Why even watch YouTube anymore? I might even do something no one would think they would do: download an offline AI slop generator. Slightly better than staring at a wall.
YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable
Submitted 1 day ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/vrc-non-skip-ads-generally-available/
Comments
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Why are these the only three options lol
Joelk111@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Are you and I watching the same YouTube? People are making really cool stuff, as they always have and always will, and that stuff happens to be in YouTube right now.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Ads are getting worse, too bad, it was good while it lasted.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 16 hours ago
Honestly debatable. I’ve seen more and more good channels depart or stop posting, or others gradually turn into “react” content channels that only discuss tiktok drama or politics. Even so-called Breadtube for smaller channels has become synonymous with that embedded stereotype.
I compared a screenshot I took of my subscriptions feed from a year ago to now and was startled by the amount of change in incendiary content. It’s like the definition of doomscrolling.
I used to spend over 4 hours a day on youtube just watching video essays and skit comedy, but now I split most of that time across writing, itch.io, and catching up on anime. I have so much more free time I finally decided to start One Piece lmao (might try finishing Bleach too)
frongt@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
May I suggest reading a book
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
On my list somewhere actually, but I need to notnfeel existential anxiety to do that.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pure greed.
projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
How will they be unskippable?
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Server will not send you more video till you answer a survey correctly about the ad /s
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Currently, most of the 30 sec+ ads let you skip them after 5 seconds or so. Seems like that is going away. I dont think they are injecting ads directly into videos yet, so ad block should still work
projektilski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
So they will be skippable :)
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I dont think they are injecting ads directly into videos yet, so ad block should still work
Weren’t they saying last year they will be doing that? did they delay it, or what happened?
idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
For the ppl who didn’t read it properly: Its an unskippable ad feature, like we have in cable tv, but ONLY for TV audience. Don’t think it is implemented on browser based sessions.
utopiah@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Genuinely no idea why people keep on using YouTube.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I only watch for shows not anywhere else. For instance, Tested, Perkins Brothers, Sabine, Louis Rossman, TechMoan, Just have a think, William Spaniel, etc.
Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 1 day ago
andybytes@programming.dev 1 day ago
Thank gawd I learned how to read. Big changes are coming from the corpo nazi sector and my response will be the same. Lets tango nazis… I mean at this point google is a nazi military contractor so at some point we are going to have to detach from the titty. The world we used to know is gone… They are no longer trying to please us and this is a blessing because we need to detach from the titty. Hopefully moving on to better platforms. Youtube is a boomers website like the dusty turd website for anti social boomers that goes by the name of facebook. I hope you don’t use facebook. Anywhooo out with the old in with the new.
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Youtube is a boomers website
boomers are still watching TV with channels to zap and a remote.
if a boomer is on fecesbook, that’s to look at the grandkids photos.
When was the last time you talked to a boomer?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 16 hours ago
When was the last time you talked to a boomer?
Anyone a year older than a zoomer to them is a boomer lmfao
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Everyone with cable is dead now, yt through the built-in app on a crappy smart tv is definitely ‘boomer’ activity
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
detatch from the titty
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Time to donate to Invidious I guess.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 16 hours ago
That’s the spirit!
Meanwhile everyone keeps donating to Youtube Premium and then complaining about it lol
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No, they saw that comment and YT went and did something that fucked invidious today.