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What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

mawalu 6y ago
No. The ads are separate video files that get played after each other by the browser or youtube app. Since this app is complete independent it just choose to not play the video ads
- dubya 6y ago
  I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable. It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.
  - dimitrios1 6y ago
    A tinfoil hat theory I heard is that's the reason they want to push QUIC -- to give them more signals for blocking people with ad blockers. Not that I believe it, but fighting ad blockers in general is a losing battle in my opinion, eventually you will just end up blocking too many eyeballs, and your ad revenue will drop.
  - ornornor 6y ago
    Never had an issue with Firefox and ublock origin.
  - catalogia 6y ago
    uBlock Origin in Firefox still successfully blocks all ads. Also, youtube-dl continues to work and doesn't download the ads, so media players like mpv can play youtube videos and will never show an ad.
npteljes 6y ago
In an app's context, I think it means _additional_ ads. In this case though, since on YouTube the ads are not baked into the original video, it also means that you get to watch the content without these ads that are represented by a yellow bar on YouTube.
R0b0t1 6y ago
The ads are delivered separately for now. You bring up an interesting idea; I guess they aren't able to store the ads in the video stream for now.
- ffpip 6y ago
  They can't personlize ads then, unless they are willing to put extreme load on their servers for every video ever requested
  - 7786655 6y ago
    Not necessarily. It's possible to splice together compressed video streams without reencoding them. See https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

mawalu 6y ago

No. The ads are separate video files that get played after each other by the browser or youtube app. Since this app is complete independent it just choose to not play the video ads

dubya 6y ago
I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable. It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.
- dimitrios1 6y ago
  A tinfoil hat theory I heard is that's the reason they want to push QUIC -- to give them more signals for blocking people with ad blockers. Not that I believe it, but fighting ad blockers in general is a losing battle in my opinion, eventually you will just end up blocking too many eyeballs, and your ad revenue will drop.
- ornornor 6y ago
  Never had an issue with Firefox and ublock origin.
- catalogia 6y ago
  uBlock Origin in Firefox still successfully blocks all ads. Also, youtube-dl continues to work and doesn't download the ads, so media players like mpv can play youtube videos and will never show an ad.

npteljes 6y ago

In an app's context, I think it means _additional_ ads. In this case though, since on YouTube the ads are not baked into the original video, it also means that you get to watch the content without these ads that are represented by a yellow bar on YouTube.

R0b0t1 6y ago

The ads are delivered separately for now. You bring up an interesting idea; I guess they aren't able to store the ads in the video stream for now.

ffpip 6y ago
They can't personlize ads then, unless they are willing to put extreme load on their servers for every video ever requested
- 7786655 6y ago
  Not necessarily. It's possible to splice together compressed video streams without reencoding them. See https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate