Not MORE Youtube Ads…

[@techlinked]

Hey guys it is once again Riley (from the video) and I know it's so much easier to stay inside and play robot blocks but i just really want to encourage you to Step into Spring travel activities with Vessi and get 15% off your first purchase at checkout at vessi.com/TechLinked . That was just on my heart just now. Phew. What a load off!

[@timeimp]

Does Vessi do shorts as well?

[@iscesp04]

I have diarrhea

[@Finger112]

We need Riley's Shoes for everyone in the comments!

[@Aaronism]

I would love to buy Vessi JUST BECAUSE Riley said so, but they don't make them big enough.

[@InvinsableNoob]

The real Riley as seen on TV eh? 😮

[@JamesTM]

When I pause something, it's usually to see something in more detail. Throwing an ad there would be actively disruptive.

[@tacklemcclean]

agreed, it's horrible, it's like you go "I want to do this" and the response is "no you wont! AND you will also be punished for this poor decision!"

[@adamricecracker7128]

same, i pause to see charts or graphs for example...

[@GreatTaiwan]

@@adamricecracker7128or code in programming tutorials

[@titheproven954]

Or to read things when there is long quotes (but only say a part of it) or when I am watching art stuff to give me time to DO they thing they are teaching. Or like ANY leaning based video. I fucking hate this.

[@frameworkparity]

Same, so many times I stop a video to see some detail, or even just because someone walked in and wanted to ask a question. The fight for our attention is just getting ridiculous, next stop, ads during sleep... :(

[@joelconolly5574]

Remember when ads were just in the beginning and the end of the video and KZbin lets you skip it regardless of how long the ads was. Good times. No wonder those ads pop up on my phone when I pause my videos. Just another dumb KZbin features.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

I remember when you could like/dislike ads...

[@cerisem7727]

Remember when KZbin didn't have any ads on its videos and only on the page? The good ol days....

[@averytucker790]

Remember when we had no ads and HD videos?

[@nono-oz4gv]

i liked the feature where they put a yellow dot where the ads are gonna play. used to be 3 maybe 4 now i bet there would be 100 per 8 minute video. too bad ublock exists. i remember first seeing 2 ads in a row, immediately quit the video and went off to do other crap.

[@SpektrikMusic]

Remember when KZbin was the only social media where creators got properly paid? Oh wait that's now, because of the ads.

[@Montyh7]

That deepfake AI Principal story was actually scary as fuck. I mean ads are an inconvenience, but that story is pure dystopian life-changing scary arse shit, if people that dumb can do it so easily.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

And you know there are systems and investigators too dumb to get to the bottom of it.

[@SurgStriker]

the full story is even worse. 3 teachers (including the one who faked it) had it e-mailed to them. One of the others (possibly also in on it) immediately sent it to some students to have them spread it all over social media, while the teacher also sent it off to media outlets. Just a few e-mails and lives ruined because that's how social media has changed our reality

[@jamesshelton308]

Don't worry. I'm sure we're not going to see any AI generated political deepfakes coming up this year lol

[@pedro4205]

Electoral year. Everything is gonna be alright. The tech giants overlords are right, we just need more AI without any restriction.

[@robertjenkins6132]

"dystopian life-changing" - Is it? It's been possible to fake stuff for a long time, e.g., Photoshop, CGI. One must authenticate, verify, and assess credibility of sources. In olden times Person B would say (with their mouth) that Person A did such-and-such or said such-and-such; such testimony might or might not be true. (Actually this type of testimony is still used in courts, e.g., the Weinstein case.) Dan Rather lost his job because he reported on some fake documents. It happened a long time ago, before the current AI panic. If everyone is producing fake recordings all the time with AI, then maybe people will stop believing that all recordings must immediately be taken at face value without any attempt to verify that it's a genuine recording? I mean, that photo of the Pope and Elvis riding a flying motorcycle into an alien spaceship must be real, right? No way that could be fake.

[@giantasparagus]

Imagine pausing because it was loading slow then it continues to load an ad..

