Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits Google parent Alphabet is preparing to slog it out with rivals in a slowing economy by committing to evaluate every project being undertaken. The warning from Alphabet and Google boss Sundar Pichai came in a conference call to discuss financials for calendar Q3, which at $69.1 billion in revenue and $13.9 billion in profit …
Do adblockers handle the pre-video and mid-video video adverts that seem to cropping up on YouTube? I assumed that because of the way that they are part of the video stream that an adblocker wouldn't be able to deal with these, or I'd just end up with an advert-length silent bit in my video-watching experience?
You assumed you wrong. You can block them. uBlock Origin is the gold standard. The ads simply never appear, no interruption to the video.
If you want to go even further, and remove adverts and promotions that are actually part of the video that was uploaded, you need the SponsorBlock addon. It uses crowd sourced timestamps of promotions, sponsors, intros and outros, and you can skip them.
If you want to view videos on mobile ad-free, with the option to download the videos, listen only to audio, and in the background or with the screen off, NewPipe is the answer.
As others have said, yes they do. Hard to believe there are people left who don't know what adblockers are or wouldn't even investigate the alternatives before paying $240/yr just to avoid ads on Youtube.
How many hours a day of Youtube must someone watch to feel it is worth paying that much simply to skip ads?
If I was forced to watch ads on Youtube on my PC and iPhone (both of which I never see ads on) I would watch less Youtube, though my total viewing is probably 5 minutes a day so I wouldn't be giving up much. I have a policy that if someone posts a "news" link that is a link to Youtube (probably some talking head that doesn't even need to be a video instead of text) I assume they are a conspiracy theorist and ignore it. Maybe I'm wrong 1% of the time, but everyone reading this knows I'm right the other 99% of the time.
I'm wondering if we are starting to see the beginnings of the whole (Ponzi?) scheme start to unravel already?
State pension age gradually increasing, as people now generally live longer after 65 than they used to.
People having to start to stump up for old age care, as the state won't(?) / can't(?) fund it any more (partly related to people living longer and then sometimes living for a long time with (horrible) degenerative health conditions, rather than just keeling over rather more quickly, as in the past).
I'm starting to fear that those now at or close to pension age, with their equity-rich paid-off homes, may just scrape through, but those of us in younger generations (indebted and/or unable to afford to buy a home) probably have a really depressing future to look forward to…?
Ironically, most of the Google products I have actually liked & found useful have been scrapped... Presumably they did not bring in enough revenues.
.. Being as a Twatter decline story prominent on El Reg currently.., One of them being Google+ (it was everything most Social Media such FB, Twatter etc isn't - it was easy to just follow people / topics you were interested in, NOT bursting with trollish troublemakers, NOT full of unwanted dross pumped at you etc. Generally pleasant & civilized discourse)
Google wanted a Facebook style social media but people started using Google+ as a microblogging site instead, and it was the best damn microblogging site on the internet. You could actually have proper forum style discussions in the comments of posts and the communities features were amazing.
Given their lack of ability to talk to anybody, the continual bugs and weirdness in their applications, and the optimised and automated infrastructure, that many employees is simply startling. With resources like that, they ought to be the best software company on the planet, surely? So....?
One has to question the need for mega expensive Grandiose Versailles like property statements - like Google Waterloo.
Yes a small few people need to work in London, to meet and touch other needy people in the sector…. but would think that many of the jobs based there are internet/cloud/home oriented or based.
London jobs with onerous travel and London weighted pay that could easily be done in Middlesborough, Skelmersdale, Carlisle, Aberystwyth, or Motherwell., or perhaps on admin offices slapped on the end of Google DC’s.
There are great Universities and College through your the UK churning out grads as opposed to feeding the Londonshire monster.
The bigger the company, the higher the overhead of management, admin processes, unnecessary meetings, bureaucracy, power politics, etc. etc.
Google is encountering the same diminishing returns on hiring that every other company since the modern corporation has suffered, as documented decades ago in Parkinson's Law. We greybeards could have told them that, if they hadn't replaced us all with younger digital natives.
Oh yeah! I remember them. That was a search tool that helped me find what I was looking for in the late 1990's, right?
They changed, didn't they? Became some sort of advertising company to tell me what they thought I should be looking for.
Big Brother because...well...duh. It's Google.
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