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irotsoma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So if YouTube is now serving up the ads directly to me, does that mean they’re finally liable for the content of those ads? Can we have them investigated for all the malware, phishing, illegal hate speech, etc.?

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- ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No, because that would be communism, and that killed 100 million people. You also think genocide is bad, aren’t you? And besides of that, if there were less regulations, you could make your own video platform to challenge Google’s monopoly!
  
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  - pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    i think people may have missed that you’re not serious
    
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  - anzo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This kind of messages should have a “/s” attached. IMHO, that’s just proper Netiquette.
    
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- barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is a good question.
  
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- shades@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Great, now it’s Russian roulette every time you hit that pause button. <clickPause> ¡BOOM ZERODAY MALWARE!
  
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- KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  no because of sec 230 and publisher rights, they were still directly serving them before, the only difference now is that it’s tied into the video stream directly, rather than broken out as a second one.
  
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  - irotsoma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    In the past they have always said that they aren’t transmitting the content and so it’s the responsibility of the transmitter of the data. Now the content at least appears to be coming from youtube not the advertisers. So I’m curious if that’s enough to make it fall under section 230 which would require that they make a good faith effort to remove “objectionable” content.
    
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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  now serving up the ads directly to me
  
  What do you think they were doing before? 🤔
  
  and no, in the USA they’re still protected under Section 230.
  
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  - Balthazar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Does anybody know how this will affect the EU?
    
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Buttons@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Ads will always be detectable because you cannot speed up or skip an ad like you can the rest of the video.

If they do make it so you can speed up or skip the ad sections of a video, mission accomplished.

If all else fails, I’d enjoy a plugin that just blanks the video and mutes the sound whenever an ad is playing–whenever it’s no possible to speed up or skip ahead. I’ll enjoy the few seconds of quiet, and hopefully I can use that time to break out of the mentally unhealthy doom spiral that is the typical YouTube experience.

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- Celestus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yep. YouTube must include a manifest with each video to tell the player what time ranges are un-skippable. Baked in ads were doomed from the beginning 🤡
  
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  - SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Are they? What if the server refuses to serve the video until the ad’s duration has passed? You’d have no better option than to hide it, which most people wouldn’t bother with.
    
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- brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  always be detectable
  
  Maybe with some content ID system… but you’ve just predicted their 2025 update which we might imagine would go something like this:
  
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  - dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I briefly touched on this in a lengthy comment when this scheme was originally floated a few months ago. Your prediction, which granted is something that Youtube/Google absolutely would try if they thought they could get away with it, would only work on viewers that remained within the confines of Youtube’s native player.
    
    Any third party app capable of bullying or tricking Youtube into handing them the video data is free to do whatever it wants to with it afterwards, even if this ultimately means impeccably pretending to be the official Youtube player in order to get the server to fork over the data. Furthermore, video playback is buffered so a hypothetical pirate client would have several seconds worth of upcoming video to analyze and determine what it wants to do with it.
    
    Youtube could certainly make this process rather difficult by including some kind of end-to-end DRM or something, but at the end of the day you need to make a playable video stream arrive on the client’s device or computer somehow, and if you can’t guarantee full control of the entire environment in which that happens, dedicated nerds will find a away to screw with that data.
    
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- buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I wish I had more upvotes to give this comment cause you are so on the money.
  
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- x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  that just blanks the video
  
  What about a message reminding you what the real fight is?
  
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- Hrothgar59@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  My brain just does that anyway, after decades of ads I just tune them out. And at home I use ad blockers.
  
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  - vvvvv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s not how it works. Or, rather, that’s not only how it works. Sure, advertisers dream of users who see an ad once and run to buy a product. But ad effects are spread over time. They build brand recognition. They fake familiarity. Say you are in a supermarket and you want to buy a new type of product that you haven’t bought before. Very likely you’ll pick something familiar-sounding, which you heard in an ad. Ads pollute the mind even if the most obvious effects are, well, obvious and easily discarded, more subtle influence remains.
    
