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“Experiencing interruptions? Find out why” - Naah I’m fine dude, just take your time.
Oh no! The video is black for a few seconds instead of showing several ads for a minute! Whatever am I going to do???
Even if they keep the screen black for 30 second to a minute, I’d still gladly wait in silence than be subjected to advertisements.
If they ever make it impossible to watch videos without first watching ads, then I’ll just leave the platform. I have no loyalty to YouTube and I’ll sooner dump the platform and move on to other video sites than deal with enshittification and ads.
Oh that’s why it says this? Guess I’ll block this message too.
I’m fine with waiting 10 seconds at the beginning of a video. I wonder how much YouTube would save (by reducing bandwidth, smaller caches, choosing slower storage) if they didn’t have the goal to start the video virtually immediately.
That feature isn’t built into YT? I have it set on my browser to where the video needs to be manually started (excluding playlists).
My point was: You don’t need to wait for it to buffer or even load. Once the page is there, the video is playable.
Very well knowing why and watching them do their stalling is indeed fine.
Every time you are reminded how petty they are.
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I was happy to pay for YT Premium when there was a loophole so you could sign up from a far cheaper country. I paid about £6 a month for the family plan, purely so I could watch on Apple TV without having to tolerate adverts.
Then they closed the loophole, shitcanned our premium, and demanded £20 for the same experience. We had Netflix at the time, which was cheaper. So I made a little app as a frontend for yt-dlp, and downloaded what I wanted to watch into my Jellyfin server.
Fuck Google.
I’ll never understand why people are proud to waste their life watching ads. Or are proud to use adblock and steal the content being posted by small creators. You’re really sticking it to the little guy, great job.
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The people saying “just pay for premium” don’t seem to understand that in the beginning YouTube was free and had no ads. When google purchased it they promised to keep it that way. Then they slowly started with ads. At first they were pretty unobtrusive banners, then a short skippable preroll then multiple preroll then unskippable preroll. The reason I refuse to pay for premium is because Google created this issue and is now selling the solution. I refuse to be a part of that. It has nothing to do with the creators.
The cost of hosting YouTube itself doesn’t pay for itself unfortunately. They could get away with it back then because the internet itself wasn’t that big. Therefore, we need to KICK THE NORMIES OUT OF OUR INTERNET. WE WERE HERE FIRST, REEEEEE
I would totally pay for youtube if it was even remotely decently priced.
You can get multiple concurrents on disney+, Hulu or Netflix with blockbuster content for the same price as youtube’s slop filled premium family.
Seriously, the service is worth maybe $9 a month. I don’t want their music, i won’t use it, the quality is crap.
I don’t think this is as simple as “they’re too young to know”! I’m a 30+ year old man, and I was around 15 when YouTube first came out. I was a huge fan of the early days, when YouTube was free!
I am absolutely fine with paying a monthly/annual fee for ad-free access to perhaps the best compilation of human knowledge and entertainment which has ever been compiled in one place. One reason I’m cool with it is that premium views pay the content creator more than the equivalent ad view.
Sure, YouTube “created the issue” of ads. But if it means supporting the creators and removing a barrier to videos, I’m fine with the price.
They’re eventually gonna start banning accounts for this and then requiring login to view YouTube.
Do they think they are essential and believe I will not simply forget they ever existed?
May very well be, but that will be in line with their out of touch and deluded policies.I do not agree with their changes & policies but I think you underestimate the market share Youtube has in this area. Also you are not the average Youtube user (being on Lemmy and all) so you should think about how the average user interacts with the platform (they don’t care about Ad’s & don’t know how to install an Ad Blocker). I think Youtube can do a lot more shit before normal people would start to jump ship, but even then what are the alternatives for them? Peertube etc. don’t have the content they watch…
Sure they have a huge market share. That’s simply from being the first video-sharing platform and being from Google.
There is nothing unique or irreplaceable about them and plenty alternatives do exactly the same thing now.
Only better without ads.
Problem is there are too many and divide the small leftover market share between them.
When/if that’s fixed people will not look back.
‘normal’ people choose VLC now and other FOSS.
YT is not their favorite sportsteam, they have no loyalty to them.
On the contrary. If someone insists on playing YT music for friends and it’s interrupted by an ad, everyone’s annoyed.
And content is shared on as many platforms as they can since it’s free and they want as much viewers as possible.
They got me on chrome with this. I fought with it for about an hour but if I was logged in, videos just would not load.
So back to Firefox I go wheeeee
Dafuq is a scarescreen?
you know those FBI Warnings in front of a LEGALLY (they are removed by pirates on pirated movies) procured Movie? Those are scare screens.
Great; where’s the iOS app?
Lol
Unlock origin always always always free
You do you. I like my YT Premium. Many of the creators I watch there simply don’t publish anywhere else, and I don’t have time for ads, especially if I’m watching on my smart TV.
hmmm? Sorry I was busy enjoying my favorite creators on invidious with sponsorskip. Not sure what you all guys are talking about. Youtube is so good when you remove Youtube from the equation.
Do ye folks not have newpipe?
i do, and i get a pop up every time i use it now, warning that their services will likely end this fall
My friend told me that you just wouldn’t be able to download it again in the fall or something, but it’ll still work
How do I get that on iOS?
By leaving your walled garden.
No thanks. Seems more like android is coming into the garden.
Well then you have to wait for the gardeners to tell you what you’re allowed to do, stop asking questions.
Why?
Hell if I know, I avoid apple like the plague.
And I avoid android like the plague; what’s your point?
I hate when people just say “android android android”.
Weird, I’ve heard a lot of people go on about Apple. I didn’t even bring up Android, I’m not much of a fanboy for stuff like that. You asked me if I know it was for Apple, and I said I don’t know. Maybe look it up?
Weird, I’ve heard a lot of people go on about Android (when it comes to YouTube and ads).
So because your algorithm is cooked you’re mad at me for saying I don’t know how to put a program on an apple phone, and yelled at me about Android even though I didn’t even bring it up?
Like, seriously, why take it personally that I don’t like a thing you like? I didn’t say you were bad for liking apple. I didn’t rage out about you asking.
Bye.
With the glorious return of Tom Scott, I finally signed up to Nebula yesterday, and am pleasantly surprised at how many of my YT regulars are already on there. £30 for a year, no ads, and an Apple TV app.
Which is £30 more than I paid YouTube, because the family plan is a ridiculous amount of money.
What are scare screens in this context?
I think it’s referring to the “you can’t block ads on YT or we might ban you” popups you get on YT occasionally, if you’re using an adblocker. I have only had it happen once or twice before I did a quick online search and found an extra filter or two to add to uBlock Origin, and then I stopped seeing them.
I wonder how much time their devs spend working on a new ad block detector scheme that gets shown to a couple dozen people before ublock origin adds it to the default filters and none of their users see it again.
I wonder if they get frustrated or just laugh and get back to the endless job. Or if they also write some of the ublock filters themselves.
This is a cold war happening in the background of the internet. If the advertising industry wins, everybody loses. Advertisement is intrusive by design.
is his shirt a label, a seasoning, or a command?
Yes
Yes…yes.
If you don’t visit YouTube…
