Ah yes, because what I want when I tell my computer to stop playing audio and video is for YouTube to play some audio and video of some random thing I didn’t ask for at like 3x the volume of the video I just paused. Thanks google. Such an innovative company!
Didn’t you hear? There was strong traction in the tests. They know what’s best for you. Shhhh
Traction = how many views and clicks ads got. Such a useful traction for users
“Research Results: showing people more ads gets us more ad views. Conclusion: We need to show people MORE ADS”
Yeah, and I definitely never pause a video because I want to look more closely at the frame I paused it at. Obviously, covering it over with something different is exactly what I was hoping for!
Oh, and no youtuber would ever say anything like “pause the video here if you need more time to read the details” and nobody ever adds any single frame easter eggs in their videos either.
Jump scare advertising.
I assume those don’t have any sound but it’s still annoying af. Sometimes I just pause to see something. Hopefully adblocks will be able to handle this.
It wouldn’t be that bad if it played muted. Then again I haven’t watched ads in a long time
If it takes over the video it would be. I pause YT videos all the time to read something that didn’t stay on screen long enough.
Oh yeah that too. It’s bad enough when YT does the thing where it pulls up suggested videos when you pause.
Pausing just brings up a sidebar with a static image ad. Maybe they change that to audio amd/or video in the future but right now you just seem uninformed and reflexively hostile. Maybe like, experience what they’re doing before judging? Or at least before commenting…
I already adblock. For a good reason. The ads only get worse. I’d be surprised if it didn’t turn into that after some time. It’s not an unreasonable assumption.
Why would you even assume? The info is in the linked article. Point being, if you’d read the article you wouldn’t need to make assumptions.
YouTube started testing pause ads last year, as reported by Adweek. These ads will pop up as banners around the video and can be removed by hitting the “dismiss” button. They’re going to be pretty similar to the pause ads that Hulu introduced back in 2019.
Idk, because it’s a joke and I’m not really that invested in the specifics of the latest ad garbage a tech company is pushing? Ads expand to fill all available space. If it can eventually become a video ad, it will. Just give it time. These things never go in the other direction.
The back pedaling has reached the “it was a joke. I was only pretending to be wrong” stage. What comes next?
Just admit you spoke without knowledge and try to do better in the future. It’s not that hard.
…Except you knew it was sarcasm. Hence why you made your comment in the first place. Unless you thought I was earnestly praising Google for making new ads?
Their strategy to combat ad blockers is to add more ads. Logic becomes irrelevant when youre surrounded with a cloud of greed. Ublock ftw.
My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.
Jokes on them, ublock origin still works just fine for me.
For now. YouTube can make it not work whenever they want by implementing something like WEI. I wonder why they are afraid of doing so.
They’re playing the long game here. First they assimilated browser space with Chrome, then they disabled manifest v2, and the next step will probably be some reincarnation of WEI just like you said, in order to close down the open internet for good.
If you look at the state of the web right now, most of the interactions and traffic go through the dedicated apps of the big tech (spyware, basically) who are vendor-locking the experience. I figure it will divide the web even further into two entities, one being the addictive big-tech apartheid spyware gardens, and the other being the free fediverse-like FOSS-natured web for privacy and tech enthusiasts, with severely limited interaction between the two. I’ll always choose the latter, thank you very much.
Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.
It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.
Just imagine what a website like YT would look like in 2035 without any ad blockers.
By then, I’m sure they’ll be trying to have a death sentence implemented for anyone using an adblocker.
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Idiocracy had it right https://contraditorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IDIOCRACY-TV.png
Embedding:
Nothing is overlaid directly on top of the content.
Sadly it looks to me a much better experience than the current state of the ad space…
Why even show content? It’s the ads that people are actually here for! Can you imagine the audacity of people, wanting a little creative content amongst our cloud of vapid, capitalistic hawking.
Ladies and gentleman, this is why competition is desperately needed. It’s only going to continue downhill from here…
Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There’s no competition because there’s no money to be made here.
Yes, and that’s where the issues lie. It will never get better because there is no competition to force Google to improve and they know that. Therefore, free reign.
Competition is useless, better to have federated networks and do videos for profit and find other ways to pay for content to support content creators if they need support. Block ads everywhere, work in those fields is better than calling for competition and creating competitor that will win over google and become new google.
There will be adblocker to block this also don’t worry.
And sadly the biggest competitor is Rumble and it’s terrible
Omg I pause videos so I can see a frame better. It’s* bad enough that they throw content up on the screen when pause.
Pausing is me showing intent interest, not me saying “I want to watch something else” smh
They can put as much ads as they wan’t they will be blocked, and there always will be a way to block them.
Pornhub called, they want credit for the idea
Lol nice try youtube. This will be blocked and you can’t do shit about it
I just got one of these the other day. I picked up an Nvidia Shield because I was tired of my shitty Samsung TV not being able to stream Plex correctly and Google is the only data devil I’ve made a deal with. I hadn’t watched much YouTube on it I guess until last night and I couldn’t believe how many ads I saw.
Holy. Shit. YouTube has ads in the middle of fucking videos now? And then I paused and saw another ad and about lost my shit. Immediately looked up how to adblock on Android TV. Jesus it’s invasive.
This means people in the test market are clicking on those ads. Not much we can do about it at that point - it works therefore they’ll use it.
Strong traction from whom?
Executives!
Yes most likely, they don’t use YouTube anyway, too busy watching Mandingo fights.
Honest question here: what would stop me from starting a video, then pausing it and walking away from my computer for several hours so youtube plays ads to no one?
Now repeat but with several tabs.
And bonus points if the videos simply happen to be mine and I were to enable monetization on them.
Hmmm…
For me YT is without ads using Violentmonkey with these scripts:
- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/480192-youtube视频-音乐-儿童广告拦截
- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/489585-ultimate-youtube-ad-remover-and-detection-bypasser/code
But there are more and more YouTubers which promote products in their Videos and promotional videos between the shorts and other in the suggestions list, but at least they can be ignored or skipped.
Sponsorblock can be used to skip the ads content creators put into their videos
Ehm, yes and no, it can only if the sponsorblock is marked as such in the Video, but not if, for example the author, while he speaks about his teme, also said that he also want to agree the Energy Drink which sponsor his vids, presenting the Brand. That can’t avoid none of the sponsor block scripts, because its in the same video presentation.It’s exactly this what ocurres more and more.
How are those scripts with updates? YT has been on the ball lately, patching holes. Im definitely going to look into using scripts though, thanks for the rabbithole… see you in a few weeks haha.
I’m since a half year withot ads since I use these scripts, obviously not detected by YT in their battle with uBO and other known adblocker extensions.Userscripts are a really good alternative to mainstream extensions and independent from the stores. In Greasyfork and OpenuserJS are very interesting scripts you can use. Using them with Greasymonkey or Violentmonkey or in Vivaldi installing them directly as extensions (but then you must update these by hand)
Thank you for the info!
If it were visual ads with no audio, I actually think this is a good idea. When you pause you’re ready for an interruption of sorts: it jars the brain less.
I’d still want to be able to maximise the video still frame to see details sometimes. Just yesterday I watched a 3blue1brown with a brief freeze-frame of extra detail to read if you wanted (and I did!)
I’ve been getting this on the YouTube app on shield TV and fire TV stick lately. It’s as you said; just click dismiss on the ad and it goes back to full screen.
Let me guess – in addition to the existing midrolls.
I wish nothing but financial ruin and misery on Google.
They managed to go from the most popular and well liked company in the world, to a company that everyone despises, all within the span of a decade.
Don’t use YouTube if you like privacy
Or use some frontends like invidious or piped.
