YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

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DF youtube addon is great for that and similar annoyances.

Normies genuinely turn on their Smart TV, watch start menu ads, open the YouTube app, wait 90 seconds for the shitty cpu to load the web view, scroll through hundreds of Spider-Man Elsa brainwashing videos and thinly disguised ads, open a video, watch 3 minutes of ads, straight into a 3 minute sponsor segment. All before seeing any actual content.

And they see no problem with this at all, the thought that you can make ads go away literally does not even occur to them as a possibility.

Humanity deserves extinction, I’m gonna go release some refrigerant real quick

You can use SmartTube on Android TV, Yattee with this guide on iOS/iPadOS/tvOS or this app on webOS

You can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.

Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.

I honestly don't know. far too many people are just conditioned or browbeaten into just dealing with the cancer of ads that the modern internet is. feels a lot like it's a bit of a "frog in boiling water" situation where most people don't even realize how bad it's gotten over so many years.

For all you know the victims rate it positively as well but they don't submit feedback

I don't know anything about Odysee, but Rumble is a shithole.

Both seem/are single point of failure choices. I like a fediverse YouTube alternative.

Never heard of rumble. Looks interesting

I still get chills thinking about that guy who gets blocked from communicating with ANYONE AT ALL EVER! Especially as companies like Reddit go ban-happy on a power trip and Youtube destroys channels with bullshit content strikes.

Yeah, my first reaction to seeing the API changes on Reddit was actually more of a glee/relief response than upset/disappointed. It meant that its grip on me was going to be over once those changes went through. I was worried the protests might get them to back down because I hated it there but always knew that the easy dopamine was just an app away.

Now I'm here though. I don't hate it here, at least not yet, but I haven't freed up the time like I was hoping to.

lol I'm not paying for shit.

I'd pay for a premium service if it meant that YouTube couldn't profile me. I don't really want to pay for it just so that they can reliably link financial data to the profile they build on me.

I pay for the family bundle for YT Music. The ad free YT is just a bonus.

I pay for it. It gets rid of the ads when I need a video of how to do XYZ thing. It lets me watch channels that I care about without interruptions. The main thing for me though is when a friend or family member sends me a YouTube video, I don't have to watch ads.

It's weird to me that folks are so hostile towards paying for things they use on the Internet. I mean, I get that venture capital fueled a seemingly endless "free lunch" of new services with small amounts of advertising... but it had to end at some point. It costs a lot of money to run a "YouTube."

I use it all the time but I definitely don't use the "algorithm".

They’re running Android (Google) TV

No browser, likely app based (hence the TV)

You could theoretically run a PiHole, but I don’t believe that works too well on YouTube anymore. Especially considering the tight integration Google utilizes for their ad services with their non-paid services.

When it was hemorrhaging money?

We're in a weird time where all the tech companies are being told at once that they need to start being profitable, and at the same time the EU is cracking down on lots of the shady shit they've been using to control the bleeding to this point.

The internet has spent the last 20 years developing an economic model that's quickly becoming unsustainable, and none of the big web companies seem to have been prepared.

Yeah, they could put the ads in the same stream but it would be too costly or inflexible. Ads have to be targeted to the specific market or even user so that would kill their advantage and turn them into generic TV ads.

Yes, such as Patreon. Less hassle with more substance.

Also they leave their Patreon shout-outs in which is not what I'm paying money for

No, but it's what other people have paid for. Usually at the end of a video past it's actual content, in what's considered the "credits", people who helped pay are tradiditionaly part of that.

If it's elsewhere in the video that fucks with flow then yeah, that's bad, but the normal process has been in place for longer than either of us has been alive

The only company that can compete with YouTube is pornhub. People have been begging on their hands and knees for them to enter the hard space. It's fertile territory, with lots of the kinks worked out. I really hope they spank YouTube in the nuts and give it a go.

I'll agree that competition is not as robust.

However, it will be interesting to see how many "non-techy" people discover how easy it is to find content for free without ads.

The competition for youtube is peertube, not another centralized platform.

It just needs content.

Yeah all that stuff.

Everyone is a celebrity.

Will the ads have ads though?

