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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namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 months ago
However bad they may make it, it can’t possibly be worse than it is for non-adblock users.
But hey, if they want to torpedo their own services, have at it. It’s not like they have a reputation for it or anything…
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m not getting that many ads. Could I see the new interface?
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 11 months 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
zovits@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, what?
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
pokemaster787@ani.social 11 months ago
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)
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I tend to fall asleep to one of those videos of being on the beach with ocean sounds, so /shrug.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They aren’t wiping videos.
rollingstone.com/…/is-youtube-deleting-old-videos…
monkE@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Wait what?
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who’s going to wipe the old videos?
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 11 months 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
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Sacha@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh I suppose my diseased father’s small channel with a few of his live music performances will be deleted. Lovely.
manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world 11 months 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?