Yeah, if at any point YouTube succeeds in killing the adblockers, then I’ll just stop watching youtube and only watch the creators that upload to Nebula
I was just following a frittata recipe and my teen came in and we had a brief discussion on how overused video already is. In particular how tough it already is to follow a recipe on YouTube. This will make it impossible.
Then again, they don’t care about me since I already don’t watch YouTube, because of how intrusive the ads plus the poor quality of most content. I subscribe to a news service, but I also stopped looking at recipes there as well since they’re effective at blocking print to file and bookmarks die quickly.
I have a brilliant idea for YouTube: put porn ads in on your pauses and I bet those eyeballs will watch more ads than content! Everyone wins... except the children...
They really will keep pushing this until it's 1% content, 5% sponsorshit, and the remainder ads that are injected straight into your eyeballs like Pulp Fiction. With a fire hose.
Tried showing some people some YT videos on a "smart TV", instead of my usual uBO+SponsorBlock+BlockTube on a PC. It is fucking awful. It verges on being literally unfuckingusable by being so much of a bitch it's easier to just not watch anything on it.
16 Comments
TypicalHog@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 2y
And I feel pretty pumped about blocking them.
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz · 25 pts · 2y
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
i avoid youtube, so i don't really mind, but if they put more of those and less before or during the video, that would make me avoid it a bit less
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
kinsnik@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Yeah, if at any point YouTube succeeds in killing the adblockers, then I’ll just stop watching youtube and only watch the creators that upload to Nebula
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Use a Firefox fork with uBlock and you'll have a decent time of it. Including playback in the background
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
blargerer@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y
If pause ads are static, silent, and replace midrolls, sounds like an improvement for everyone.
HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Replace! Ha! Oh blargerer, you are a wit!
dan1101@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Not for me, often when I pause I'm trying to see the video content paused on something.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I was just following a frittata recipe and my teen came in and we had a brief discussion on how overused video already is. In particular how tough it already is to follow a recipe on YouTube. This will make it impossible.
Then again, they don’t care about me since I already don’t watch YouTube, because of how intrusive the ads plus the poor quality of most content. I subscribe to a news service, but I also stopped looking at recipes there as well since they’re effective at blocking print to file and bookmarks die quickly.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 2y
hasn't Pornhub been doing this forever?
mjhelto@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I have a brilliant idea for YouTube: put porn ads in on your pauses and I bet those eyeballs will watch more ads than content! Everyone wins... except the children...
penquin@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
zeppo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
It did explain it, I thought. Pause ads:
misanthropy@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Because screw you if you want to pause a video to read something
penquin@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 2y
zeluko@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
I will guarantee you, these will be additional ads, not replacing existing ones.
penquin@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
zeppo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Of course it disappears when you start playing the video again. Some video sites already have had ads like this for a few years.
amio@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
They really will keep pushing this until it's 1% content, 5% sponsorshit, and the remainder ads that are injected straight into your eyeballs like Pulp Fiction. With a fire hose.
Tried showing some people some YT videos on a "smart TV", instead of my usual uBO+SponsorBlock+BlockTube on a PC. It is fucking awful. It verges on being literally unfuckingusable by being so much of a bitch it's easier to just not watch anything on it.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Fuck Google