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The reason we’re absolutely fucking blasted away with ads is because even if they only have a 0.01% success rate, that’s enough to make them super profitable. So if you and 998 other people all pay zero attention to ads, they still make money.
    
    There’s also lots of people (like one of my family members) who become absolutely irate by ads but still buy the shit they’re shilling anyway.
    
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- gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  i remember when i put a video at 2x speed the next ad i got was also at 2x speed lmao
  
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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No you don’t have to be able to detect it if you can’t skip. Since they’re injecting the stream directly every time you hit skip they move the counter and when you come back in it just continues to stream you the ad. Just let the time code go negative at the end of the video if you skipped.
  
  All they have to do is not really care about minutes and seconds displaying correctly exactly if you’re working around with fast forward. Alternately they could also just disable fast forward and rewind if they detect you’re using it to abuse commercials.
  
  I think Sooner or later, pretty much all blocking becomes a store the entire video with commercials and strip the commercials out with comskip end. If you’re just storing the buffer off, and stripping it out privately there’s not really a lot they can do about that.
  
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  - Buttons@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I may not like it, but you do make an interesting technical argument.
    
    I think it would still be detectable though because of buffering.
    
    What you’re saying assumes that videos are streamed frame-by-frame: “here’s a frame”, “okay, I watched that frame”, “okay, here’s the next frame”.
    
    With buffering videos will preload the next 30 seconds of video, and so if you pressed a button to skip ahead 10 seconds, that often happens instantly because the computer has already stored the next 30 seconds of video. Your plan to just pretend to skip ahead, doesn’t work in this case, because my computer can know whether or not it really did skip ahead, because I knows the next 30 seconds of video, thanks to buffering.
    
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  - KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Just let the time code go negative at the end of the video if you skipped.
    
    horrendously bad UI, this should never be done, recalculate the time, maybe. But don’t just make it negative, that’s fucking stupid.
    
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- Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  If they do make it so you can speed up or skip the ad sections of a video, mission accomplished.
  
  Mission failed sucessfully, if people can speed up or scroll through the ad, then it kind of defeats the point since people can skip ahead or increase the speed.
  
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  - Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Hence “mission accomplished”
    
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- copd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Unless you are watching live content, you are correct
  
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- KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  surely they’re going to make the ads vary in speed, that would be a horrid UI mistake.
  
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Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m getting tired, man. these people are truly just the shittiest individuals ever.

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- LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  MBAs on their way to destroy their company’s relationship with their customers and cause a socioeconomic disaster (their numbers will grow by 0.01% 💪💪)
  
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  - plz1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    If you don’t pay for something, you are not a customer, you are the product. If you pay for Youtube, you don’t see the ads, but you are also still their product. Lose /Lose
    
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  - Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Line go up 💹
    
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  - PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Hey don’t blame us, blame the nepos who got on the board without even needing to study for it!
    
    My MBA track actively rewards me for thinking like a socialist XD.
    
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darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Imagine all the cool stuff we could be doing if we weren’t wasting the time of hundreds of engineers figuring out how to shove ads in people’s faces.

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- orl0pl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is ad driven economy and bar must go 🆙
  
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  - winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    “Line go up” is the animating force of the age, the critical philosophical principal around which our entire society is arranged.
    
    Gives me a fucking headache.
    
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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If everyone were a paying subscriber we could actually do all those things. No one wants to be as supported, including the people at YT. But there are bills to pay.
  
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  - darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m not terribly sympathetic to arguments about covering costs when it comes to corporations. If they were just looking to cover costs or even just make a reasonable profit, there are all sorts of arrangements we could come up with that would be acceptable to most people.
    
    But they’re not trying to do that. Profit isn’t enough for a corporation. They need to make the most profit. And then after that they somehow need to make more than the most.
    
