Cough cough Sony patentAnd yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?
That would be reasonable, which IP law is not
My goal is to never buy anything that they ad. I can’t always avoid it, but i largely do.
When was January Jones a nineties office worker?
Ad pauses until your eye tracking shows you are engaging with the Ad. (The future)
Watch me fuck off from the platform at the speed of light - I am already halfway from going full “fuck it, let’s pretend it’s '99” and hanging out on phpbb forums and Neocities.
If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?
How can ya have any Lemmy if yew don’t watch yer YouTube‽
googly eyes on a stick.
RESUME VIEWING
Yeah. Unfortunately. This sounds far too likely.
Not for long…
Lol I’ve actually done this and muted it too
On my smart tv i set up the custom picture settings profile with the black level set so the only thing visible is the ad timer counter. So when an ad comes on I just switch it to custom picture profile and mute it, then switch back to standard when its finished.
Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi
I’ve got one thing to way to you
Ublock origin
Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?
Kath & Kim is one of Australia’s finest cultural exports
I would like to inform you that Canadian gays love 2 shows from Oz; “Kath and Kim”, as well as “Please like me”.
Wentworth is a little extra, but it has it’s camp moments.
You should checkout Black Comedy, from SBS
in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!
You’re describing ADHD meds
I’m sorry what? Short term memory issues are an adhd thing?
Dunno if you’re referring to me misreading long as short term memory, or if you actually are asking if short term memory is an ADHD thing.
In the case of the latter, I think so? Most of my siblings have very bad short term memories, so do I. And we all have ADHD. Though medication doesn’t really help a lot for me in that regard, it allows me to concentrate better so I can use my short term memory more effectively.
Note: I’m not an expert, don’t take this as fact 😅
In case of the former option, haha get rekt me lmao
You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
P.K. Dick’s novels were not an instructional manual, dammit :(
Light speed brand briefs‽ I need to pick up a pair.
Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
🏴☠️
wait what this is real
Wow is this a clip from Archie’s Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I’d see that online.
Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
What kind of ads are in your car besides the radio?
w…wait , really?
Not for ads but for looking forward if you take your eyes off the road it cancels the auto drive. They can apply it to looking at ads very easily
ford just filed a patent for an idea similar to this but I’m not sure if its in production yet or if OP is talking about Something else.
That’s some ominous capitalisation you got there
my keyboard just does what it wants
Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.
DeArrow is really good too.
I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.
I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?
PiHole
You will still experience ads on devices if you use **only** a pihole. Many content providers (like YouTube / Reddit / Twitch / Spotify / Pandora / Facebook / IMDB / Hulu) now stream/serve ads from the same servers as the content (meaning if you attempt to block the ads using a PiHole you will also block the content).
It’s still worthwhile to use a pihole on your local network. This will be the device that helps reduce the amount of ads and blocks telemetry data on devices (mobile device / streaming box / etc) that you can’t utilize some or all of the traditional blocking methods (hosts files / browser plugins / etc). The Pi can also have additional software installed (I recommend PiVPN) to extend these blocking capabilities **securely** when you’re not on your “home” wifi.
Your best bet for blocking any and all ads/telemetry/etc is a multitiered approach of a PiHole as well as browser plugins: uBlock origin / Privacy Badger / CanvasBlocker on Firefox or Canvas Defender on Chrome / Decentraleyes / Smart Referer / Ugly Email / Pixel Block / other security browser plugins (as necessary) to prevent ads and protect your privacy.
If you an android based tv or stick you can install smarttube. The sticks are pretty cheap now, worth it.
Definitely. SmartTube is better designed for TVs , while ReVanced is better for touchscreens. Both integrate ad blocking, Sponsorblock, and a bunch of QoL features.
YouTube serves ads from the same domains that serves the video so you can’t block ads with pihole for YouTube
Quick google search suggests the ads come from same domain as youtube, so wouldnt be blocked.
Back to muting ads and reading lemmy on my phone
Haven’t personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it’s ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don’t know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?
DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won’t skip sponsored segments though, you’ll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they’ve decided to shill.
