Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i am more worried about the old videos wipe thats coming soon

  Sooo many peoples uploaded memories and documentaries are going to becone lost forever

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  • zovits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, what?

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  • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder why they would kill old videos instead of just removing those 10-hour plus loops of the same song over and over again that nobody watches. You’d think those giant loop videos would be taking up far more space.

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    • pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’d think those giant loop videos would be taking up far more space

      Someone above posted an article saying they aren’t actually. But you’d be surprised at how little space those 10 hour videos can actually take. They’re highly compressible since they’re just the same still image and the same audio on repeat. A good compression algorithm (which Google certainly is using) would basically compress it into one instance of the song and how many times to repeat it (more complex than that, but that’s the idea)

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      • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sometimes they are, if it’s just audio and a static image. Some of them definitely are not that though. The ones with visualizers or full music videos or the like are not nearly as compressible.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      10-hour plus loops of the same song over and over again that nobody watches.

      I tend to fall asleep to one of those videos of being on the beach with ocean sounds, so /shrug.

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      • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So to combat use cases like this, why not just add a repeat option? There would be no break if it cached the beginning again.

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They aren’t wiping videos.

    rollingstone.com/…/is-youtube-deleting-old-videos…

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  • monkE@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait what?

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  • VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who’s going to wipe the old videos?

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    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google’s going to delete inactive google accounts. So if you see a channel whose last upload was six years ago, there’s a good chance it’s about to be deleted

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      • VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks. I looked it up and read that Google decided according to the latest news they’re not deleting YouTube accounts with video uploads. We’ll see.

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      • Sacha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh I suppose my diseased father’s small channel with a few of his live music performances will be deleted. Lovely.

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      • manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Goddamnit, I didn’t even think about this when I saw they were doing the mass delete. Here’s to hoping that they’ll at least keep the videos up. Waaaay too much stuff on YT to lose it all. Anyone know if archive.org is backing them up?

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  About a week ago YouTube rolled out a new interface for ads. I cannot skip 90% of ads now. Many are around a minute in length. Always 2 ads at the beginning of every video, even if it’s only 10 seconds in length. Always 2 ads at the end of every video.

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  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not getting that many ads. Could I see the new interface?

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