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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
PlainName:
He turned out to be a pretty decent chap after all.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Infraviolet on November 25, 2023, 12:45:08 am ---" What they could do is try to make it hard to tell ads apart from regular content"
I think content wise this has happened a lot already...
Actually, to be honest adverts which are sponsored parts within videos, timed by the video's creator to appear at a place where they don't break things up too badly, voiced by the same person and at the same sort of volume levels as the main video are a lot less unpleasant than actual pre-video or mid-video ads.
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There is a plugin for that called Sponsorblock. Users report the ads, and the video playback skips it.
I sometimes watch YT on my TV and it became absolutely obnoxious with the latest update. You cannot tell in advance how long the ad is, most are unskippable, and it even happens that it counts back only to start another ad. Sometimes it's more than 40s of ads before a video, and then 5 minute in the video another ad. I'm done with it I think.
MathWizard:
I've been back on youtube w/o adblocker, and I'm not liking it. People will be mid sentence, and an ad kicks in. Also I'm really hating having to hear music in ads. There's lots of music in video's I already don't like, I don't want ad music in my head either, most of it is not what I like.
And most of the ads aren't about anything I want or care about. And some short video's have way too many ads. IDK how all that gets setup, but I'll back to avoiding youtube. I know bills have to be paid, but youtube is already raking it in.
And for me, I already waste too much time online, I don't like spending the extra time to skip ads either, it's just another interruption.
I'm getting so sick of the same old ST TNG/Voyager/DS9, and few movies I have on my PC. And I don't use my DVD drive anymore, it's way too loud, so I don't watch DVD's anymore. I need to check out some online radio, there's bound be be lot's of fiction and non-fiction/technical channels that can fill the silence.
Can another site or program "watch" a video, and with a time delay, playback the non-ad version of the video ? And I used to love downloading mp3's of stuff on youtube. Everything from math lectures to movie talk. IDK what happens now if I try that with a video with ads in it.
Bud:
Get an Android TV (if not have one) or stick and install SmartTube APK. Problem solved. Can't download stuff though.
smarttubenext.com
rdl:
I can't imagine using YouTube without ad blocking. That would be like a nightmare for me. And there is a lot more there that needs blocking besides the ads.
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