• celerate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Dear YouTube, if anyone there ever reads this.

    I tried not to block ads, I would let the preroll go and usually not skip it.

    I started skipping ads when they started getting long. I recall some were several minutes long at times.

    I started leaving videos part way through when there were mid-roll ads, and those got long enough that I’d often forget what I was even watching.

    I started blocking the ads outright when I would be watching a relaxing video, and a very loud mid-roll ad would blow out my goddamn eardrums.

    Fuck you YouTube. You abused your users, you chased off good content creators, and now you’re offering people no carrot and all stick. How about you offer to match the volume of the ads to the videos, limit the length of ads to something reasonable, and nicely tell viewers that you are making ads less annoying and that unblocking the ads helps pay the content creators.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Google kind of sucks.

    What was their last big success? Google maps? Pretty much everything they do lately is some combination of shitty or prematurely killed.

  • anewbeginning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    I haven’t watched live tv in almost 20 years because I refuse to sit through ads, and I definitely won’t sit through them on YouTube. If it was a banner or some thing on the page or the side of video that would be more acceptable, but sitting through ads to watch a YouTube video….there’s just no way.

  • hddsx@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Is this fake? I thought the term is whitelisted not allowlisted

    • alianne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      In recent years there’s been a shift from “white/black list” to “allow/block list” in an effort to avoid the stereotypes associated with those terms. I wouldn’t say it’s the new norm yet, but it’s slowly becoming more popular.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 years ago

        I hate that.

        With flying they changed NOTAM from notices to airmen to notices to air missions or something.

        Calm tf down. Will they change Human to hupersons next? Man-made to huperson-made? GTFO here.