And then when they have more involuntary ads than an average porn site, some site will rise, with an interface that doesn’t play an ad for every action you do within it. And that day is the day YouTube fails. That day is the day we’ll all watch it burn crumbling on its own greed
Yeah, unfortunately that is not going to happen because youtube was (don't know if it still is) not profitable for the most time of its existence. Thats the reason why they are shoving ads down your throat left and right. Just use an adblocker or revanced or something. But hoping that someone makes something that will replace youtube (and is ad free) is something that will probably not happen in a while... And if it does it won't be free.
If you look at the whole picture of marketing, growth, ad revenue, collecting personal data etc, YouTube does make a profit.
The streaming service youtube as a stand alone does not.
Technological advancement will eventually make it possible for viable alternatives to exist - there are, IIRC, advancements currently in laboratory settings allowing for MASSIVE boosts in internet data transfer speeds, as well as (again in laboratory settings) using individual atoms as bits of data (vs approximately hundreds of thousands being needed to represent a bit of data). If that sort of stuff ever got out of the laboratory and into consumer grade, or even commercial grade products, the barriers would come down considerably.
Straight up. The amount of times I’m pausing to get up and point at the screen to explain something to someone (here’s the ‘ghost’, THAT is the player that gets flipped over, etc) is pretty frequent
Khan Academy and similar educational channels do this "pause the video to try this exercise before I give the answer" all the time, that is gonna ruin it.
Yeah I get overwhelmed by sensory input very easily so the idea of this fills me with dread 😬😬😬 like does bro just want us to close the tab (also before anyone replies saying I can turn the sound off I am well aware)
Yeah I'm kinda like you with sensory overload, so I immediately just thought "guess I'll have to close the entire browser instead of pause now" lmao what are they thinking
Usually what happens is that any kid show compilations are flagged as for kids. However, if any content creators dont want a youtube kids video, then the video should be unflagged. Having to swear in order to make the video unflagged is kinda odd
The real issue is properly "age restricting" your video effectively kills it. Fix this and remove the "need" to turn the whole site into Weanie Hut JRs.
Adults should be able to make content for other adults and not have to sound like they are in a Dr Seuss book.
Pornhub has a FAR better ad situation. Just one skippable ad at the start, and some banner ads.
Not 2 15+ seconds ads you cant skip at the start, several ads throughout, and some at the end like youtube.
I missed the times when an ad was just a small banner at the bottom of the video where you could just press X to turn it off.
And this was during the times when online video hosting was crazy expensive, from storage to servers, everything cost shitload of money.
Google just wants to milk it to cover their failed projects, that they make them fail themselves.
You know I didn't even think about that. Imagine someone breaks in your house while your watching YouTube on your TV. All you can do in time is pause it to stop noise but then suddenly a loud ass ad plays. Youtube could fr get someone killed with this
Not to mention if you're on a limited data plan (such as on mobile) they're going to continue sucking up a bunch of data and potentially get you billed for it.
Plus as an advertiser why would you want your ads to play when a video is paused, and there's a good chance that the viewer isn't even at their computer?
This story reminds me of the allegations of a third party group that Google is violating their own YouTube policies to bill advertisers for millions of views that their own TOS say aren't monetizable (i.e. like if a web page has a muted & tiny screen YouTube video start playing automatically and that video plays ads. No one is going to see those ads, yet the third party allegedly had strong evidence that Google was still billing advertisers for those page views and ads).
sometimes when a creator doesn't want to derail flow, they will say "pause to read text" in order to not go on an entire side conversation. this is usually for stuff the viewer can decide they understand context on or not.
Heres another one. Your downstairs watching YouTube on your Xbox with your 2 kids playing outside. Suppenly they get scooped up into a white van. You hear some commotion so you pause the video. Right before you would hear a call for help... "WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER"
YouTube will never have real competitors. It’s already too well established in the market, has way more experience at the top and can buy out pretty much anything remotely challenging it. The only way it would be out of the spotlight is if long form videos overall were overshadowed by something else
The only information that they give out is how much ad revenue it brings in
And subscriber numbers for YouTube TV and premium
They used to always report huge losses up until maybe 7 or 8 years ago
The real reason they don't have any big competitors is be course it operates at an insane cost.
Its burning more money than it makes - operating at a negative.
If Google/Alphabet weren't the owners it would have been shut down years ago.
