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

• 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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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨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.

      The first two minutes are an ad, and having a loud voice talking to you all of a sudden in your bedroom while you are asleep tends to wake you up.

      Also just download the audio you want and loop it yourself. It would take roughly 2 minutes and use way less bandwidth.

      With compression techniques being as they are today, I truly don’t even worry about the bandwidth.

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      • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But manually looping any part of it inside the video which you can do past the first 2 minutes would still not be an ad. All of those problems that you listed have incredibly easy solutions that you can do with zero training.

        And realistically if they are looking for profit I still see no reason why they would keep these up. The benefits are absolutely minimal at best and the drawbacks are quite large.

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