• celerate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Dear YouTube, if anyone there ever reads this.

    I tried not to block ads, I would let the preroll go and usually not skip it.

    I started skipping ads when they started getting long. I recall some were several minutes long at times.

    I started leaving videos part way through when there were mid-roll ads, and those got long enough that I’d often forget what I was even watching.

    I started blocking the ads outright when I would be watching a relaxing video, and a very loud mid-roll ad would blow out my goddamn eardrums.

    Fuck you YouTube. You abused your users, you chased off good content creators, and now you’re offering people no carrot and all stick. How about you offer to match the volume of the ads to the videos, limit the length of ads to something reasonable, and nicely tell viewers that you are making ads less annoying and that unblocking the ads helps pay the content creators.

    • bashibazouk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      The most humorous was the long ad in front of the Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up video. They killed the Rick Roll…

  • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Is this fake? I thought the term is whitelisted not allowlisted

    • alianne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      In recent years there’s been a shift from “white/black list” to “allow/block list” in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn’t say it’s the new norm yet, but it’s slowly becoming more popular.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 years ago

        I hate that.

        With flying they changed NOTAM from notices to airmen to notices to air missions or something.

        Calm tf down. Will they change Human to hupersons next? Man-made to huperson-made? GTFO here.

  • manmikey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Google recently announced that it’s podcast service is shutting down and moving to YouTube music, I don’t want or need YouTube music so I’ve already moved to Podcast Republic, it has a few ads but they can be removed with a small one off payment. Google just wants to shove all it’s users into YouTube and YouTube music for maximum ads and data harvesting.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Heads up as more and more people seem to not know this lately: the overwhelming majority of podcasts are officially and legally available without having to pay for them. Traditionally a podcast was just an mp3 or video file someone posted up on their blog that could be subscribed to via a basic RSS feed.

      Anyway, on Android Antenna Pod is a great free and open source app for managong podcasts and youe subscriptions to them. Can get it off F-Droid.

      • mnoram@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        AntennaPod user for years and years here too. I’ve tried other ones but always come back. It’s in the regular play store as well if that’s easier for folks.

      • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        The way I see it, if a podcast isn’t available through RSS it ain’t a podcast.

        Spotify exclusives: Not podcasts. Audible exclusives: Not podcasts.

        If I can’t listen to it on my phone with Overcast, then I won’t listen to it. The only exception for me is stuff on BBC Sounds, but much of that isn’t offered as podcast anyway.

  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Even if I have to sit through 30 seconds of silence, is there a way to redirect the ad to a ghost browser so I don’t have to listen to something like grubhubs stupid video?

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Google kind of sucks.

    What was their last big success? Google maps? Pretty much everything they do lately is some combination of shitty or prematurely killed.

  • anewbeginning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I haven’t watched live tv in almost 20 years because I refuse to sit through ads, and I definitely won’t sit through them on YouTube. If it was a banner or some thing on the page or the side of video that would be more acceptable, but sitting through ads to watch a YouTube video….there’s just no way.