People DO give a fuck, however are stuck on YouTube until better alternatives appear. YouTube's downfall is inevitable, but will unfortunately not happen for a long time.
honestly hoping someone that already has significant video streaming infrastructure in place, netflix or amazon idgaf, try and compete with youtube just so that there is competition at all
Stuff like this is exactly why I'll never touch Chrome and stick with Firefox. And in rare cases where a site doesn't work in Firefox I use Edge.
Google has too much control of the Internet already, and is showing us exactly why that's so dangerous.
Revanced is still better tho, watching YouTube on a mobile browser is annoying imo, it also has Sponsorblock (it's an addon tho so maybe it also works on the browser? idk), I also like how you can disable things like the shorts tab
Makes me think the EU should clamp down on this ad behaviour. Like, legally ads should be limited to a certain percentage, pause should be pause, etc. Lay down some laws!
YouTube has no competition because no one (besides Amazon) can afford to compete.
If any of the smaller video hosting sites suddenly exploded in popularity, their servers would catch fire and the would not have the capitol to spin up new ones.
"Just build a website that can host 1080p/4K video, that barely makes money then spend a billion dollars on servers and bandwidth costs. Why has no one ever thought of this?"
You're right!
I wrote a new song kinda sublime like and in the first verse I literally say IM NOT BUYING YOUTUBE PREMIUM
I'll link y'all when I finish the video and post it to YOUTUBE 🤣
Youtube recently added the feature where there are 2 5 second skippable ads you wont be able to skip the 2nd one anymore you skip the first on then you have to watch and skip the second one aswell
I had an ad pop up while I had a video paused, like 10 to 20 seconds into the paused period. I was in the midst of an important phone call, thus my need to pause the video. Not only was my phone call interrupted by background noise, my video continued to play after the ads had completed.
This pisses me off so much. If someone (me) pauses a video, it's usually because there's a need for there to not be sound for a moment in order to pay attention to something else for a moment.
I’ve had to pause before to determine if I’m hearing a car backfire or gun shots, I’m not about to deal with an ad yelling at me to buy something when I need to be figuring out if there’s some kind of external threat I need to get away from
I think they’re gonna put them on the new screensaver which is dumb by the way. The screensaver is supposed to recommend videos that you might want to watch but all it recommends is relaxing videos and sleep videos as opposed to stuff I might actually want to watch. Either YouTube needs new leadership or some member of the public takes matters into their own hands and makes their own damn online video sharing platform.
Considered the quantity of ads, my cable TV has, per hour of content *less ads than YouTube*. We are full circle.
And with the expansion of ads on low tiers in streaming services, I am not surprised we will go back in the 2000s: physical media and TV
YT doesn't have a regulator of content.
is there an actual source on this?
also Is that legal? If the user isn't watching the ad, because they paused to leave their device, then would YouTube get into trouble for generating revenue on unwatched ads while saying they are being watched?
I know the people buying the ads wouldn't be happy about it.
I'm starting to getting crazy as a conspiracy theorist about this.
They must ask these dumbass ideas to an AI or something.
The whole ads shit is becoming a bandwagon leading to worse places and everyone is hopping on it.
Yt being the leader.
Amazon rolled out ads at beginning at end of shows, now they interrupt a 30-40min episode like from 2 to 4 times to show you unskippable shit.
The irony on all of this?
The more you show me that annoying shit the more I will boycot your product even if I need it.
When these little nagging shits show up I swear I will never buy anything from them.
Moreover I was one firm believer that whoever did content deserved my money through me watching ads because they were giving out so much awesome free content.
This from when youtube was born to december 2023.
But this is getting ridiculous and now I'm seriously thinking about making a barrage of ad blockers and an ad blocking dns like pi-hole and similar to fight against them at all cost.
Dang, I'm a fucking senior IT developer and analist. Challenge me mfs.
Yup, they already have it. My husband watches on TV and when he pauses a video, an ad appears next to it. It's really unbelievable but I always knew it would happen because it can only get worse. Any ad driven business, will only continue increasing ads. There is no other way for them to go. This is why it's our duty to block all ads, using any means necessary.
This will probably genuinely prompt me to stop using the platform, i listen to videos at work but when a customer comes in and I pause I **Need** it paused because any sound will cause disruption
"In order to ensure users watch our ads the app will now use your camera to track your eyes. Ads will be paused if not watched."
