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Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

I'd still prefer to wait 5 seconds then have to watch a fucking sanitized corporate advertisement trying to sell me bullshit I don't want and won't buy with annoying fucking music, voiceover, and footage of people pretending to be happy.

Fuck off, Google.

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vxx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If it were one ad I might be fine with it, but it’s usually 2-3 ads every 5-10 minutes, at a volume twice as loud as the video.

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- makyo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And inserted randomly within the content
  
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LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate ads too. Would you consider paying for a service so it’s user supported instead of ad supported? I do, pay for YouTube, Spotify, Hulu no ad tier. It gets old because it starts adding up. I’d rather pay for a user owned platform like a coop of some kind, but still, these things do cost money to run.

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- MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I won’t pay for Youtube because they keep making their product worse and treating creators horribly.
  
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  - Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I won’t pay for YouTube because the executives are literally thousands of times wealthier than I am.
    
    Why the fuck would I give money to people who are already obscenely rich?
    
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- MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  People don’t have issues paying. As you said, if it was a user-run co-op, people would be fine with it. But as it stands right now the services keep raising their prices just because they can while all the money goes to the bosses and shareholders while the actual people who do most of the work get whatever is left over
  
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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I do pay for some services, where there is reasonable value.
  
  However I rarely use YouTube so was fine with dealing with the devil of ads. Was. The inexorable march of enshittification will likely make me either never use that service or try technical workarounds for some of the enshittification (excessive ads)
  
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- aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Hulu no ad tier.
  
  I won’t be shocked when they eventually get rid of this altogether. They shouldn’t be shocked when I switch to 100% piracy when they do.
  
  Fuck ads.
  
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interceder270@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

footage of people pretending to be happy.

Oof, get’em.

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