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YouTube has become unbearable
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The reason i ask is that you mentioned twice about their nazi enabling stuff but you still use their service... isnt it more effectfull to just stop using their service all together?
Dont want to attack you or try to put you in a bad daylight.
Just a honest question with no ill intend :)
Shugga ?
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Sorry to go on a slight tangent, I fired up a different browser earlier and was presented with the old YouTube layout and holy moly is it so much better than new one (lack of Dark Mode aside). I had actually forgotten what it was like.
Don't even get me started on the phone app.
Don't even get me started on the phone app.
On mobile I just use one of the third party, open source YouTube applications that allows ad blocking, blacklisting by channel/phrase, and other fancy shit.
https://skytube-app.com
https://skytube-app.com
Yes, but that would require some amount of self-sacrifice.
Whereas with adblock you can not only be completely self-serving, but also pretend to have the moral high ground.
I don't know what you want me to tell you, that's how it works. There's no special trick to getting rid of ads (especially on mobile like OP stated).
YouTube seems to have upped their ad revenue game even further. It's unbearable. I use YouTube vanced on Android and a few browser mods on windows. They have put viewers in a bad spot now....
And no I will never subscribe to YouTube red unless there was actual value to be had. Perhaps they could buy rights to sport or start serious tv channel streaming.
And no I will never subscribe to YouTube red unless there was actual value to be had. Perhaps they could buy rights to sport or start serious tv channel streaming.
I know, you just sounded reeeeeaaally happy about the opportunity to pay.
My main annoyance is the insertion points of the ads though.
Btw I never see ads when I cast to my tv..
There isn't an adblock for the Youtube app, but Firefox mobile has extension support now and the adblocker people have their own browser as well.
I started using YouTube Ad Auto-skipper. It's technically not an Ad Blocker since it used to wait 5 seconds and skip, which I believe would still give ad revenue to the channels, but now it started to wait 1 or 2 seconds, so I don't know anymore.
Works great, though, would recommend.
Works great, though, would recommend.
Part of my job is making stuff for YouTube, so yes, I'm gonna lead people to means that support the creators they like. You make it sound like a bad thing.
And it's not just YouTube doing this. I noticed some news sites that used to only ever show one ad before the actual content now showing up to 3 ads before the content actually plays. Shit is getting out of hand.
It's like they didn't learn anything from people cable cutting because of excessive ads. I can only imagine that someday even Netflix will begin showing ads. "You pay for TV channels and they still show you ads, so why wouldn't we?" is what they'll say.
I don't know what happened, but a few months ago, I suddenly started getting inundated with ads on YouTube.
Channels/videos which would typically not have ads had a pre-roll ad and multiple ads inserted in the middle of their content.
I watch about 5-10 minutes of YouTube (depending on playback speed) in the mobile app on a phone/tablet a day, and it's now become unbearable because a lot of that time is now taken up with ads.
I started a Quick Look from Giant Bomb on YouTube this morning even though I am a subscriber, because they have yet to update their app for full-screen support on the new iPads, and there were six ads inserted, in addition to a pre-roll ad, for a 30 minute video:
(yellow markers on the timeline are ads)
And the ads are getting worse too - now you typically have to wait a minimum of five seconds before you can skip them, and I've seen ads which require you to watch 30-60 seconds or more.
At that point I just close the app. I hope they're tracking this.
Channels/videos which would typically not have ads had a pre-roll ad and multiple ads inserted in the middle of their content.
I watch about 5-10 minutes of YouTube (depending on playback speed) in the mobile app on a phone/tablet a day, and it's now become unbearable because a lot of that time is now taken up with ads.
I started a Quick Look from Giant Bomb on YouTube this morning even though I am a subscriber, because they have yet to update their app for full-screen support on the new iPads, and there were six ads inserted, in addition to a pre-roll ad, for a 30 minute video:
(yellow markers on the timeline are ads)
And the ads are getting worse too - now you typically have to wait a minimum of five seconds before you can skip them, and I've seen ads which require you to watch 30-60 seconds or more.
At that point I just close the app. I hope they're tracking this.
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I have enough eels, thanks. I support creators through Patreon. Regardless, I should have added a ;) if that makes you feel better.
You know they have to make money somehow, right? Literally every video hosting site runs ads.
I'm sick and tired of spoilers for movies and games on the home page with spoilery titles and thumbnails.
more mad about how little variation there is in your recommended feed. Unless you watch one video that's even tangentially related to neo-reactionairy bullshit. then its all over
I might be missing sarcasm here.. care to explain what you mean? :)
I guess it's priced differently depending on the country your in? Because it's 11,99€/month in Germany, not exactly what I'd consider "not expensive". Quite the opposite, in fact. More than every other major streaming/content service. And just to get rid of ads and having videos/music play in stand-by (the latter being also legally possible by using YouTube via Firefox in Desktop mode). I would really like to see the numbers on how many YT Premium users there are.
I use pay for google play music, which comes with YouTube premium. Seems like a good deal to me, and works out pretty well.
Why am I morally obligated to care about whether or not Google gets my 10 dollars a month to keep pushing alt right propaganda in my recommendations (but w/o ads!)?
I have almost no money and I still regularly donate to content creators and foss projects, which respect me as a user/developer and ACTUALLY NEED THE 10 DOLLARS.