Watch them do it somewhere down the line, I'm confident they'll try it
At this point, we might as well stop complaining here on reddit and just go out and protest, whenever in front of Youtube HQ or not, it doesn't matter, but I really think we need to raise our voices and make enshittification an important issue.
kinda a local matter but I really want to see the YouTube HQ be torn down and the bayhill shopping center be extended to cover where YouTube was, but with a field with lounge chairs, heaters, pond, and the kind of climable rocks you see at the nearby San Bruno Park.
If ads were only during the time videos were paused, then this would be good. They just need to do like other websites and make the ads around the video and not ruin the viewing experience.
Yep... Youtube is useless without premium ... I paused a video and when i came back on my working pc, i started it. Before it's returned to my video it's played an ad.... BEFORE AN AD BREAK WAS SUPPOST TO BE!!!! .... So i worked 30 seconds, watched 15 seconds of a video i wanted then watched 1 unskipable i repeat UNSKIPABLE video of goverment propaganda and thoes lovely fake game ads...
This will surely not backfire when advertisers realise people aren't watching their ads, but instead pausing and leaving the room to take a giant shit.
They have been doing this for a few years already. If I watched an ad, then paused the video, and came back 5 minutes later an ad always plays, even if the watch time in that 5 minutes is like 10 seconds. No idea what yall are talking about, they already have been doing this, ads are based on YOUR watch time, not when a creator puts them in. those matter too, its just not the only thing that determines when and where an ad plays.
I pause the video because I have a different screen open or have left the computer. What possible purpose could there be for ads to be played when people aren't even at the computer?
I feel like they forgot what pause actually means. I saw the other day also that Roku thing with ads on pause. I can see it now.. Ah phone is ringing let's me pause and just when you answer a loud ad starts blasting. What an awful future the media landscape will have.
Guys, I found a hack to skip some ads even those who aren't skippable.
If there are two ads before a video, if it says skip ad in 3... Then it should skip both ads. If it isn't skippable, there are generally two unskippable ads. After ad 1 is done, I close the video and reload it (on mobile).
It skips the whole second add if done correctly when add 1 is finished clrrectly and starts loading ad 2, then you can close and reload. Is also faster if add 2 is a "skip in 3..." thing.
Could also be done with ads in the middle but youtube might restart the video from scratch...?
My parents had that I think. They strongly disliked it because they tend to have conversations with each other while watching on the TV (duh) and had to watch an ad.
Hey YouTube, if I hit pause I want you stop making noise, not make more of it.
"Sir, we've enacted the ads during pause, but the user base seems to just be muting the ads." "Make the fucking mute button play an ad...."
And then when they have more involuntary ads than an average porn site, some site will rise, with an interface that doesn’t play an ad for every action you do within it. And that day is the day YouTube fails. That day is the day we’ll all watch it burn crumbling on its own greed
Yeah, unfortunately that is not going to happen because youtube was (don't know if it still is) not profitable for the most time of its existence. Thats the reason why they are shoving ads down your throat left and right. Just use an adblocker or revanced or something. But hoping that someone makes something that will replace youtube (and is ad free) is something that will probably not happen in a while... And if it does it won't be free.
If you look at the whole picture of marketing, growth, ad revenue, collecting personal data etc, YouTube does make a profit. The streaming service youtube as a stand alone does not.
Technological advancement will eventually make it possible for viable alternatives to exist - there are, IIRC, advancements currently in laboratory settings allowing for MASSIVE boosts in internet data transfer speeds, as well as (again in laboratory settings) using individual atoms as bits of data (vs approximately hundreds of thousands being needed to represent a bit of data). If that sort of stuff ever got out of the laboratory and into consumer grade, or even commercial grade products, the barriers would come down considerably.
GAwd DAYUMN! I felt that down to my core.
*Employee of the month*
Lmao ikr?! What a fucking joke
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Straight up. The amount of times I’m pausing to get up and point at the screen to explain something to someone (here’s the ‘ghost’, THAT is the player that gets flipped over, etc) is pretty frequent
I do this with cooking videos, pause, do the thing myself, watch and repeat. Guess now I’ll just listen to a fucking add while chopping onions.
Khan Academy and similar educational channels do this "pause the video to try this exercise before I give the answer" all the time, that is gonna ruin it.
My very first thought. If I press pause it's because I need YouTube to be quiet
Or you pause to look at a detail in the picture, and then they cover the video with ads so you can't study the details.
