I look forward to updating my YouTube browser extension to hide this as well steeples fingers
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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
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Re: YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
#32I watch youtube using mpv (with yt-dlp) so this doesn't affect me. I already hated that when you pause a youtube video, and a bunch of UI shows up.
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#33Re: YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like cutting out the funnies from a newspaper and trashing the ads.
But you bought the news paper (or someone else did). FYI I use revenced as well, it's just your argument doesn't sound very sane.
You could argue that paying for the internet service to reach a website is equivalent to buying the newspaper.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What competition? All the videos are on YouTube.
Dailymotion, Vimeo, PeerTube, Odysee, etc.
I’ll give you Dailymotion, but…
Vimeo hasn’t tried being a direct YouTube competitor in years — just look and use their site at any point after 2014? 2016? It’s been a while.
While I’d like to see PeerTube succeed, it is hardly a competitor. The content is very… early.
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#36I pay for YouTube Premium and saw a full browser screen ad for adding the MAX channel. I wasn’t sure if I clicked on something or if this is a new thing they’re doing. I’ll be pretty unhappy if the latter.
It takes my breath away every time someone says they're paying for YouTube.
Re: YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
#37I pay for YouTube Premium and saw a full browser screen ad for adding the MAX channel. I wasn’t sure if I clicked on something or if this is a new thing they’re doing. I’ll be pretty unhappy if the latter.
It takes my breath away every time someone says they're paying for YouTube.
Why? No ads + Youtube Music is a good deal.
Re: YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
#38I watch youtube using mpv (with yt-dlp) so this doesn't affect me. I already hated that when you pause a youtube video, and a bunch of UI shows up.
I wonder if SponsorBlock is optionally available on yt-dlp..
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#39I swear, man. Until every surface is used to display ads I don’t think advertisers will rest.
Surely we all see where this is going. Every day new ways to show ads are devised. More and more blank and negative spaces (which have inherent value as-is) are considered fair game for advertising.
already the number of times per day that I must mentally say “no” to an advertisement is exhausting. It’s already way, WAY past my worst childhood predictions. It just isn’t ever going to stop, is it? Advertisers just won’t be happy until they’ve created a dystopia.
I want off this ride. It’s no longer fun.