[@Dragon905]

I've noticed a few years ago fhat when I have terrible buffering issues KZbin even with low resolution videos, the ads load perfectly fine in hd.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

The reason it's buffering is it's loading the advert into memory prioritising the advert over the video you're trying to watch Once the adverts are downloaded, your video will play normally A good argument for Brave browser on mobile, ad blockers on desktop

[@mycosys]

@@ThePlayerOfGames Firefox works too

[@RhinoRapscallion]

By the way, the buffer in videos doesn't normally go past 60ish seconds the current watch time. Ad buffers load almost the entire ad before playing. Even if that ad is several hours long

[@mac1991seth]

Imagine pausing because the video has chapters with a text introduction to each chapter and you just want to read it (because there's no voice over for that part).

[@realtired3670]

I read the title as "No MORE KZbin Ads..." and got happy for a second

[@erubianwarlord8208]

same i figured they were reading te fucking room and backing off of the video ads or at least putting in an acceptable minimum level of quality control and restraint in what kind and how many of them they shovel out

[@FreeAimDog]

the world will go back to normal before that ever happens.

[@Kessoku]

got em

[@dzzope]

At least you had that second..😅

[@billyeveryteen7328]

Or, to intentionally misquote The Simpsons, "No, MORE KZbin Ads!"

[@dhillaz]

The scary part about the AI deepfake is he was only caught because of recklessly bad opsec. Think of all the other scandals going unpunished...

[@yensteel]

It's impossible for the real person to say "That isn't me" for everything created. It's quite a concern.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

The scarier part is all the previous race hoaxes that people have already forgotten

[@whytho1690]

@@briondalion Insert MGS speech about AI

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Oh no! More things for my adblocker!

[@jirya957]

Oh no! more adds for brave brower to block :D

[@dragonmaster1500]

Oh no, more things for Vivaldi to no-sell!

[@Micchi-]

​@@jirya957 Chromium browser🤢

[@Redwan777]

*Slaps SmartTubeNext* This bad boy can give you an ad free KZbin exprience on TV

[@danilol9417]

​@@jirya957another chad brave user 🗿

[@H4WK6969]

Ive never saw a KZbin ad for almost 20 years. Imagine how much extra content ive consumed in that time compared to someone who is forced to watch ads.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Goodness, your eyeballs must be moist if Riley is correct.

[@oalfodr]

So you mean a bit over 19 years since it was created?

[@IdealIdeas100]

If you watched a minimum of 30 videos a day for 25 years, you would have seen 219,000 videos If each video came with a mandatory 30 second ad you would have saved yourself from 6,570,000‬‬ seconds (109,500‬ Minutes, 1,825‬ Hours, or ~76 days) of ads.

[@Jadae]

Sadly, no adblock for the TV format. I was shocked watching YT with my family. Half of the ads are either propaganda or obscene. Well, shocked is the wrong term. More like eye-rolling and feeling gross. My poor eyeballs were moist before this, but no more. Is there a program for re-moistening?

[@joshualoucks7242]

@@IdealIdeas100 who watches 30 videos a day?? and most ads arent anywhere near 30 seconds

[@gruanger]

Nothing is worse than pause ads. Pause something for a phone call. Boom, something twice as loud that I have no control over blowing up the mic on my phone. Oh, or pause to use the restroom, ad plays, then keeps playing your video even though you clicked pause because why not, and on and on.

[@AJ-po6up]

Or pausing to think or for silence (something I do often) I can totally imagine how annoying it would be to have a loud ad playing when you're trying to get some silence.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

I don't think they play an vid with audio.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

I don't think they play a vid with audio.

[@gruanger]

@@LlywellynOBrien Not yet, I mean, they keep changing what they do.

[@Aaron9819]

This could be a comedy skit, where you pause the pause ad, then another ad starts playing until you unpause the first, on and on.

