YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    and they’ll be unskippable

    I’m sure i’ve heard this before, but yt-dlp still skips them fine.

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      Yt-Dlp has been breaking recently and requiring cookies to be entered in order to work at all.

      I’ve never seen a company quadruple dip on something before. It’s like surviving enshittification and then still continuing to push for further revenues.

      Error retrying …

      Rate limited, waiting 60 seconds …

      Video not found

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        It has been breaking a lot lately and it’s really sad. I pretty much pull all of my content off of YouTube now through yt-dlp so once that goes, im pretty much entirely YouTube free. I absolutely refuse to use it in the state it’s in now and really wish more creators would offer content on other platforms. Yt-dip is amazing and great but shouldn’t be the permanent solution.

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          Isn’t that what Nebula/CuriosityStream is? All my favorite YouTubers promote it, though the caveat is you have to pay but I think the money actually goes to the creators (and they put bonus content on it like a patreon).

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            With YouTube 55% of the money goes to the creators (and they don’t need to pay hosting costs).