Is blocking ads considered a hate crime now?
Corporations are a protected class of people.
Ernie no!!
The wealthy aren't a protected class, it's not a hate crime.
Like hell they aren't. They're the most protected class.
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People who complain about ads on the internet are such a weird concept.
Why experience ads if you don't want to?
Because ads don't ask for your consent.
Sure they do, I've revoked my consent by installing an adblocker I haven't watched a video ad in probably 8 years.
And you have the agency and ability to either pay for the service or investigate other means of avoiding them. Complaining about them is just annoying.
My favorite experience in this regard was watching YouTube on xbox (i know, i know)... They played a 40 minute redbull "ad" on a five minute video. In what sane world should ads be 8 fucking times longer than the content?!?!1?
I had a similar experience on my YouTube TV app, I was watching old history channels in bed, and there was a full length documentary for an "ad". I could have skipped after 15 seconds or whatever, but I had to INTERACT with the TV before it would resume. I was distracted so it ended up playing like 15 minutes of an hour+ documentary ad.
Why would they even make a 40 min long ad for Redbull?
It was just a documentary that was shoved into an ad space. Something about their aerial stunts/races. Dunno. I got like, five seconds into it because FUCK THAT SHIT.
You get ads?
Shut your Pi-hole! My daddy had ads on the TV, and his dad had ads on the radio, and his dad had ads in the paper! I proudly allow ads and tracking!
I wish there was a way on Pi-hole to block those ads on TV yt
Smarttubenext
Me when ublock origin
Wish you could block ads from embedded youtube videos in Discord.
I just copy and paste the link into my browser. Lets me make use of sponsorblock that way.
Or when the skip button appears but only skips to the next ad
If you're getting ads on videos, you need to get you shit together and install uBlock Origin asap.
Or suck it up and pay for the service if you can afford it.
uBlock Origin doesn't accept donations. That's the only product in this conversation worth supporting.
Nebula is a streaming service created by creators as an alternative to YouTube and is absolutely worth supporting. We’re not just talking about products here, we’re talking about the creators that make those products viable.
Ya know, I thought we were talking YouTube specifically, but looking back at the OP it just says video, and I guess my brain just injected the word YouTube on it.
So, fair enough, if you've got a media service that isn't run by a bunch of human shitstains, then yea support their work.
If it's YouTube, don't give em a cent.
Just out of curiosity, what do yall expect to happen when the only response to an ad supported free tier of something, is to block the ads? I know YouTube/google aren’t great companies, but when you run an ad blocker you also deprive the creators you love watching any revenue from your view. So you hurt the creators. If you can afford it, just sub to premium and stop acting like you’re entitled to everything for free. I despise ads just as much if not more than the next dipshit, but complaining about them, when there’s myriad ways of avoiding them, just makes you sound like a dingus.
Obligatory shout out to Nebula as a cheaper alternative for non-fiction/edutainment content.
Or alternatively, run and adblocker and literally give the creators you watch 1$ per month and you're still supporting them 100 times more than turning on ads would, and you still get to keep some semblance of privacy.
Most creators have patreons. The big ones take sponsorships also. The pittance they get from any ads I may have watched do not matter.
So the alternative is to manage a subscription for every single creator I watch? Currently I sub to Nebula and YT premium. For ~$20 a month. If I were to go through and sub to every creator I watch’s lowest patreon tier, we’d be talking about dozens of individual subs totaling probably more than double what I pay now.
Haha jokes on you. I've been refreshing the website until the ad refuses to load. It just took 5 minutes
DDOS ads.
i find using freetube keeps Ernie calm.
I wish using freetube kept Ernie calm, but it just doesn't work half the time. Invidious has the same issue. Which is significantly more annoying than just using YT, which Ernie has uBlock Origin for.
uBlock or ReVanced
UBlock as others have said. Or on android newpipe works well.
Edit: as a kind user pointed out, uBlock origin, not uBlock.
uBlock Origin, not uBlock. They're different - uBlock Origin forked from the original uBlock.
Ah. I did mean origin, didn't know about the og uBlock. Thanks for pointing that out.
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