YouTube getting more aggressive with its advertising

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Many of you may already be aware of this, but YouTubes advertising methods are extremely aggressive, and yet, this could hurt YouTube as a whole.

I turned off my ad-blocker today to see how YouTubes advertising structure has changed. And I'm honestly quite surprised by how forceful advertisements are in general.

Here is a quick rundown of my observations:
  • Some 10-minute videos contain over 5 or more advertisements (Makes you question the sustainability of being a 'YouTuber' in general)
  • Annoying banner ads constantly pop up
  • Some ads are unskippable
  • Repetitive similar advertisements (possibly due to the client buying up a shit-ton of the ad space)
I did a quick search on the matter, and it turns out YouTube is trying to encourage its users to buy YouTube Premium.
Why would you hand over money to remove advertisements when you can just use an ad-blocker? I think it's encouraging people to use ad-blockers more than anything.
And the fact YouTube allows it's creators to place as many advertisements as they wish on a video is honestly suicidal. Did they really think that this would never be abused?

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on YouTube in general.
 
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Well, Google is trying to re-design the Chrome plugin API to be ineffectual at blocking ads, so they do have a plan. Won't affect people who care, just the people stupid enough to use anything made by Google.

But also what does it even matter when every video is "sponsored by skillshare/nord". It seems to me that the entire concept of a video hosting platform, especially for revenue purposes, is entirely unmaintainable and unsustainable. This is beginning to turn into a religion. What's more powerful? The market pressing down on YouTube until it collapses or the cultural significance it has? YouTube is bound for failure, just depends if someone else feels like picking up the slack. Netflix is ripe for this market, it's already established itself as a massive entity and it's already accepted that you need to pay for it. Why not allow people to start uploading videos? They probably will do that if YouTube starts failing. There's also the question of Twitch but they might just end up the same way as YouTube.
 
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BigRuler said:
financially, this is correct. as far as i know, youtube has been losing money every single year since its inception. the busines model of "provide insane amounts of webspace and bandwidth to the public for free" is way too expensive for a little bit of ad revenue to make up for the massive hardware and upkeep costs.
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YouTube is actually quite beneficial for Google's machine learning. Since it provides pretty much an endless stream of learning material. This could also explain why Google is clinging on to the service so much.
 
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Do any other Firefox users on here have problems with videos and live streams erroring out. On live streams I have to refresh to get it back. Regular videos it usually will still work after a couple of seconds, which makes me think it's ad related. However, disabled uBlock did not stop it from happening. Happens to me all the time to the point that I just open live streams in Chromium. Chrome, Chromium, or Chrome based browsers like Brave work great. Kinda makes me think they are doing something intentionally to try and get people to use Chrome. Especially when their help page suggestions are:

  • If you have many browser tabs open, try to close most of them except the one you’re using for YouTube.
  • Restart your browser.
  • Restart your router.
  • Restart your computer.
  • Update your browser to the latest version.
  • Use Chrome.
Then when they nerf ad-blocking....
 
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Sam Losco said:
Do any other Firefox users on here have problems with videos and live streams erroring out.
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I had it once.
I'm far from a conspiracy theorist but honestly I wouldn't put it past them to sabotage Firefox considering they're trying to sabotage Chrome. I mean, it's equally just as like Firefox is wonky, or you just have a bad internet connection. But still, makes you think.

Oh and lets not forget Edge switching it's backend to Chromium. Again, not saying I believe this, but I wouldn't put it past Google to bribe Microsoft to make that change. With two major browsers having the same backend, developers will care less that their code is working on the third major browser.
 
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Sam Losco said:
Do any other Firefox users on here have problems with videos and live streams erroring out. On live streams I have to refresh to get it back. Regular videos it usually will still work after a couple of seconds, which makes me think it's ad related. However, disabled uBlock did not stop it from happening. Happens to me all the time to the point that I just open live streams in Chromium. Chrome, Chromium, or Chrome based browsers like Brave work great. Kinda makes me think they are doing something intentionally to try and get people to use Chrome. Especially when their help page suggestions are:

  • If you have many browser tabs open, try to close most of them except the one you’re using for YouTube.
  • Restart your browser.
  • Restart your router.
  • Restart your computer.
  • Update your browser to the latest version.
  • Use Chrome.
Then when they nerf ad-blocking....
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Yes, it's been like that for a while, it's doesn't bother me too much, but makes me wonder what is google going to do next to force people to use Chrome
 
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Youtube on an Android/iOS is nigh unusable these days. Kick on a music playlist? Hope you like ads at the end of the song...and at the beginning of the next song too!

Are you too distracted to notice you've pulled one of those three minute ads you're supposed to skip after 15 seconds??? FUCK YOU!
 
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Hi guys I'm Kaelnennenene niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii or whatever.

Google isn't even doing ads as well as cable did 30 years ago.

The CEO of google should be castrated and fed to the pigs. They're riding off the high of a decade ago and these tech companies are the cause of the next crash.

I hope those that lose their savings will grab their pitchforks and go after the Ma Bell of this era.

Also Soros needs to be tarred and feathered on pay per view.

Oh and if I get another passive aggressive a-logging message just fucking ban me. I don't access this site from my actual IP because I'm not a fucking retard so at least have the balls to come at me in thread...fucking cunt.
 
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nippleonbonerfart said:
I don't complain too much about free shit.
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Except it's not free. Google is already destroying Chrome's plugin API to stop ad blockers. You're paying in freedom and functionality, just to sustain this service.
Not that I'm giving YouTube a cent, but I'd rather pay for it in money then in being able to use the internet safely anymore.
 
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Daddy Dongle Dinkle said:
I don't mind ads, it's just YouTubes way of advertising that makes the service unusable.
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They don't know how to DO business.

They run their shit like a fucking sped.

If I ran my business like youtube did I'd be starving and shitting in the streets. They could easily have a profitable business model but it is about agenda and feels and they keep putting re....tards in positions of power so they deserve to fail.

It is the same shit as fucking Twitter. Twitter calls me at least once a quarter trying to get me to sell out my member database or buy ads and they keep pitching this idea of "brand value" not actual metrics. Nigger I want to be able to measure my ROI and no you can't control the demo for my ads.

These people don't know how to make money because they don't HAVE to make money. Fuck them. Bunch of fucking dipshits.

Greed is GOOD. These fucks are trying to make money and brainwash. Fuck them all.
 
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Surveys and 5-minute ads are the reason why I stopped using youtube to listen to music while driving. I'm sure that more than a few fender benders have been caused by stupid people who didn't know about Pandora (or just didn't want to pay for it). For a while I was still able to listen to full albums until ads started showing up in the middle of songs

Dailymotion was even worse the last time I checked. You can't even watch a 5-minute video without random interruptions, and when the ad is over the video you're watching starts over from the beginning. And they just changed the way their videos are imbeded so all of those sites that let you rip from there are currently not working.

The whole internet has gotten like this. About 80% of all websites seem to now have a chance of redirecting your browser to ads that wont let you click back
 
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