YouTube getting more aggressive with its advertising

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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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Only time that happens to me is if the stream conks out for more than one person or if I leave it alone for too long. A simple refresh usually fixes it up.
 
nippleonbonerfart said:
You get what you pay for.
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If it's free, it should be performed at the standard of someone who's paid. The price shouldn't excuse how terrible service is, and I'd expect competency, integrity, and professionalism you'd give to anyone else who is paying, considering I'm given a free service by a company, not a person. YouTube pulling this shit will make Google out into a villain (as if they already aren't, let's be real here), and in the long run will be more dangerous to think like this.
 
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Daddy Dongle Dinkle said:
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.
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Lately, I've noticed that there are times when one is able to "Skip" an ad after 5 seconds or so, clicking that button seems to occasionally launch a second ad that must be viewed in its entirety before watching my video of choice. It's as if Google is saying," Skip an ad? Joke's on you: for that you have to watch one that's even more useless for you and this time, you can't skip it."

Ilikeoreos said:
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.
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Dailymotion is presently much worse than Google on account of all the random interruptions and the unpredictability of ads in terms of number, length, and subject before the original video resumes. This has to be the model Google is in the process of adopting.
 
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I think YouTube is so desperate to make a profit at this point that they don't really care who uses advertising on their site anymore, because in the past few years I had seen these be advertised to me:
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Yes, the first one is literally a CoD: Black Ops 2 montage a la 2010, but it was made in 2017. The worst part is that I don't know whether the channel is a troll or not.
 
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tbh the only reason to even consider redtube is for mobile. Damn I wish there was a way to block ads on there.
 
Tbh if they just made the ads little banners on the edges of the webpage itself and prevented advertisers from using those annoying as shit pop up ads that seemingly never go away no matter how much you try to close them, I really wouldn’t mind much and wouldn’t feel the need to use Adblock everywhere.

Like the obnoxious as shit method of advertising is the main problem, if they’d make them much more manageable and subtle they’d be able to get way more profits.
 
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