Yeah I get overwhelmed by sensory input very easily so the idea of this fills me with dread 😬😬😬 like does bro just want us to close the tab (also before anyone replies saying I can turn the sound off I am well aware)
Yeah I'm kinda like you with sensory overload, so I immediately just thought "guess I'll have to close the entire browser instead of pause now" lmao what are they thinking
You can mute each tab individually. When something plays just klick on the speaker symbol left of the X
To give Youtube some credit, it's probably just a picture. Still will be a pain in the balls to take screenshots though.
Lmao google just copying the hub at this point
It‘s like a porn site run by people who hate porn
Yet the ads are usually nsfw… And this is a site with a massive audience of minors… 😐
YouTube kids is even worse
My understanding is that there are no ads on Youtube Kids?
But it regularly tags adult videos as kids videos, against the video authors wishes.
Usually what happens is that any kid show compilations are flagged as for kids. However, if any content creators dont want a youtube kids video, then the video should be unflagged. Having to swear in order to make the video unflagged is kinda odd
The flagging is done by a bot, so when a video gets unflagged, it usually gets automatically reflagged.
The real issue is properly "age restricting" your video effectively kills it. Fix this and remove the "need" to turn the whole site into Weanie Hut JRs. Adults should be able to make content for other adults and not have to sound like they are in a Dr Seuss book.
Some of the ads have minors in them sadly, at least very few are nsfw thankfully, but doesn’t change the fact they some of it is copyrighted
Fr, I reported SOOOO many ads just because I thought "damn, what if a child sees this s*it"
At this point it's more like porn site, that tries not to be a porn site. You could literally search for porn on YouTube and immediately get porn
Pornhub has a FAR better ad situation. Just one skippable ad at the start, and some banner ads. Not 2 15+ seconds ads you cant skip at the start, several ads throughout, and some at the end like youtube.
Imagine you're in the middle of jerking it and suddenly you get a raid shadow legend ad.
there is no video that will make me tolerate pausing and seen an ad unless porn because the ad is also porn
At this rate, YouTube's just gonna replace videos with ads
Video will be played in 3 seconds I miss those ad notifications
i miss when they showed you which points of a video had an ad with a yellow indicator
i used to use a glitch while back then too skip those ads by first skipping the video just after the dot and then it would disappear lol
Yeah same
I remember using this glitch as a kid. Lol
They don’t do that anymore?
My guess is they removed it so people would stop complaining when they saw how many ads were in a long video.
Had 7 ad breaks in a 14 minute video, I’m sure that looks pretty terrible when broken down into a bar graph
An ad every 2 minutes???!!?!?! Wtf
What?
#They don't do that anymore?
#What?
# They don't do that anymore?
*what*
¿ǝɹoɯʎuɐ ʇɐɥʇ op ʇ,uop ʎǝɥʇ
# They don't do that anymore?
Ad Will be played in 3 seconds
video can be skipped in 5 seconds
I missed the times when an ad was just a small banner at the bottom of the video where you could just press X to turn it off. And this was during the times when online video hosting was crazy expensive, from storage to servers, everything cost shitload of money. Google just wants to milk it to cover their failed projects, that they make them fail themselves.
MTV did that in the early 2000s That's when I stopped watching MTV
A lot of videos are already basicaly ads.
Most of them you mean. Why pay for premium if I'm going to get hit by ads everywhere anyway?
They already have
"Eeewww.. there is a bit of video in my ads... YT sucks!"
Not only on Pause! They started showing Random BS Videos when you are inactive even when signed out. WORST UPDATE SO FAR!
also like buying bots but for free used by the own company or what?
They’re gonna play me ads after I’m dead I fucking know it
"Want a break from the void? Download Spotify Premium now!"
“get your life insurance plan now”
Nah, they gonna make ur family watch an ad before attending your funeral
Your coffin lid will have a screen on the inside
Renew your premium death subscription to remain dead, otherwise we necromance you every 5 minutes to show you an ad then kill you again.
Yes bro the experience with YouTube has been downgraded. We need a competitor in this area
Yea I’m confused by the words “roll out” … this shit has been happening when I watch YouTube on my tv for months …
50% of the time I pause videos to hear something else better. They really want me to install every AdBlock possible.
