Rave
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Post by Rave on Feb 21, 2024 0:15:48 GMT -5
It's progressed from "three videos and you're out" to a complete block. This is f***ing stupid. By complete block, do you mean a ban? Or just a block until you remove the adblocker? I use UBlock Origin which still works. But as I have a YouTube channel which I make money from, I dont wanna risk a ban lol.  This. The perpetual wall. Private browser windows still work, though. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 21, 2024 2:13:27 GMT -5
By the way--in case people are interested, my job is my YouTube channel.
I haven't seen an increase or decrease in ad-revenue since YouTube has started introducing blocking ad-blockers. My income has been roughly the same--and no real decline or increase with views either.
Oddly enough though, my longer videos seem to make less now than they did before. Typically--I get on average 2 USD per 1,000 views. But for 10 minute+ videos, it is usually double. But in the past couple of months, that has changed and a 10-mintue with, say 120k views, is getting the same revenue as a 5-minute video with similar views. I am not sure if that is related to the ad-block issue or something else though.
It could just be because viewers tune out around the 9-minute mark as typically, in my videos, the final minute or so is the current fundraiser for Ukraine which I am doing. So it could be people are tuning out before the vid is complete because they've already seen the fundraiser in past videos.
But pretty much, it has had zero effect on me. I was worried that it would put people off watching--but I haven't seen that. T
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 21, 2024 9:17:21 GMT -5
I got three channels. 1 has stayed the same on views since this started. The other 2 had views rise.
No clue how bad the ads are now,had Premium for 3 years now.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 20, 2024 9:12:28 GMT -5
And now it's all of Chrome starting in June.
What a dipshit company.
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 20, 2024 9:17:27 GMT -5
Prepare for 16 Sports Gambling Pop-Up Windows to open every time you do, well, anything in Chrome.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Mar 20, 2024 9:58:12 GMT -5
Well I'd better start using Edge.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Mar 20, 2024 10:51:21 GMT -5
I really hate this because I've been using Chrome since the beta and this would be enough to make me drop them. Google you changed man.... Well I'd better start using Edge. The problem is this might effect all Chromium based browsers (don't quote me on that), so Edge might also get hit with this rollout. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Mar 20, 2024 10:57:22 GMT -5
Looks like I'll be making the switch to Firefox then.
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Post by cosmo on Mar 20, 2024 10:58:07 GMT -5
Well I'd better start using Edge.
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Post by Hanky McCranky Jr. on Mar 20, 2024 12:38:13 GMT -5
I really hate this because I've been using Chrome since the beta and this would be enough to make me drop them. Google you changed man.... Well I'd better start using Edge. The problem is this might effect all Chromium based browsers (don't quote me on that), so Edge might also get hit with this rollout. Depends. Like Firefox is Chromium-based but won't deprecate Manifest v2 stuff and will continue to support MV2 extensions even after it switches to MV3. Not sure what Edge's plans are, though if MS was smart they'd follow Firefox's example. |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Mar 20, 2024 20:31:06 GMT -5
Damn, didn't know this got worse since I originally started this thread months ago.
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Mar 21, 2024 0:42:11 GMT -5
I really hate this because I've been using Chrome since the beta and this would be enough to make me drop them. Google you changed man.... The problem is this might effect all Chromium based browsers (don't quote me on that), so Edge might also get hit with this rollout. Depends. Like Firefox is Chromium-based but won't deprecate Manifest v2 stuff and will continue to support MV2 extensions even after it switches to MV3. Not sure what Edge's plans are, though if MS was smart they'd follow Firefox's example. And from what I can find, Brave won't be affected either. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 21, 2024 2:36:59 GMT -5
I really hate this because I've been using Chrome since the beta and this would be enough to make me drop them. Google you changed man.... The problem is this might effect all Chromium based browsers (don't quote me on that), so Edge might also get hit with this rollout. Depends. Like Firefox is Chromium-based but won't deprecate Manifest v2 stuff and will continue to support MV2 extensions even after it switches to MV3. Not sure what Edge's plans are, though if MS was smart they'd follow Firefox's example. I thought Firefox was expressly not chromium based, using Gecko, along with Safari who use WebKit? They're sold by their users as one of the last major holdouts against Chrome and Google's dominance of the browser market, while MS, Opera and others all fell in line. |
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 21, 2024 2:55:27 GMT -5
Glad I switched back to using Firefox a month or two back I guess, though that was because of finding the new shit of it just continually rotating what sites came up by default in the address bar seemingly based on how recently you'd been to them ungodly f***ing annoying.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on May 28, 2024 7:57:55 GMT -5
Apparently Youtube now just skips to the end of the video and won't let you watch it at all if it detects an ad-block. So that's really cool.
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Post by Savage Gambino on May 28, 2024 10:19:52 GMT -5
And now it's all of Chrome starting in June. What a dipshit company. Unless they plan on adding an internal pop-up blocker to these updates, they might as well kiss a lot of users goodbye. I've always used AdBlock for popups, especially on news sites. That it also blocked ads on YouTube was just an added bonus to me. |
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Post by Alice Syndrome on May 28, 2024 12:35:15 GMT -5
Apparently Youtube now just skips to the end of the video and won't let you watch it at all if it detects an ad-block. So that's really cool. It keeps trying that with me but manually going back to the start works anyway. I assumed SponsorBlock was bugging (Also, doesn't stop any current version of Vanced) |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jun 2, 2024 8:22:40 GMT -5
It's officially "Google shits all over itself" time.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 28, 2024 20:23:16 GMT -5
Feel like the past week or so the ads have gotten a billion times worse. The, "Fewer ad breaks on this long video!" shit was already a total lie as it was, where you'd still get 8,000 ad breaks but it'd just be like a solid minute worth of ads instead of 15-30 seconds, but at least before it was applied to stuff that was like an hour long. Now I've started getting it on things that are like 20 minutes and it's making me want to completely stop watching Youtube on my TV at all and stick to strictly doing it on my computer where I don't have to deal with this nonsense.
Also I had a free trial of Youtube Premium in December, that I only signed up for because they told me it'd be two months then it just wound up only being one, and even though I let it lapse in January I am constantly being hit with pop-ups and shit telling me to sign back up. I specifically turned off the setting for showing that stuff to me and it hasn't helped at all.
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 28, 2024 22:11:44 GMT -5
Even watching friends streams the ads are nuts.
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