Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers. The company could roll them out widely soon.
  • amio@kbin.social
    2·
    6 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 removed it’s easier to just not watch anything on it.

  • penquin@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    This article didn’t explain anything. I still don’t know what these ads are.

    Thanks for downvoting me instead of explaining it. Very helpful 😂

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 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

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 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

      • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I unabashedly pirate with adblockers on my computer and alternative apps on mobile. My mobile app stopped working the other day. I just stopped watching youtube on mobile completely. It is not at all worth it to watch ads for even one minute, in my considered opinion.

        • kinsnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 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

          • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 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.

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

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

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 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.