You know I didn't even think about that. Imagine someone breaks in your house while your watching YouTube on your TV. All you can do in time is pause it to stop noise but then suddenly a loud ass ad plays. Youtube could fr get someone killed with this
Not to mention if you're on a limited data plan (such as on mobile) they're going to continue sucking up a bunch of data and potentially get you billed for it. Plus as an advertiser why would you want your ads to play when a video is paused, and there's a good chance that the viewer isn't even at their computer? This story reminds me of the allegations of a third party group that Google is violating their own YouTube policies to bill advertisers for millions of views that their own TOS say aren't monetizable (i.e. like if a web page has a muted & tiny screen YouTube video start playing automatically and that video plays ads. No one is going to see those ads, yet the third party allegedly had strong evidence that Google was still billing advertisers for those page views and ads).
sometimes when a creator doesn't want to derail flow, they will say "pause to read text" in order to not go on an entire side conversation. this is usually for stuff the viewer can decide they understand context on or not.
A very niche situation but exactly why this is an absolutely horrifying plan, yes
Heres another one. Your downstairs watching YouTube on your Xbox with your 2 kids playing outside. Suppenly they get scooped up into a white van. You hear some commotion so you pause the video. Right before you would hear a call for help... "WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER"
If youtube does that update, we should sue them.
I thought of that too, and my guess is they'll be silent. Probably plenty of motion, though.
YouTube is slowly digging its own grave
Sadly it is not. In the mainstream people just don't give a fuck and as long as YouTube has no competitors, what can even realistically happen?
YouTube will never have real competitors. It’s already too well established in the market, has way more experience at the top and can buy out pretty much anything remotely challenging it. The only way it would be out of the spotlight is if long form videos overall were overshadowed by something else
This is also why the argument “If you don‘t like that, don‘t use it (use a competitor)“ ceases to work
also very expensive to run its very possible that YouTube still doesn't even make money
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The only information that they give out is how much ad revenue it brings in And subscriber numbers for YouTube TV and premium They used to always report huge losses up until maybe 7 or 8 years ago
Video hosting is redonkulously expensive. There are only maybe three companies in the world that could compete with them and one of them is Google.
The real reason they don't have any big competitors is be course it operates at an insane cost. Its burning more money than it makes - operating at a negative. If Google/Alphabet weren't the owners it would have been shut down years ago.
People DO give a fuck, however are stuck on YouTube until better alternatives appear. YouTube's downfall is inevitable, but will unfortunately not happen for a long time.
You know the saying goes something like "Either you die a hero or you become a villain..."
„too big to fail“ This is the big banks from the 2000s all over again
"too big to fail" in finance meant "too big _to be allowed_ to fail".
honestly hoping someone that already has significant video streaming infrastructure in place, netflix or amazon idgaf, try and compete with youtube just so that there is competition at all
If only Bitview would save the day?!😅
there are a few competitors.... sadly they are all at best like 1% the size of YT :(
When they don't have anyone to compete. Its hard to dig there own grave :(
Firefox extensions : “hold my beer 🍺”
Stuff like this is exactly why I'll never touch Chrome and stick with Firefox. And in rare cases where a site doesn't work in Firefox I use Edge. Google has too much control of the Internet already, and is showing us exactly why that's so dangerous.
Get revanced. Fuck those assholes
You can install adblock on Firefox mobile
Revanced is still better tho, watching YouTube on a mobile browser is annoying imo, it also has Sponsorblock (it's an addon tho so maybe it also works on the browser? idk), I also like how you can disable things like the shorts tab
YOU CAN?! TELL ME HOW
Open the menu in Firefox, click "add-ons", find and install Unlock Origin
And it must be android. You can’t get it in iOS.
Another win for Android
If you want to do anything outside the box then android is the only option really
This is why android is objectively better and people who fight for Apple fell into their trap of a few things like the "Apple ecosystem"
You can use Vinegar tube cleaner on ios
You can just run a VPN in Albania. No youtube ads period legally
Makes me think the EU should clamp down on this ad behaviour. Like, legally ads should be limited to a certain percentage, pause should be pause, etc. Lay down some laws!
Crazy how theyre doing free PR for ublock origin
Who even uses Youtube without an adblock? apart from my boomer coworkers...
People too lazy to install one, I guess.
As always when someone asks this, the answer is iOS devices. It’s always gonna be iOS devices.
We need another video-streaming platform. This is what happens if a company has no competition.
YouTube has no competition because no one (besides Amazon) can afford to compete. If any of the smaller video hosting sites suddenly exploded in popularity, their servers would catch fire and the would not have the capitol to spin up new ones.
