YouTube has been testing a Pause ads format for over a year now, and it's starting to show up for some users.
  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    It’s funny because I only hear about ads now from you guys. I never see them myself.

    Using freetube on a Linux media player connected to my TV and Newpipe on the phone.

    • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      How did you get newpipe to work? It’s been broken for me for like the past 3 weeks.

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        It was broken for a day but there was an update on f Droid. Just installed that and it’s been fine.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I like to open multiple tabs on what I’m going to watch next, and Freetube is a bit clunky with the window management (I wish they had tabs!). So far uBlock has been doing an impeccable job…but these days I can see it struggling a bit more. I can see youtube REALLY tries to give me an ad first, sometimes when you open the video, you can see the first frame of an ad instead of the thumbnail while it starts buffering, then it skips to the video. The ad is not shown, but the first frame of an ad sometimes escapes into the video while it buffers at the beginning, for a second.

      • Celestus@lemm.eeEnglish
        91·
        2 months ago

        Come on man, you’re breaking the echo chamber. We’re here to shit on Google, not give them more money

        • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’m happy he pays, keeps Google happy enough to not care too much about people who won’t.