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level of Advertising is getting Ridiculous
jogri:
--- Quote from: blueskull on June 27, 2020, 02:51:52 am ---For now. Until YT decides to block AD blockers. This has been done on virtually all Chinese video sites, as they implemented server-side AD blocking -- they won't serve you any media until after a certain delay. Either watch the AD, or watch a black screen. You can pre-open pages to mitigate, but they then implemented lost-focus detection and will replay ADs after a certain period of time if the page is not in focus.
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YT is already starting to do that since last week (at least for me), i get a white screen when i try to watch a video. Looks like i can't get around this as i already have ABP, NoScript and a pihole running... I wouldn't mind having the option to just see one ad per video to support the creator, but right now i can only choose between the full barrage of ads or nothing. This also goes for other website, a lot of them seem to have switched to two 1/4 wide video side banners on both sides (probably due to a massive decrease in ad revenue). I have nothing against a few nonintrusive ads but this is getting ridiculous, do they really expect that people stay on their site when half of your monitor is filled with annoing video ads?
I can understand their motivation, they don't get as much ad revenue because more people started to use ad blockers-> they have to make more money with less ad views-> more aggresive ads->more people switch to adblockers.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: jogri on June 27, 2020, 07:45:04 am ---
--- Quote from: blueskull on June 27, 2020, 02:51:52 am ---For now. Until YT decides to block AD blockers. This has been done on virtually all Chinese video sites, as they implemented server-side AD blocking -- they won't serve you any media until after a certain delay. Either watch the AD, or watch a black screen. You can pre-open pages to mitigate, but they then implemented lost-focus detection and will replay ADs after a certain period of time if the page is not in focus.
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i get a white screen when i try to watch a video.
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Try the Ghostery browser plugin. Like I mentioned before, no placeholders and no ads.
HwAoRrDk:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on June 27, 2020, 06:48:14 am ---I still get ads on my mobile as I use the native Youtube application and it's getting beyond the joke. In a 22 minute video, I had to skip 8 separate ads.
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Me too. The amount of ads on some videos is atrocious. What's just as exasperating too is seeing the same ads over and over and over again. I swear Audible must have a bottomless advertising budget because they make up 50% of all the YT ads I see.
One thing I have noticed is that the amount of ads is greater when you watch a video very soon after release. Wait a couple of days and there are far fewer (usually just pre-/post-roll).
I would love to use a browser with ad-blocker on mobile to watch YT, but for some reason the native YT app is far more efficient at playing video. Playing in browser saps battery life and makes the phone hotter, presumably due to increased CPU usage.
engrguy42:
Are you people unaware that the way the universe works is that people receive services, and pay money in return? That's how it works. That's how you have a job. That's how you have money. That's why there are businesses like department stores and supermarkets. That's how it works. You RECEIVE a service, and in turn you PAY for the service.
Is there some belief that, for some insane reason, computer software and youtube videos are somehow different? They aren't. Advertisements are the way that you pay for the service. Ideally, you click on them so the poor youtube creator can make $0.00002 of revenue for his hard work.
Yeah, great, block the ads. And as is happening now, tech and other useful stuff on youtube will dwindle to nothing, and all we'll be left with is videos of cats playing piano that get 25 trillion views. :palm:
Rerouter:
engrguy42, In your context would you agree there is some threshold where there are so many ads you feel the service is not worth your time to watch? for many its once they have hit that threshold they likley went looking elsewhere, came back defeated and resorted to these solutions,
For me, I am still left puzzled where the money exactly goes when the app crams in 10 ads, where on a non ad blocked browser there are 0 set in the video by the creator.
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