Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-pause-ads-3437531/Open linkView original on lemm.eehttps://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-pause-ads-3437531/Open linkView original on lemm.ee
And I feel pretty pumped about blocking them.
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
Yeah, if at any point YouTube succeeds in killing the adblockers, then I’ll just stop watching youtube and only watch the creators that upload to Nebula
Use a Firefox fork with uBlock and you'll have a decent time of it. Including playback in the background
Grayjay, LibreTube, NewPipe, Invidious, Piped. If one seems to be down, the others always seem to work. Haven't been on YouTube in months.
If pause ads are static, silent, and replace midrolls, sounds like an improvement for everyone.
Replace! Ha! Oh blargerer, you are a wit!
Not for me, often when I pause I'm trying to see the video content paused on something.
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.
hasn't Pornhub been doing this forever?
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...
It did explain it, I thought. Pause ads:
Because screw you if you want to pause a video to read something
I will guarantee you, these will be additional ads, not replacing existing ones.
Of course it disappears when you start playing the video again. Some video sites already have had ads like this for a few years.
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.
Fuck Google