YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads : technology

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

YouTube premium, only time I hear ads are when my coworkers crank their shit too loud in the office, or when I have a brand new phone and have forgotten to log in.

Worth every red nickel.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Due to YouTube Music being included in that it's way too expensive for just removing ads. They need to add a tier that's cheaper to just remove ads.

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing. News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.

And also.. I’ll never understand this. I use YouTube and don’t give a shit about ads. The moment they start bothering me- I’ll stop using YouTube. It’s that easy. Don’t like it, walk away.

If you hate something so much, yet can’t stop using it- you have an addiction. Ads are not the problem here.

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Apparently a hot take, but I don't have an issue with this, as long as they're picture ads, not videos. An option to hide them temporarily would be good if you're trying to read something. Maybe you'd need to hold a key or something. To me this is much less intrusive than 3 videos ads at the beginning of a video.

All of that said, I pay for premium, as I watch enough YouTube for it to be very very justified. I've probably saved weeks of my time not watching ads, plus it supports creators more than the ads ever do.

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[+] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world -7 points 3 months ago

Did I miss some detail? I get the impressions from the comments this is some really poor choice for user experience as people will often pause to check something

But in my experience pause ads are nothing new at all and they start after the device has been idle. What did I miss that makes this different?

[+] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's their private website, they do on it whatever they want. Right, lemmy?

You can run your own federated streaming service that will have no ads and will be free of charge, yeah?

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Nobody here wants peertube really.

They want free bandwidth (streaming 4k60), free computation (encoding, optimization), free research (codec development) and free storage (for endless amount of videos). Google sucking is a valid reason to piggyback on Google infrastructure but they seem to feel entitled to Google just letting it happen.

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