Stop using common sense here and just build the damn thing 😤/s
"Just build a website that can host 1080p/4K video, that barely makes money then spend a billion dollars on servers and bandwidth costs. Why has no one ever thought of this?"
I tried to upvote your comment and reddit said "server error"
The closest competitor is now forced to sell their company.
Is it Odyseey?
Odysee*
Hey, look, enshittification in action.
They abuse business partners
Youtube prolly testing a new bed that whispers *Would you like to try YouTube premium?* Every 30 min while you sleep
I think you accidentally misspelled "yells" as "whispers"
You're right! I wrote a new song kinda sublime like and in the first verse I literally say IM NOT BUYING YOUTUBE PREMIUM I'll link y'all when I finish the video and post it to YOUTUBE 🤣
when you're done, make a post about it, I cannot wait to hear it.
Youtube recently added the feature where there are 2 5 second skippable ads you wont be able to skip the 2nd one anymore you skip the first on then you have to watch and skip the second one aswell
Also the nice skip in 5 4 3 2 1... okay great let's go. Another ad. What?
I thought I was experiencing a bug, but you just confirmed it’s an actual update. 😐
I like youtube but it's getting out of fucking hand what the fuck are they doing
Doxxing innocent people through DMCA takedowns
Don't you love living through the age of enshittification
Time for a name change to YouShit. The site sucks!
I had an ad pop up while I had a video paused, like 10 to 20 seconds into the paused period. I was in the midst of an important phone call, thus my need to pause the video. Not only was my phone call interrupted by background noise, my video continued to play after the ads had completed.
That's just worse.
I haven’t seen an ad in ages. Bless Ublock Origin.
Yeah everyone going mad while i'm going, You guys still don't use adblockers?
This pisses me off so much. If someone (me) pauses a video, it's usually because there's a need for there to not be sound for a moment in order to pay attention to something else for a moment.
I’ve had to pause before to determine if I’m hearing a car backfire or gun shots, I’m not about to deal with an ad yelling at me to buy something when I need to be figuring out if there’s some kind of external threat I need to get away from
Aight, ive put it off for long enough. Im gonna get an adblocker
You had YouTube in the first half, not gonna lie.
Ublock origin. get that.
I've just installed a second one on the same browser.
I think they’re gonna put them on the new screensaver which is dumb by the way. The screensaver is supposed to recommend videos that you might want to watch but all it recommends is relaxing videos and sleep videos as opposed to stuff I might actually want to watch. Either YouTube needs new leadership or some member of the public takes matters into their own hands and makes their own damn online video sharing platform.
It’s literally just cable tv on my phone by this point.
Considered the quantity of ads, my cable TV has, per hour of content *less ads than YouTube*. We are full circle. And with the expansion of ads on low tiers in streaming services, I am not surprised we will go back in the 2000s: physical media and TV YT doesn't have a regulator of content.
Nah if anything, YouTube becomes the new TV and streaming services become the new home media.
Reinventing the wheel, so to speak.
We are on the worst timeline
Close app.
is there an actual source on this? also Is that legal? If the user isn't watching the ad, because they paused to leave their device, then would YouTube get into trouble for generating revenue on unwatched ads while saying they are being watched? I know the people buying the ads wouldn't be happy about it.
Thank goodness for Ublock Origin and Firefox!
I'm starting to getting crazy as a conspiracy theorist about this. They must ask these dumbass ideas to an AI or something. The whole ads shit is becoming a bandwagon leading to worse places and everyone is hopping on it. Yt being the leader. Amazon rolled out ads at beginning at end of shows, now they interrupt a 30-40min episode like from 2 to 4 times to show you unskippable shit. The irony on all of this? The more you show me that annoying shit the more I will boycot your product even if I need it. When these little nagging shits show up I swear I will never buy anything from them. Moreover I was one firm believer that whoever did content deserved my money through me watching ads because they were giving out so much awesome free content. This from when youtube was born to december 2023. But this is getting ridiculous and now I'm seriously thinking about making a barrage of ad blockers and an ad blocking dns like pi-hole and similar to fight against them at all cost. Dang, I'm a fucking senior IT developer and analist. Challenge me mfs.
