What they should be working on is filtering out creator ads in videos for YouTube premium subscribers.
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YouTube's Latest Move Against Ad Blockers: Video Delays
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Google's desire to force us to watch ads is only matched by people's desire to not watch ads. uBlock Origin is alive and well despite Google's attempts to kill it for the last few years.
About a month or so ago, I started having issues with YouTube videos doing this seemingly at random; I have 1Gps fiber and a good wifi router at home, so it was really vexing to me that the YouTube app on iOS was randomly buffering videos. I have no issues with any other service.
If it turns out it's this "feature", I am going to be pretty pissed because I pay for a YouTube Premium family plan.
If it turns out it's this "feature", I am going to be pretty pissed because I pay for a YouTube Premium family plan.
Look, I like Zoe Saldana but I don’t need to hear her tell me about T-Mobile every 90 seconds during a 12 minute cooking video. If they think a blank screen is a deterrent that will get me to just watch the ad instead, that’s a pretty funny tactic. I’ll gladly take blissful silence for 10 seconds over watching ads or giving more money and data to Google.
Part of the success is instant access to content you choose as well as having creators/presenters who aren’t chosen by a panel with an agenda. If I like the content but don’t like the presenter then I can chose to not watch. I like cars, there are many content creators reviewing the cars I’m interested in, if I don’t like one of them I can chose another who I do like. Before YT, with traditional tv I had no choice when to watch content or who presented it. I can also find condensed video clips of my favourite part of a tv episode, or watch hour long music gigs. It’s about choice of instant content and options to watch that content.
Those are skippable at least.
But that’s a good point, turning YouTube ads into part of the regular content would make them skippable, which YouTube doesn't want. That's their dilemma. Unskippable ads mean there's an easy way to automatically detect them.
I wouldn't mind ads on the site itself in the form of banners or as skippable ads in the middle of the video, but having to watch two ads BEFORE you even start watching the video (which may or may not even be the video you're looking for so your time watching the ads might be entirely wasted) is an absolute no-go for me.
At this point just lock YouTube down and make it a paid-only platform or figure out a more acceptable way of showing ads. YouTube ads have gotten far too aggressive and low quality, I don't think it's a fair game. And I won't pay money for a company that does this because then I'm supporting their methods and encouraging others to do the same thing by contributing to their success.
YouTube wasn't always like this, they're the ones who changed their tactics. YouTube got big because it was a good experience. If it was like it is today, it would have failed right away. So their current success is a direct result of their previous user-friendly experience. They should either honor that or let others take over. I don't want to honor their tactics.
At this point just lock YouTube down and make it a paid-only platform or figure out a more acceptable way of showing ads. YouTube ads have gotten far too aggressive and low quality, I don't think it's a fair game. And I won't pay money for a company that does this because then I'm supporting their methods and encouraging others to do the same thing by contributing to their success.
YouTube wasn't always like this, they're the ones who changed their tactics. YouTube got big because it was a good experience. If it was like it is today, it would have failed right away. So their current success is a direct result of their previous user-friendly experience. They should either honor that or let others take over. I don't want to honor their tactics.
Youtube dont seem to care that their ads really suck.
We all accept that ads are necessary, and that poor YouTubers like Mr Beast and MKBHD are living on the poverty line and need even more income for their videos.
However, the implementation of ads is massively detrimental to the viewer experience... and without viewers you dont get any income at all.
The biggest problem nowadays is to sit down to watch a video which is 8 minutes long.. only to be served ads after ONE minute of viewing and then again before the end. Something so short has no business being interrupted twice.
Pre-roll ads are also common but annoying as you dont get a chance to check if the video is what you want to watch without sitting through some ads.
The premium subscription is too expensive. The lower tier to remove ads and not provide music is nearer the mark but it needs to be under $5 if all its doing is removing ads and giving no other benefits.
I just hate it when I'm lying on the ground in front of a broken diswhasher or under a car trying to figure out how someone fixed something but you have to wait 30 seconds for the ad to finish or they keep inserting them in weird spots in the middle of videos, but YT is still the best resource around...
I think a larger percentage now watches YouTube on TVs where ads have been commonplace for decades. Adverts are tolerable when watching from the sofa. What grates me is the random placement. It would be nicer if creators could insert 'commercial breaks' into their videos so as not to interupt the flow.
I can understand why someone watching on a phone might not like them, but then I'd say put on a podcast instead!
When YouTube decided to raise the subscription price in Taiwan, I finally gave up on Premium. I'm still getting the shadow ban and most people can't see my comments unless they toggle the view from Top to Newest. Why should I keep paying for a service that doesn't respect its premium user???
The entire internet nowadays sucks. It used to be about genuine connection and creative content. Today it’s all about chasing clout and extracting profit. The internet as we knew it is dying.
Agreed. Preferably a competitor that allows you to filter out synthetic content completely. It seems that recently almost all content that shows on my Home Screen is synthetic.
Well, someone has to pay to have the video hosted. It would either be the person or the content creator. I don’t think you would have many content creators if they had to pay to make videos.
Sure, it’s annoying that there’s no right to free anything. I would love to have everything for free, but for some reason people don’t want to giveaway stuff for free.
There are already a few, but unless people like you go to the website and watch it then it’s not going to become popular.
Either way it’s not necessarily going to be better. Hosting video content cost money so they have to pay for it somehow. It’s either by ads or paying a subscription. That doesn’t even count paying creators money for views. That’s the reason why there’s so many videos because people want to make money.
I personally use the Vinegar app on all of my devices which makes YouTube default to Apple's built in video player. Sometimes an ad sneaks in here and there, but it's much better than one every couple minutes.
I’ve already cut my subscriptions way back to just a few. At this point, I really don’t care too much if YouTube bans my account. YouTube went from a daily and regular thing I used, to maybe 30 minutes a week, mostly just background noise or falling asleep.
Cut the monthly price in half, maybe cut out YouTube music or give me limited ads - maybe 1 per video at the least. And I’ll be happy to pay monthly for it.
I’ve already cut my subscriptions way back to just a few. At this point, I really don’t care too much if YouTube bans my account. YouTube went from a daily and regular thing I used, to maybe 30 minutes a week, mostly just background noise or falling asleep.
Cut the monthly price in half, maybe cut out YouTube music or give me limited ads - maybe 1 per video at the least. And I’ll be happy to pay monthly for it.
How is that working? No Advance Data Protection or iPhone mirroring.
Sometimes it works sometimes this ad blocker doesn’t for YouTube. Somehow, I’ll be able to get it working 95% of the time. So at the present time, I’m happy.