• Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    36·
    4 months ago

    It’s times like these that online advertisements need to get creative to get ahead in this never ending adblocking arms race, just like the very subtle advertisement in the car chase scene in the Academy Award nominated film, “Barbie”, now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

    • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world
      21·
      4 months ago

      I know right? The other day I was drinking a coke and wondering about side effects of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, and it occurred to me that advertising could be a lot more creative and subtle.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      Dunno if I’m not updated but occasionally ads will actually load or at least try to load and completely restart my video. Usually only happens when I wake the computer up and it has a YouTube video midway through.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Blocker
      Blockers
      Blocker 3
      Blocker Resurrection
      Blocker vs Inline
      Blocker vs Inline: Requiem
      Revanced
      Blocker: Covenant
      Blocker: Romulus

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        The new timeline reboot:

        • Blocker: The beginning
        • The Blocker Returns
        • The Dark Blocker
        • Blocker Homecoming
        • Rise of the Blockers
        • Dawn of the Blockers
        • War of the Blockers
        • Kingdom of the Blockers

        And to bring it full circle:

        • Planet of the Blockers
        • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
          3·
          4 months ago

          I truly hope the new planet of the apes franchise is building to an actual planet of the apes remake. Time traveling astronauts and shattered statue of liberty. I feel like they’re already sowing the seeds for human mutants living underground worshipping an unexploded atomic bomb. Man those movies were weird.

  • DNOS@lemmy.ml
    12·
    4 months ago

    YouTube can definitely afford a war ship and pay people to shoot…we may have enough people to operate a death star for free but can we afford one ?

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      14·
      4 months ago

      The image doesn’t quite work because youtube needs a MASSIVE solution that works, scales, doesn’t fuck up their infrastructure and on and on and on.

      Meanwhile on the user front, all your doing essentially is just skipping parts of a video, that will always be infinitely cheaper easier to do. Challenging for sure, but the solution can be small.

      Even something as stupid as delaying your video start by 1 min, pre buffering then skipping ads. It’s brute force and barbaric but the point is that Google can’t do shit against that.

      My ultimate vision is AI that preloads videos you want and detects ads / sponsor segments and just skips them / cuts them out on your device.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
        4·
        4 months ago

        Another way to think about it… YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it’s an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.

  • bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    4 months ago

    as a firefox user i cant give up and just installed freetube, exported everything from yt. its great

  • Roopappy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    This just in: Google suddently discontinues support for popular and profitable ad blocker blocker blocker blocker, because literally all they know how to do is kill things that work.

  • xJREB@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months ago

    Is Google Chrome fighting uBlock country-specific? I use Chrome on Win 10 with uBlock and haven’t seen a YouTube ad outside of the mobile app in ages. For me, uBlock never stopped working in Chrome and I watch YouTube videos every 1-2 days.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
      12·
      4 months ago

      I guess you haven’t heard they’re experimenting with injecting ads right into the videos on the server. Just turning off scripts won’t do anything for that.

      • SpongeBorgCubePants@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 months ago

        Depending on your country, these ads still need to be marked clearly as such. And for accessibility reasons, that mark will always be machine readable.

        So blockers will be fine.

      • TwanHE@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        Sponsor block gives me a nice list of options to do in that case: skip automatically, show a skip button or ignore. All based on what type of interruption there is.