    So they put in ads. But that’s not enough and oh look there are more places we haven’t put in ads, we should fix that. Oh look, our studies show that if we make the ads more obnoxious in these ways they increase this number by 3%. Oh wait, we have all this info we got from spying on people, why don’t we sell that too? Hey guys, we’ve heard you about the ads. Have we got a solution for you! For a small ~~protection payment~~ subscription fee of $10/month, you can get rid of those pesky ads we know you don’t like! Oooh sorry everyone, the price of the subscription went up again. We promise this is all necessary. Oh by the way, we’re adding ads back into the service. But don’t worry, wait until you hear about our NEW subscription tier! (I don’t think that last one’s happened with YT premium yet, but it’s happened with cable and most of streaming at this point, so I wouldn’t put it past them.)
    
    There’s no way we can have nice things while this is the driving force organizing where our resources go.
    
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  - sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I would love to be a subscriber if Google could guarantee that they won’t take my viewing information and then sell it to other advertisers or data brokers, or use that info to push ads on behalf of those brokers in other Google products.
    
    As it stands now, why would I pay with my money AND my data? Google shouldn’t get to double dip.
    
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  - reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They’d have more paying subscribers if they didn’t charge more than Netflix for what amounts to user-generated content that they’re getting for free.
    
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  - uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The ratio of income to bills is way lower on our side than YouTube’s.
    
    We need that money more than they do.
    
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  - JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    theguardian.com/…/us-cities-and-states-give-big-t…
    
    They get loads in governments tax breaks and they data mine the fuck out of us so fuck them and their ads.
    
    theguardian.com/…/social-media-companies-surveill…
    
    I’ll continue to block them as long as we can and then move on to something else if we can’t. By paying you are just rewarding this exploitative behavior.
    
    If you simply must pay for something then donate it to a charity instead. These companies do not need your money.
    
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  - Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ads give more profit than subscriptions, since if you would adjust subscription price to match ad income, too less people would buy it at that price.
    
    Source: Netflix and Disney Ad-supported tier analysis.
    
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  - KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    ah yes all you have to do is spend like 100 USD yearly, ever year, and pay for features you don’t want, just so youtube can maybe stop posting ads.
    
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  - Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m using lemmy right now and it’s not ad supported and I’m not the product.
    
    It’s always weird to me when people post on lemmy and just assert something that implies lemmy is impossible, bro your using it right now!
    
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- JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Machines could be doing all the work. We could have clean energy , air ,water and food and shelter for all…
  
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zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Honestly, I’ve kind of always wondered why they didn’t just do this. It’s always seemed like the obvious thing to me.

I mean, I hope it doesn’t work, because screw Google, but I’m still surprised it took them this long to try it.

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- Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Because it’s much more expensive. What they’re talking about here is basically modifying the video file as they stream it. That costs CPU/GPU cycles. Given that only about 10% of users block ads, this is only worth doing if they can get the cost down low enough that those extra ad views actually net them revenue.
  
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  - Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It wouldn’t cost any CPU with custom software that Google can afford to write. The video is streamed by delivering blocks of data from drives where the data isn’t contiguous. It’s split across multiple drives on multiple servers. Video files are made of key frames and P frames and B in between the key frames. Splicing at key frames need no processing. The video server when sending the next block only needs a change to send blocks based on key frames. It can then inject ads without any CPU overhead.
    
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  - kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This isn’t how YouTube has streamed videos for many, many years.
    
    Most video and live streams work by serving a sequence of small self-contained video files (often in the 1-5s range). Sometimes audio is also separate files (avoids duplication as you often use the same audio for all video qualities as well as enables audio-only streaming). This is done for a few reasons but primarily to allow quite seamless switching between quality levels on-the-fly.
    
    Inserting ads in a stream like this is trivial. You just add a few ad chunks between the regular video chunks. The only real complication is that the ad needs to start at a chunk boundary. (And if you want it to be hard to detect you probably want the length of the ad to be a multiple of the regular chunk size). There is no re-encoding or other processing required at all. Just update the “playlist” (the list of chunks in the video) and the player will play the ad without knowing that it is “different” from the rest of the chunks.
    
