There are this services in which you can earn money watching ads with certain intervals. One could just use that to be shown on a paused video with mute instead of letting it google do it for you.
YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
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#43I 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…
Rejoice! Now that AI is a thing, it's a matter of short years before AIs begin making ads just for you. Obviously not ideal, except that then it will just be a matter of decades until most ads are targeted to AIs and the humans that remain go to hide in Zion. Maybe we will be free of ads there.
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#44This can be annoying if you want to pause the video to look closely at something.
I find everything about youtube's player to be infuriating. It has completely driven me off the platform, and caused me to set up tube archivist with a jellyfin plugin, so I can just watch all my videos through jellyfin.
This has the advantage of no annoying pop-ups over the videos, I can pause, resume where I left off, and actually have a decent platform to keep track of videos I have/haven't watched. Not to mention, it removes ads.
Even for one off videos, I get so frustrated by youtube's interface I leave or end up just using yt-dlp. I don't understand how anyone actually likes youtube (I don't mean the content, but the actual site).
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#45I 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…
> I swear, man. Until every surface is used to display ads I don’t think advertisers will rest.
"[...] We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures."
(from a scene in the Ready Player One movie)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I swapped to Revanced on mobile and a combo of UBO + sponsorblock on desktop after the most recent price increase. Definitely not regretting it after hearing this.
So, instead of canceling you subscription and using a competing service, you instead choose to... steal? Classy.
why are you here? are you lost?
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#47Enshittification at it's finest.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I swapped to Revanced on mobile and a combo of UBO + sponsorblock on desktop after the most recent price increase. Definitely not regretting it after hearing this.
So, instead of canceling you subscription and using a competing service, you instead choose to... steal? Classy.
This is a terms of service violation at best. There's no theft, nor even copyright infringement.
The obvious parallel is Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios which established that time shifting - recording a TV broadcast to play back later - is fair use.
Someone using a DVR with a "+30 seconds" button to skip an ad was not stealing from the broadcast company.
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#50I 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..