Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)
Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)
YouTube ads are getting more frustrating, with some users reporting unskippable ads that are nearly an hour long. Are ad blockers to blame?
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While the company stops short of directly saying as much, it sure feels like the preposterously long ads we’re seeing here are an example of one tool in Google’s arsenal for effectively disabling YouTube playback for violators of the site’s ToS.
I don't get it. When my adblocker works, I don't get to see this shit. Only if it fails I'llbe confronted with hour-long ads, so the incentive to find a better blocker is even higher?
They are trying hard to block all known adblockers. And if they ever do, this will become a serious problem.
It won't, I'll just go do something else with my free time...
So they effectively blocked the video then?
No, they just set the bar for watching it too high for my liking.
Arms races are rarely won by anyone.
They are won by arms dealers.
In this case though the arms dealers make the arms for free so I'm kind of okay with it
And all of it could have been avoided if google just audited/policed the ads it served. No sane person minds watching a 5-10 second add every 10-20 minutes to support the platform.
But rather than spend money expanding their ad department to audit and police the adds, they are spending gobs and gobs of money trying to force people to see view virus-delivering ads, racist ads, blatant misinformation, etc.
No one wants to be forced to spend 30 minutes watching a pragerU video on how the black man should be grateful for slavery and all the "good" its brought him
But that seems to be the world that google wants.
Remember when Google aquired YouTube and stated they didn't intend to change anything? Remember when the only ads were those little banners you had to close? We've come such a long ways from where we started and what is considered "sane" these days would have been an affront back then. Google truly did slow boil the frog.
No sane person minds watching a 5-10 second add every 10-20 minutes to support the platform.
Fuck that. Ads are cancer. Willing consuming cancer is insanity.
If they limited the ad time in videos, ad time would be worth more.
There are arms dealers on both sides. Anti-adblockers also require development, and I doubt anyone does that for free.
That's an excellent Maxim.
True.
This is a war that was fought by broadcast TV and the makers of videotapes, DVDs, and blu-rays. In every case the Corpos failed. So no, this arms race is and will be won by the ad blockers.
Except all of those formats are now obsolete, no major company is even making Blu-Ray players anymore, and people have moved on to others. So did they fail or did they just find a different method? I'd say the latter. How many people do you know with a working VCR at this point?
no major company is even making Blu-Ray players anymore
Uh, yes they are. What are you smoking? They even still make DVD's and straight DVD players. They even still make VCR's.
Pardon me, you're correct. Sony and Panasonic are the last two holdouts.
Also, those are not VCRs still being manufactured, that's selling off stock.