[@CavingMonkey]

The never-ending ads and not being even able to pause them reminds of the Black Mirror episode 'Fifteen Million Merit'

[@martineyles]

Let's just hope we don't get the deafening tone when it detects our eyes are not focused on the screen.

[@siddiki9778]

​@@martineylesI fear Neuralink or something like it would force us to do exactly that 😢

[@martineyles]

@@siddiki9778 I have no intention of letting that kind of tech anywhere near my head.

[@montecorbit8280]

At 4:14 Foreign adversaries.... The law also includes some guy from Venezuela, not the entire country, just a single guy....

[@TheManinBlack9054]

He is THE adversary. He's too dangerous.

[@Somedude317]

He is the real danger.

[@falcie7743]

When I pause a video, it's usually because someone started talking to me and I need to listen. If an ad starts when I pause I will have to stop using KZbin.

[@newbyclive]

I'm sure there will be a extension that will auto-mute youtube when you pause a video.

[@TheRanguna]

Sure you will

[@redderthanmisty6762]

Me with Ublock Origin for my pc, KZbin Revanced for my phone, and Smarttube Beta for my tv: "Oh No... Anyway."

[@xlr8466]

Earlier my revanced was working but from last week. I m patching apk but after install, it is still crashing.

[@John_C_J]

​@@xlr8466Skill issue

[@Tekkerue]

Me frantically taking notes..... go on. 🧐

[@Creepernom]

​@@xlr8466Mine is working perfectly fine, so it may be an issue on your side.

[@Kirby5588]

You probably need to update microg gms core​@@xlr8466

[@KiaAzad]

I pause my videos to hear my TTS software read something for me. I don't want an ad start screaming over what I really need to hear.

[@Vonebor]

We didn't start the fire but with tech news actually sounds like a great concept given the way things have been going...

[@dzzope]

Look up "We didn't start the flame war" (Old parody)

[@holdenhodgdon3756]

Especially with the issues Intel has with their newest CPUs

[@devnol]

we NEED this

[@pvshka]

@@dzzope ahhh, based old CollegeHumor enjoyer

[@robinbegley1077]

And it ends up just being 9 min of AI news, and it going wrong

[@Crazyq454]

Ads are eventually going to get so bad that you'll have to pirate it to watch ad free

[@WanderingExistence]

The circle of capitalism continues

[@georgythomas8451]

And go back to Cable TV

[@gtx1650max-q]

that shows 10 min of ads in a 20 min show ​@@georgythomas8451

[@great2831]

Bruh i pay feo prime video and It shows me ads, im just gonna pirated them because it's the same experience and because prime video sucks.

[@mycosys]

@@great2831 you mean the skippable trailer at the start of some videos? NGL i despise ads but im fine with that.

[@AcePlays7454]

There are already too many ads 😢 We don't need more, much less ads even when I'm stopping for a bathroom break

[@timothybrown4635]

Sometimes I pause a video to read something or get a closer look. I would be fucking pissed if they played an ad instead

[@NohusBluxome]

The ad is shown to the side of the video, not on top of it.

[@thedawner6311]

@@NohusBluxome So reduced screen to read..

[@shadydealz]

Good thing Adblocker never stopped working for me! Lol.

[@michaemia]

Mine stopped

[@just-yellow]

@@michaemia get uBlock Origin, not those sketchy AF "Adblocker"s or "Adblocker Ultra" or wtv

[@shadydealz]

@@michaemia noooo I'm sorry that's not fair 😔

[@HyperionZero]

@@michaemia uBlock and Waterfox sure work for me.

[@pvshka]

@@michaemia what device?

[@RiftRavingRogue]

What about videos where we're pausing them to look at information being presented in said video?

[@isdeirinnme]

Tough sh!t it sounds like

[@NohusBluxome]

That ad is shown next to the video, not covering anything, so nothing happens to that.

