I salute comrade Google in their ongoing attempts to ruin every leisure activity until only domestic terrorism is left
Its incredible the way they're destroying the circuses while we're all so low on bread
if this kills freetube for me I'll just stop using youtube altogether
my life will probably meaningfully improve
It's kind of like how Reddit killing off 3rd party apps just made me stop wasting so much time on reddit.
Daily time on Reddit went to zero. I only go there for answers to obscure questions now
Same, now I waste the same amount of time on hexbear refreshing to see if there are new posts
Same 
damn I guess I'll just have to actually commit to downloading and watching pirated TV shows and movies instead of endlessly grazing on video essays while I'm working on stuff
wouldn't this also download the ad, if it gets injected in the video stream?
Yep... might be a good idea to archive your favorite videos, tutorials, etc before it's rolled out to everyone
Lmao the reason things like YouTube and streaming killed broadcast TV in the first place was because of the lack of advertising those platforms used to have.
They're really trying to kill themselves with this
Hell, one of the appeals of cable TV when it first came out was that there weren't any commercials. It's a never-ending cycle.
They probably aren't going to kill themselves. They've cornered a big enough section of the market that they can count on a large portion of their userbase staying. If this change increases their revenue by 45% and reduces their userbase by 30% its still a net gain. The longterm issue here is losing the creators that make really high quality content. But most of their revenue comes from people like Mr. Beast and random beauty vlogger and angry gamer man. So idk.
Every ad executive should be thrown into the Marianas trench. Without pity or hesitation. Every tech nerd that facilitated their plans will be chained to them at the hip. One of them will be shot before they get tossed overboard.
How will we determine which gets shot? We'll use an aLgOriThM.
this will effectively kill the entire ASMR community.
nobody wants a loud ass ad injected into a soothing calming noise video. i'm just going to DL my favorite vids before this shit ruins them
So far I've managed to get by with Firefox and an ad blocker, but the second I start seeing ads I'm dropping YouTube (which I should anyway) and putting in the effort to pirate music/movies/shows/etc.
Yeah all this means is pirates are going to start ripping popular youtube channels
Tech companies doing everything they can lately to get me exclusively listening to vinyl, watching blu-rays, and reading paper books.
Sounds pretty resource intensive at scale... I'll be impressed if they pull it off.
Also a bizarre move considering they are so hard on for ads because Youtube is incredibly expensive to maintain. You are going to pay for comically large servers by... burning more computer time inserting ads into streams? Google screwed adbuyers before by not actually showing the ads where they were supposed to, Idk why they are trying so hard instead of doing more of that.
I was of the impression that a farcically low number of people even used adblockers in the first place.
As of 2021 it was roughly a third of people using them. No idea what it is now.
32.8% of people worldwide use them at least sometimes. China stays winning the world's highest adblocker use (total and per capita) at 40%
When/if revolution does indeed occur, tech giants all need to be treated like the Romanovs.
That painting of the red army soldier inside the czars palace but it’s me inside googles server room lmfao
Fuck that's too good I wish I was an accomplished painter just so I could create this
Me looking at the server for the fortnight skins
I saw ads for the first time in years on YouTube today. uBlock Origin couldn't stop it... Fuck.
Hahahaha, this is what made me quit twitch, for good. I'll do the same with YouTube. It'll suck, yes, but it'll ultimately be good for me and my mental health. 3 years from now I won't miss YouTube.
I was informed last night one ofmy favorite Gachimuchi channels got nuked because Billy ass was too hot for YT. It isn't getting better. The enshittification continues to find new levels to torture us with.
Love the strategy. 1. Buy a video streaming site, 2. run it at a loss for like 15 years because your other businesses print money, 3. now that there's no competition just crank up the ads because where the fuck are people going to go lol
It won't be long before adblockers find another workaround
Sadly this approach is very likely impossible to block. It's much more computationally intensive for google, which is why they haven't done this in the past, but it is essentially impossible to block if done well.
Fuck. This will probably also break castblock, which I use to auto mute AdSense ads and auto skip sponsorblock segments when watching on my Chromecast.
wtf do not
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