• unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    They won’t do this. They can’t even force you to watch every ad. Reloading the video after the first ad plays will skip the rest of the ads.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      “WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”

  • kelargo@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 months ago

    User experience approaching something like the Clockwork Orange - Movie Theatre Scene, with eyes forced open to watch horror with Beethoven music in the back ground.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    Sadly it will, and I’ll ahve to stop using it since I mostly use it to listen to stuff while I’m at work

    • Leg@lemmy.world
      74·
      6 months ago

      The term “attention theft” is some dystopian shit, and just probable enough to make me vomit in my mouth.

      • SSTF@lemmy.world
        281·
        6 months ago

        Attention theft is an existing term, though it’s used to describe bad practices by marketers. I suppose it’s bad that the term has had to come into existence, but it is good that it exists as a way to talk about bad practices more easily.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Some insurance group put up a billboard on the route I use to go to work telling us how we all suffer from insurance fraud.

      Each and every time I went past it I would try to imagine how much I would have to hate a person in order to side with the enemy against them. No saint and I never pretended to be one but I still wouldn’t do that.

  • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
    301·
    6 months ago

    This will be the death of YouTube for me. I pay for YouTube premium so this day may never come for me.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
      37·
      6 months ago

      That didn’t keep Amazon from adding ads to the paid version of Prime and making a higher paid tier. How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?

      • Nine@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 months ago

        And when that happened I stoped watching prime and just put on my eye patch & tricorn 🏴‍☠️…

        Though I’m still paying for the content I just watch it differently than intended 🤷‍♂️

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
          1·
          6 months ago

          Seeks like a bunch of us chose to do the same. These companies actually believe there is no end to what they think they’re entitled .

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 months ago

        How much easier is it for Google to implement the same?

        The correct question is actually “when will Google implement the same?” Because this is a “when will it happen” question, not a “will it happen” question.

      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        The biggest reason I pay for it is supposedly creators I watch get paid significantly more than someone who sits through ads without skipping. I also don’t really watch regular TV.

          • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            Yeah, I know it’s not an excuse but I’m lazy and this guarantees even the individuals I watch irregularly gets their share. I’ve heard it even pays out if it’s demonetized (don’t take my word on that one though.)

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    201·
    6 months ago

    Here’s how this is going to happen:

    1. Someone rolls out this technology, everyone of course, fucking hates it, especially since a lot of people have Youtube videos on for background noise.
    2. Someone else uses this tech for shock value, perhaps a company putting something horrific that people can’t look away from as a misguided way to get the ad in people’s heads.
    3. These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China getting up in arms and banning the tech.
    • MehBlah@lemmy.world
      132·
      6 months ago

      These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China getting up in arms and banning the tech.

      You were doing good then you completely lost any sense of realism.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      6 months ago

      While we are on the subject of using yourube for background noise… why the fuck are they serving me ads for mobile games with an obnoxious narrative? If you know I am just listening, why not just serve a normal radio type ad. I am never going to download a mobile game while using YouTube for music.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      21·
      6 months ago

      These incidents lead to either the US, EU or China

      Excited to read the “China won’t let you look at this picture of a puppy because their country lacks freedom” Op-Eds when the technology is released.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      0·
      6 months ago

      Good plan, I wonder how expensive it is to insert an horrible ad, that doesn’t advertise anything, just be the most horrible thing you can watch like war suicides, gore and the grossest porn. I suspect google never imagined their advertising content as an hostile vector. Probably has not even content ID running on it.

    • pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 months ago

      vr goggles have entered the chat

      for those that don’t know, in vr most apps to avoid motion sickness keeps player in it’s own “space”. Users can look away from virtual screen displaying content or text, just by turning their heads around. But, for example in games, when content is important (ex. story dialogue subtitles) the content is programmed to try to move in front of player’s view at all times, even if it’s obstructing rest of the virtual world

    • medgremlin@midwest.social
      12·
      6 months ago

      The image won’t load, but based on the replies, I think it’s a weeping angel, and now I don’t want the image to load.