[@dr.blockcraft6633]

@@NohusBluxome The visuals Indicate that The actual Video is Being shrunk Down, Which can Make it Harder to Read

[@Artista_Frustrado]

i wish KZbin put this much effort onto actual Qualuity of Life features as they do for ads i would love for some Bulk Editing tools for Playlists like removing/replacing Deleted & Privated videos, or being able to move multiple videos from one playlist to another. Or making the new Layout actually let you find the comments when using it on Portrait mode, how is such blatant error allowed to go live?

[@derockx]

but would adding these features make yt more money? I think not since no one is gonna think "oh cool! they added bulk playlist editing, let me turn off my ad blocker now" you gotta remember that yt has server bills to pay, engineers to pay, creators to pay, etc and more and more ppl are starting to use ad blockers which takes away from their revenue. to compensate, they either have to show more ads or try to block ad blockers.

[@Bob_Smith19]

How about they remove the damn haptic feedback chapter markers on iOS. No one asked for it and it’s annoying as hell during a video like this w/ short segments. Whoever is in charge of their UI needs to be fired.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

@@derockx YT already makes so much money they could absolutely implement QoL & yes QoL features like making the ads not the most intrusive resource hogging piece of crap ever would reduce the amount of people who adblock it

[@Artista_Frustrado]

@@Bob_Smith19 wouldn't be shocked if the UI Designers were already fired & replaced with Neal prompting on an AI

[@Dragon905]

​@@derockxTRILLION Dollar company: "There isn't enough money for improvements." Meanwhile small team from revanced fixed years old bugs in you tube.

[@averytucker790]

I still find it hilarious that 10% of AI news is cools stuff you expected from one of your favorite Sci-fis. And the rest is just criminal activity news and stuff that's either illegal, questionably legal, and should be illegal but not yet.

[@TheEuropeanFox]

Pause video, ad plays Lock phone, ad keeps playing Close phone, ad starts playing on nearest device Run into the mountains, the sky itself becomes covered in ads. There is no escape.

[@bippaasama]

The advertising industry is the biggest parasite on the economy, wasting people's time, misleading people, tricking people into downloading malware, all that probably costs economies billions of dollars a year in damages and lost productivity. It's time to abolish advertising all together.

[@mattwhaley1865]

The excess amount of ads needs to be reported to the FTC

[@Bob_Smith19]

The ads where the volume is louder than the video itself needs to be reported to the FCC. The FCC needs to add streamers to the CALM Act. The loudness is an intentional change that’s somewhat recent.

[@LogicalError007]

FTC blew their load in US v Microsoft. More they bully easier targets and not monopoly while allowing monopolies. fester and grow.

[@mycosys]

@@Bob_Smith19 Its not a broadcast so the reg doesnt apply. LUFS normalisation doesnt either, sadly

[@mycosys]

@shall_we_kindly LOL you act like there always has been government. Our system is REALLY new

[@btko8020]

That line about having a crumb of an original thought is gold and needs to win an award of somekind

[@Jacketz123]

Companies as big and well funded as KZbin trying their damndest to squeeze as many ads in as their can as a means of forcing people into paying for premium is exactly the reason I’ll never pay for it. Add additional good features to make your premium service worth buying. Not slowly push the envelope over time. Disgusting display of sheer greed. Adblock for life 🙏🏻

[@ZackThreet]

I can't believe people still use the internet without adblockers, especially KZbin

[@Dindonmasker]

I can't believe people still consume content without paying for it.

[@Good7GamesOfficial]

@@Dindonmasker I'm paying with my data already.

[@dustux]

I can't believe people like you act like you're entitled to get content for free from a platform.

[@yungdsastar4392]

​@@Good7GamesOfficial 😂 it doesn't work like that.

[@Redwan777]

​@@Dindonmasker Shopkeeper: Anything in the store is FREE! There are just advertisements all over the place. *Doesn't look at adverts* You: How DARE YOU >:(

[@doommmmmmm]

i remember back when youtube first started using banner ads people were saying it'll only get worse and well have video ads going rampant and how other were just saying thatll never happen and they were being paranoid, ill admit i thought they were paranoid too but then the first video ads started appearing and then i seen the writing on the wall, the paranoid ones were right so i too looked into a solution and found out about adblockers and started using them myself, i haven't stopped since.