DNS/piblock
You will still experience ads on devices if you use **only** a pihole. Many content providers (like YouTube / Reddit / Twitch / Spotify / Pandora / Facebook / IMDB / Hulu) now stream/serve ads from the same servers as the content (meaning if you attempt to block the ads using a PiHole you will also block the content).
It’s still worthwhile to use a pihole on your local network. This will be the device that helps reduce the amount of ads and blocks telemetry data on devices (mobile device / streaming box / etc) that you can’t utilize some or all of the traditional blocking methods (hosts files / browser plugins / etc). The Pi can also have additional software installed (I recommend PiVPN) to extend these blocking capabilities **securely** when you’re not on your “home” wifi.
Your best bet for blocking any and all ads/telemetry/etc is a multitiered approach of a PiHole as well as browser plugins: uBlock origin / Privacy Badger / CanvasBlocker on Firefox or Canvas Defender on Chrome / Decentraleyes / Smart Referer / Ugly Email / Pixel Block / other security browser plugins (as necessary) to prevent ads and protect your privacy.
Doesn’t seem to work on the PS5
Can it run Firefox?
I’m sure it could
If it can Firefox, you can add the UBlock Origin plugin
That’s what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.
That is not the right way to treat each other. Playing the blaming game does only benifits such companies to keep us devided and occupied while they continue to enshitify everything.
People have had decades and 5 generations of PlayStation to learn this lesson. If they still don’t get it, that’s on them.
What an awful way to conduct yourself. Try and be better my guy.
Imagine thinking tone policing is more important than getting people off proprietary platforms.
Try and be better my guy
Do you realise that we are the overwhelming minority here hanging out on lemmy?
Cause everyone of us could never use proprietary stuff again and the companies wouldn’t even notice.
The vast majority of people just want something that is convenient and where there friends are.
What consoles even exist that would be a viable replacement to an Xbox or PlayStation as I can’t think of one.
This doesn’t apply to me, I’m a PC gamer who plays two games: Minecraft and Factorio. But I’m not disillusioned into thinking that what I see on lemmy is indicative of society as a whole. I’m also quite confident that you would be using things that other people on here might call you out for.
Finally, read the room dude clearly you don’t have the votes here that people agree with you.
Edit: On further reflection I don’t see a reason for your original comment other than to act superior than the other person. Because if you truly cared about their choice you might have offered some example others. Imagine the person didn’t know about why you might be against proprietary hardware, so you imagine your comment gets them on side or alienates them.
You do get to be the second person on here who I tagged as Asshole with the nice badges in Voyager. So congrats.
I have been polite and helpful about this shit for twenty fucking years and, despite that, the “leopards ate my face” ignorance has only increased. Polite doesn’t fucking work, so now I’m trying shaming.
But by all means, keep clutching your pearls and condescendingly bitching at me about it, because that’s surely polite and helpful!
I understand why you said this but you did not need to act like you have some higher moral standard because of it. Some people want to play video games without having to even THINK about the possibility of a game asking you to tweak a config to get the optimal experience, especially if youre a linux gamer. There are no options for people who want a console without a walled garden. Your closest shot is the Steam Deck, but the steam deck is shot in the knee by every company who uses an anti-cheat.
Before you say they just shouldnt play those games, consider the fact that some people aren’t willing to give up things they already have for Something new and unfamiliar they have to spent months to learn and years to master.
It’s funny how y’all are getting all bent out of shape at my slightly abrasive tone, while white-knighting the “victims” who excuse their ignorance and vulnerability to advertising/propaganda (among other forms of exploitation) on the grounds of mere convenience.
But by all means, keep dog-piling on the guy who wants the problem to stop instead of those who want to perpetuate it.
so instead of taking the olive branch and saying “oh I guess my approach to this issue is going to make more people turn away my argument and I should change how I phrase it” what you took away from my comment was “its everyone elses fault and not mine that no one is listening to me”… lol. listen Gru, were not your minions.
Please do not use Sponserblock unless you support that creator in some other way; or you just don’t care about them.
Please do not try to shame people for exercising their property rights (i.e. their right to control what their computer displays, or doesn’t display).
