Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I’ve had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google’s latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don’t spend staring at a greyed out skip button.

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty sure several engineers from google itself might be contributors to some of them, fortunately.

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    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That genuinely would not surprise me in the slightest.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All you have to do is close the window every time they try that bullshit and that shows up in stats. Get enough people doing it and they’ll back off

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait, YouTube’s idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?

  Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please Google don’t get rid of shorts! Especially the ones with the wonderful AI voice over and karaoke style closed captioning! Please don’t do that! Or else I’ll keep using adblockers.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m so happy they got rid of dismissing shorts and throw them in a feed more! Please don’t get rid of them!

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would I ever want to see youtube comments? Literally zero impact for me.

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  • leoj@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    was going to say, shoot I’m gonna install an adblocker just for that feature!

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hiding comment section? Oh no! What will I do?

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are they really threatening us with a good time? No YouTube comments is a benefit, not a punishment

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I want to see the comment section I use official app, and just pause the ad.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I want to go blind I splash acid in my eyes

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d recommend using lasers for that 🤣

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      • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Good call, a more targeted approach.

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• coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, I intentionally block the comment section, but sure,

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