I 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..
YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
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#62I must say browser extensions are a god send. The browser and web being a fairly open platform. With ublock origin I can block specific parts of a site.
Can't do any of it with locked down mobile apps.
Youtube is now at late stage capitalism trying to juice every little real estate they can with ads.
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It takes my breath away every time someone says they're paying for YouTube.
Yeah. Why don’t they just steal and not support creators. I pay for content I like.
That's a curious thing to say. YT pays some creators hundreds of millions a year, and my mental picture is that "people who care about supporting the creators" would normally also not be ok with such a skewed distribution.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Why don’t they just steal and not support creators. I pay for content I like.
That's a curious thing to say. YT pays some creators hundreds of millions a year, and my mental picture is that "people who care about supporting the creators" would normally also not be ok with such a skewed distribution.
How much will YT pay creators if everyone blocks ads?
Or is it ok because it’s a two tier system? Those who know how to block ads get it for free and those who don’t just keep suffering through more and more ads to carry the freeloaders?
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This is an understandable position, and probably explains why ad-blockers have been tolerated for so long, however it seems it isn't working so well any more because the media giants have been pouring a lot of resources in recent years into defeating ad-blockers. Many websites will refuse to load the page until you turn off the ad-blocker (of course it's an arms race, as the ad-blockers will figure out how to block t…
> YouTube is apparently working very hard at defeating ad-blocking (with varied results so far), etc. They could embed the ad in the video stream. It would be a pita to circumvent. Essentially you'd need to record the video and fast skip the ads.
There must be technical reasons that YouTube hasn't already used this approach, otherwise it seems that they would have done it by now. I'm guessing it would require transcoding for every video played, and the energy cost of that (even with optimized GPU units for this job) just isn't worth what they get paid in ads.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a curious thing to say. YT pays some creators hundreds of millions a year, and my mental picture is that "people who care about supporting the creators" would normally also not be ok with such a skewed distribution.
How much will YT pay creators if everyone blocks ads? Or is it ok because it’s a two tier system? Those who know how to block ads get it for free and those who don’t just keep suffering through more and more ads to carry the freeloaders?
You didn't address my observation at all (and that's ok, you have nothing to answer for)
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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.
So, instead of staying sane and do the right thing to vote with wallet, you instead choose to... be the big-corp-bootlicker and shill? Nice.