I legit hate this take. YT was started as a way for everyone to share videos with each other, not be a corporate pusher for those that want to ‘go big’. The fact that YT even offered profit sharing is awful.
Yeah, go ahead and support who you like. But don’t sit there and be like “you’re hurting them if you don’t pay them and you don’t want their bullshit ads”. Get the fuck out of here with that shit. “creators” who “make a living” from YT are the reason YT is a cesspool of dogshit now. If you aren’t on YT because of a genuine desire to simply share videos, without expecting monitary kickbacks to support your life, gtfo. The support should come naturally through other avenues.
you could have just saved all of that when you read my comment. “unless you support that creator in some other way” you know, like your mentioned natural other avenues?
I read it sweetheart, that’s why I replied to it. To reiterate, supporting people, especially huge ‘influencers’ with millions of subscribers, who turned a website for sharing videos with friends and their communities into their career and, as a collective, then into the internet version of cable TV in order to line their pockets and drain the lifeblood from the platform’s original goal, isn’t what I’d call a positive position to be arguing for. Just because we share one factor (that the incentive/income should come from elsewhere) does not make your overall viewpoint good, and certainly not when you try to shame/guilt others for not wanting to be force-fed shit so xXxBigBlazeIt420 can buy another car next month and promptly crash it for the views. Remember to demolish that like button, stir up some artifical chatter in the comments for the YouTube algorithm, eat some avocado toast, and if we get to 3 million subs by Friday, I’ll discount my OnlyFans for the first 500 subscribers! Now, a word from our lovely friends at SquareSpace!
barf
The Tuber already got paid by the sponsor. And sponsors look at click trough and conversion rates not views. If I’m not going to buy what they are selling me I might as well skip the ad. I don’t need NordVPN or Squarespace or whatever shit they are trying to push on me.
I’m allergic to advertisement, I’d rather not watch a video at all than watching the ads in it. SponsorBlock for me is just an automation of what I would do anyway pressing forward 5-7 times to jump over this section. I will not buy this stuff anyway it’s just a waste of my time. I go even so far that I don’t mind paying for YouTube Premium because this removes the advertisement, but there is no way to pay for skipping sponsors automatically other than SponsorBlock.
If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.
uhm yeah just as I said in the comment.
Creators don’t get money for you watching their sponsorship, only if you click through and do something with it
If you don’t plan on interacting with the sponsorship we then blocking it just saves time
They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they’re big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they’ve chosen to sell doesn’t affect them financially.
sponsorblock lets you unskip things so you can watch any sponsor you like. it also helps skip all sorts of non content, not just ads so it’s useful either way. you can set it to auto skip, no skip, manual skip prompt, only marked for any type of content (intro, intermission, filler, sponsor etc) not using it is just stupid.
with all that said, I don’t think sponsorblock affects creators at all. I highly doubt sponsors look at how much specific sections of a video has been watched. they only care about how popular a creator is, who their audience is and what they say during the sponsored section.
even if they decide whether to continue sponsoring based on how well the previous sponsored video did, the important metric would be the view count of the video, not how many people watched or skipped an ad section specifically.
if that were important creators wouldn’t split their sponsored sections in time codes they provide because they know it’s an easy skip. more importantly regardless of the creators, the sponsors would simply ask not to do it as part of the agreement. (inb4 legal requirement: I’m not talking about disclosure; I’m talking time codes specifically)
If anything it should be the other way around since sponsor spots don’t make money per person watching them.
Drink the verification can
That meme was prophetic.
Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we’re not far now…
I usually don’t watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
That’s been my experience going to some of my friend’s houses. It’s despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.
I swear I don’t understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days…
Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
Damn even your genitals??
The only ads Ive watched in the past year were ads from flex seal and tim henson, and those were technically just videos.
If ads were like that I wouldnt mind them as much
That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
Maybe they’re archiving them for future viewing incase the video is pulled from YT.
uBlock Origin on Firefox
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
I like having a YouTube account because it keeps track of which videos I’ve watched across devices. I’m not thrilled at Google knowing that information, of course, but I hate that every single privacy-conscious YouTube alternative fails to provide for that use-case.
you know freetube/invidious/piped/materialious/tubo/grayjay exist right?
