I haven’t watched an ad on youtube for at least the last 5 years. Ad blocking is cyber security.
They have been pushing adblock detecting technologies in some regions. I’m preparing for having to stop using Youtube when they roll it out here.
I don’t think you’ll be losing out on much. Their algorithm has gone to shit recently and finding anything new has become a chore.
I’ve never had history on so their algorithm has always been ass for me. Just depended on subs.
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Ad blocking is basic hygiene at this point.
Preach!
I recently had to adjust ublock origin manually after ads started popping up on youtube.
I’m getting the feeling that within the next five years I’m going to be abandoning YouTube and just living without video content going forward.
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I’m old enough to remember when none of this stuff existed. I have a threshold Beyond which I simply stop using the service.
I’m actually pretty close to my lifestyle from before 1995. I don’t have any cable I have basic internet I don’t do any of the Music Services. Video-wise I only have Prime and any free services I can get on Chromecast for TV. I’m getting close to my threshold with prime, as the annual fee is getting real high.
I’m already starting to lose interest in most YouTube channels. It’s not so bad here, really. I get to experience reality more.
Yeah, I’ve also been returning somewhat to how I used the internet before modern social media (and it has been nicer).
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Half of the videos they recommend to me are things I’ve already watched. Sometimes there’ll just be blank slots like they couldn’t find any content to recommend. It’s so shit now.
Check out PeerTube.
Smart content creators have been setting up websites, Patreons, merchandise shops, and all they need to jump ship when YouTube finally capsizes. The likely/easy/inexpensive alternative for content creators, is PeerTube.
Tempted to looking in to self hosting video content, it’s a real storage hog, but if compressed, I imagine some of the mid sized youtube channels could afford to do so, the real shame will be the difficulty for smaller creators to get discovered without a common platform.
The problem isn’t storing it, it’s hosting and delivering content.
YouTube, Netflix, and all the other big streaming platforms have huge amounts of servers around the world delivering content with minimal latency and without saturating the Internet exchanges with gigantic amounts of data traffic.
If we were to do this peer-2-peer people would have to get used to waiting for pages and videos to load again.
So long as the video runs continuously once the page loads, I’m not particularly bothered by latency. Admittedly I’m not everyone, but I think most people care more about the content than the UX. I mean, hell, YouTube has a pretty miserable UX in different ways, not from lack skill on the part of the people who make and maintain it or limitations of technology, but from the poor cooperate incentives and goals that govern it.
It probably wouldn’t. Or you would have to wait a long time.
Try streaming from a site across the world and see how it is today. Then imagine saturating the networks with loads of it.
Would definitely need new infrastructure to cache popular content.
Does anyone else ever notice that the changes like this they make are done piece mail, brick by brick ,they continue to shitify the service. That’s intentional…Imagine you tube in the year 2009. I’m betting no one really remembers, and youtube made the same bet.
How many things have they taken away that users really like over the years think about it. Now imagine they did all those changes AT ONCE…TODAY… from 2005 at inception. Horrifying huh ?
Big companies always start off with an amazing array of “Standard Features” that they allow everyone to use, so that the users get hooked on them, then suddenly they make an announcement like this and they change, remove, or premium tier a feature. They know you wont like it… but they got you hooked and they know it and they dont care. It’s all driven at profiteering as much as they can off of you. Honestly I see youtube trying to become like Netflix by continuing to increase inconvenience with ads (for their profit), and ultimately making Youtube a completely payed service subscription to everyone.
They gaslight the great majority into just giving in to more ads, shittier service, and eventually a payed subscription by breaking your outrage up into small little pieces over time. STOP LETTING THEM !
Edit: So yeah Twitter/X as predicted.
Boiling the frog is one of Google’s favorite strategies
I read this as “YouTube will push even harder for non-skippable ads, and content creators can’t stop them anymore”
That’s because that’s what it says. They’re hardly trying to hide it.
Insane that there are still people who aren’t using adblock these days lol.
I’m glad nebula exists as a good alternative for educational content. It has successfully replaced much of the time I previously spent on YouTube.
Anyways both Nebula and Curiositystream have lifetime subscriptions available right now… 90% of my YouTube viewing is from creators on those sites anyway
I’ve had several lifetime subscriptions that have been made into paid monthly subscriptions. Lifetime subscription is a gamble that I have yet to see pay off.
It also CAN’T be good for you long-term. Eventually providers start losing money on you. Which means they fail, or they start looking for other ways to monetize you that you probably won’t like.
Like, say, Plex.
I choose yearly when I can for this kind of thing.
Doesn’t matter. People will still eat that shit up! YouTube is the best example of Stockholm syndrome I’ve ever seen. This shit should be taught about in schools.
The problem is that there is no valid alternative at the moment, so I wouldn’t call that Stockholm sybdrome. Hosting that much content for free costs ungodly amounts of money to Google
No valid alternative isn’t an excuse to continue consuming shit. That’s abused wife mentality.
Just leave. You don’t need an alternative.
This is the way.
We’ve been able to survive for 200,000 years without any of this s***.
They will lose control of the pre roll and post roll ads but maintain control of the ad breaks during the video. This is actually a smart change and data driven.
It’s quite obvious that most people commenting here didn’t read the post, given that it says 90% of creators already have all ad types enabled for pre and post video already, and that it directly leads to greater payouts to them.
And i’m here wonder: do most creator care about how ads are setup? I’m pretty sure, out of the millions of creator, only a small number of them will control how ads are display, the rest only care about how much money they make. And tbf, if a platform is free, that’s how they earn money.
