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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Apparently a hot take, but I don't have an issue with this, as long as they're picture ads, not videos. An option to hide them temporarily would be good if you're trying to read something. Maybe you'd need to hold a key or something. To me this is much less intrusive than 3 videos ads at the beginning of a video.

All of that said, I pay for premium, as I watch enough YouTube for it to be very very justified. I've probably saved weeks of my time not watching ads, plus it supports creators more than the ads ever do.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My noodle 🍜 has little ads built into the noodle blades. I have to eat in my room. I've been watching porn so most of my noodles are pornographic. Anyway, don't look at my noodles! I get them for free with the ads.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I understand.

[–] Teils13@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 2 months ago

You must be young (or without memory). YouTube ads started exactly with picture ads (horizontal banners), but that was not sufficient, and ~12 years later there already are 2 unskipable videos at start, middle and finish (and several at the middle if in a long video). Your ad at the pause may start with pictures even, but videos and later longer videos will follow.

[–] RadicallyBland@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol, ads

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[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

PornHub has been doing this. A little popup comes on screen when you pause the video for the first time.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

They've started serving ads when you skip backwards. Drives me fucking nuts.

I was willing to use the mobile app with ads because the interface is slightly less buggy.

Ad blocking on mobile web it is for me now 👍

[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 0 points 2 months ago

Revanced ftw

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

newpipe

[–] Barrymore@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

https://grayjay.app/

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tubular :)

Had to jump into the 'name your alternative' thread hehe.

Tubular because it includes SponsorBlock.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

Hmmm, so what you are saying is that I am just one ad blocker failing away from being productive in life?

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing. News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.

And also.. I’ll never understand this. I use YouTube and don’t give a shit about ads. The moment they start bothering me- I’ll stop using YouTube. It’s that easy. Don’t like it, walk away.

If you hate something so much, yet can’t stop using it- you have an addiction. Ads are not the problem here.

[–] TJDetweiler@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like there is an argument to be made about ads being put into damn near everything. They've become way too prominent in every aspect of daily life. There are so many things you cannot do without having an ad rammed down your throat. Youtube isn't the best example of this, but if you start giving up things that have ads, you will eventually have nothing. The root problem is corporate greed. Line must go up at an ever increasing angle, and shareholders must make maximum profit. How do they accomplish that? Ads. Regulatory bodies must step in before everything we see in a digital spaces (and a lot of real spaces too) becomes covered in advertisements.

Won't be long before we go to the beach to watch the sunset, and there's a floating billboard for mountain Dew covering it up. It's out of control.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So again, no one is going to win this. The only recourse is to stop using YouTube.

That’s it.

That’s how you win. You don’t play. But constantly whining about their practices while continuing to support their platform with visits is not doing the damage you think it’s doing.

They will always be steps ahead of you.

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