• lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      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

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          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

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          11 months ago

          Use a Firefox fork with uBlock and you’ll have a decent time of it. Including playback in the background

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            11 months ago

            Grayjay, LibreTube, NewPipe, Invidious, Piped. If one seems to be down, the others always seem to work. Haven’t been on YouTube in months.

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    11 months ago

    If pause ads are static, silent, and replace midrolls, sounds like an improvement for everyone.

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      Not for me, often when I pause I’m trying to see the video content paused on something.

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        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.

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      11 months ago

      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…

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      11 months ago

      It did explain it, I thought. Pause ads:

      the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it

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          11 months ago

          Of course it disappears when you start playing the video again. Some video sites already have had ads like this for a few years.

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    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.