YouTube has been testing a new way to show you ads that appear when you pause your video, and it feels pretty confident about them.
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Freetube with sponsorblock enabled foils all of it.
For me YT is without ads using Violentmonkey with these scripts:
But there are more and more YouTubers which promote products in their Videos and promotional videos between the shorts and other in the suggestions list, but at least they can be ignored or skipped.
Sponsorblock can be used to skip the ads content creators put into their videos
Ehm, yes and no, it can only if the sponsorblock is marked as such in the Video, but not if, for example the author, while he speaks about his teme, also said that he also want to agree the Energy Drink which sponsor his vids, presenting the Brand. That can’t avoid none of the sponsor block scripts, because its in the same video presentation.It’s exactly this what ocurres more and more.
How are those scripts with updates? YT has been on the ball lately, patching holes. Im definitely going to look into using scripts though, thanks for the rabbithole… see you in a few weeks haha.
I’m since a half year withot ads since I use these scripts, obviously not detected by YT in their battle with uBO and other known adblocker extensions.Userscripts are a really good alternative to mainstream extensions and independent from the stores. In Greasyfork and OpenuserJS are very interesting scripts you can use. Using them with Greasymonkey or Violentmonkey or in Vivaldi installing them directly as extensions (but then you must update these by hand)
Thank you for the info!
If it were visual ads with no audio, I actually think this is a good idea. When you pause you’re ready for an interruption of sorts: it jars the brain less.
I’d still want to be able to maximise the video still frame to see details sometimes. Just yesterday I watched a 3blue1brown with a brief freeze-frame of extra detail to read if you wanted (and I did!)
I’ve been getting this on the YouTube app on shield TV and fire TV stick lately. It’s as you said; just click dismiss on the ad and it goes back to full screen.
Lol nice try youtube. This will be blocked and you can’t do shit about it
They can put as much ads as they wan’t they will be blocked, and there always will be a way to block them.
This means people in the test market are clicking on those ads. Not much we can do about it at that point - it works therefore they’ll use it.
Pornhub called, they want credit for the idea
Ladies and gentleman, this is why competition is desperately needed. It’s only going to continue downhill from here…
Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There’s no competition because there’s no money to be made here.
Yes, and that’s where the issues lie. It will never get better because there is no competition to force Google to improve and they know that. Therefore, free reign.
Competition is useless, better to have federated networks and do videos for profit and find other ways to pay for content to support content creators if they need support. Block ads everywhere, work in those fields is better than calling for competition and creating competitor that will win over google and become new google.
There will be adblocker to block this also don’t worry.
And sadly the biggest competitor is Rumble and it’s terrible
I just got one of these the other day. I picked up an Nvidia Shield because I was tired of my shitty Samsung TV not being able to stream Plex correctly and Google is the only data devil I’ve made a deal with. I hadn’t watched much YouTube on it I guess until last night and I couldn’t believe how many ads I saw.
Holy. Shit. YouTube has ads in the middle of fucking videos now? And then I paused and saw another ad and about lost my shit. Immediately looked up how to adblock on Android TV. Jesus it’s invasive.
Omg I pause videos so I can see a frame better. It’s* bad enough that they throw content up on the screen when pause.
Pausing is me showing intent interest, not me saying “I want to watch something else” smh
It’s no tits? That sounds terrible
Honest question here: what would stop me from starting a video, then pausing it and walking away from my computer for several hours so youtube plays ads to no one?
Now repeat but with several tabs.
And bonus points if the videos simply happen to be mine and I were to enable monetization on them.
Hmmm…
I hope this doesn’t become one of youtube’s “experiments” that quickly become forced on you
That would likely trigger some sort of ‘protection’ and they would d̶e̶m̶o̶n̶e̶t̶i̶z̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ steal your ad revenue.
A reminder to close the app that also reminds you how much you hate Google.
I’m getting strong traction to finally get around installing pihole.
You should, but it specifically doesn’t work for YouTube. PiHole works by blocking DNS requests to known ad servers. But YouTube hosts their own ads on the same servers that host the videos. So if your pihole blocks the ads, it also blocks the videos you’re trying to watch.
You should, but it sadly doesn’t work for most video streaming sites.
Shout out to the PiHole team; miss you guys here on the fediverse!
I haven’t seen youtube ads in years. uBlock and sponsorblock extension in Firefox on my laptop. Newpipe with sponsorblock on my phone.
I wouldn’t survive using internet without those and gdpr, cookie blockers. It’s soooo bad and getting worse.
Doesn’t work for YouTube adverts 😭
Ublock and Sponsorblock on PC and ReVanced with Sponsorblock on Android
Add SmartTube for androidTV and you’re set!
And on iOS?
Sideload uYou+ or set up Yattee. If you don’t know how to do any of those things, look into DNS based ad-filtering like ControlD and install Video Lite. Or skip the DNS part and only install Video Lite, but you’ll see in-app ads unless you pay the $12/y subscription.
THANK YOU.
So many times people say what to do for android but act like iOS doesn’t exist.
Don’t use YouTube if you like privacy
Or use some frontends like invidious or piped.
That’s what I use