Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Alice@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It’s insane to change this once it’s so ingrained in how people use the website.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s also how content creators literally create chapters: put the time codes into the video description

    That’s a native feature of the platform

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    • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh shit, I didn’t even think about that. What the hell.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You assume they give a fuck

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• mjhelto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d imagine YouTube subtracts the ad length from posted timestamps when clicking a link containing one. But we are taking about Google, soooooo…

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • mjhelto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the cat and mouse game, the cat can adjust tactics but the mice eventually figure out an alternative route. I’m sure they will find a way with this. Either that or a lot of people will just stop watching YouTube, I’d imagine.

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      • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A truly shocking number of people don’t use any form of adblock. I doubt that driving off the adblock users will have a significant effect on viewership (and even if it does, why would Google care, it’s not like we’re making them money).

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unless a random number of ads are injected into the video that changes every time it’s viewed… Which is how they already work aside from being directly part of the video stream.

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• prole@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It will end up being like FreeVee on Prime for anyone who’s ever watched a movie or anything on there. They straight up randomly just inject ads in at random times, often not even during scene breaks. Characters are sometimes mid-sentence… Oh, and we’re back to the volume of the ads being 2x louder than the movie itself because I guess that law Congress passed way back in the day only applied to cable and broadcast TV.

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