Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube : privacy

[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

And I feel pretty pumped about blocking them.

[+] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If pause ads are static, silent, and replace midrolls, sounds like an improvement for everyone.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Replace! Ha! Oh blargerer, you are a wit!

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Nachorella 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hasn't Pornhub been doing this forever?

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I have a brilliant idea for YouTube: put porn ads in on your pauses and I bet those eyeballs will watch more ads than content! Everyone wins... except the children...

[+] penquin@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Because screw you if you want to pause a video to read something

[–] amio@kbin.social 6 points 1 year 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 bitch it's easier to just not watch anything on it.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck Google

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