I think it's funny that Google thinks putting an ad in when someone is most engaged with a video will be an effective advertising technique. So someone's going to be absorbed in the video, be presented with an ad while engaging with it and be happy that they were interrupted to be served an ad? Sounds like a great formula for pissing off your users.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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For YouTube, viewers aren't the users, advertisers are.
It's the same idiotic MBA reasoning that keeps bringing the popup back in some new form every few years. No, it wasn't the technical implementation of the delivery mechanism we were upset about, you absolute fucking morons.
It's always jarring loading a news site without ad blocking. The whole thing just seems cancerous, and that's before you can even start reading the story.
I recently switched phones and forgot I didn’t have an adblocker installed yet. Clicked on an article and holy shit the modern mobile web is a toxic hellscape without it…
Pretty wild seeing an ad for UL out in the wild in these comments, you an electrician?
I got my MTR in UL 508A a couple years ago
Architect, so in the neighborhood… I mostly interact with UL in the context of fire-rated assemblies, though.
Ahh my context is all related to industrial electrical systems. It gets really fun when UL and NFPA 79 start to conflict with each other.
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Yeah let's just do an ad break during the most interesting part of EVERY video. Sounds amazing.... not
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Firefox X UBlock Origin X Sponsorblock X Bring Back Youtube Dislike. Thank fuck for those Devs.
The removal of YouTube dislike is still fucking infuriating to me. I get it: now I have to watch the video to find out if it's a piece of shit, and that's exactly what they want, but holy fuck what a shitty decision designed to waste my time and maximize their chances to flash an ad in my face.
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How to ensure huge swathes of the population will never ever buy your product out of sheer spite
That number is still SIGNIFICANTLY less than those who won't do anything. Us using ad blockers doesn't even account for a percentage of what they rake in from those without them.
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I see the contest to find the world's biggest cunt continues unabated.
What will they think of next week?
firefox and uBlock Origin. I don't see ads. Fuck Google and their AI.
Just imagine coming up with shit like this being the only job you can find and not jumping off a building instead.
I would argue that this will be far more obnoxious than television commercials. YouTube already places ads directly in the midst of sentences or even words. At least television usually cut to commercial after the line was finished.
This will annoy me to the point of dropping YouTube altogether.
YouTube will put multiple ad breaks into a popular 8 min video. Which is why I use playtube and/or Firefox with ad block unless I'm too hungover to fully function
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Adguard blocks YouTube ads on my laptop.
Smarttube blocks YT ads on my TV.
Revanced allows me to block YT ads on my phone.
But yeah, keep pushing adverts /s
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Imagine ...
THIS IS SP....
Insert unskippable ad here.
ARTA!
Enshittification
Wow big congratulations to the corporate ghoul who thought this up. Thanks for making our world a shittier place.
Enough is never enough.
Why do you need "AI" for this? That is something that can be done client side on a 30 year old phone without sweat if you already have a list of timestamps and number of engagements for a video?
I was at Google when they announced that only AI-related projects would be able to request increased budget. I don't know if they're still doing that specifically, but I'm sure they are still massively incentivizing teams to slap an "AI Inside" sticker on everything.
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It would be wrong to call it a replacement, but this is a good place to plug [email protected] - there's more quality content on there than many might suspect, especially if you are into FOSS and people tinkering with stuff they are passionate about.
LOL. Like every tech story from the US is about enshittification. too funny.
I've been noticing lately that 800lb Gorilla specials have been cutting to ads right between the setup and punchline of a bit. Mad fucking annoying.
Google enshitifying things? Who would have thought? Seriously, it's as if they want to test how far they can go upsetting users. There's got to be some (a lot?) of that, for sure.
You'd think so, but a never ending stream of people continue to sit there glued to their phones through content and adverts alike.
We're probably already at the Demolition Man point of having a station just for adverts.
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A guy I know started selling AI push notifications.
Your app signs up for his service, and he uses what's essentially ChatGPT to find the best time slot to send you custom push notifications. That's just his third party service working with limited data and system access.
Just imagine when Google and Apple start selling that as a service integrated to the OS.
Am I the only one still not seeing ads on YT with Ublock?
Same here. Ublock Origin for the win!
YT becoming shittier and shittier with ads is why I've changed to downloaders instead. No ads.
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Eh this needs to go in fuckai
Right when the guitar solo hits
Use Freetube or Invidious, problem solved.
Only Freetube is being actively attacked by Google and Invidious is basically dead.
Use NewPipe or its forks
Why can't they just place the ad at the beginning of the video, Spotify gives you X free uninterrupted songs to listen to after listening to 1,2 adds. Why can't they just follow that model
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