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Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by serbanTeodor »

waihtis wrote: post #42
anhner wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also on Android*, unfortunately. If you want adblocking youtube on iOS I recommend using Safari with the vinegar (paid) extension. (And wipr for general adblocking) ETA: If I remember correctly, Brave Browser also has ad blocking built in. For youtube as well.

A free alternative is Firefox Focus browser which adblocks by default. Problem is it nukes each session after you close it, so not very persistent

Does it allow multi tabs? I think the name 'Focus' would suggest they still not support multiple tabs opened?

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by silisili »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #163

They won't make it so annoying that they lose substantial percentage of viewers. Hopefully not off topic: I continue to be surprised at how many of my friends don't pay for an ad-free YouTube (virtually all of them!). For about $15/month my wife and I get YouTube Music that includes ad-free (but content creators sometimes embed their own ads) YouTube. A bonus: when listening to old music from my youth, I am surprised…

I think the problem for me is that ad free isn't ad free with YouTube. It seems half the videos I come across are littered with sponsored segments. Often multiple in the same video.

Worse, there's whole cadres of reviewers, mainly in tech, who have created a weird feedback loop causing their entire videos to be subtle ads. Reviewer gets popular, reviewer quits job to youtube full time, reviewer needs to get early access to make reviews, reviewer is told what they can and can't say by mfg. Mess up or give negative review, they'll never get another early access from said company. So their entire job has become to basically advertise.

There's a few channels I'll watch that I trust, like Project Farm, VCG, a couple carpentry ones I don't remember the name of. The thing in common is they mostly seem to be older guys and/or people just making videos for fun.

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by simion314 »

LegitShady wrote: post #189
simion314 wrote: post #14

Someone will say to pay for Premium but weird thing Google(and other giants) have very limited payment methods. I do not understand why Steam,Gog, Patreon and small companies you never heard of can offer various payments methods (like PayPal) but the giants are limited to credit cards, maybe they don't want my money or they really want the credit cards? or maybe PayPal is too difficult to handle for a giant but small…

I support companies not using paypal. paypal is a terrible company with terrible policies and behaviours, and companies not offering paypal is a mark of excellence to me.

I would not disagree with your PayPal opinion, but this does not explain why companies that really want to sell stuff will let me use PayPal but Google and Amazon does not, their lose, I use ad blocker for YouTube and found audiobooks on a different company that wants my money.

So I am curious what Google/Amazon thinks about this (not your personal opinion about PayPal if I should not have the choice to use anything else then VISA/MasterCard)

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by max51 »

eek2121 wrote: post #165
endisneigh wrote: post #118

I don’t like ads, especially not irrelevant and excessive ones (I pay for YouTube premium), but the amount of people bragging about getting around ads is just sad. I assume most of us here have jobs. Are we ok with working for free? Many people on YouTube do it full time, with ad revenue and exposure being their primary source of income. Somehow some people have it in their heads that if the job is entertainment then…

The issue to me is cost vs benefit to creators. I do back a few of my favorite Youtubers on Patreon (actually, I pay them each more than I would pay YouTube), however, creators actually receive very little from YouTube Premium subscriptions.

>creators actually receive very little from YouTube Premium subscriptions.

They actually receive a lot more cash for per view from YouTube premium viewers compared to free ad-supported users. And it's not even close, we're talking an order of magnitude more money per view when it's youtube premium

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by manuelmoreale »

tmaly wrote: post #113
bigtex wrote: post #92

I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in ages with ublock origin.

sad that it is not available on iOS

Latest https://1blocker.com does come with the option to block YouTube ads while using the mobile site. Don’t think it works if you use the app though.

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by max51 »

JohnFen wrote: post #166
dewey wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Will google make the same mistakes that television made? TV didn't go away because of ads but because consumers shifted to a different model of consuming content. > also harm user opinions of wanting to use youtube in general Most people browse the web and don't even know about ad blockers. It's a very small bubble that's really loud and anti-ads. I hear from many people that actually like Instagram ads as they act…

> TV didn't go away because of ads but because consumers shifted to a different model of consuming content. Perhaps. But a nontrivial percentage of people I know stopped watching TV because of the ads (especially the overlay ads) well before there were any serious alternatives to TV. So, at least some audience was driven away by them.

A lot of them would not have made the switch if the only way to watch your favorite TV show on Netflix was to login at the exact time that it airs every week, and you couldn't watch the old episodes, and they only had a catalog of a few dozen shows at a time.

It was the same with music before streaming. It was literally faster and easier to pirate it than to rip the songs from your legally purchased CD if you had an MP3 player.

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by colejohnson66 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #170
coreyh14444 wrote: post #16

Folks, just pay for YouTube Premium. In my family, between my kids and myself we watch more YouTube than Netflix/Disney+/Hulu combined so the YouTube family plan is the best value going.

Thats great for you. For me, its way overpriced, considering they are not creating any of the content and it doesn't actually cover all ads.

> and it doesn't actually cover all ads

That's not true at all. I've been paying for Premium for over a year, and I can say with certainty that I have seen zero ads placed by YouTube. The only ones I've seen are ones creators put in themselves.

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by skrowl »

DrNosferatu wrote: post #187

You might find this useful: NewPipe x SponsorBlock x Return YouTube Dislike - a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike functionality. https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube also very good for YouTube + adblock + sponsorblock

Re: YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

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Post by skrowl »

shishy wrote: post #140
bigtex wrote: post #92

I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in ages with ublock origin.

Yeah. I got a Smart TV recently and with the YouTube app started seeing ads again. I think I have to just stream from my laptop instead of using the apps :(. Probably better that way though, typing with the remote is terrible!

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/ if its Android TV

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Post by mrguyorama »

the_cramer wrote: post #158
MiguelX413 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mind sponsors tbh, especially if they're nicely integrated into the video's content.

This. ever seen Internet historian? The ad segment is some of the best content of yt.

I'm glad he gets the creative expression but he keeps shilling raycons and mediocre VPNs. I get he has to get paid but I wish there was anyone who had the advertising money to spend on sponsorships but wasn't garbage, but I guess having that level of advertising spend kind of precludes you from spending it on product development or high quality components
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