When Twitch this I rented a VPS in Russia that costs me $3 a month. I now route all my traffic through it and have no ads in Twitch (and im assuming YT too now?)
YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog
Submitted 1 month ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-server-side-ad-insertion.html
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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No you have to switch your vpn to Albania to avoid YouTube ads.
Goodie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m really curious if they can make video injection of ads cost effective.
It feels like mangeling video streams into one, potentially re-encoding the video as they go… sounds expensive
Flipper@feddit.org 1 month ago
Video encoding works by combining key frames, the whole picture and delta frames, what and how it changed. As long as you swap the stream at a key frame there is no need for a reencoding.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 month ago
Why would it involve re encoding?
Mwa@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Happy I left google 90% and I am trying to leave the services that I cannot change my email or require a Google account
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My last bastions of Google are:
- Email. Its rock solid stable, but I know they are using it to mine data. This is a good service…but im still looking at proton at some point to make the switch. Or coming up with a solution myself.
- Maps. Maps is also another really good service they give out for free. I have tried a huge number of alternatives, but still have no real alternative. OSM+ is the closest and works really well in emergencies but its pretty terrible at searching for anything specific to get to.
- Youtube. This is the one I think I can possibly remove at some point. Some creators have their videos on other sites so it might be a mishmash for a while. But the best ones dont. I might just get into audio-books or some other sort of entertainment. Peertube is also a great alternative. And throwing money at !tilvids@mstdn.social might be better in the long run.
Mwa@lemm.ee 1 month ago
For me it’s prob Google play store: Cannot Google phone at this time Gmail (partially and currently moving) Youtube (idk if this counts but a frontend am using to watch yt videos) Google maps partially (only for streetview Usally)
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Quick! Everyone! Hurry up and climb over one another to proclaim your hatred for YouTube and their practices so that you can have more time to go watch more YouTube videos!
trollblox_@programming.dev 1 month ago
awe, I’m so proud of you; you figured out what a monopoly is!!
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Oh I’ve known. The difference is I’m not dumb enough to continue using shit I hate.
moonbunny@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was a brief point in YouTube’s history where there were little-to-no ads, and creators weren’t expecting to make a living off the videos they made. Somewhere down the line, it feels like the wrong turn was taken from a content consumers perspective.
Yes, hosting is expensive between the infrastructure and bandwidth requirements, but there already was a model in traditional web hosting where the hosting provider charges for the hosting infrastructure, as well as storage and bandwidth costs. While we’re all so accustomed to accessing sites for free and fast, I think that there should’ve been a “free” tier for uploads which could’ve been kept at 10 mins or w/e and rate limited, while offering paid tiers for longer, higher quality/fidelity content , and larger bandwidth buckets before rate limiting which could help offset YTs costs, as well as temper expectations of what it means to create and watch.
Heck, there could even be a paid tier for viewers that could even allow viewers to watch “free” uploads without being limited, and the viewer would be supporting as well.
Yes, that means that large scale, Mr. Beast style productions would be a lot less feasible, but I feel like it’s not just the platform that being enshittified, but also the amount of aspiring creators who’ve also come out of the woodwork copying or re-uploading other creators content in hopes of getting blessed by the algorithm for a free payout.
I know these are 2 separate issues, and the ship has sailed long ago, but I can’t help but feel like this whole business model is being done wrong from a sustainability perspective.
HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IMPORTANT
PLEASE! reply to me with youtube URLs videos, channels or playlists. for anything in “My Mix” send each entry individually or convert to playlist.
specify these tags so I can organize the data
common tags
- it’s video component is nesisary to understand (VIDEO) - it’s video component is summerised by a single image (THUMB) - it’s mostly talking (COMMENTARY) - it’s a person talking into a camera (FACE) - it’s music (MUSIC) - it’s a square thumbnail or video (SQUARE) - Its a 4 by 3 thumbnail or video (4BY3)
Ive been archiving for years and this looks like it may be the final clean batch I can produce.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sponsor Block Addon does it fine.
However I have bigger complains for my Firefox cannot handle most videos anymore. Affected are those with much ads. It starts with a still image and if I don’t quit the video within 10 seconds, my desktop environment crashes, bouncing me back to the login screen. 💩
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Did you read the article? The article shows a post from Sponsoblock and it specifically states that they turned off sponsor block submissions on effected browser since they can’t be reliable with the new ad delivery method
n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry, but I didn’t feel like opening the link on my phone. 😅🤦
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 month ago
The blog talks about how this changes is also breaking sponsorblock
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That doesn’t sound like a Firefox issue.
habitualcynic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’ve read about YouTube delaying video play, buffering, and showing a blank screen for X seconds on all videos for non-Chrome browsers.
The desktop crashes don’t sound like YouTube, but I think the rest is the genuine anti-competitive behavior Google has demonstrated. I get these 5-6 second video delays and page refreshes on Firefox and Safari periodically but never in Chrome.