[@Rathmun]

Just remember, browsing KZbin without an adblocker is like browsing certain parts of Thailand without condoms. They're both bad ideas for the same reason.

[@clnetrooper]

Ayo what

[@varietychan]

Imagine pausing, an nsfw ad comes up and your friend asks "What are you watching"

[@yensteel]

It has happened to me! A woman made a loud maon in one. The ad reappeared for weeks. No feedback helped.

[@luisostasuc8135]

Or happened to me too. I was happy watching ads for stuff from games until I started getting ridiculously sexualized waifu stuff from them. When I combed through my history it started after downloading *grindr* ffs. Like, I get that it's basically a free for all on grindr now, but their first data point shouldn't be "oh, he must like absurdly sexualized to the point of being bdsm (I'm not exaggerating) stuff with women in it." 🙄

[@OledBurnInKing]

It's good thing that modded versions of youtube exist to bypass the ads and bypass the sponsors in the youtube videos.

[@jakobr_]

Wow. There goes pausing for the purposes of silence. Like, trying to pay attention to literally anything else aside from your screen.

[@NohusBluxome]

The pause ad is just an image / banner. It's not a video, and it doesn't have sound.

[@mozzym6162]

your thought process is the reason we have ads we cant avoid. no more ads for greedy companies anymore.​@NohusBluxome

[@Thegreatequalizer]

0:04 Sounds good to me! That said I'm a "They're Just Movies" fan too so my opinions probably don't represent the masses.

[@estacon39]

Techlinked/game linked videos make my day much better. Just woke up with a massive hangover and my day got much brighter when I saw this video waiting for me. Thanks :)

[@KiLLKiNDLY]

KZbin has gotten so bad I've switched browsers from chrome to brave so i dont get any adds and my video doesnt get slowed down

[@Charbrose]

you switched from chromium to chromium. congrats, you played yourself

[@Jethro420]

its also great for using youtube music, even works on my phones brave browser. Fuck YT

[@BanditLeader]

You do realize that chrome and brave are both chromium browsers right? You literally changed nothing. Switch to Firefox and get ublock origin

[@shadesoftime]

You do realise that brave is just skinned chromium and you can get the same experience by installing 2 or 3 extensions, right?

[@HyperionZero]

Brave or Opera is just another fork of Chromium which is also owned by Google. I'd recommend moving over to Mozilla.

[@Goblin_Hater_37]

I WANT THAT COVER OF WE DIDNT STOP THE FIRE SO BADLY NOW

[@nisterror]

Yay ads!!! The other day I was thinking there are not enough ads in youtube, tv, streaming services, radio, billboards, mail. Who needs content when you can have more ads.

[@KiiXii]

KZbin fans who don’t use an adblocker when their constant stream of ads is interrupted by a video

[@dogbunns]

I get the idea of pause ads, but my big issue is when I pause the video to go find another or read the description, and it opens a description of the ad where my video description and related videos should be. So now I need to close the ad, click on a different video, and watch another ad. This is why it's easier to block them.

[@Tall_Order]

We are now at the point where pirate streaming sites ads are less intrusive than official places...

[@mm3nrx]

I look away when adverts are on YT...defeated lol I also go la la la la loudly...don't know what my neighbours think but no ads :)

[@grahamrothphotography]

I’ve been having these KZbin pause ads for a month now

[@THE-X-Force]

uBlock Origin .. set yourself free already!

[@Unknown-sz8kg]

Use brave browser, problem solved.

[@siriusplayz5871]

These are my fvrt youtube videos... Riley has the best dialog delivery and great sense of humor... thank you for making my day again... 😊

[@HedgehogY2K]

1:01 Wait, THAT'S BAD!!! I use to skim through frames. Many videos rely on frame stills to save time. Let us look! Why not instead put the ad in a corner so that we can at least see the video when paused.