So, I had not even heard of YouTube Premium before, but I looked into it and it turns out that around the time when ads started getting bad on YouTube is when they launched Premium here.
This is also around the time that the YouTube app started draining my phone's battery about 1-2% per minute of playback unless I put it in low power mode - which I don't think is a coincidence.
Apparently they don't care enough about getting you to subscribe to it to advertise the service in their client, but it's clear that they have decided to make the experience worse for anyone not paying a subscription.
Oh, and it's double the price of a Netflix subscription.
Much more important than fucking ads. Content creators gotta eat. If you don't like ads, pay for YouTube Premium.
blocking ads is a trivial matter thankfully. It probably won't be forever so enjoy it while it lasts. With Google controlling huge portions of the web and financing a lot of it through ads... there will probably be a breaking point where they start taking blocking seriously and go scorched earth on making it much more difficult.
Wish there was a way to block those little pre-trailers that play in front of a lot of trailers now. Seriously... they have gone too far.
Wish there was a way to block those little pre-trailers that play in front of a lot of trailers now. Seriously... they have gone too far.
It has to be added manually by staff itself. Newest Ranking of Fighters has 6 ads for 1 hour and Monster Boy QL has 7 for half of that. And judging by view count (10 vs 17k) they probably did right financial decision.
Yeah lately I've been getting a shitload of 30-second ads every few minutes and at the most annoying possible times. Right when I'm getting into a video, the screen goes blank and cuts off whatever the person was saying to load a fucking ad. It's out of control. I would block this trash on all of my devices if I could. Shit's disrespectful.
It's like a stranger hovering next to you while you have a conversation, and swooping in front of your face as soon as you forget they're there. At least TV shows have designated commercial breaks instead of blowing up in the middle of a scene.
I'm making a point of boycotting each and every product and service that interferes with my valuable leisure time this way. You think I'll give you money for spoiling my mood over and over again? Eat my dick.
It's like a stranger hovering next to you while you have a conversation, and swooping in front of your face as soon as you forget they're there. At least TV shows have designated commercial breaks instead of blowing up in the middle of a scene.
I'm making a point of boycotting each and every product and service that interferes with my valuable leisure time this way. You think I'll give you money for spoiling my mood over and over again? Eat my dick.
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This was intended.
1) Adblocks don't always work anymore. Apparently, if you're logged in your account can possibly be flagged and your adblocks basically stop functioning and on most videos you're faced with un-skippable ads upfront.
2) It's pushing people to YouTube Premium.
1) Adblocks don't always work anymore. Apparently, if you're logged in your account can possibly be flagged and your adblocks basically stop functioning and on most videos you're faced with un-skippable ads upfront.
2) It's pushing people to YouTube Premium.
I mean, maybe, but do people really watch a 30 minute video like that when there are six ads interrupting it? If I see that on the timeline I immediately close the video.
I don't know about "boycotting" a service, but I literally don't have time for these ads they're pushing.
As I said before, I watch 5-6 minutes of YouTube on my phone/tablet a day (which is as much as 12 minutes of video if it's a channel I watch at 2x) and I've had 90-second unskippable ads pushed in front of the video before.
That's 25% of the entire time I have free for it, and even then if it's a video I'm watching at 2x I'm likely to hit another ad after the video hits ~5 minutes too.
I meant the products and services being advertised, but yeah, the content to ad ratio is ridiculous now.
I don't know what happened, but a few months ago, I suddenly started getting inundated with ads on YouTube.
Channels/videos which would typically not have ads had a pre-roll ad and multiple ads inserted in the middle of their content.
I watch about 5-10 minutes of YouTube (depending on playback speed) in the mobile app on a phone/tablet a day, and it's now become unbearable because a lot of that time is now taken up with ads.
I started a Quick Look from Giant Bomb on YouTube this morning even though I am a subscriber, because they have yet to update their app for full-screen support on the new iPads, and there were six ads inserted, in addition to a pre-roll ad, for a 30 minute video:
(yellow markers on the timeline are ads)
And the ads are getting worse too - now you typically have to wait a minimum of five seconds before you can skip them, and I've seen ads which require you to watch 30-60 seconds or more.
At that point I just close the app. I hope they're tracking this.
Unfortunately, there is no official Giantbomb app on phones/tablets. I just use the webplayer, its not great but it definitely beats sitting through several ads.
YouTube's treatment of tiered content delivery is interesting. As a YouTube Premium subscriber, from my Google Music sub, and YouTube TV or whatever, I see zero ads (As far as I know), across all of my devices. So I have this impression of YouTube as a nearly ad-free experience.
But for the vast majority of users, hundreds of millions, the number of preroll and in-video ads is sky rocketing.
I think YouTUbe lets it up to channel owners/creators to set the frequency of ads on their videos, but they seem to have a problem with people not assigning that criticism to the channel owner, but instead to YouTube. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I have a channel but have nothing on it so I don't really know how the ad system works beyond just "Monetize this Video" [which I don't know if I can even do anymore]).
But for the vast majority of users, hundreds of millions, the number of preroll and in-video ads is sky rocketing.
I think YouTUbe lets it up to channel owners/creators to set the frequency of ads on their videos, but they seem to have a problem with people not assigning that criticism to the channel owner, but instead to YouTube. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I have a channel but have nothing on it so I don't really know how the ad system works beyond just "Monetize this Video" [which I don't know if I can even do anymore]).