https://www.ghacks.net/2024/06/13/s...esting-server-side-ads-that-break-adblockers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1de9kv5/youtube_is_currently_experimenting_with/
Weird they would disrupt SponsorBlock. Those are already part of the video and I don't suspect Google makes anything off of those ads. Sponsors are usually for channels that have been demonetized. In any case these content creators need to move to other platforms, even if they just use them as alternates.
ofc they will find a way to pause videos, inserting ads, then resuming. any other streaming service is able to perform this.
That is client-side approach. News is about server-side. The article writes that Google may correct timestamps under the video. The problem I see is when one take notes about the video alongside with links created by Share -> start from. The notes are on my device, offline, so Google of course won't correct them.
i mean server side ads! any public tv service is pausing a film, inserting ads, then resuming. youtube is not different than any other streaming service like amazon, netflix disney whatever - which are also usable in a browser. youtube is just beginning, not perfect.
I never seen na ad in the middle of watching Netflix, so no comment on that. When it comes to public TV it is different, because everybody watching channel sees same ad at the same time. Ads are also planned in advance. Internet streaming is different in a sense that advertisers can target audience and even bid for ad space in real time. Even if same person, using same account, watches same YouTube movie next day or week, they may see different ad.
Oh for crying out loud, no one is running NextDNS, yet? When supplemented with Ublock Orugin, I never encounter Internet crapware in my browser. No ads, thank you very much and whatever Google tries to unend ad-blocking is futile.
But is it possible to block ads on streaming services like Freevee and YouTube, I mean on smart TV's? I always thought it couldn't be done because I assumed those ads were already baked in. So I guess they were not?
Same on this end. Hope it continues. ADS are nothing but a rude and mostly distressful experience. And they are worse now than ever before.
Well common sense plainly proves that if they stop the (needless) rudeness and frustration via AD interruption, user's interested in YouTube's content, and NOT of senseless ads, THAT! will attract Subscribers. Their logic is completely backward IMO
Maybe they should try the opposite approach. It very well could prove more useful for both sides. Constantly being hounded and aggravated with ADS that a user has absolutely no interest in, and stupid foolish one's especially are far from making money. IMO they're wasting money and/or playing on the newbie factor as the angle their banking on. Which to many of us makes no sense.
