• JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    7 hours ago

    foot the bill directly

    I WISH. I genuinely wish they’d let me bid on my own ad break. But they don’t. It’s either pay an insane monthly subscription fee or see ads. If you’re letting advertisers bid on my time, let me! Let me offer to pay the .01 cents or whatever to not see an ad. But they won’t do it. I’m a little surprised I don’t see people talk about this being an alternative.

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    12 hours ago

    I got my first ever “YouTube doesn’t allow ad blockers” message on YouTube today. I hit the reload button and my ad blocker caught up and blocked that shit. How’s that approach going for you YouTube? I’d sooner stop using YouTube than watch it with ads.

  • Wolf@lemmy.today
    0·
    16 hours ago

    I swear, YouTube uses the camera on my phone/tablet to detect if I am facing the screen or not. It doesn’t have ‘permission’ to do access the camera, but the behavior is too consistent to be a coincidence.

    I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep. So I watch YouTube videos while Im tying to fall asleep. I skip every ad as soon as it will let me when facing the screen. Every time, and I mean literally every time I turn over so my back is to the screen, YouTube will start playing one of those long ass ads, ones that will go on for 1/2 hr or more if I don’t turn back over and hit ‘skip’. It’s just too consistent to be random.

    The best is when it’s the ad for the stupid ass ‘superhero’ audiobook where the main character is the only person who doesn’t have a superpower and gets picked on, and by picked on I mean they force him to watch as they SA his girlfriend. I have done the thing where you can request they don’t show you that particular ad at least a dozen times now and it never helps.

    I already know that guy will get his superpower eventually. I already know that he will get his revenge on his bullies. Its about the most obvious, 5th grade level writing you could imagine. Nothing about it appeals to me, I hate that fucking ad with a passion.

    • SwearingRobin@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 hour ago

      If you haven’t tried it yet, I’ve listened to “nothing much happens” podcast for years and years now and it helps me fall asleep faster. If you don’t like this one in specific, there’s plenty of the same genre online for you to try. I prefer sleep specific content because the audio does not have any sudden changes or loud noises. Also screens on while sleeping decrease sleep quality, IIRC

      • Wolf@lemmy.today
        0·
        58 minutes ago

        I appreciate the recommendation, I’ll look into it thanks.

        There are a few channels like that I watch, one is “History to fall asleep to” or something like that.

        I just downloaded NewPipe, and on there you can turn off the screen and just have the audio playing, so that’s awesome.

        It’s tricky for me, because if the show is too boring, my mind will wander and I’ll start to get anxious, thinking about things I shouldn’t. Conversely if it’s too exciting, I’ll get too into it and it’ll wake me back up lol

        I know, I’m kind of a mess.

        To make matters worse most sleeping medicine doesn’t work at all for me, and the only one I’ve found that does gives me dry mouth to the point it gags me.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      7 hours ago

      and by picked on I mean they force him to watch as they SA his girlfriend.

      I guarantee you that’s against YouTube’s ad platform’s TOS too.

      • Wolf@lemmy.today
        0·
        5 hours ago

        I tried flagging it as such when I asked them to stop showing me the ad. Either they are fine with it or the advertiser found some loophole to get around the TOS. It’s possible they edited the ad copy so that the SA is only implied now, I don’t really pay attention anymore.

        I also didn’t even mention the bullies SA the protagonist as well, at least they heavily imply it and mention the blood in his underwear. Gross.

    • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      10 hours ago

      I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep.

      I have experienced this. Something that helped me is “cognitive shuffling.” Essentially forcing your thoughts to drift.

      The technique I learned was this:

      Pick a word, preferably one with lots of different letters.

      Start with the first letter. Think of as many objects starting with that letter as you can, and picture them. You don’t need to be rigid about this, and don’t waste time trying to come up with objects if you’re stuck, just move onto the next letter. If you finish the word, pick a new one. But I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a word before falling asleep.

      The idea is this sort of directed but disconnected thinking helps put your mind into the sort of state that lets sleep come. And when I’m diligent about it, it works like a charm. It’s like a way to actively fall asleep.

      Unfortunately because it requires some effort I often don’t do it. But I do recommend it!

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 hours ago

      I’m convinced social media algorithms show you content you choose not to see because they count “don’t show me this again” as engagement.

    • TheRealKuni@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      9 hours ago

      Nebula is awesome. But if you’re going to pay for a video service, you could also pay for YouTube Premium and not get ads regardless of your ad blocking setup, AND support the people whose videos you watch (at least a little, certainly more than ad-supported viewers).

      (Nebula is better than YouTube for specific genres, but YouTube is of course more broad and contains most of what Nebula has.)

      • BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee
        0·
        7 hours ago

        Sure but Nebula is cheaper than youtube premium AND pays it’s creators more because it’s a platform owned by it’s creators.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
      0·
      17 hours ago

      Every time I’ve tried to use an alternative it hasn’t had anything that grabbed my interest. If you say I’m not looking hard enough, you’ve missed the point of why I’m currently on a short video platform instead of watching a TV show or movie. If I have to look hard you’ve already lost me.

      • possumparty@lemm.ee
        0·
        11 hours ago

        yeah, absolutely degenerates rooting for absolute degenerates. it’s like if you took the dumbest people on /b/ and gave them a platform that encourages them to be worse.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    21 hours ago

    Some industry people are amazingly entitled about your obligation to participate in their business model. Jack Valenti, a former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, once literally called muting commercials or leaving the room during them “theft of programming”.

    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      20 hours ago

      So im assuming a bunch of people are filming themselves walking out of a room with commercials playing and sending it to him with a big FU in the subject line?

  • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 day ago

    Pretty sure there were patents where they record audio and camera to detect if the user is present to pause and resume ads

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    0·
    1 day ago

    I will never pay for Youtube or accept ads. Yes, even if it would bankrupt them. I am more than willing to let it all burn.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 day ago

    Ads are brainwashing. They sell companies access to your brain case and it’s always been a disturbing behavior.

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
      0·
      24 hours ago

      Hopefully by that point, it can also be used to generate a fake video file of “someone paying attention” to output to a virtual camera :)

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
        0·
        22 hours ago

        It would be the same technology, because both use cases would require AI to have built an accurate model of what human faces look like

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 day ago

      This scenario is obviously incredibly unlikely and some dystopian shit. They’ll make the ads interactive first, if anything, the interaction being a requirement to move on. In either scenario, I’m just leaving. I pay for Amazon Prime. The delivery service works really well where I live. I won’t go on the video service because there might be ads. I am so turned off by ads, it makes it super easy to just not use shit.

      Where YouTube Premium, and Spotify, and any number of services that I pay for (on a family plan I share with five friends), differ from Amazon is that none of them are tied to some other valuable service. If any of them hit me with ads, I’m out, ezpz. I was 13 in 2020. I pirated 'everything, because I didn’t have any money. I don’t pirate anymore because I am 37, and I have money, and I have no problem paying for good services. But I’ll equate not having money at 13 with refusing to pay for ads at 37, in that pirating is the solution to both problems.