But usually I’m pausing a video to try to read text that appeared too briefly in the video!
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Not anymore, you don't!
Same, I had to ad-block some custom elements on YouTube ages ago because they kept covering the screen with "related videos" whenever I paused to read something.
Wait you watch the video? I thought everyone just went there for the ads and emailed YouTube executives to please keep adding more
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Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers
Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄.
We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
Google has great customer service, your just not the customer.
Wait y'all still see ads on YouTube?
If I can't block ads on a device, I'm not using YouTube on that particular device.
A major reason we only watch YouTube via a browser on a media center PC.
You can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.
Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.
You don't need to be in desktop mode for ublock origin to work.
Damn. YouTube is just SO desperate to squeeze every bit of ad revenue they can, wherever they can.
Remember when YouTube wasn't riddled with pests? I remember.. It was a pleasant experience.
When it was hemorrhaging money?
We're in a weird time where all the tech companies are being told at once that they need to start being profitable, and at the same time the EU is cracking down on lots of the shady shit they've been using to control the bleeding to this point.
The internet has spent the last 20 years developing an economic model that's quickly becoming unsustainable, and none of the big web companies seem to have been prepared.
I'd sooner stop using the internet than be forced to imprint that carefully crafted poison into my psyche. They will not steal my life with ads.
Tubi does this. It's probably the least I trusive way to handle ads. I'd be fine with it if it was a replacement for in-video ads, but I doubt they're doing that and just want to squeeze more views out of our eyeballs so fuck them
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Use Youtube frontends. Like Freetube & NewPipe. All of Youtube's BS will disappear.
EDIT: Here is Privacy Guides' page about Youtube frontends.
Enshittification. Youtube is always going to get worse as long as it exists to make money.
So they'll stop injecting ads in the middle of videos at the worst possible times right?
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So they'll stop injecting ads... Right?
Soon testing new version that shows some of your video when you are allowed to pause your ad.
You earn credits by watching ads, which you can then spend to watch what you want.
Shit like this is why they stopped making new Black Mirror episodes
It was supposed to be a warning, not a manual.
To be fair, if they are like the example (static silent ads) they would be the least intrusive ads that YouTube ever had. To the point that I don't even mind them. All of YouTube ads should be like this, not annoying, silent, and easily ignored.
If they switched over to this method instead of the current I would argue an adblocker wouldn't even improve the experience, the problem is that it interrupts my actual content in the middle of the video.