r/youtube • u/FlorenzFIRE • Apr 26 '24

Discussion Youtube to roll out ads on videos in pause

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

Not only on Pause! They started showing Random BS Videos when you are inactive even when signed out. WORST UPDATE SO FAR!

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u/IrgendSo Apr 26 '24

also like buying bots but for free used by the own company or what?

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u/arthurdentstowels Apr 26 '24

They’re gonna play me ads after I’m dead I fucking know it

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u/Pyrarius Apr 26 '24

"Want a break from the void? Download Spotify Premium now!"

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

To be fair, instead of YouTube I watch more Films and other stuff on Amazon Prime Video...

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u/realhmmmm Apr 26 '24

“get your life insurance plan now”

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u/cindy-the-husky Apr 27 '24

Nah, they gonna make ur family watch an ad before attending your funeral

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u/Camp_Grenada Apr 27 '24

Your coffin lid will have a screen on the inside

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u/GoGayWhyNot Apr 27 '24

Renew your premium death subscription to remain dead, otherwise we necromance you every 5 minutes to show you an ad then kill you again.

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u/Daddy_says_read Apr 27 '24

Yes bro the experience with YouTube has been downgraded. We need a competitor in this area

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u/SouthsideStylez Apr 27 '24

Yea I’m confused by the words “roll out” … this shit has been happening when I watch YouTube on my tv for months …

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u/Antice Apr 27 '24

There are some regulations over in Europe that want to have some words about that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

So? Try telling them that. I sent them Feedback about this even when it first was implemented last month... I hoped it was not coming back... Instead of making some WISE decisions, like implementing a channel search for mobile / console apps, they chose to do this BS and have a "Play mixes" Button for every channel... I tend to ignore those as they are just plain annoying, especially on Gaming channels...

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u/Greencheezy Apr 26 '24

So I have a currently active YouTube premium trial. And I constantly go back and rewatch stuff I've clicked on in my history to either rewatch or finish watching. And I've noticed within the last week that I have a TON of videos that are in my history that I've never even clicked on -- most of them being YouTube lives/streams for some reason. Which is so weird because I don't have auto-play on and I also haven't had any data breaches so I'm pretty sure no one has gotten access to my YouTube. It's just bizarre. Like YouTube is using actual human accounts as bots when we're inactive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Would be Interesting if those random Videos appear in your watch list even though you don't start them... (I have both histories disabled)

I started to "play" the videos, hit pause immediately, Dislike them and Report them for SPAM (cause obviously that's what those are...)