YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it.
“In Q1, we saw strong traction from the introduction of a pause ads pilot on connected TVs, a new non-interruptive ad format that appears when users pause their organic content,” Schindler noted. He went on to share that YouTube’s pause ads are “driving strong brand lift results” and “are commanding premium pricing from advertisers.”
Schindler didn’t share any timelines for when pause ads will start appearing on YouTube, but we know they’ll first roll out on smart TVs. The nature of these ads, including their duration, skippability, and more is still unclear. We also don’t know if Google plans to introduce these ads on YouTube’s mobile apps.
But usually I’m pausing a video to try to read text that appeared too briefly in the video!
Not anymore, you don’t!
‘Drink verification can peasant’
Google
Wait y’all still see ads on YouTube?
If I can’t block ads on a device, I’m not using YouTube on that particular device.
A major reason we only watch YouTube via a browser on a media center PC.
Normies genuinely turn on their Smart TV, watch start menu ads, open the YouTube app, wait 90 seconds for the shitty cpu to load the web view, scroll through hundreds of Spider-Man Elsa brainwashing videos and thinly disguised ads, open a video, watch 3 minutes of ads, straight into a 3 minute sponsor segment. All before seeing any actual content.
And they see no problem with this at all, the thought that you can make ads go away literally does not even occur to them as a possibility.
Humanity deserves extinction, I’m gonna go release some refrigerant real quick
I know people IRL who get offended whenever I mention that I just block ads. Shit’s insane.
God this is so weird. “You have to watch and see ads to support content creators!” The fuck I do.
You can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.
Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.
You don’t need to be in desktop mode for ublock origin to work.
This causes more issues when you have to pause to let the video buffer a while before continuing.
Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers
Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄.
We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
Also, The new ball-bearing guillotine is getting rave reviews from guillotine operators!
For all you know the victims rate it positively as well but they don’t submit feedback
Both seem/are single point of failure choices. I like a fediverse YouTube alternative.
Odysee is blockchain-based. So there’s that.
FFS. /picardfacepalm
Edit: Based on the downvotes, I guess we’re all supposed to like having commercials whenever we hit the pause button.
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Well, let me break this down for you, one part at a time…
FFS.
FFS
(Click on above link for explanation.)/picardfacepalm
I’m facepalming the fact that YouTube wants to stick ads in when you do a pause on a video, the same way that Captain Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation does. It’s an older but still relevant meme.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
I’m apparently annoying some individuals for some strange reason who get triggered and can’t handle having a link in someone’s comment that points to an open source license.
Thank you!
can’t handle having a link in someone’s comment that points to an open source license.
It’s a waste of screen real estate that does nothing. Your “rights” automatically conflict with the rights of the platform you’re posting to, and all the other ones that you federate with. Unfortunately there’s no standing for your link to do anything. All your doing is advertising a webpage for no reason. Further, you cannot enter someone into an agreement with your licensing terms without positive consent/agreement, which you’re not obtaining nor could ever reasonably obtain on a federated platform where your content is automatically distributed to the entire fediverse.
Buy products from my affiliate link! (except yours does nothing useful at all)
Are you a lawyer? Honestly curious.
It sounds like you’re stating that the Creative Commons license is invalid to use whenever it’s used online. I’m pretty sure the people who made the license wouldn’t agree with that.
to use whenever it’s used online.
Didn’t say that at all. I’m saying that you posting your post to lemmy.world doesn’t bind them to any license. And neither does it bind anyone else to it.
If it’s your words on your own platform then no problem, you can license it however you see fit. But your post was posted to someone else’s server and was federated to my instance. I didn’t agree to any license and neither did the lemmy instance you posted to (or anyone else in the federation), I wouldn’t have accepted any terms of a license, and will continue not to accept any that limits my ability to distribute content unrestricted (eg. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, and modify your User Content) specifically because all of that is required in order to distribute content over the fediverse. Regardless of if my lemmy instance makes money or not.
Nobody needs to be a lawyer to understand this. Being bound to licenses requires consent in order to be bound. You published your data to my server knowingly where I do not offer such consent to any user submitted license. This would be akin to you handing me a gift and only after I’ve used it state that I need to accept terms and conditions. That’s not how it works at all.
Lets look at this the other way… If I posted this response to my lemmy instance and grant rights only to lemmy.saik0.com with no rights for distribution, no rights to other instances, and all other rights fully reserved. I cannot now go after every instance in the federation for distributing my content to your screen, I willingly gave the content over and lemmy.saik0.com or lemmy.world didn’t necessarily agree to that license. Or another example… Where I want to post restrictive license that grants me rights to someone else’s instance even though I have no ownership stake in their instance for posting on their platform. You cannot simply bind someone to a license of ANY TERMS without explicit acceptance. In many cases it’s “by continuing to use this product” on a modal pop-up for example. requiring an active closing of the modal to continue operating the site. You’re missing that completely… consent… and every server in between me and you would also need to agree to it even if I were to agree to your license terms.
Ultimately I own my server… and you’re submission of content pushes data to my server without my consent to your terms. You cannot bind me to them.
Nobody needs to be a lawyer to understand
Honestly, I’m too exhausted to rebut your various points that I disagree with. Been spending too much time, much more than should be spent, in debating this issue with people, for what we’re talking about, a single link.
I’ll advocate for being the owner of my own content, and being able to license it the way I see fit, until an actual lawyer with some standing states otherwise.
I do thank you for your input though.
I just find it hilarious that you post shit like this… https://lemmy.world/comment/9578409
And think that your posts should not be usable for some purpose reason when O’Reilly definitely WOULD have a case over their trademark. And you’re distributing that content under your own license. Especially since that image is tagged with a different user in the bottom right.