[@NohusBluxome]

The ad is shown next to the video, not even in the corner. It doesn't cover any part of the paused video.

[@HedgehogY2K]

@@NohusBluxome Phew, that's what I wanted to hear.

[@luisostasuc8135]

For now.

[@SterbiusMcGurbius]

I want to give major props to TQ Editor #1 for the amazing work done for this video

[@Artista_Frustrado]

WAN Show ended so early we actually had to wait for the TechLinked... what a freaky Friday & there wasn't even a Body Swap

[@Artista_Frustrado]

UNLESS!!

[@ColdPotato]

AI deep fake audio will be a godsend for scammers looking to get grandma to send them money. It would work like this, scammer calls grandma asking to speak to their kid, grandma gives them contact number. Scammer calls kid to get voice. Later kid calls grandma saying they need help paying off debt. Or lazy scammers will just call without an accent.

[@chaoswolf9452]

They do that on the xbox client now already, it just makes me watch stuff on my pc instead. I been getting a lot of 30+ unskipple ads on xbox as well.

[@otisthe1410]

If i'm going to be force fed ads, they better pay for my data plan

[@TheHammerGuy94]

An AD showing up when paused? HMMM.... I wonder where did they get that idea.... The same place where they got the idea of previewing a video by mousing over a thumbnail? Phub: hehehehe....

[@wolfpackflt670]

I like how youtube is reinforcing the reason why people use ad blockers.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Imagine thinking Google isn't going to make youtube worse in 2024

[@cezannealves6926]

Riley's scripts and delivery are just perfect!

[@sanekibeko]

How about Microsoft open source MS DOS 6 and all of Windows 9x. That would be nice.

[@shadesoftime]

Honestly it's been so long since they've gone outdated that I doubt it would be of any use

[@Stevo.100]

Honestly if ads only appearing while paused was the thing I'd disable my ad blocker. Thing is I don't pause videos often and when people do pause it means they gotta leave their PC to do something, so obviously the ad wouldn't sell for much. Why doesn't KZbin have multi monitor support? Play the video on my main screen and have an ad on an extra screen. My video is not obscured or interrupted. I'd be happy with that too.

[@Omych]

So good to be livin in Russia. Free youtube premium to everyone livin here

[@bagheriali2001]

0:11 Shut Up(sorry) and Take my MONEY

[@KeysG]

A bunch of chinese sites run pause ads, it's actually so annoying. Why can't companies copy the good things smh.

[@HxHStudios]

Bilibili runs no ads. Curious which ones you are referencing, iQiyi? Weibo and xhs don't either afaik

[@Bob_Smith19]

Nothing like pausing so you can zoom in on something on screen only to be served an ad. Goodbye tutorial videos.

[@John_C_J]

@@Bob_Smith19 I think it will be an overlay ad with a close ad button, like you see in some, eeh, research sites.

[@gloriousrunningpotato]

the main problem is that its a chines site.

[@ModrunOfficial]

right so did youtube not consider that the whole reason why i pause a video is because i need it to be quiet or something? if the pause ads have sound id just end up muting the video instead of pausing then rewinding

[@Foxexar]

I literally listen to youtube songs between my calls at work. If I fucking pause a youtube video and ANOTHER video starts playing with audio. Holy fuck KZbin your lawyers better be ready

[@John_C_J]

It's obviously not a video ad over your video. Has to be some kind of overlay.

[@chalismaximus1]

It's not a legal issue so lawyers have nothing to do with it. You're not legally required to listen to youtube at work... and even if you were, KZbin never signed any contracts requiring them to make that experience not suck for you. Besides if it does end up sucking for you, use ad blockers, it's a thing, look into it.

[@noneyabizz8337]

Uhm.... lawyers?

[@zimbu_]

Their lawyers are always ready. Alphabet Group spends nine digit sums on legal fees every year.

[@mycosys]

Ever heard of the mute button?

[@Krebzonide]

I've seen these ads. I pause to talk to someone, then the ad plays and I can't talk to them.

