It would be great to link them to a youtube videos with just ads. Cause you know you go in youtube to watch ads not content
It would be funny if he sent a invidious link
yewtu.be to be as inconspicuous as possible
No the ultimate is that beautiful bastard who rickrolled the man himself.
Wait you mean someone out there rickrolled rick Astley
I give TheMalleableDuck my upper most respect
There was also a time on Reddit where somebody asked Rick Ashley if he would ever give him up and Rick astley just responded go fuck yourself
lmao
Huh, looks like the user doesn’t exist on Reddit anymore
Even more respect. Maybe they’re here on Lemmy somewhere
From all I can tell, Rick Astley seems like a really cool guy with a great sense of humor.
Also (I swear on my late father’s grave this is not a Rickroll), he does an absolutely amazing cover of Uptown Funk, which I like more than the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEdsXgBrDA
Feel free to search for “Rick Astley Uptown Funk” on your own if you don’t believe me though. It’s worth it.
Damnit, I was hoping to be rickrolled.
He sings so damn clearly, I don’t know why but I’m currently enamored with how every single word he is singing is so pronounced and pleasant sounding, it’s like listening to the song in HD.
Yo that was pretty awesome…his voice is great
Yeah, I regularly go back and listen to it.
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None, because seeing a four minute unskippable ad halfway through a two minute video would make me go apoplectic.
YouTube has ads?
Yeah, on your phone
And soon probably everywhere unless you pay, because YouTube is testing server side ad injection, so they’d be part of the main video stream.
Not from the US but I’m pretty sure the ftc requires ads be disclosed and if the company isn’t doing it you have to report it to the ftc for some stupid reason if I recall correctly
So iirc that might be a legal loophole which allows adblockers to work
They can definitely inject the ad into the video stream on the server side and still correctly classify it as ad. Some other platforms already do that. From my own experience, many podcasts monetize like that. The ads get injected by their distributors. Leads to German ads before English speaking podcasts, if you stream them from Germany. However, their ads are skippable. Wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube somehow made that impossible, too.
you can still set your vpn to some country where they don’t advertise
For now.
It’s been about a year since I had an ad on mobile. It takes about a minute to set it up so you don’t see them.
I was being a smart ass, but it was a lead in to let you know you have the option to be ad free.
I haven’t seen a YouTube ad on my phone since about 2021, thanks to the magic of Vanced and later ReVanced. Sounds like a skill issue on your end ngl
Install ReVanced now and enjoy YouTube without ads, sponsor segments, and clickbait on your phone while you still can.
There are multiple ways to remove that: youtube revanced, adblocker(i think), new pipe etc
Don’t forget Grayjay.
Haven’t you been following the news? It will soon.
What the hell makes you think YouTube employees have to watch the ads themselves?
Some definitely have, as they test and implement it. But the point was that the user stopped watching YT because of ads, not that YT will not
Company PR wage slaves are forced to give companies personality online to make them appear relatable and hip with the kids
Don’t fall for that bullshit