YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto
YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto
YouTube has been testing a new way to show you ads that appear when you pause your video, and it feels pretty confident about them.
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!
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!
Jump scare advertising.
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.
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.
Its gonna work on a lot of people, rest will install addins that when pause the video also muted the tab
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...
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.
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.
But ublock won the fight soo we are good
Just imagine what a website like YT would look like in 2035 without any ad blockers.
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.
Idiocracy had it right https://contraditorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IDIOCRACY-TV.png
probably like other social media today. you don't see anything you actually want to see at all, just ads, sponsored videos and stuff you didn't search for that autoplays amd takes up the screen no matter what tab you are using
By then, I’m sure they’ll be trying to have a death sentence implemented for anyone using an adblocker.
Strong traction from whom?
Executives!
Yes most likely, they don't use YouTube anyway, too busy watching Mandingo fights.
Psychopaths.
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
It's* bad enough
It's no tits? That sounds terrible
I'm getting strong traction to finally get around installing pihole.
I haven't seen youtube ads in years. uBlock and sponsorblock extension in Firefox on my laptop. Newpipe with sponsorblock on my phone.
I wouldn't survive using internet without those and gdpr, cookie blockers. It's soooo bad and getting worse.
You should, but it specifically doesn’t work for YouTube. PiHole works by blocking DNS requests to known ad servers. But YouTube hosts their own ads on the same servers that host the videos. So if your pihole blocks the ads, it also blocks the videos you’re trying to watch.
You should, but it sadly doesn’t work for most video streaming sites.
Shout out to the PiHole team; miss you guys here on the fediverse!
Let me guess -- in addition to the existing midrolls.
I wish nothing but financial ruin and misery on Google.
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
Don't use YouTube if you like privacy
Or use some frontends like invidious or piped.
That's what I use
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.
Hey, Alphabet!
Want to know how to make a lot more money while being seen as the good guy at the same time?
Lower the price of youtube premium by at least 30%
You will still earn way more money from a premium user than a free user, while not being a dick.
150sek/month is too much, get to down to 100sek/month and I'll gladly pay.
You'll get a shittonne more paying customers at the same time.
Gonna be honest, there's no price I'd be willing to pay for YouTube Premium.
I used to pay for YouTube Red. I didn't cancel it because it was too expensive, I cancelled it in retaliation for all the other shitty things YouTube has been doing. If YouTube wants me to return as a paying member, they need to reinstate the ability for small accounts to monetise their YouTube accounts; they need to stop demonetising/restricting educational content that might be related to war, weapons, sex, or sexuality; and they need to change their copyright policy to make it much, much harder to abuse false claims.
Or maybe just have a usable UI
YouTube's pricing is a mess. Here's a quick breakdown of their offer here in France :
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YouTube Premium (so video + music): 12€/m
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YouTube Music Premium (music only, obviously): 10€/m
One would assume based on this that Google values YouTube at only 2€/m per user. But anyway, let's take a look at their family plans for a laugh:
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YouTube Premium (6 users): 18€/m
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YouTube Music Premium (6 users still): 15€/m
Let's put aside the price discrepancy. 18/6 = 3€/m per user. All signs point to Google being ok with making between 2 and 3€ per user per month, yet such an offer doesn't exist. Hell, make it 4€, even. People would flock to it. But no, they're just being greedy.
They are not OK with 2 euro per user. This is just to get people used to using paid versions for dirt cheap before they accumulate solid subscription count. After they they will either remove this family plan or make it more restrictive/expensive just like Netflix started to do
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Hey, Alphabet!
Want to know how to make a lot more money while being seen as the good guy at the same time, while not even lowering prices or adding costs?
Allow third party apps for premium users that can disable the BS
You will still earn the same amount of money from both free and premium users, while not being a dick. In fact, third party developers would be doing the work for you!
Additionally, having apps that can lower the engagement BS reduces your bandwidth costs!
You'll get a crap ton more paying customers at the same time. I'd even become one.
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....
Strong traction on the tires that will run over the heads of Youtube HQ people maybe. But other than that i dont see any traction.
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
I hope this doesn't become one of youtube's "experiments" that quickly become forced on you
That would likely trigger some sort of 'protection' and they would d̶e̶m̶o̶n̶e̶t̶i̶z̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ steal your ad revenue.
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.
A reminder to close the app that also reminds you how much you hate Google.
Lol nice try youtube. This will be blocked and you can't do shit about it
UBlock origin advanced mode blocking most JS + NoScript blocking functions of certain JS functions. Easy
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.
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)
Freetube with sponsorblock enabled foils all of it.
