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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[-] IronTwo@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I pay for YouTube Premium because I find value in it. The price is reasonable for where I live, and it's my main source of entertainment. I don't like watching movies/TV shows that much so YouTube is my jam. So the convenience of being able to download videos, ad-free viewing, picture-in-picture, background playback etc. is totally worth it for me. I know if I dig hard enough and use an Android phone/tablet I can get those features without having to pay, but I don't like Android and again, the features are worth the small price.

For me, YouTube Premium and Spotify broke piracy because they're more convenient than pirating.

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[-] schizanon@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

laughs in SmartTube

[-] followthewhiterabbit@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone make me realise when I watch something on my Xbox just how bad regular viewing can be

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[-] sam@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I'd be happy to pay for video content/video hosting, but I'm not happy with any of my money going to youtube or google. Peertube is the future. 😎

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[-] neia 6 points 2 years ago

I'd be much happier to pay if I could ensure I don't get personalized recommendations and I could use it with yt-dlp. I can probably opt out of personalized recommendations, but I haven't checked yet because I don't use youtube through its main interface much.

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[-] A2PKXG@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I've always been surprised as to why YouTube even tolerates adblockers. It's basically a no-brainer for them to bake ads into the stream and disable skipping

[-] spoonful@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Because it's impossible to block adblocking. The server can't know whether the client plays the video. The best they could do is have you wait the ad-time even if the ad is blocked but that would just mess with their analytics - they want to be sure the ad is being watched.

The only reason adblock blocking works for smaller websites is because adblockers need to catch up with each implementation. People will easily catch up with Youtube as there are thousands of people working on Youtube programming.

[-] aksdb@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

I think the commenters intention was that YouTube could stream you the video with embedded ads. They would have to stream the content though and skipping ahead would have to be guarded serverside by some clever checks on if you received (and therefore likely seen) the section of the video with the ads.

What probably speaks against this is that it would significantly increase their costs, since they couldn't cache as easily anymore and always need "clever" services/servers along the way. A dumb CDN wouldn't cut it anymore.

I fear it's still just a question of when it's either cheap enough for Google to do it or when the expected returns are high enough to offset the increased costs.

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[-] chriskoss@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Youtube ads are such garbage. Everyone talks about how google is 'the most advanced advertiser' - well google, you really can't figure out that playing the same ad for me 4 times in a 30 minute period is just going to make me hate both you and the advertiser?

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[-] jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

Well, this certainly explains my difficulty with YouTube over the last few days. Ironically, the piped instances still seem to be fine...

This might just be enough to push me primarily over to Rumble. There are fewer and fewer reasons to use YouTube and more and more reasons not to.

[-] foonex@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hadn‘t heard of Rumble. At first glance, it looks like it‘s run by Elon Musk. Andrew Tate on the frontpage, far-right political channels and crypto bros. I think I‘ll pass.

[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Same, a lot of YT alternatives seem ripe with alt-right garbage. I'm a leftist myself, but I can stand liberal content, however platforms like Rumble and Odysee's feeds look awful right now

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[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah please do, I will just stop using YouTube and that would be a good thing.

[-] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Try YT subscription from Argentina...😎

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