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Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by grandiego »

ttyyzz wrote: post #29

Having to pay for something so that's "less annoying" is the worst business model. YouTube Premium is very expensive. I had it for a while when I got a Pixel smartphone with a few months of YouTube Premium included. It was great. I also understand that streaming on this scale must entail incredibly high operating costs; the money has to come from somewhere. It's simply a dilemma. But there has to be a better way. Any…

At least on TV I occasionally catch randomly interesting ads... sometimes. On YT, I'm stuck with the same obnoxious commercial from a company whose service I strongly dislike, playing on loop ever since they associated me to some related product category. They think pestering me with more interruptions will win me over, but their analytics are working in reverse. I can't understand why they're so clueless.

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by ge96 »

Barrin92 wrote: post #38
brentm wrote: post #14

YouTube Premium costs about the same as 2 cold brew coffees and is worth the money.

Paying 13 bucks per month, which is a non trivial amount for a lot of people if it competes with other subcription services, merely to block ads on a website that doesn't even produce its own content is in my opinion one of the worst deals on the internet. That's equivalent to a Netflix subscription, which puts what, 20 billion into original content each year?

I might be convinced here, I was under the impression that even after you bought premium you would still see ads

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by ddtaylor »

I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by icehawk »

bitpush wrote: post #54
Barrin92 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying 13 bucks per month, which is a non trivial amount for a lot of people if it competes with other subcription services, merely to block ads on a website that doesn't even produce its own content is in my opinion one of the worst deals on the internet. That's equivalent to a Netflix subscription, which puts what, 20 billion into original content each year?

> doesn't even produce its own content How do you think those video bits get streamed all around the world? Magic?

People make the videos, and then sometimes youtube pays them for it.

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by ekianjo »

thomassmith65 wrote: post #113
noman-land wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There exists crowdsourced adblocking based on timestamps (SponsorBlock, Tubular). Soon we will have realtime on-device content-aware AI adblocking. They will ever win.

Once we get content-aware AI adblocking, every video and podcast will turn into a product placement.

They are already doing product placement everywhere..'

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by southernplaces7 »

Belopolye wrote: post #126
southernplaces7 wrote: post #108

If YouTube's ads were like the TV ads of olden days, they might even be marginally tolerable. They're not however. In my experience, they not only deliberately increase volume to pretty much screech whatever insipid bullshit is being offered at you, but they also can sometimes run for dozens of minutes unless you manually go to your device and press "skip". TV ads never did these sorts of utterly shitty, tedious thin…

> TV ads never did these sorts of utterly shitty, tedious things. Until the CALM Act was passed in 2010, networks actually did increase the volume on advertisements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...

Didn't know about that, but unsurprising. At least they couldn't extend their length almost indefinitely too, unless you manually skipped.

Re: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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Post by vunderba »

ghfhghg wrote: post #77
krosaen wrote: post #65

I pay for YouTube premium (which gives me YouTube music too) and am happy with the lack of ads, even though many creators still mix paid sponsors into their videos. It seems the creators are motivated to keep things minimal or they will lose engagement. What I am not happy with is a lack of control over the homepage and recommendations. I would really like to be able to easily block channels from ever showing up, but…

The "don't show this channel" feature also feels like there is some kind of expiry because I've blocked a few channels multiple times now via that method. Totally a theory but sometimes YouTube has a button that says roughly "show me something new". I think that may be the source of those channels returning.

Agreed. I've told YT about a thousand times I have zero friggin interest in YouTube Shorts and lo and behold a few weeks later they guiltily try to sneak back into the home page.
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