YouTube is limiting video views for ad-block users

[Mark Fuller]

Newpipe.

Thanks, but I think it's just for smartphones.

 

[ZedRM]

Verily my good monarch, I am the king of my mighty 14' frontage row castle as well.
I even have "servalisans" to tend to my every whim. ("servalis" is a small village just a few miles away from the city of "Felis".
Sometimes though, when I do ask anything of them, it's as frustrating as well, "trying to herd cats".

Being a king, have you ever considered changing your screen name to the more traditional, "Zed R"? Hmm, "Cranky R" has a nice ring to it. What thinkest thou?

Speaking of ads, the major OTA networks seem to attract myriad ambulance chasing shysters, an abundance. of HIV suppression wonder drug ads, (complete with some boy on boy action at the end), cures for psoriasis, and Buicks.
Some of the ads can be fun though. I like to sit back and try to guess how many pairs of Spanks the Toyota saleslady has under those black stretch pants. (She's had a kid or two during her tenure). But then along comes the ever nagging Flo from Progressive to jar me out of my reverie.

The US advertising industry has to be the most powerful propaganda machine in the world. Churning out colorful, lavishly produced, persuasive, and insidious subliminal messaging, I think it runs on the old Mary Poppins adage, "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down".

Ostensibly, I think Chrome has built in ad blockers, (as does Chromium based Opera), it gives one pause to wonder if Google is going to block their own ad blocking.

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You make a few good points and I want to respond without seeming like I'm picking a fight, so I'll just say this: The public back-lash from this effort has been severe enough for YouTube to rethink their choice. Perhaps they'll do something like I suggested, serving ads at the start of every video, streamed from the YT domain in the exact same way they stream the video's themselves. It would be effective, unblockable and would make things fair for everyone.

 

[captaincranky]

You make a few good points and I want to respond without seeming like I'm picking a fight, so I'll just say this: The public back-lash from this effort has been severe enough for YouTube to rethink their choice. Perhaps they'll do something like I suggested, serving ads at the start of every video, streamed from the YT domain in the exact same way they stream the video's themselves. It would be effective, unblockable and would make things fair for everyone.

OK. If YouTube is going to force ads on viewers, then I agree at the beginning is the best place for them. It's certainly better than watching a blog post being interrupted every two minutes with an ad.

My only reservation is, that if ads were to happen all together at the beginning of the video, that they must maintain the 5 seconds and "skip" function.

Broadcast TV ads are predictable. they last "X" number of seconds, and they're gone.

However YouTube ads can, at times, turn into "infomercials" complete with optional redirects. So the ability to skip that sort of BS has to be maintained, or YouTube needs to lose a lot of viewers..

 

[Mark Fuller]

Best couse of action would be to download to the hdd or external storage and use a media player like vlc, That way you would not have to wait for buffering or commercials or worry about interference. In today's world of cloud storage and streaming most people take the path of least resistance and go with the flow and continue to stream. Storage devices are not really necessary anymore but they are there and eliminate the aforementioned problems associated with the world wide web and streaming. It also gives you the option to play what you want when you want it and mix it with whatever other media or video or audio you want and not have to worry about commercials or an inadvertent redirect.