ads, you still get an occasional "commercial break" screen where they're not serving you the content, or the ad, just a "let's all go to the lobby" screen.

Twitch puts the ads directly in the HLS stream, but as seperate segments from the content (a HLS stream is made of many small video files, on twitch they're about 2s long). They're trivial to recognize and filter out (they're actually explicitly tagged as ad segments) but it still won't serve you the actual stream you were trying to watch - the ad segments override it. The best you can do is just block until the first non-ad segment arrives.

Those clients could be doing a better job - when twitch starts playing an ad on the main stream, they also provide a secondary stream that shows the actual content.

i believe that secondary stream is used for picture in picture so its lower quality, like 480p or something

Maybe; I don't know anything about it. I will note that that belief could easily develop, true or not, if twitch streams start out in low resolution and increase as you buffer them.

A third-party client has room to make a dramatic improvement on the twitch experience by not dropping audio while you make the switch from the ad stream to the content stream.

IME this turns off the premium benefits, stupidly

Oh that's weird

Eating a sandwich over two sittings is easier than using 1 month subscription over two months, at least in my country.

That's an ingestion problem

You are a contemporary yuppie, congratulations!

Call me crazy, but it would appear that the United States of America doesn't have a large appetite for high-paying critical roles held by foreigners

I don't think things are going to get any better before they're really, really much worse. Nobody's going to do anything until someone does way too much.

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