Jesus Christ YouTube has a lot of ads now. I had to watch 2 before I started and then there were 3 more adbreaks. In a 20 minute video! I may as well go watch TV
Also - cool project
Also - cool project
But yes i see what you mean when i watch yt on my mobile.
And I refuse to pay youtube for that god damn subscription they pop up to me every 5 minutes - especially after they started removing basic features from the app (like background audio) just so they could charge for it. NO youtube. Just NO! The more you coerce me, the less chance I will ever do it.
It used to require rooting, but not anymore! It just requires microG if you want to login to your google account.
YouTube adVanced https://vancedapp.com/
Copy out the HN youtube URL, run youtube-dl, giving it the URL, wait a minute or two, and you have a 24m37s video with zero commercials.
It's honestly a little worrying that people have the nerve to complain about ads if they can remove them entirely just by paying the fee.
What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service?
Advertising is a corrosive industry.
I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate. Hell, Netflix has experimented with ways to try to do that and eventually some experiment will succeed (they already do that to some extent by hiding it in their recommendation engine).
[1] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/09/18/google-youtube-red-...
Do you mean "won't"?
Unrelated: I believe Netflix already makes some money from product placements in its "Netflix original" content.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
SponsorBlock does a great job of removing those, too.
What makes YouTube think they deserve free unlimited content, and unlimited ad revenue?
When YouTube first allowed creators to monetize their videos using ads, to support themselves, and youtube would pay them and also take a cut? I certainly didn't mind. It promoted good content, and they've got to make money after all!
When YouTube decided I could no longer turn off my phone's screen when I played a video, I began to mind. I thought it was a bug at first, but then I found out it was intentional. I guess they have to make sure we're looking when they play ads. Gotta make money after all.
When YouTube made their terms worse for creators multiple times, I read on with sadness, but it didn't really affect me, and they've gotta see revenue growth, or something.
When YouTube started actively screwing creators out of monetization for bizarre and arcane reasons, but would then still show ads on the de-monetized videos, and collect the full take? I felt miffed. They don't need the money that bad -- if it's demonetized, it shouldn't have ads. But what could we do? Stop watching?
When YouTube started aggressively nagging me to sign up for their paid service to "unlock" those old "features" like no ads and playing videos when my screen is off, I was pissed off. They really gotta make money like this? I still see these nags daily.
When YouTube recently decided that on all videos, even ones the creators have chosen specifically not to monetize (e.g. because they're intended as educational content), YouTube will force 10-15 seconds of unskippable ads for every 10 minutes of video, and then take all of that profit?
Fuck 'em. They don't need the money. YouTube is rotten to the core.
One of the richest corporations on the planet has forced these intrusive, shitty ads upon literally billions of people, degrading their hugely profitable service with no real alternatives, and you feel the need to defend YouTube here? You're "worried people have the nerve to complain"? You tell us, "you can all just pay up!"
What a sickening disgrace! Collaborators are tragically easy to find.
To quote Pratchett, "It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."
They haven't started to monetize the Google assistant yet, at least from the consumer side. But even that mindset is starting to change, if you want to control your own thermostat using their APIs outside of the apps, well, it's a non refundable $5 charge [0].
[0] https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project
Backup whatever videos you enjoy now. It's going to get worse.
We can imagine it.
At this point the most successful grassroots political movement of the last several years acted on behalf of a dictatorial head of state and took guns into state capitols to explicitly threaten state-level politicians in order to convince them to give everybody a deadly virus. And is threatening to do the same to the national legislature in a couple weeks in order to convince them to create a new category of President For Life.