so, what? 4-5 minutes instead of 2? yea, that'll keep people watching.....
something else
YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
Submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24000286/youtube-fewer-ad-breaks-tv
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ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
RufusLoacker@feddit.it 11 months ago
The problem is: what else?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pirated and adblocked content
TwanHE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still YouTube but with an adblocker
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
Lots of things?
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
🏴☠️
Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re welcome: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Alimentar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Can vouch. This, revanced and ublock on all my different devices and I haven’t seen an ad in years
Pringles@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Exactly. I keep forgetting yt even has ads until I visit friends.
victorz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anything for LG TVs? WebOS?
Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Haven’t used it myself but this looks popular at a glance.
JustZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.
I open the vanilla app on someone else’s computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.
Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it’s some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.
Came to you too because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that’s just not the case anymore.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The new ads suck. It’s so frustrating to use. I’m hoping a PiHole will get rid of em but I think I remember reading that Google does some nasty shit to dodge that
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use SmartTube on my Android TV and it hasn’t run into any issues so far. If you can install 3rd party apps you might want to give it a try
detinu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep I have it too. For now it works flawlessly. Hopefully it doesn’t take much from Google’s userbase and they just leave it alone lol.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kudos to the Dev of that absolute gem. They constantly update and patch that app and have done so for many years.
Spider89@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google uses the same domain name, pi-hole can’t block that.
Source: current pi-hole user.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pihole only works when ads come from a third party add provider. It cannot tell the difference between YouTube videos and ads.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Smart tube is amazing.
Mkengine@feddit.de 11 months ago
You can get rid of any ads right now, you only need the right solution depending on where you see the ads. Smarttubenext for TV, ReVanced for your phone, Firefox + Ublock Origin for your PC. Pihole for the rest and Adguard DNS on my phone just to be sure. I can’t tell you when I saw the last ad in my life.
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not for me, 🚫ads + 🏴☠️
robolemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s odd… on my TV there are no youtube ads, and no sponsor messages.
Kittenstix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been using grayjay, it certainly has some irritating bugs but they’ll work out the kinks plus now I can watch twitch and kick with my screen off.
plz1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🏴☠️
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They really can’t seem to grasp the concept they what people prefer, if they have to watch ads, is 1 short ad per video.
Not multiple short ads per video nor 1 long ad. Just 1 short (15 seconds tops) ad and that’s all.
They are going in the opposite direction
sulgoth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh they get it, there’s no way they don’t, they just want more Ad dollars with for less content that isn’t giving them Ad dollars.They’re looking for that sweet sweet middle ground where they can play more ads and you won’t just stop watching.
phourniner@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Cool, more reason to use Grayjay or ReVanced
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This community is obsessed with YouTube ads lol
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
To clarify, not trying to advocate for ads of whatever idc, just wish I didn’t see a dozen posts a day about YouTube Ads
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Youtube ads, what musk did today, something about trumo, youtube add blockers, what musk said today, abortion in the us, youtube code on FF, what muck corp did today...
The fediverse news cycle.
Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
There are no ads.
scytale@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I know of SmartTube for android TVs, but has anyone found a solution for TVs running Tizen?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, Tizen TVs have HDMI ports where you can plugin an android powered device.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can pay for premium, I know everyone around here gets mad about that. But I like content creators getting paid myself, and I hate ads. So it works for me.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 months ago
The availability of Tizen apps is abysmal
Alimentar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I looked around a year ago and I couldn’t seem to find anything. People just don’t seem to develop for Tizen. I ended up buying Google TV and sideloading everything I needed.
Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social 11 months ago
I wish there was a way to stop ads on Roku. I'd rather watch on my TV, but my phone doesn't have ads, so I usually use it.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s because YouTube is making ads on TVs appear less frequently, but in exchange, you’ll have to sit through longer commercials.
YouTube started testing longer but less frequent ad breaks in September, and now they’re launching across all TVs.
The change means you’ll see an updated countdown timer in the bottom-right corner of your screen that will now show how long you have left until the entire ad break ends or when you can skip.
Just like on mobile and the web, you’ll now see ads in between Shorts that you can skip through using your remote.
While I can’t say I’m too happy that I’ll get ads in between Shorts on TVs, I am kind of glad about the change to ad breaks on regular videos, as I hopefully won’t get as many small interruptions while I’m watching two-hourlong deep dives.
YouTube has had a major focus on ads and getting people to watch them this year.
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ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, TV then… 🙄
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I installed newpipe and didn’t look back.
The ads were too obnoxious and frequent.
I understand they have to make money somewhere, but at some point you degrade the product too far. This is what they did.
bratosch@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We’ve gone full circle
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.
For now, of course.
Sheeple@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Adblocker is free
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Soon you’ll pay AND watch ads
Patch@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Well I should bloody well hope so, considering you also get far less than cable.
YouTube is still mostly amateur and semi-professional content, most of it short-form, and most of it frankly just not very good. There’s still stuff on there worth watching, and I know some people really do consume a lot of content on there in the manner of watching TV back in the day, but objectively it really isn’t the same thing as professional studio content. I can watch some random guy in Ohio do a 15 minute review of some niche thing I’m interested in as much as anyone can, but there’s no way I’d consider that worth the same value as a long form TV series or feature film.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tbh paying a package deal isn’t actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.
Yes it’s expensive but it’s £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it’s hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it’s not the same.
This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn’t cheaper sometimes.
atomWood@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I certainly prefer fewer and longer ad breaks, over several short ones, but this still sucks.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why prefer any of it…block em all and tell corporations to pound sand.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, full circle would be more and longer ads.
Anyway, I’m a Smart Tube User :)