I don’t care for the argument. I’m just outlining why people are downvoting you. You’re likely wrong, which you’ve already admitted in your comment history that you have no idea. And that you are a hypocrite on the matter anyway.
But right… Good luck.
It appears this person signs off all of their comments with a creative commons license for fair use, presumably saying how you’re allowed to use their comment. Which I’m relatively sure has exactly the same legal power as a boomer posting a Facebook picture saying that they don’t consent to having their data collected
It appears this person signs off all of their comments with a creative commons license for fair use
I didn’t used to, but got tired of people making money training their AI models off of my comments. And it’s a momentary copy and paste, easy to do.
Also, considering the types of replies I’m getting these days, and the entertainment I’m obtaining from people’s reactions to them, I find it good to just include them in every comment going forward. It weirdly triggers people for some reason.
Which I’m relatively sure has exactly the same legal power as a boomer posting a Facebook picture saying that they don’t consent to having their data collected
Well, when you get your law degree, come on back and let us all know what the final word from you is on this subject.
Wtf?! You copy and paste them manually? I thought you were using an app that let you set footer/signature.
Wtf?! You copy and paste them manually? I thought you were using an app that let you set footer/signature.
I actually went looking on the Lemmy website client for a signature field in the account info area, but they didn’t have it.
So I sent a text message to myself once with the Lemmy formatted url string, and I use that as a scratch pad.
Then all I have to do is press hold on the text message to copy it once, and paste it in each of my comments.
Takes just a second.
I’m hoping someday the Lemmy web client will allow signatures, so I can just put it there and not even have to hassle it.
Whelp, if you’re on desktop, you can always use autohotkey or similar app to assign a shortcut to automatically type that signature.
Thanks for the info. I also use Fedora with KDE so I’m going to just check and see if they have a macro feature there as well.
I’d sooner stop using the internet than be forced to imprint that carefully crafted poison into my psyche. They will not steal my life with ads.
pay for the service then.
Serving HD videos aint free
Can we have a YouTube competitor? Pretty please? 🥺
Support PeerTube. It’s needing content, and it’s a little janky, but it’s federated.
I should start submitting videos there
Yes! Please do!
Oh noes, another ad I don’t see because of ublock!
Hadn’t they blocked the ad blockers?
ublock blocked their ad block blockers.
Pause a video to answer a phone call or reply to a text or look up some information? Here’s an ad at full volume! Seems legit. Sure. Do it. What could go wrong.
According to the example, it just shoves your video to the side and shows a static ad, not a video. If it played a video with audio that would be fucked. If it’s just silent stuff, honestly not even that intrusive or crazy imo. Smart TV boxes have been doing similar shit for a while, right?
Also, at least with YouTube you can pay to avoid it, if you’d like.
I don’t know my smart TV hasn’t been hooked up to the Internet and my streaming stick doesn’t show me those kinds of ads. I do pay to avoid it. I have youtube premium. In fact I was grandfathered into the $7.99 rate from having Google play music back in the day and my rates only just increased. The point I was trying to make is that this isn’t going to just stay as the static ad. It will absolutely change with time because Google’s losing money on the ad revenue business (it’s just not as lucrative as they need it to be to keep investors happy). The static ads probably will go to full blown video ads at some point (and extensions will counter that by muting tabs and auto stopping playing popup videos until the end user clicks the play button etc because people will try to get around this). This is just the newest progression in a long line of progressions of terrible ad implementation.
I don’t want billboards in my living room though. It’s reasonable to not want billboards in your living room.
Get out of here with your facts. We want to make shit up and then get enraged at the shit we just made up!
Following in porn’s footsteps I see. Can’t pause a video without getting an ad shoved in front of your face.
How do you know so much about Porn?
Well to be fair this only affects users that are not blocking ads in the first place.
Is it even possible anymore [on mobile]?
E: mobile centric YouTube user.
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uBlock Origin on Firefox certainly works. There was a short period of about 5 days (a couple of months ago) where they were blocking playback with uBlock enabled, but it didn’t last long.
Oh true, I forget I am on mobile usually for YouTube.
Adblockers work just like they always have. Nothing has changed. Mobile apps are a different story but you couldn’t ever block ads in the native app anyway.
Yeah, I forgot I basically only use YouTube on mobile or Chromecast.
Enshittification. Youtube is always going to get worse as long as it exists to make money.
Who do you expect to pay for it?
If McDonald’s started charging $100 for a cheeseburger, the response of “well who’s going to pay for it?” Would not be appropriate.
The cost is too high and is only increasing because of greed.
The cost is too high? Seriously?
You’re not paying anything for the service. You have no concept of what their costs are. You’re mildly inconvenienced by some annoying and slightly obtrusive ads.
It’s a business, not a charity. And they owe you nothing.
They are charging me my time through ads.
You have no concept of what their costs are.
Neither do you, but I know Google will shut down anything not profitable enough and they haven’t shut down YouTube.
It’s a business, not a charity. I owe them nothing.
YouTube is unwatchable for me with all these ads. Even without ads, content creators mostly all follow the same generic bullshit format.
It used to be a great resource for visual aids and explanations, now it’s filled with money making schemes and scams and every video has 14 minutes of bullshit and 1 minute of content.
15 minutes videos of some over excited guy overlayed on or overlayed by lots of cutesy/flashy/cartoony pics, interspected by irrelevant/low-brow-humour “I’m so cool” video segments, padded with tons of fluffy talk and with every silly post-production effect conceivable, to make a point that could have been made in 2 minutes.
I barelly every watch Youtube nowadays, especially if I’m looking to actually learn something or for the solution for a specific problem.
Yeah all that stuff.
Everyone is a celebrity.
