I do chuckle whenever youtube shows an ad that can be skipped after 5 seconds and there’s absolutely nothing identifiable about the trash being hawked in those 5 seconds.
Kind of thier own fault unless they bank souly on people not having a remote or whatever within reach
Perhaps it’s like the badly written scams, they are selecting for people who don’t skip after 5 seconds.
searches couch furiously
Honestly, ads would be tolerable or even pleasant if they were just a picture of the product and a few highlight points about it.
And they used to be, until marketing people learned from nazis that they could use propaganda to sell more than making a rational case for their item’s value.
Which is perfect, because I never want to see ads. Ever.
Which is why when I watch YouTube… there are none. Ever. 😅
If you hit refresh right after the ad starts, you can start the actual video without watching the ad.
This works really well when you get the bad luck of an unskippable one.
Ahh, yes. Vienam.
Cool source. I like the little cartoon guy running across my screen.
PS. Presuming this is accurate, it sure as hell would be awesome for the rest of the world to follow suit. But… you know… capitalism.
About every country on Earth has a capitalistic economic system, some just have governments willing to protect their citizens from egregious abuse.
I’m sure north Korea doesn’t have YouTube ads. Or YouTube. Or food. Anyway…
makes the 6/7 gesture
There’s a gesture? I’m fucking old
I still have youngins living with me. 😁
Just open your palms face up and move them opposites a bit with a confused face. Like you’re saying, “maybe this or this?” https://giphy.com/explore/6-7
Dirty little secret: advertising drives very little of what we know as capitalism. It’s honestly just kind of a drain hole in capitalism, out of which flows billions of dollars into the void.
I’ve been wondering lately if google ads in Android apps/games are worth it at this point. It’s no longer a splash screen or a 5 second ad where you don’t feel annoyed by it or have to put your phone down to go do something else for next 2 minutes (does anyone actually keep watching the screen if ad is longer than 5 secs?). It’s so bad that at this point I either don’t know what is being advertised or I hate the product I saw. Imagine pushing for long form ads during the era of short form videos and damaged attention spans. Good fucking job, google.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I dislike skipping ads. To be exact: I dislike to pay attention to my screen that much that I passively consume ad, even if I wait for the button to become active. And them being small, hard to tap, may occasionally lead to a misclick. The need to interact with the advertisement, even if it’s promoted as a shortcut, is a mind trap that takes you in more than a completely static ad.
The measure in the article can be the first step, but what I would personally prefer is to abandon skipping and instead start limiting the total lenght, frequency etc, so even if it goes for 20 seconds once in ten minutes or whatever the user can just shut their attention or turn onto something else until the ad is gone.
Clicked the “Skip Ad” button? That’s engagement baby.
Was just commenting how radio ads used to be reasonable. Last time I listened to the local stations, the number and length of ads was astonishing. Won’t listen any longer.
I only really listen to my country’s equivalent of NPR. The only ads? Album of the week and the radio’s app that features music-only stations without any programs. Maybe a minute per hour spent mentioning those.
This Or the local college radio station
I self-host Invidious (YouTube, but without YouTube) and use ublock Origin. I don’t know the concept of ads anymore.
There’s at least one in every post. Guaranteed.
Sponsorblock takes care of those
How do you find the self hosting? Is it a hassle to update/maintain? Very interested in this as an option, as I slowly build out my homelab.
Not at all. They have a template for a docker-compose file and it usually works for many weeks or months. I use the latest or master tag and when YouTube sometimes breaks something, I run docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up and it usually works again.
Just make sure to run it in your local network. YouTube likes to block traffic that comes from cloud IPs.
I wouldn’t mind ads on streaming media if they were limited to a few seconds at the start and end, and had some constraints (eg: no volume tricks to sound louder). Just a calm voice saying “This episode brought to you by WidgetCo. The best in Widgets. [logo] [url]” over a neutral color. That’d be fine. But the hunger for profit can never be sated, so it’s longer, more obvious ads more frequently forever. So they can all get fucked. I won’t watch at all.
I will no longer contribute to Spotify, but the ads are like radio used to be. They’re spaced out enough to not be too noticeable, don’t drag on for long.
Minor conspiracy theory: Going from paid to free, Spotify seemed to bombard me with ads. For awhile I was thinking I was going to have to drop them altogether. Then the ad spacing became reasonable.
I think they blast you with ads to get you to move back to the paid service, but don’t keep that up long enough to completely run you off.
Ads on public access radio never actually bother me. Calm, normal ads without sound effects or gimmicks actually get my attention.
The irony.
I know I don’t want to see an ad well before 5 s has passed.
Vienam?
It’s a nation in Souheast Asi. Capital is Hani.
This will almost certainly end up with the response being to simply inject that many more skipable advertisements.
I’m not exactly sure how this could really be done properly without spelling out in regulation exactly how many advertisements is the maximum as well.
Instead of a 30 second unskippable ad, you can have 6 ads that are skippable after 5 seconds lol
The response I expect as soon as possible: Introduction of laws banning skippable advertisements
