Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers. The company could roll them out widely soon.
    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      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

        • kinsnikEnglish
          15·
          11 months ago

          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

        • MigratingtoLemmyEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

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

          • bigmclargehugeEnglish
            1·
            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.

  • blargerer@kbin.social
    13·
    11 months ago

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

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

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

      • AA5BEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      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…

    • zeppoEnglish
      9·
      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

        • zeppoEnglish
          2·
          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.

  • amio@kbin.social
    6·
    11 months ago

    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.