Well, I'd rather see blankness than another ad.

If I hqve to watch a black screen, so be it. Better a moment of peace than an ad.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad.

This wasn't a joke.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad.

This isn't a joke. I would literally rather see a black screen than an ad.

Yeah I know. Youtube tested them on me for only a day and yes of course I would rather see a black screen than an ad. I am not that needy for background noise that I would want to listen to an ad of the millionth MLM scam this month.

I can understand, I would feel better watching a black screen than an ad trying to psychologically manipulate you in a personalized way.

The day adblocks/yt-dlp finally loose to google forever is the day I kiss youtube bye-bye. No youtube premium, no 2 minute long unskippable commerical breaks. I am strong enough to break the addiction and go back to the before-fore times when we bashed rocks together and stacked CDs in towers.

Peertube, odysee, bittorrenting, IPTV. Ill throw my favorite content creators a buck or two on patreon to watch their stuff there if needed. We've got options, its a matter of how hot you need to boil the water before the lowest common denominator consumer finally has enough.

I'll take a black screen over an ad any day of the week. Screw ads.

Or better, use FreeTube and NewPipe.

I remember a time when ads weren’t crazy intrusive. They weren’t being shoved into every os and app and website.

There wasn’t 20 of them on every page, and advertisers weren’t trying to harvest my data to the point where they knew every last detail of my personal life.

And I didn’t mind having them in order to have “free” content. But they got greedy and now I’ll block them in every chance I get.

Maybe forcing ads into everything isn’t the answer.

I find myself watching less and less youtube. Till is no longer part of my daily routine.

I backed up a few videos that I loved using tubearchivists and move on to other platforms.

I'm into small web and the fediverse now.

If that's what it comes to then so be it. I'd rather stare at the void than an ad.

I'm seeing a lot of comments about Youtube frontends. Don't get me wrong. They're nice and all, but we need some alternatives. At this point in time. We have two of them Odysee & Rumble. If you're tried of Youtube's bullshit. Alternatives are the way to go.

How are they supposed to attract new customers when they are already a monopoly?

I can't wait for the day that saying "youtube" makes people say "what's this? a peertube instance?".

Im honestly waiting for Google to sue for blocking ads in a last ditch effort.

What's the endgame here for users?

Do we just want a reasonable subscription price? Something we can genuinely afford?

If youtube doesn't play ads then they cant remain a service. At least not as it is today. Hosting costs money.

Im not shilling for them, i dont want ads either. And google are a terrible company. But im trying to be realistic.

Do we want cheap subscription?

Or a reduced service that can be maintained without so many ads

Do we just want 5 second skippable ads back?

Im just seeing this fight progressing to the point were youtube becomes subscription only and the ad blocker users have to pay or lose the service they obviously want to access.

I think this is going to continue to the point we have AI adblockers that edit the files free of ads for us in real-time. Then hopefully the technology jumps to Televisions etc.

Google's really helping it along in that direction.

Ever since YouTube started this nonsense I moved to invidious and haven't looked back

I've been seeing the black screen on Firefox. Still better than an ad, but it would be nice to be gone lol

While that’s certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time

Time not having [corporation]'s advertisements shoved in my face is time well spent

I rather see a black screen than an ad. Pretty much what I do with twitch, those corpo fuck heads can fuck off with their shitty cringy ass ads that make you loose a braincell everything it plays.

When I stream YouTube to my TV, I get 15-30 seconds of unskippable ads with the ability to skip enabling at the 15 or 30 second mark. The full length of the ad is 90+ seconds (according to the timer that never goes down). Would this implementation work similarly? 6 seconds of a silent black screen is fine; 90 or more seconds because the skip button is also missing would be more annoying (or be a nice time for a bathroom break).