Ah yes, because what I want when I tell my computer to stop playing audio and video is for YouTube to play some audio and video of some random thing I didn’t ask for at like 3x the volume of the video I just paused. Thanks google. Such an innovative company!
Yeah, and I definitely never pause a video because I want to look more closely at the frame I paused it at. Obviously, covering it over with something different is exactly what I was hoping for!
Didn’t you hear? There was strong traction in the tests. They know what’s best for you. Shhhh
Their strategy to combat ad blockers is to add more ads. Logic becomes irrelevant when youre surrounded with a cloud of greed. Ublock ftw.
Just imagine what a website like YT would look like in 2035 without any ad blockers.
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Why even show content? It’s the ads that people are actually here for! Can you imagine the audacity of people, wanting a little creative content amongst our cloud of vapid, capitalistic hawking.
By then, I’m sure they’ll be trying to have a death sentence implemented for anyone using an adblocker.
Idiocracy had it right https://contraditorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IDIOCRACY-TV.png
Embedding:
Nothing is overlaid directly on top of the content.
Sadly it looks to me a much better experience than the current state of the ad space…
My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.
Jokes on them, ublock origin still works just fine for me.
Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.
It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.
Strong traction from whom?
Executives!
Omg I pause videos so I can see a frame better. It’s* bad enough that they throw content up on the screen when pause.
Pausing is me showing intent interest, not me saying “I want to watch something else” smh
Let me guess – in addition to the existing midrolls.
I wish nothing but financial ruin and misery on Google.
They managed to go from the most popular and well liked company in the world, to a company that everyone despises, all within the span of a decade.
Ladies and gentleman, this is why competition is desperately needed. It’s only going to continue downhill from here…
Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There’s no competition because there’s no money to be made here.
This means people in the test market are clicking on those ads. Not much we can do about it at that point - it works therefore they’ll use it.
Don’t use YouTube if you like privacy
Or use some frontends like invidious or piped.
I hope this doesn’t become one of youtube’s “experiments” that quickly become forced on you
I just got one of these the other day. I picked up an Nvidia Shield because I was tired of my shitty Samsung TV not being able to stream Plex correctly and Google is the only data devil I’ve made a deal with. I hadn’t watched much YouTube on it I guess until last night and I couldn’t believe how many ads I saw.
Holy. Shit. YouTube has ads in the middle of fucking videos now? And then I paused and saw another ad and about lost my shit. Immediately looked up how to adblock on Android TV. Jesus it’s invasive.
Honest question here: what would stop me from starting a video, then pausing it and walking away from my computer for several hours so youtube plays ads to no one?
Now repeat but with several tabs.
And bonus points if the videos simply happen to be mine and I were to enable monetization on them.
Hmmm…
Strong traction on the tires that will run over the heads of Youtube HQ people maybe. But other than that i dont see any traction.
They can put as much ads as they wan’t they will be blocked, and there always will be a way to block them.
Pornhub called, they want credit for the idea
A reminder to close the app that also reminds you how much you hate Google.
