YouTube starts making everyone’s Skip button for ads smaller
  • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.

    Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.

    It’s a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.

  • lacabraenlamachina@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m all about malicious compliance.

    I let the ads run, after I’ve switched countries with my VPN. Best of luck trying to sell me something in Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Thai, etc.

  • umbraroze@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    The skip button was already too small, so of course they had to make it even smaller. YouTube’s usability on Android is already terrible enough, which is pretty spectacular considering YouTube and Android are made by the same company. The seek bar barely works. The video end screen hides the de-maximise button. Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at. Just to scratch the surface!

    • darq@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at.

      Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of how it works on non-touch interfaces. The edges are prime control areas for pointer-driven interfaces.

      Slight challenge to optimise a UX for both.

  • Spitfire@pawb.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    And this is why we continue to use ad blockers. The entire internet is worse without them.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Something like less than 5% of users use adblockers - and yet that’s still too many for youtube. They just can’t have a 95% revenue stream, they have to ruin what little tech credibility they had left and ruin it for that tiny 5%. I hope this only encourages more robust ad blockers.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Right! Google acting like they are losing billions a month due to adblockers when in reality it’s like .2% of their total profits and they STILL foaming at the mouth.

        🖕

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Youtube has lost me as a user. I’m totally fed up with being force fed garbage ads all the time when I’m just trying to click on something informative. Forget it. I can get my info elsewhere and i do not need Youtube at all. One of the biggest joys of death is going to be never ever having to see another god damned “Liberty Mutual” or “Verizon” ad again in all eternity. That’s one thing I’m truly looking forward to!!!