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Ads on YouTube? I don't know what ur talking about. If people are getting ads then as far as I'm concerned that's a skill issue.
Ads in the modern world are an idiot tax. And those of us who don't pay that tax need the idiots to keep paying our tab.
I didn't have a problem with using YouTube Premium, but Google is doing a lot of shitty practices. The latest is purging Google Maps reviews in collusion with local authorities for private interests. Maybe don't be part of a shitty monopoly while trying to push this sort of bullshit onto us?
Any suggestions for avoiding Google maps reviews? The best I can think of is looking for threads on local subreddits for e.g. restaurants. Unfortunately there's not much of a local community on the fediverse yet.
It's a practical monopoly due to how they've exploited their Android presence in the mobile market. The only viable alternative is Yelp. The biggest problem is getting people to jump on the same platform and to leave reviews, and Google does this with mobile location tracking, even prompting the user when they think they've been remotely near a location at times. Maybe it does need a fediversed alternative, it is quite the unaddressed monopoly.
One solution to that problem is to close YouTube on your device and do something else with your time.
Hour long ads? How come I've never experienced these?
Oh wait, i used ReVanced hahahaha 🤣
They force paying customers ( yt music premium & yt premium ) to disable ad blockers, too. Why? If I accordingly to the contract shouldn't get any ads why they would need to punish for blocking ads which shouldn't exist :-)?
I pay for YT premium and use unlock origin + privacy badger and don't see any ads on YT.
You aint getting the ads but they still need you to load the trackers mate.
It is for your own safety, taker your pants off, boy
Explanation: they weren't using an (functional) ad blocker for some reason.
Are ad blockers to blame?
Why do you make me hit you?
The funny thing is using a good adblocker and I haven't noticed a single youtube ad, so if they're to blame, they're also the solution. I don't see how this move functionally does anything other than punish those who can't block ads.
The YouTube owner explains that normal non-skippable in-stream ads are limited to just 15 seconds in length.
This is bullshit. I don't use an ad-blocker and often get a full minute of ad. And an extra minute if I happen to pause the stream for like 30 seconds and come back to it.
You're pretty much asking for it by not using an ad blocker. Want it to stop? Boycott the ads.
Same. I get the whole range. Usually it's short but occasionally it's an hour long.
You've been here for two years and haven't installed a blocker yet? That's almost impressive
Not using a real ad blocker (read: PiHole or UBlockOrigin, fuck AdBlockPlus) is a serious security threat this day in age. Do yourself a favor and get that set up ASAP.
Using the internet without an ad blocker is like fucking every sex worker in Vegas without a condom.
Practice safe internet.
This message has not been sponsored by Firefox or uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger or Decentral Eyes, but if they want to throw some money my way I would accept.
It's decentral eyes still relevant? I was reading that it use was now discouraged.
I consider the internet unusable without an ad blocker, ESPECIALLY youtube. I can't imagine life without it. It would be like camping without a tent, I guess I could get by but it can really suck depending on where you go.
This is bullshit. I don't use an ad-blocker
You should be kinder to yourself.
While the company stops short of directly saying as much, it sure feels like the preposterously long ads we’re seeing here are an example of one tool in Google’s arsenal for effectively disabling YouTube playback for violators of the site’s ToS.
That makes no sense at all. It isn't like skipping ads results in a black screen for the length of the ad.
People with adblockers aren't going to see hour long ads or black screens when they don't see ads in the first place.
It's hilarious that they think it would matter to anyone with an ad blocker. I haven't seen an ad for years on youtube. Hell I haven't even seen promotions in videos for a few months now that I found a sponsor segment blocker.
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I think Google doesn't care about that at all.
They most likely pay peanuts compared to you for "bandwidth" (which for them is more of an electricity cost and trough-output allocation than a specific numeric value like consumers and smaller companies have). You also cache the video on your own device making the multiple tab thing useless if you don't know what you're doing. And Google can also just block you when they attack their servers, move traffic around, and so much more advanced stuff that protects their infrastructure.
tl;dr: Trying to boycott Google by trying to waste their resources is useless.
All that does is make YouTube money while costing money to the advertisers.
How long do you think those advertisers will stay when it turns out they've paid $1M in advertising with no change in sales?
I hear what you are saying but the truth is that they will stay, just so they aren't missing, regardless of ROI. Case in point is Xitter. The numbers clearly state that the level of engagement and sales conversion from Xitter ads is pitiful, especially when compared to Bluesky, yet advertisers still hang in there...just in case.
