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YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] 93 points 3 years ago* (17 children)

Ah YouTube, the site where I watch a video that tells me in ten minutes what I could read in one. And only 5 advertisements!

Oops, six. I forgot the ad the creator slipped in between minute 1 and 2.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You might want to follow other people, my friend

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    No, they have a point. Because you earn money by views, people now make videos about everything instead of writing something somewhere that can be found by search engine. Video has its uses but it's far overused nowadays and it sucks.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's why I use YouTubetranscript now to read through the video to see if it is even worth watching, since so much stuff is unnecessarily long due to how algorithms push those videos to the top.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Ctrl+F'ing my way through the transcript of a 38min crafting video to see when they're ever actually going to do the thing they made the video about, if they ever get around to it at all.

    Somehow, more than once, the answer was no.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    I would like to use this opportunity to make more people aware of YouTubetranscript.

    Sites been a huge time saver just reading through the video instead of sitting through 10 minute long videos that turn out to be a waste of time that could have been said in a couple minutes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    How can you possibly forget the mid-video ad read that is actually a part of the video, thus unblockable?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, if it is an ad that actually directly gets the video creator paid, I’m not even mad about those, especially when it’s quality content. Not a fan of those who just take common searches for questions online and create a long video to explain the answer when it should have just stayed as a stackoverflow question and answer or something.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's like how they expect you to pay for things at a store now too! Like "I just wanted some milk dude!"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    If my grocery store required me to either buy an unwanted, overpriced store-specific subscription or stand there listening to multiple minutes worth of sales pitches for shit that I also don't want and could never afford, and this kicked in every time I took an item from the shelf, regardless of whether I decided I was even interested in said item, then yes, shockingly, I am going to do anything except what they're demanding. At that point, especially if they don't like me doing it.

    "Try not to make your customers' experience repeatedly miserable or you will lose them" has fallen out of the playbook for no particular reason.

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