YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts

Post by endisneigh » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #167

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…

I was at the busstop this morning. There was an ad. I turned my back to it and looked at my phone. Please tell me that I am a horrible human for defrauding the advertisers. If I could get AR glasses which automatically removes any ad before I see it, I be a bad person too?

Post by wartron » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

white_dragon88 wrote: post #114

hooby wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, haven't seen Idiocracy (yet) - but I remember seeing a short clip of the ads you mention. If I remember correctly, when I went to university 20+ years ago, "animation blindness" was already a coined term. The idea is, that you can't use animated buttons or icons on your website, because people have become condition to completely ignore anything that moves, and consider it NOT part of the website. So if you do hav…

You definitely need to watch it. Torrent it if you have to, it’s the ultimate commentary on how stupid modern society is getting.

Post by hasbot » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

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…

Post by DrNosferatu » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

Post by LegitShady » Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

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…