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YouTube is killing one of its most annoying features in April
- jayknight 4y agoDoes this include the Youtube TV offer that I have to decline every couple of days?
- KomoD 4y agoProbably not
- paulpauper 4y agoNothing will ever be more annoying than in-video sponsorships
- falcor84 4y agoReally? Nothing?! I much prefer skippable in-video sponsorships that pay the creator directly over biddable ads or paywalls. And if this really bothers you, there's this Firefox extension to skip them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
- billpg 4y agoYes. Tell me all about this magical VPN service. I'll be listening while I look for the jump-ten-seconds button.
- Nextgrid 4y agoSponsorBlock is a good solution.
- JohnFen 4y agoBut YouTube has no control over those.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThey make the rules? They can "outlaw" those any time they wish and ban anyone not complying. And if crap funded by cheap airbuds, sketchy VPNs (reliant on fear-mongering/false advertising), pay-to-win mobile games, etc goes away with it that's even better.
- JohnFen 4y agoThey could, I suppose. But actually doing so would be pretty disastrous for a lot of smaller YouTubers who derive income from their channels. I would consider that a loss, as the smaller channels are the only things on YouTube that I find valuable. If they went away, I would too. If ads have to happen, I prefer those to the one YouTube does because at least those aren't tracking me. I can't believe that I'm arguing in favor of ads here. Strange days indeed. But I'm not in favor of ads, just pointing out the tradeoffs involved.
- pixl97 4y agoThat's far more of a risk for YT to get rid of these than you expect... Most YT creators earn about jack shit from views on the platform itself. Like, maybe if you have a fair amount of viewers you could earn $1000 on a view that likely cost you that much to produce. The in video sponsors cost YT nothing AND keep people on the platform without them having to pay. Take it away and all of a sudden you may leave an opening for a competitor to show up. Even worse, you may get taken to court via some anti-trust ruling.
- Alifatisk 4y agoI wish I could turn my screen off while using the app without having to pay
- DonBarredora 4y agoRevanced
- earthling8118 4y agoGood luck installing it and getting it to work
- KomoD 4y agoWorks without issue for me, on both of my phones, both rooted and non-root.
- falcor84 4y agoI wish I could go to a supermarket and take whatever I want without having to pay /s. I generally dislike Google's business strategy, but I do like YouTube Premium. YouTube gives me a lot more value than any other streaming service, and I'm happy there's an option to pay for an ad-free experience.
- neovialogistics 4y agoNewPipe
- Alifatisk 4y agoon iOS?
- earthling8118 4y agoI do wish for that. However that isn't the same as streaming with the screen off. Phone batteries drain far too quickly.
- kyoob 4y agoIt's overlay ads, for folks who don't want to click through.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoWhat's that? I use NewPipe
- flangola7 4y agoNewPipe + selfhosted SponsorBlock + uBlock Origin + locally hosted DNS w/ filter lists and DNS intercept. RSS feeds for platforms that still support it. JavaScript-stripping proxies like Nitter for those that don't. Sometimes I even turn off media loading. I like my internet to look more like a newspaper (before they were filled with ads too) than a blinking neon casino.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoI like your style. What do you use for RSS?
- alvatech 4y agoclick-bite title should be edited to reflect this.
- quadrangle 4y agoI understand that there's a weird critical mass issue with adblocking. If everyone blocked ads, they'd do more to either paywall everything or fight harder against the blockers. That said, in a harmful world, we should be taking defensive action. Nobody should be using YouTube or anything else on the internet without adblocking.
- acomjean 4y agoTo be fair to YouTube, they at least give you the option of giving them money to make the ads go away.. except sponsored videos.
- acomjean 4y agoMaybe they can wait till the video finished before blocking 75% of it with suggestion overlays too.. of course then the buffer some videos have at the end would be unless, but still ok.
- albert_e 4y agosome of the best YouTube videos are those that just run for 1-2 minutes and get straight to the point in answering a question you have or showing how something is done the overlay suggestions that they show have many times obscured the actual content of the video I am amazed this feature did not get killed instantly every pixel and every frame of a video is potentially useful content...how can they force overlays that cannot be turned off or dismissed
- g42gregory 4y agoWhen I read the title, I thought for a second that they are killing the censorship “feature”. I find it quite annoying.
- JohnFen 4y agoI've never seen the overlay ads (because I use Premium), but from their description, they sound like exactly the sort of ads that broadcast TV stations started doing. Those ads are what got me to stop watching broadcast TV.
- Macha 4y agoHuh, these were the oldest youtube ads, they used to just have the "ads by google text ads" in a box back in the day youtube let you have custom CSS for your profile.
- JohnFen 4y agoPerhaps I have seen them, but forgot all about them? I don't know. But I watched very nearly zero YouTube videos before I signed up for premium, because the ads put me off. That the ads put me off implies that I did see the overlay ones and have blocked the memory of them from my mind. In any case, I don't know precisely what they are and am assuming they're like the ones broadcast TV uses.
- everdrive 4y agoI was hoping for “Shorts”
- JohnFen 4y agoI was, too. Shorts are a serious plague on my YouTube experience. I really wish there were a way I could filter them out.
- tech234a 4y agoOriginal source: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/204945026/ https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/204945026/
- proactivesvcs 4y agoAs reported on a Web site with overlay adverts, which disrupt the reader being able to read the article.
- pfoof 4y agoSo, no chance of YT banning ads that have double the video's volume?
- olliej 4y agoCould this be rewritten as “YouTube recognized that making ads so annoying that YouTube was unusable without an ad blocker made people install ad blockers, thus making even the unobtrusive ads go away”?
- mansion7 4y agoThat's all well and good, but I'd prefer a way to let us hide "mixes" and "shorts". Instead, they've actually removed the ability to select "not interested" using the Android app. Clicking the button to do so simply plays the mix! Very vexing.