[@Tobias-fl3nb]

this is why i use an adblocker

[@confusedforreal1534]

I love the continuing elephant baby lure

[@notenoughmonkeys]

The thing that makes me sad about Riley’s impression of a Brit is that most people will assume Riley invented some cute sounding British show to make the accent work. No. No he didn’t…. Euurgh.

[@imDanoush]

@4:14 Congrats you're one of the few people I found saying "Iran" correctly the first time! Some ppl say that as if they're advertising a new Apple device instead!

[@xoMissTaylorDivine]

KZbin instead needs to work on their BLOCKING system. Hiding a user & their comments on my channel isn't good enough.

[@bhrhsrhsrehsdg]

What other features would you like, out of interest

[@TheNukebooster]

The idea of partial-screen pause ads is great. When i pause to do something else, an ad can take the moment. I would 100% like this ads more than ads keeping me from the content i want.

[@Lexxicon13]

if they (youtube) made a "premium" option that was just the "no ads" part without the other "features" and was much cheaper I'd be willing to pay.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

dont reward bad behavior

[@John_C_J]

The "other features" is just YT Music which is just KZbin with a different layout and recommendations.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

​@@John_C_J nah that's a $2 extra, the "premium features" are some slightly different playback control UI.

[@plazasta]

That was called premium lite. It was discontinued last year. It cost €7 a month, was only available in select countries and outside of them no one knew about it.

[@hatyyy]

that would make them less money, they know that most people only care about the no ads part

[@dragosalexpop]

0:45 imagine being that guy, going to the pub and and showing an ad on those massive incisors whenever you smile. that's what youtube showing an ad while pausing would look like.

[@jonnezq]

did they just compare a small language model made for consumer hardware, to one of the largest large language models in the world that requires a supercomputer to run?? like, who could've guessed that a supercomputer *might* be a bit more powerful than a macbook? could've at least compared it to similar sized models to get an idea of if it's actually good for what it's trying to be.

[@yensteel]

The closest comparison was Apple OpenELM 3B: 24.80 MMLU Microsoft Phi-3-mini 3.8b: 68.8 MMLU. Machine learning engineers said it was terrible.

[@JerridFoiles]

35 minute “we didn’t start the fire” style? The ULTIMATE Quickbits!

[@kevinbarry71]

Certainly sounds like the genius level activity you can expect from a physical education teacher

[@TheGrammarPolice7]

*genius-level, *physical-education

[@salazar1554]

The pause ad thing reminds me of how sketchy streaming sites I watched tv/anime on as a kid had popups every time you paused the video. That is definitely NOT a good comparison to be making.

[@Joebauers2505]

Left TV because of pricing and the constant commercials, I suppose for as long as you seek entertainment you will never truly be rid of ads

[@SanToriNiku]

I played this and an ad immediately popped out.

[@HontoNeet]

Sounds like KZbin really wants to find some place to insert more ads. It's a shame the platform doesn't have a gigantic ocean of videos with no ads currently running on them. If only there were numerous unmonetized videos currently on the site, and they could just turn ads on for those videos, thus benefitting themselves and those creators. What a shame that there is literally nowhere else for them to put ads so they have to resort to inserting them when people pause videos.

[@Elkatook666]

i like how channel 4 pause the adverts if you tab out while watching a programme so you dont miss any of that advertiser goodness !!!

[@TheBigLou13]

8:57 Catgirls and Furries!! \o/ 💛

[@DaveBarrack]

Pause ads really makes me imagine executives wanting to just go full IOI and putting so many ads that they border on causing seizures, and/or the 4 to 1 ad to actual content ratios that appear on screens in Idiocracy, but realizing that they need to do it in increments.

[@stevewoodyt]

lol. People hate on me for paying for premium. Wonder how long till we start getting ads?

