Has youtube gotten more aggressive?

[Craig234]

Used to be it'd put up an ad you could skip after about 5 seconds usually.

Just now I watched a video and a few seconds in, it interrupted and replaced the video with a 15 second ad you had to watch the whole thing.

Then I watched another video, it started with a 30 second ad you had to watch the whole thing.

Seems like more than before - and more than I'm likely to allow for many things. It's like I don't watch Comcast content because of 30 second ads to get to any short piece.

 

[Newbian]

No ad's here as I know how to internet.

 

[Charmonium]

They want you to sign up for youtube red. If you spend a lot of time on yt it might be worth the 10 bucks per month. Or you can try a video adblocker.

 

[RichUK]

They want you to sign up for youtube red. If you spend a lot of time on yt it might be worth the 10 bucks per month. Or you can try a video adblocker.

First I've heard of youtube red. Ads annoy me, but I'm not paying to use the Youtubes.

 

[disappoint]

 

[zerocool84]

And it's great to be looking at YouTube for this information when someone's life is on the line.

/sarcasm

How about don't rely on YouTube for life or death information.

 

[CZroe]

And it's great to be looking at YouTube for this information when someone's life is on the line.

/sarcasm

How about don't rely on YouTube for life or death information.

How about we just guess? We're all doctors, right?

 

[pcslookout]

Adguard (software version) here works great.

 

[shortylickens]

Adguard (software version) here works great.

Theres a hardware version?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Ironically Youtube has begun to demonetize certain popular Youtubers videos (notably conservatives), over ad buyers concerns over supporting non centrist views.

In other words, if you watch politically oriented vids on youtube chances are they might be ad free due to the emerging policy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

At one point I had to switch from Ublock to Adblock as for some reason ads started to still come through on Ublock. It might be fixed now, but it definitely seems YT is playing with the algorithms. TBH I'm surprised they don't just real-time embed the ads within the video. It would be pretty much impossible for adblockers to stop it. They probably know they'd piss off way too many people if they did that, and probably even get a drop in traffic.

 

[who?]

They're demonetizing anything deemed not to be "family friendly".

 

[disappoint]

And it's great to be looking at YouTube for this information when someone's life is on the line.

/sarcasm

How about don't rely on YouTube for life or death information.

 

[who?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7-25dwf9iM

 

[cytg111]

And it's great to be looking at YouTube for this information when someone's life is on the line.

/sarcasm

How about don't rely on YouTube for life or death information.

Yea and while your mom and dad tries to revive your brother you could just stand around and be a useless tool .. or do something

 

[Ichinisan]

Pretty sure they've had the mix of skippable and unskippable ads for a long time. Did you recently disable your adblocker?

 

[Genx87]

Ironically Youtube has begun to demonetize certain popular Youtubers videos (notably conservatives), over ad buyers concerns over supporting non centrist views.

In other words, if you watch politically oriented vids on youtube chances are they might be ad free due to the emerging policy.

This has started to hit the left leaning channels as well. I'm starting to believe this is part of a larger movement by old media to minimize youtube. Youtube is going with it which will hurt them long term imo.

 

[nakedfrog]

Ironically Youtube has begun to demonetize certain popular Youtubers videos (notably conservatives), over ad buyers concerns over supporting non centrist views.

In other words, if you watch politically oriented vids on youtube chances are they might be ad free due to the emerging policy.

Where's the irony?

And if you watch politically oriented videos on YouTube, you really ought to take a good, hard look at your life and see if you can figure out where you went wrong, and if there's still time to back away from the cliff.

 

[nakedfrog]

Pretty sure they've had the mix of skippable and unskippable ads for a long time. Did you recently disable your adblocker?

Yeah, I've been watching it on my PS3 for well over a year, and haven't noticed any shift, mostly the ones I can skip after a few seconds, and occasionally 15-30 second ones I can't.

 

[WelshBloke]

This has started to hit the left leaning channels as well. I'm starting to believe this is part of a larger movement by old media to minimize youtube. Youtube is going with it which will hurt them long term imo.

Or Google wants YouTube to be for music and funny cat videos rather than stuff that's bound to scare off a bunch of their advertisers?

You think Google wants its services full of trolling and crazies arguing all the time?

 

[Red Squirrel]

They're demonetizing anything deemed not to be "family friendly".

Lol that's ridiculous. Comes to show, you should not depend on a 3rd party site/provider/platform to make money. Some people pretty much live off of Youtube, and that's dangerous territory as it only takes one stupid YT policy to ruin their income. The DMCA alone is bad enough (not really YT's fault) as even a slight blip of copyrighted material and your video is considered in violation.

Same goes with other stuff like app stores. You can make an app that you make money off of, but they can take it down at will for any reason they see fit.

 

[WelshBloke]

Lol that's ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous if Google wants YouTube to be more family friendly?

Personally if I had a video hosting service as big as YouTube I wouldn't want it becoming a culture war battleground.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Why is it ridiculous if Google wants YouTube to be more family friendly?

Personally if I had a video hosting service as big as YouTube I wouldn't want it becoming a culture war battleground.

It's basically censorship. People originally did not sign up for that, and now that their channels are successful and when this new rule gets added they will be getting the rug pulled from under them.

I can't see how that is going to fly though, a lot of major channels are going to protest this and youtube actually listens to the major channels. You would think Youtube would have learned from the United incident, you don't go doing something ridiculous because it will make it big in the news and it will be bad publicity. When a major channel like Pewdiepie gets all their videos demonetized and decides to completely move to another platform, that is going to be one hell of a news item. I don't really care for that channel personally, but it's a big one that pretty much everyone knows about and has probably at least seen some videos. It will take a guy like him to fight this policy and it will help everyone else too.

What Youtube needs to do is have a "kids" mode or "family friendly" mode. You set it in your profile then only those videos show up. It would definitely be good for people who just want to let their kids go free and watch whatever. But don't go punishing all the channels because their specific content is not tailored to children.

People should also be allowed to express their political views, whether it's conservative or liberal. It's stupid to go and sensor one more than the other.

 

[nakedfrog]

Why is it ridiculous if Google wants YouTube to be more family friendly?

Personally if I had a video hosting service as big as YouTube I wouldn't want it becoming a culture war battleground.

Are you suggesting that it ought to be up to them what sort of content they prefer to not enrich on their platform? OUTRAGEOUS.

 

[nakedfrog]

It's basically censorship. People originally did not sign up for that, and now that their channels are successful and when this new rule gets added they will be getting the rug pulled from under them.

I can't see how that is going to fly though, a lot of major channels are going to protest this and youtube actually listens to the major channels. You would think Youtube would have learned from the United incident, you don't go doing something ridiculous because it will make it big in the news and it will be bad publicity. When a major channel like Pewdiepie gets all their videos demonetized and decides to completely move to another platform, that is going to be one hell of a news item. I don't really care for that channel personally, but it's a big one that pretty much everyone knows about and has probably at least seen some videos. It will take a guy like him to fight this policy and it will help everyone else too.

What Youtube needs to do is have a "kids" mode or "family friendly" mode. You set it in your profile then only those videos show up. It would definitely be good for people who just want to let their kids go free and watch whatever. But don't go punishing all the channels because their specific content is not tailored to children.

People should also be allowed to express their political views, whether it's conservative or liberal. It's stupid to go and sensor one more than the other.

Uh, not giving them money by putting advertising on their channel is censorship?