Didn't you hear? There was strong traction in the tests. They know what's best for you. Shhhh

Yeah, and I definitely never pause a video because I want to look more closely at the frame I paused it at. Obviously, covering it over with something different is exactly what I was hoping for!

I assume those don't have any sound but it's still annoying af. Sometimes I just pause to see something. Hopefully adblocks will be able to handle this.

Just imagine what a website like YT would look like in 2035 without any ad blockers.

Executives!

Psychopaths.

I haven't seen youtube ads in years. uBlock and sponsorblock extension in Firefox on my laptop. Newpipe with sponsorblock on my phone.

You should, but it specifically doesn’t work for YouTube. PiHole works by blocking DNS requests to known ad servers. But YouTube hosts their own ads on the same servers that host the videos. So if your pihole blocks the ads, it also blocks the videos you’re trying to watch.

Doesn't work for YouTube adverts 😭

They managed to go from the most popular and well liked company in the world, to a company that everyone despises, all within the span of a decade.

Allowing anyone to upload video and then serving it to anyone in the world, at no cost, is not a viable business model. There's no competition because there's no money to be made here.

Competition is useless, better to have federated networks and do videos for profit and find other ways to pay for content to support content creators if they need support. Block ads everywhere, work in those fields is better than calling for competition and creating competitor that will win over google and become new google.

There will be adblocker to block this also don't worry.

Gonna be honest, there's no price I'd be willing to pay for YouTube Premium.

I used to pay for YouTube Red. I didn't cancel it because it was too expensive, I cancelled it in retaliation for all the other shitty things YouTube has been doing. If YouTube wants me to return as a paying member, they need to reinstate the ability for small accounts to monetise their YouTube accounts; they need to stop demonetising/restricting educational content that might be related to war, weapons, sex, or sexuality; and they need to change their copyright policy to make it much, much harder to abuse false claims.

YouTube's pricing is a mess. Here's a quick breakdown of their offer here in France :

• YouTube Premium (so video + music): 12€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (music only, obviously): 10€/m

One would assume based on this that Google values YouTube at only 2€/m per user. But anyway, let's take a look at their family plans for a laugh:

• YouTube Premium (6 users): 18€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (6 users still): 15€/m

Let's put aside the price discrepancy. 18/6 = 3€/m per user. All signs point to Google being ok with making between 2 and 3€ per user per month, yet such an offer doesn't exist. Hell, make it 4€, even. People would flock to it. But no, they're just being greedy.