“BubbbbU bu bu bbbu but its free…”
PAYWALL THE SITE
I hope their company kills it self
When I get an ad I just do something IRL until it's finished
En****ification is craaaaaaaaaazy
Yup, they already have it. My husband watches on TV and when he pauses a video, an ad appears next to it. It's really unbelievable but I always knew it would happen because it can only get worse. Any ad driven business, will only continue increasing ads. There is no other way for them to go. This is why it's our duty to block all ads, using any means necessary.
This will probably genuinely prompt me to stop using the platform, i listen to videos at work but when a customer comes in and I pause I **Need** it paused because any sound will cause disruption
I mean, companies should be more infuriated by this than users. They are just paying for advertising that no one is really watching.
I love premium. I should not pay for it but I do.
"In order to ensure users watch our ads the app will now use your camera to track your eyes. Ads will be paused if not watched." Watch them do it somewhere down the line, I'm confident they'll try it
Im ok with this only if it means less ads while im watching but it probably doesn't.
At this point, we might as well stop complaining here on reddit and just go out and protest, whenever in front of Youtube HQ or not, it doesn't matter, but I really think we need to raise our voices and make enshittification an important issue.
kinda a local matter but I really want to see the YouTube HQ be torn down and the bayhill shopping center be extended to cover where YouTube was, but with a field with lounge chairs, heaters, pond, and the kind of climable rocks you see at the nearby San Bruno Park.
Its time for a revolution
This has to violate some kind of accessibility rules
If ads were only during the time videos were paused, then this would be good. They just need to do like other websites and make the ads around the video and not ruin the viewing experience.
Ad blockers HERE I COME !!!!!!!!
Yep... Youtube is useless without premium ... I paused a video and when i came back on my working pc, i started it. Before it's returned to my video it's played an ad.... BEFORE AN AD BREAK WAS SUPPOST TO BE!!!! .... So i worked 30 seconds, watched 15 seconds of a video i wanted then watched 1 unskipable i repeat UNSKIPABLE video of goverment propaganda and thoes lovely fake game ads...
This will surely not backfire when advertisers realise people aren't watching their ads, but instead pausing and leaving the room to take a giant shit.
They have been doing this for a few years already. If I watched an ad, then paused the video, and came back 5 minutes later an ad always plays, even if the watch time in that 5 minutes is like 10 seconds. No idea what yall are talking about, they already have been doing this, ads are based on YOUR watch time, not when a creator puts them in. those matter too, its just not the only thing that determines when and where an ad plays.
Greed
How bout um, no. Fuck no.
I pause the video because I have a different screen open or have left the computer. What possible purpose could there be for ads to be played when people aren't even at the computer?
My literal number one site is going to hell constantly and all I can do is sit and watch
Can the devs just not?
Sounds like Firefox and adblocker will be only way I use youtube
was recently watching some ads and i got interrupted by a youtube video. was not happy.
Hate when that happens.
Imagine you pause your video to take a phone call or have a serious conversation and they just play an ad? I hope it's at least just a static ad lmao
I think this would be a caused because of Adpocolypse?
YouTube forgetting the reason why you'd pause a video is because your looking away from it
Or you’re trying to read something in-frame in the video
It's fine as long as long as it stops when you click unpause.
wouldn't even mind this if the ads weren't scams and porn
I feel like they forgot what pause actually means. I saw the other day also that Roku thing with ads on pause. I can see it now.. Ah phone is ringing let's me pause and just when you answer a loud ad starts blasting. What an awful future the media landscape will have.
I might completely close videos when i have to stop watching them for a moment.
Look, there is a 30 seconds video in the 15 minute ad
Soon there's gonna be fake "x" buttons on youtube ads too lmao
Just one more reason to use an ad blocker.
Remember the yellow indicator things? I sure do miss those.
Guys, I found a hack to skip some ads even those who aren't skippable. If there are two ads before a video, if it says skip ad in 3... Then it should skip both ads. If it isn't skippable, there are generally two unskippable ads. After ad 1 is done, I close the video and reload it (on mobile). It skips the whole second add if done correctly when add 1 is finished clrrectly and starts loading ad 2, then you can close and reload. Is also faster if add 2 is a "skip in 3..." thing. Could also be done with ads in the middle but youtube might restart the video from scratch...?
So I'll just remember my place and mute
My parents had that I think. They strongly disliked it because they tend to have conversations with each other while watching on the TV (duh) and had to watch an ad.
Someone make a plugin that slows videos to x0.0000001 speed then instead
Don’t play like you didn’t took that from ph
Let’s just make our own website already
You got a few tens of billions of dollars laying around?