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  - Quik@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This is not necessarily the case.
    
    You could only use this new system if the old one fails, ie. only for the say 10% of users that block ads, and so even if it were more expensive it would still be more profitable than letting them block all ads.
    
    But I don’t think even that is the case, as they can essentially just “swap out” the video they’re streaming (as they don’t really stream “one video” per video anyway), bringing additional running costs to nearly zero.
    
    The only thing definitely more expensive and resource intensive is the development of said custom software
    
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  - Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    10% where do you get that. The data I have heard is it’s around a third of all internet users globally.
    
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  - praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    To say that it’s just much more expensive would be a huge understatement. This is not going to work, at least not in a near future…
    
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- 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think more and more people are getting really tired of the ads, so it’s starting to affect their revenue a little bit.
  
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  - snack_pack_rodriguez@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    this has more to do with they got caught lying about their ad numbers and inflated their ad prices. So now they are doing this to show their shareholders they are doing something to protect their revenue and thus keep their stock price inflated.
    
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- sadcoconut@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’ve thought the same. It’s like with ads on websites - ads are served from different domains and as blockers work by denying requests to those domains. If they really wanted they could serve the ads from the same domain as the rest of the website. I guess one day they might but so far it must not be worth it.
  
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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I also wondered why they didn’t do this, but I think it’s tricky because the we that gets inserted might need to be selected right at the moment of insertion. That could complicate weaving it into the video itself. But I guess they finally found a way to do it.
  
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Bogusmcfakester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m really getting the push I need to finally get rid of the last couple Google services I still use

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- SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It’s only a matter if time til they enshittificate gmail as well.
  
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xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Imma start subscribing to the RSS feeds of torrents made for specific channels before i watch ads.

If youtube wants to make their website so hostile its easier to get better versions of youtube videos without YouTube then those games will be played.

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- winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  RSS feed -> yt-dlp script -> auto queue the folder into the player of your choice. Hmm…
  
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  - MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    (Edit: Though that may not actually work considering this is apparently fully server side. Gonna have to get clever…)
    
    Next step is machine learning to recognize ads and cut them out automatically hah.
    
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spyd3r@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
[Enshittification intensifies]

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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Well it’s what people want. No one even is complaining about the ads wants to pay for anything. And stuff costs money no matter what people choose to believe. Creators need to eat YouTube has costs. Money has to come from somewhere.
  
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ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If YouTube offered premium without music for a discounted price I’d probably be willing to pay for it. But I just want no ads, not a bunch of bundled stuff.

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- DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is exactly me.
  
  I’ve been paying £5 a month by using a VPN to sign up for Premium from Ukraine. Been doing so for the past couple of years without complaint. Literally all I need from them is to fuck off the adverts. I have Apple Music for music and I’m happy with it.
  
  Now they’ve rumbled us and will be cutting off our Premium next month.
  
  I am fucked if I’m paying those ratfuckers £20 a month just so I can watch other people’s hard work without the adverts they force in. Fuck that noise.
  
  So I’m now researching ways to get my subs onto Plex so I can carry on watching on my Apple TV.
  
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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ve said it many times but I would gladly pay for Premium if they would just make the first-party experience not absolute garbage. My experience has been better with literally every other 3rd party app/service. It’s not that hard.
  
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- KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I get what you’re saying, but YouTube music is pretty much just a different front end for the normal site.
  
  Sure, it does some filtering to attempt to be music only (though I’ve seen non music stuff sneak in before) but in the end, you get pretty much the same core experience if you open up the YouTube app and start “watching” a song (with premium for the background play capability).
  
  I’d be willing to bet this is why they won’t go the route you’re talking about.
  
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- AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Even then it doesn’t have sponsorblock or a customisable UI like revanced does.
  
