Hey black mirror had this where they had to watch an ad and looking away was illegal. We’re getting there with Google and their recent and announced YouTube and Chrome changes.
“Please drink verification can”
Boy this greentext really ages like fine wine huh
It really does. This person saw where things were heading way back in 2013 (I think?)
Jokes on them. I can be looking straight at something and still not be paying attention.
That’s why you need a Neurolink so that they can make sure that you are thoughtfully considering each ad.
“Picture yourself holding the product and smiling”
“Now picture yourself recommending the product to friends and family.”
But I literally can’t picture things in my head… Guess I’m forever stuck on the ad
I just threw up in my mouth. A lot.
Please drink verification can
mmmm that really hit the spot
Now I gotta piss.
You know you’ve really made it as a meme when u/the_picard_maneuver posts you on lemmy. Love you bud hope you’re doing well x
Hey, is this yours?! I thought it was hilarious.
Also <3
Haha unfortunately not - I wish I was this funny. First time I saw it, it needed a lot more jpeg so glad to see it’s been renovated. Meme of the month at least imo.
Watching the ad instead of clicking it constitutes a violation of YouTube terms of service.
You wouldn’t steal a car, would you?
You wouldn’t steal a baby.
You wouldn’t shoot a policeman, and then steal his helmet.
You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet.
And then send it to the policeman’s grieving widow…Yes.
Yes I would.
And here I am, completely ignoring YT and reading blogs, instead.
I’m more and more moving to podcasts and blogs as well.
Which kind of blogs?
I mean, it depends. Tutorials, for instance, when I need some info on something to fix, either physically or informatically (e.g., hosting and network stuff). Video format is utterly time expensive for this kind of stuff. I avoid it like the plague. For entertainment, I have a couple of subscriptions a la Netflix. I’m not interested at all in watching/listening “content creators”.
Wait until they require a quiz be taken to prove you watched the video. They could also stitch together the video with the ads, so it’s all a single video. They can make fast-forwarding videos impossible (to stop the sponsorblock stuff). Begun the Ad Wars have.
Didn’t YouTube literally do this with the question ads a few years ago? That’s when I decided I would NEVER be nice to advertisers. They’re selling my time for money, not giving me the money, and now they’re rude about it. 110% fuuuuuuck them.
I usually eithe rjust let the timer run out on those or submit bad data
Same, but the mere demand for attention was enough. Now, if I see an ad, I’ll make a script sit there and spend five minutes force-loading their pages to eat their bandwidth right back. They will lose money for every ad I see. Fuck them all.
Just so you know, they already lost money when you clicked on the ad.
I want them to lose a tangible amount. Showing me one ad will cost them the same as showing others hundreds of thousands.
This reminds me of the very real patent that exists for a television that requires you to stand up from your couch, raise your hands in the air, and shout the name of the product you just watched an ad for before it lets you return to watching your program.
The day they successfully implement that and I pass by someone actually doing it, I will promptly fall to the ground and die
Piped 💪
Ok, we made it so YouTube only fetches an enter URL of a video, and when you click on a video, that opens. Only YouTube can give you the actual video link as it is stored and associated in our own database, and you only get it when logged in with Google (so basically you need an account to watch videos but not to see the thumbnails).
Now, we’ll only allow Google account sing-ins from a trusted browser or trusted website. This is of course for your security. We will provide you a custom token if you ask to approve a browser, website or an app and we’ll take careful looks to see if it violates our policies or not. If we don’t detect a valid token provided by your browser, we will display an error message and won’t allow you to sing in. Firefox has to also implement this in order to stay relevant (most people need allowing Google logins). The policy bans all things like scam websites, some other things and things against TOSes including YouTube’s. Third-party apps blocking ads will be not permitted by YouTube now. We will reject any approve request done by things like Piped and Newpipe.
Have fun with your broken pipe. If they find a fix, we will break it again (:
Please click verification scam to continue
I just found this and I’ve been loving it, works really well.
Drink verification can?
I’m really happy to see point #2 being mentioned. From their inception, Youtube established a social contract of providing their videos free to users without ads. I don’t think Google should just be allowed to unilaterally change the contract on behalf of all parties and force it on everyone. If they had a good reason to do so, perhaps I would humor it, but “because of shithead shareholders” does not pass that bar.
