Ah yes, because what I want when I tell my computer to stop playing audio and video is for YouTube to play some audio and video of some random thing I didn’t ask for at like 3x the volume of the video I just paused. Thanks google. Such an innovative company!
Didn’t you hear? There was strong traction in the tests. They know what’s best for you. Shhhh
Yeah, and I definitely never pause a video because I want to look more closely at the frame I paused it at. Obviously, covering it over with something different is exactly what I was hoping for!
Ladies and gentleman, this is why competition is desperately needed. It’s only going to continue downhill from here…
Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There’s no competition because there’s no money to be made here.
Honest question here: what would stop me from starting a video, then pausing it and walking away from my computer for several hours so youtube plays ads to no one?
Now repeat but with several tabs.
And bonus points if the videos simply happen to be mine and I were to enable monetization on them.
Hmmm…
A reminder to close the app that also reminds you how much you hate Google.
Don’t use YouTube if you like privacy
Or use some frontends like invidious or piped.
They can put as much ads as they wan’t they will be blocked, and there always will be a way to block them.
I hope this doesn’t become one of youtube’s “experiments” that quickly become forced on you
Pornhub called, they want credit for the idea
I just got one of these the other day. I picked up an Nvidia Shield because I was tired of my shitty Samsung TV not being able to stream Plex correctly and Google is the only data devil I’ve made a deal with. I hadn’t watched much YouTube on it I guess until last night and I couldn’t believe how many ads I saw.
Holy. Shit. YouTube has ads in the middle of fucking videos now? And then I paused and saw another ad and about lost my shit. Immediately looked up how to adblock on Android TV. Jesus it’s invasive.
Strong traction on the tires that will run over the heads of Youtube HQ people maybe. But other than that i dont see any traction.
UBlock origin advanced mode blocking most JS + NoScript blocking functions of certain JS functions. Easy
Their strategy to combat ad blockers is to add more ads. Logic becomes irrelevant when youre surrounded with a cloud of greed. Ublock ftw.
My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.
Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.
It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.
Jokes on them, ublock origin still works just fine for me.
Just imagine what a website like YT would look like in 2035 without any ad blockers.
Idiocracy had it right https://contraditorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IDIOCRACY-TV.png
Embedding:
Nothing is overlaid directly on top of the content.
Sadly it looks to me a much better experience than the current state of the ad space…
Why even show content? It’s the ads that people are actually here for! Can you imagine the audacity of people, wanting a little creative content amongst our cloud of vapid, capitalistic hawking.
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I’m getting strong traction to finally get around installing pihole.
You should, but it specifically doesn’t work for YouTube. PiHole works by blocking DNS requests to known ad servers. But YouTube hosts their own ads on the same servers that host the videos. So if your pihole blocks the ads, it also blocks the videos you’re trying to watch.
Doesn’t work for YouTube adverts 😭
Ublock and Sponsorblock on PC and ReVanced with Sponsorblock on Android
Lol nice try youtube. This will be blocked and you can’t do shit about it
Strong traction from whom?
Executives!