  It’s crazy how unofficial free is actually better than official paid.
  
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- x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Why are we the ones that need to pay?
  
  Bandwidth and storage is not free. So the person uploading something and using the platform to distribute that content should be the one paying? Right? Or did we totally forget that?
  
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Zementid@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So, instead of iterating the ancient concept of frontal assault ads towards something less intrusive and more engaging, they go the black mirror path of force feeding ads?

Sounds about right regarding the decision makers have as much creativity as a Vogon.

Man I really hate those suit MBA circlejerk idiots in positions of power.

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capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Seeing as these ads will be targeted and of varying length, I wonder if a SponsorBlock-like extension with the ability to accept training data from users to help identify ads.

The Plex server application has a feature which scrubs videos and identifies intros so you can skip them like you can on Netflix. Wouldn’t it be sort of like that?

Seems like a good use of AI/ML.

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The article makes it sound like a new concept, but it’s a very old approach for adding ads to video streams.

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diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well it sounds more scary than it realistically will be.

YouTube must pass to the player the metadata of where the ads start/end. Why? Because they need to be unskippable/unseekable/etc. If the metadata is there it is possible to force the seek 🤷‍♂️

Just matter of time

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GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Oh well.

YouTube can be past-tense. There’s a million places to post a video these days. Spill out some whiskey and read a book. Fuck em.

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glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The arms race continues.

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bokherif@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only if premium did not have ads. They show you ad videos as if they’re part of your “recommendations”. They also allow creators to get sponsorships within videos. So even the premium experience isn’t really ad-free and they tout that shit everywhere.

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TheAmishMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
On my phone I use youtube revanced and adguard dns, kiwi browser with ublock origin. On my PC I use just ublock origin. So far** I havent run into issues

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kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
MythTV solved this long ago. We already have the tech to bypass this shit.

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I just want the Temu ads to stop

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1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The battle goes on and on.

I read about some sucked that paid for YouTube premium and still got ads in his pause screen. Lol.

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FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve been getting around it by setting my frontend to use an embed request, that way YouTube thinks it’s a third party embed and the ad injection doesn’t work.

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cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Crowdsourced “tagging” of the affected area of the video timeline (like Sponsorblock) would fix this, unless Google get really devious and randomize the placement of the ad for various users.

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saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s like Alphabet hate guaranteed money.

“How can we boost the next six months of investment for sake of stable income over the next decade?”

“More ads. Studies show everyone with internet access fucking loves them.”

*Brilliant! Welcome to entry level lower senior-ish management, Jenkins."

“YESSSSS! I can’t wait to tell the family about this when I’m on leave from this wonderfully accommodating work campus. All hail, G.”

“All hail, G.”

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Mcduckdeluxe@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can I ask why people act like YouTube is so evil for trying to make money off their site? They provide a service I value and it costs money to do so. No disrespect to anyone who doesn’t want to watch ads or pay (like I do, I use it a LOT) but I don’t understand why some people seem to be personally insulted by the idea that they can’t get it for free forever with no strings attached.

Honest question, please don’t flame me 🙏

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lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m surprised it took them so incredibly long to crack down on adblockers.

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tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So AdGuard works on the YouTube website. I haven’t been there for some time - I use 2 other methods to watch YouTube ad-free.

Newpipe - Android app that works by parsing the website, will probably be affected?

YouTube Kodi add-on - works with Google YouTube API, I was wondering when this loophole is going to be plugged…

Anyone with knowledge of the matter care to comment? So far my YouTube watching is still ad-free.

I also run pi-hole in front of my WiFi. Nothing gets through. Or will it?

I noticed some podcasts these days have random server injected ads - usually the same ad repeated 2 or 3 times, is this going to be my video stream soon?
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Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Let’s make an actual useful AI that detects ads and muted/blacks out the screen during ads. Haha

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whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
YouTube alternatives?

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14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Wouldn’t that technology make them easy to rewind forward?

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