Technology

But usually I’m pausing a video to try to read text that appeared too briefly in the video!

Wait y'all still see ads on YouTube?

If I can't block ads on a device, I'm not using YouTube on that particular device.

Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers

Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄.

We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Shit like this is why they stopped making new Black Mirror episodes

I can't wait til YouTube fucks around and finds out.

I got hobbies that are way more fun than ads.

I'm addicted to their shit because it provides a constant stream of dopamine. You fuck that up with ads, I will break the addiction. Seamlessly. It won't even be difficult to do if going back kicks me in the balls with ads. I'm gone. My guitar is right here. My home server is right here. My GitHub profile could use some TLC. I got a long Todo list.

Do it. Go full enshitification.

I'm actually kind of excited for it.

I've had this for about a week or 2. Super annoying because you can't continue the video by pressing the play/pause button, need to "Ok" the video window. Come on Google, you just bricked a button on your OWN OS. Awful.

Damn. YouTube is just SO desperate to squeeze every bit of ad revenue they can, wherever they can.

Laughs in UBlock Origin

Lol Google is going to die by their own hands

YouTube is unwatchable for me with all these ads. Even without ads, content creators mostly all follow the same generic bullshit format.

It used to be a great resource for visual aids and explanations, now it's filled with money making schemes and scams and every video has 14 minutes of bullshit and 1 minute of content.

So they'll stop injecting ads in the middle of videos at the worst possible times right?

...

So they'll stop injecting ads... Right?

Tomorrow YouTube is introducing ads when you think about YouTube.

Enshitification

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN

Please drink verification can

My Roku is doing this and has been doing this for quite some time.

Of all the ad delivery schemes cooked up over the past ten years, this one is the least offensive to me.

Like I'll come back from the bathroom or whatever, and all that registers before I hit play is that some random graphic is covering the screen while on pause. I cannot name a single thing that's been in any of those ads.

In general, I do wonder how effective this constant onslaught of marketing is. At some point there have got to be diminishing returns, right?

Oh noes, another ad I don't see because of ublock!

YouTube. Google. Alphabet.

“driving strong brand lift results”

FUCK. YOU.

To be fair, if they are like the example (static silent ads) they would be the least intrusive ads that YouTube ever had. To the point that I don't even mind them. All of YouTube ads should be like this, not annoying, silent, and easily ignored.

This is great, because I usually pause videos because I want to watch ads.

Can we have a YouTube competitor? Pretty please? 🥺

Soon testing new version that shows some of your video when you are allowed to pause your ad.

Ads are a way for corporations to steal your life from you, 60 seconds at a time.

Ah, taking inspiration from what porn sites have been doing for decades to trick you into clicking on ads. Nice work, Google.

So youtube is now basically an advertisement channel with some user content in between.

I'd sooner stop using the internet than be forced to imprint that carefully crafted poison into my psyche. They will not steal my life with ads.

Use Youtube frontends. Like Freetube & NewPipe. All of Youtube's BS will disappear.

EDIT: Here is Privacy Guides' page about Youtube frontends.

Well to be fair this only affects users that are not blocking ads in the first place.

An add-on that simply overlays a black box when you pause is easy enough.

I vow never to buy anything advertised to me in such intrusive way....

They already do that on my TV. Except it's after I press play and when it's been paused for like a minute or more, or something.

But this is a whole new level of making it shittier. Like, I want to pause so I can hear something else, or something needs my attention, and there's an ad playing? This can't become a reality. Can't.

I mean I already rock the best ad blocker so it's whatever to me on desktop, but on my TV? I'm gonna have to get a pi-hole.

Sigh. Yeah it's not like I ever pause to look at a graph or something (/s). I already hate it on Chromecast because pausing brings up a big blur bar on a third of the screen.