[@peterseagrave4051]

If they put any ads in premium there's no point in having it I'd rather just not pay for it and watch ads if I'm gonna have to watch them anyway

[@A1stardan]

Except if more people started paying for premium, they'd then start jacking the prices. There's just no end to this fight

[@stevewoodyt]

@@A1stardan idk. Even with the amount of YT my family consume I feel like the $25 a month I pay is far far more than the revenue generated if I were to watch ads. If more people paid for it they would just be making more money and it would lower the value and therefore the cost of paying to place ads.

[@manuelmedels2624]

Riley, I love your quipy additions to the tech news. 😂 I love watching these videos because of it. Keep it up!

[@Zarrar2802]

I read the title as NO MORE KZbin ads and I was like "yes!"

[@yumiko579]

Monopoly youtube still hasnt had enough cash?!, we should really fight for our data and personal usage rights, ads shouldnt be exploited so hard especially when most of us dont buy all the stuff they shove in our face, including the scam ads, its just there for youtube for the majority i hope adblock keeps up the good fight..

[@FelipoGoncalves]

the "wow good reference" was in my brain exactly when Riley said it. Gattaca predicted everything!

[@XLessThanZ]

TikTok will be like the Korean bars where I live. When one gets shutdown, they just change their name and return to business as a new company.

[@agentcrm]

Channel 4 isn't a streaming service. It's a broadcast TV channel, with an online service.

[@WilliamHaisch]

8:21 “It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit... And, uh... You know, you'll, uh... You know what I mean.” -Jeffrey Lebowski

[@giegir4960]

I got a lot of those ads on pause from youtube. It was terrible and was the major reason why I started using adblock again. The problem was that I would PAUSE the video. The ad starts playing. Whatever, I leave, do what I planned like a bathroom break or getting some snacks. Then I come back only to find that after the ad finished, the video I was watching resumed automatically after I explicitly told it to pause. So I missed half a video and now need to waste time looking for a spot where I finished watching last time.

[@zzyzx0069]

5:46 as soon as Riley said Crunchyroll, guess who's ad popped up on my screen???

[@PickeringSamuel]

The TechLinked Christmas album has to include all the characters that Riley can do impressions of. Personal favourites would be Tim Apple (of course) and mmmmm Biiiixxxxbbbbyyyyy.

[@BassRacerx]

I get the pause ads and the worst part about it is it is BUGGY. the pause add will not come up and then the page will freeze when you press play .. and then REFRESH ITSELF and there the add is and now you have to press play again.

[@Erowens98]

Ads on KZbin have gotten so crazy. Its worse than television and im not even exaggerating. You get 2-3 ads every 5 minutes on long videos.

[@qinyima5693]

And they want us to buy the premium by doing this, hall nah. One skippable ad every 30 mins is bearable for me, no more than that

[@Erowens98]

@@qinyima5693 Yeah, jokes on them. I was considering Premium, but i find the ads too insultingly frequent now so I refuse to buy it out of spite.

[@AaronLatimer]

Idk if it’s related. But I have noticed that if you have KZbin premium, when paused on a tv for a short period of time, it shows the videos thumbnail

[@silasmayes7954]

Loved the Gattaca reference. Love that movie!

[@JuanCAraujoS]

"We didn't start the fire... it was always burning since the World's been turning" It woud make a great TechLinked yearly recap.

[@HIHIHJIHIHIH]

Our main issue is not speed but app support!

[@forytvanz8493]

Good luck learning from guitar covers and lessons to figure out the finger positions on the fretboard when you paused the video and be distracted/blocked by ads

[@chuckthetekkie]

Generally I pause a video to take a screen shot of it. Plus I find over 90% of ads served on YT offensive.

[@wabash9000]

I used to have ATT Uverse internet years ago and I'm pretty sure they were filtering youtube traffic. I had 60mb internet and 360p youtube would buffer and stutter. I would load a video on Vimeo and it would play 1080p without issue. I then would remote desktop to my work computer and load the same youtube video on that computer and it would playback 1080p without any issues.

[@rocckyman729]

9:13 Love that Gattaca reference, pretty underated movie.