by ChrisArchitect on 12/14/24, 12:50 PM
Would it have killed him to put an example YouTube embed in the article so we could see the effect?
by mrweasel on 12/14/24, 1:19 PM
Where YouTube is making a mistake is in showing ads on embedded videos, for YouTube Premium customers and you can no longer click on the embed to go to YouTube and see the video without the ads.
I'm not sure if this is something each site can control using the embed code, but I noticed more and more that embedded videos will no longer allow you to jump youtube.com.
by wruza on 12/14/24, 12:45 PM
You can simply install uBO (and its dependencies) and the question who’s gonna profit from ads will resolve naturally.
by ChrisMarshallNY on 12/14/24, 12:36 PM
Ugh.
Any reason that they couldn't add a basic text link, below the video, with "Open In YouTube" as the text?
by jbaber on 12/14/24, 12:37 PM
This explains a mystery I only recently noticed.
If a site has preferred ads they'd like to show anyway, maybe it's time for them to pay for hosting the video elsewhere.
by Zealotux on 12/14/24, 1:43 PM
Is anyone else experiencing huge issues with Youtube on Firefox (MacOS) lately? The UI completely hangs for a few seconds, a restart of the browser helps, but I've disabled all extensions and it still hangs. Using the devtools it seems there's a huge GC happening periodically blocking the JS thread, no idea why.
by encody on 12/14/24, 2:11 PM
Wait, so the Verge is upset that the PfP player removed a link that would take the user to the video on YouTube. But if they use the normal YouTube player that has the link, the Verge gets less ad $. But the users who click the link would be watching on YouTube, where again, the Verge would be earning less ad $.
Am I understanding this correctly? Because it sounds like the Verge is complaining about a change that should net them marginally more(?) ad $ (and is to YouTube's disadvantage) because a few readers complained, and they're just trying to blame YouTube instead.
I'm confused.
by FollowingTheDao on 12/14/24, 1:10 PM
Monopolistic greed! Thee companies have captured all of us and they have the ability not to not care about customer service anymore! Break them up!
by NooneAtAll3 on 12/14/24, 12:35 PM
even without embeds, youtube keeps loading video but not the rest of UI (or sometimes the opposite) from time to time for me
and simple refresh doesn't help - I have to ctrl+f5 to fix it
by mabedan on 12/14/24, 12:40 PM
Makes sense from YouTube side. Why they would associate themselves with ads that has nothing to do with them?
by xbmcuser on 12/14/24, 1:05 PM
Is it not normal web etiquette to link back to what you are using. I am not sure YouTube is in the wrong.
by ChrisArchitect on 12/14/24, 12:42 PM
You can't have it both ways or at least YouTube tried to help publishers out with the special player.
What's the actual problem here: that Verge doesn't like entitled ppl complaining to them about lack of links. Verge is trying to be one of those very publishers going independent etc, so support them, expect to 'stay on site', can't have it both ways.
(Unless Verge does the extra work for the users and adds a quick link under every vid)