If ads weren’t riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious…
Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer
Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.
Yeah, just a second ago. Probably, something to do with Firefox. Anyway, articles these days are becoming superficial. What could be said in a few words takes an entire paragraph for some reason. Writer’s skills are on a downward trend recently. Not liking it
Yeah you have to make it longer…can’t place 15 ads on a text with one paragraph
I especially love the cases where I want to check if and when series xy continues “get the Release Date of Series XY season 5” And then there is a wall of text that summarizes season 1-4 and how everybody is waiting for season 5 to then say that the date is not out yet…
Hey motherfucker, did you know you can go AD FREE with YouTube™ premium? Look, it’s P R E M I U M. and it will only cost you $9.99 a month (plus any data we choose to siphon from you, aaaaaaand you have to be subjected to our shit-ass suggestions that you will almost certainly not be interested in, because fuck you in your stupid content sucking mouth)
Yeah honestly not sure why so many people have been complaining about them. They’re pretty much always relevant to the content that I like watching.
I’ll be that guy and say this isn’t crappy design and shouldn’t be in this community. We’ve already got posts filling top of all we don’t need more where they don’t belong.
Ads are crappy by design. I think the spirit of the community is upheld with this post.
Well yes, nobody likes ads. But think of it this way - ads are “democratic” in a way, because it means everybody can “afford” or access that which is financed by the ads. Most websites are expensive to run and have to make money somehow to pay for itself - as much as I dislike ads, I’m not sure what the alternative would be? Should we have to pay to access each and every website? I don’t know what the best solution would be, to be hones.
Even excusing the policy, the design is actually pretty shit though. We’re all just used to it so it feels default and normal.
I would argue that pop-ups like this are an intentionally crappy design meant to be frustrating and get in the way. But, I understand what your saying, this is perhaps not the best suited community for this post.
I think the difference here is I view “crappy design” as something badly made or poorly executed. What you describe I would consider to be “asshole design”: perfectly well-made, but with bad intentions. I can see why you would have the different definition though, and considering the Reddit subs had a lot of these same definition issues it’s not surprising they continue here.
How dare you inconvinience me for using your stuff for free r/choosingbeggars
King’s behaviour is typical of the lefty democrat who never had a job in his life. So eager to betray America to the democrats technocrat overlords. Disgusting.
Unsolicited ads are implicitly anti-user, especially when they impede or interrupt access to content.
So you buy youtube premium instead? Or are you an entitled freeloading POS who shamelessly asks for uninterrupted free content? 😂
Where was this attitude when Netflix announced account sharing crackdowns? I buy premium to support the people I watch but still, what a wild comment.
Thankfully it isn’t hard to remove with ublock origin. Just enter Element picker mode and select the pop up to remove it. Then do the same for the greyed out background & it’ll work normally.
The element is called #opened (you’ll see it pop up in the text box when you select the right one). The only downside I’ve seen so far is that you can scroll down to the comments while you have a video open in full screen. Although I guess that’s kinda cool
can scroll down to the comments while you have a video open in full screen
That was allready a thing for years now. I thought it was a feather they implemented.
When I tried this the damn ad blocker message thing is unable to be closed and blacks out the whole video instead of being a pop-up. The only way to play is to disable ghostery and ublock. I’m super pissed.
I haven’t used Ghostery in ages as I had heard it was funded by ad agencies to harvest data.
But are you using Ublock Origin? They have instructions on how to fix this. Someone posted this in the Technology community I think?
Basically, update it. You might need to lose Ghostery, but load up Ublock Matrix if you want more script control. Not sure what that’ll do with YouBoob as I’ve not tried yet.
Also, there is yt-dlp. You can just download your videos. No ads from yt.
Edit: Here is the post
Cliqz International GmbH, a privacy focused company whose software has been merged into both Brave and Firefox with Ghostery and Ghostery Dawn being their only live products.
Ghostery was owned by Evidon, Inc., an enterprise marketing analytics and compliance company. Not an ad agency.
Ghostery has been open source it’s entire history and never sold you data. Unlike Steam.
I’ve paid for YouTube premium pretty much since it started being a thing and had to drop it recently for financial reasons. Simply existing these days feels like I’m drowning. The bombardment of ads and frequent notifications to come back are making me want to ditch YouTube entirely. I’ve been using YouTube in Firefox with desktop site requested to play my videos in the background and I try to use odysee as much as possible now. Their price hikes along with no recognition of how long I’ve been a paying member has really gotten to me.
You see, if you are unable to cough up the money for one reason or another, you are not important to them anymore. It’s better for YouTube if you don’t watch than if you watch without premium, so they bully you until you leave. There is no “grace period” just because you supported them for years. Corporations are not your friends and the only thing that matters to them is infinite growth.
Best thing to do is find a few friends to split it with. The family plan gives you 6 accounts I think.
I disagree.
Once upon a time, streaming services were free, or gave you a generous amount of content for a small price.
Now, not only does everybody and their mom want to make you subscribe to something, they’re also constantly and unapologetically raising prices whilst removing features or extracting useful/necessary features and placing them in new, expensive premium tiers.
Sure, get a family plan and split, and watch them slowly raise prices to “match inflation” or some other bs excuse!
There are definitely solutions out there, and I’m sure someone will come up with a way to spoof YouTube premium or something and the war will continue.
I won’t say ‘pirate everything’, because you shouldn’t; there are definitely services out there that are worth your money. But if they’re going to play using scummy tactics then I don’t see why we can’t as well!
The amount of bootlicking YouTube premium users in these threads astonish me. Wonder how they’d feel when it’s $150+ per year and the value proposition completely ceases to exist.
This is less “crappy design” and more “asshole design”
What’s the reason why you think this is an asshole design? I can think of two:
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Advertisements in of itself is a blight on humanity
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They have a dominant market position and it’s almost impossible to compete.
But, these two things aside?
I’m not the one you responded to, but I’ll say why I think it’s an asshole design:
- They have a dominant market position
- They have encouraged people to not just put fun videos on the platform, but to put critical life-saving videos there.
- Like videos on how to perform CPR
- Or videos on how to save someone who’s choking
- At first, they had few ads, or ads that were always skippable
- Now that they have a near monopoly, they’re adding more ads, and making more of them unskippable.
- To watch a lifesaving video, that was posted at a time when there were no real ads or all ads were skippable, you may have to watch a series of 30 second ads.
Then there’s the fact that virtually every video requires ads before you view it, when you might only need to see 10s of the video to know that it’s not relevant. Putting multiple ads before you’re allowed to see those 10 seconds is an asshole move. Then there’s the sheer quantity of ads. The last time I tried to watch a few music videos without an ad blocker I think it was at least 25% ad time.
Removing the ability to skip is also a major asshole move. The whole justification for skippable ads was that consumers wouldn’t skip ads that were good and relevant. If the advertiser was doing their job and making good ads, and YouTube was doing a good job and finding the right audience for those ads, then in theory the ads wouldn’t be skipped. If an advertiser was upset that users were skipping ads, YouTube could push back and say that either their ad sucked, or that they had mistargeted the ad. Now they seem to be admitting that their ad targeting is bullshit, or that they don’t care if the ad isn’t relevant to the user, the user has to watch it regardless.
But, most of this hinges on the enshittification happening once the platform has become a monopoly. If YouTube only had a 20% market share, asshole moves would push people to competitors. But, the key thing is that they lost money or barely broke even until all their competitors had folded, and then they started making things worse.
But, these two things aside?
There’s definitely more but why are you implying these two things aren’t enough?