YouTube has been testing a Pause ads format for over a year now, and it's starting to show up for some users.
  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    4 days ago

    We are going back to the days of TV where half the time was spent watching ads!

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    7 days ago

    It’s funny because I only hear about ads now from you guys. I never see them myself.

    Using freetube on a Linux media player connected to my TV and Newpipe on the phone.

    • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
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      6 days ago

      How did you get newpipe to work? It’s been broken for me for like the past 3 weeks.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        6 days ago

        It was broken for a day but there was an update on f Droid. Just installed that and it’s been fine.

      • TeutonenThrasher@feddit.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Latest NewPipe 0.27.2 installed from F-Droid is able to play videos for me. But you might also try PipePipe or Tubular, which I mostly use these days.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I like to open multiple tabs on what I’m going to watch next, and Freetube is a bit clunky with the window management (I wish they had tabs!). So far uBlock has been doing an impeccable job…but these days I can see it struggling a bit more. I can see youtube REALLY tries to give me an ad first, sometimes when you open the video, you can see the first frame of an ad instead of the thumbnail while it starts buffering, then it skips to the video. The ad is not shown, but the first frame of an ad sometimes escapes into the video while it buffers at the beginning, for a second.

      • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Come on man, you’re breaking the echo chamber. We’re here to shit on Google, not give them more money

        • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I’m happy he pays, keeps Google happy enough to not care too much about people who won’t.

  • Rob200@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Any investors question would be, why did this take Google Youtube so long to implement such a feature, of course this is why the ads are being crammed like this on Smart TVs.

  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This is actually pretty nice.

    It’s much better compared then actually forcing you to watch something.

  • texasspacejoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It wouldn’t be so bad if they actually had ad breaks instead of stopping my video mid sente… SHAVE YOUR BALLS WITH MANSCAPE… nce

  • Eiri@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t BREAK MY REMOTE’S PLAY BUTTON.

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I was casting a video to my shield from my phone and ended up needing to pause for a phone call during an ad roll. Pausing worked fine but the play button on my phone was completely unresponsive after. Thankfully the shield remote still worked, but clearly play/pause during ads is handled differently than during normal videos and something is broken.

  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Yeah, it’s bad. I didn’t feel like login into my premium account at the time and it was kind of much………

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Harris is married to the brother of an Uber executive. If you were hoping for a trust-buster, you picked the wrong candidate. Those $500k/plate fundraising dinners she hosts are coming entirely out of the Silicon Valley mega-millionaire bracket.

            • doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish
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              6 days ago

              what would you serve on this plate

              A piece of paper with only a heading: “Insert lobby request here:”

              And a footer: “Your business is important to us, thanks for supporting Democracy™”

    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      that is actually a really hot take but also really fucking stupid

      pirate everything + get an adblocker

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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          6 days ago

          Merch is just generating plastic trash.

          Just give the person cash money that’s how you properly support somebody for their labour.

          How many times will you wear that shiti hoodie?