EevBLAB #76 – YouTube automatically will place mid-roll ads [video]

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3 points·BlackLotus89··3 comments

1) youtube will auto enable midroll ads on all videos longer than 8 minutes! For evedyone!

2) Thought about linking to the changes listed on youtube and changing the video title. Liked the video so I opted for posting it and adding infos via this comment, changed the clickbaity title to something more fitting.

Official google video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vbm0b26kng

Google Support Page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006

Edit: All the more reason to use ublock origin and newpipe [1]. It's just really sad for content creators who opted out by choice and are now forced to manually disable ads or leave them on completely.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

Of course they will. Youtube was created to earn money on ads. The time to suck it out dry is now before users get bored with it and new generation will flock to other types of entertainment.

Requiring content creator to individually opt out for each video is such a transparent dick move. If that was done in good interest of content creator why not just honor their explicit opt out in the first place?

Yeah youtube is going down the drain right now automating everything and failing (you can search hn for youtube bans and cam find at least 3 blocks of non violating channels in the last 2 weeks).

For every content creator on youtube, you can still opt out, but once it's enabled on your channel you have to disable it manually or write a tool to do it for you...

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