I think these are image based static ads, not video ads

In this comment, old man yells at cloud:

When the phone rings, I need to be able to press one button to pause my video and stop the sound. Not two. I still have to hunt for my phone (assuming they are different devices) and find the right button on that thing, since I now have five different phones in my house and they all accept calls differently (unless I program them, and since they belong to people who aren't me, I don't get to). I'm turning into a goddamn luddite and I love technology, I just am running out of attention span.

And that's why my tv doesn't get the wifi password. I have an external Roku and I barely use it. My TV is connected to my PC and that's why I don't see ads on Amazon or tubi

Yes, yes. I'm sure I've got several things in my home that are terrible. I've cut off streaming and Amazon, have never owned a gaming console or gaming PC, quit reddit, quit Facebook, never had Twitter, Instagram, Tok Tok, used wish, etc. I do not use cash transfer apps. Neither my appliances nor my HVAC connect to the Internet.

But I can't become a complete Luddite overnight. It's a series of steps. So until this Roku that I bought about six or seven years ago craps the bed, I will continue using it, mostly with antenna broadcast local stations, but also with some of the free streaming sites like Tubi.

If you would like to come audit the entirety of my existence and personally fund immediate replacement of everything I have that is evil or offensive, I invite your benevolence.

Otherwise, let a guy use an illustrative example while engaging in casual Internet conversation in peace.

ublock blocked their ad block blockers.

They tried but they're losing.

ublock origin users barely noticed. you just have to update filters every now and then.

The screenshot does have a “dismiss” button, so I suppose if you click there you’ll still be able to see the fullscreen video.

But yeah, those are definitely cumulative with existing ads, knowing the greedy fucks.

😆 Good description of how ads appear to me.

I should start submitting videos there

Check out PeerTube, which is on the Fediverse. Content can be followed and broadcast to Mastodon and others.

{{Citation needed}}

🤔 maybe we can have you pedal a bike while you watch to earn more credits? We'll sell it as some health thing.

It’s also a way to pay for providing a service

Yes, but that doesn't excuse trying to force an infinite number of ads on people.

Podcasts are supported through ads and you don't see people complaining about it, programs to block them, and Podcasts trying to subvert ad blockers. Why? Because they have a reasonable number of ads, with clear ad breaks, that are indistinguishable code wise from the rest of the podcast so you can fast forward through them. Oh, and when I turn it off it doesn't keep paying audio at me.

This is like a service charging 10x as much and you defending it saying "you have to pay for the service somehow." Yes, there's paying for the service, and then there's the service being greedy and milking every last bit of money they can out of it.

YouTube made $31.5 billion in ad revenue last year, and they're still demanding more. Will these "pause ads" reduce the number of other ads users see? Will it help find other improvements of the service? Or is this just an attempt to keep building infinite growth in a finite system?

At this point I would be thrilled if YouTube went out of business because too many people were using ad blockers.

Now double dipping is where things get questionable.

It would be the last straw for me as a premium subscriber. Many of the channels i subscribe are putting their better content on nebula anyway.

pay for the service then

Gladly. So I donated to Peertube.

So? Creating videos isn't free, but few creators are receiving money worth the time they put in.

They also have a cycle-of-rage algorithm leading children from video game content into far-right radicalization.

I pay for YouTube. I'm mildly optimistic that this won't make it into the paid version, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it does.

I've already had to cancel Amazon Prime after they made the base tier have ads, but continued to show ads after paying extra for ad-free.

So many people in this comment section are pissed that YouTube isn't both free and ad-free. It's mind blowing.

Yes, YouTube is a business and exists to generate revenue.

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uBlock Origin on Firefox certainly works. There was a short period of about 5 days (a couple of months ago) where they were blocking playback with uBlock enabled, but it didn't last long.

Adblockers work just like they always have. Nothing has changed. Mobile apps are a different story but you couldn't ever block ads in the native app anyway.

What about the shareholders? How will this effect them?

I pause videos to read what’s on screen.

An add-on that screenshots on pause would fix this. But yes, I understand the use-case as I do the same. Google doesn't give a damn (about users).

I'm sure the advertisers will be terrified of those automated messages.

Eh, it depends on your lifestyle and age. I’m a minimalist and I know exactly what I like and need. An ad isn’t going to convince me to buy anything.

Uh, idk about you but I have never bought a single thing shoved down my throat by youtube.

Shit.

And I don't have Android TV either, I have Web OS (LG TV).

What if I paused a video to be able to read something from the paused frame and it's all covered by an ad?