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YouTube's war on adblockers still continue (lemmy.world)

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[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Google can suck the shit directly from my asshole Human Centipede style if they think I'm ever going to pay them for.not using their monopoly to harass me. When I can no longer feasibly block ads on YouTube, I'll just move to another platform. Thank goodness they're about to lose Chrome because otherwise they'd soon be injecting ads directly through the browser just like they do in their shitty news app.

[-] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Subscribe to Nebula instead.

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Ads have started to straight up break the internet for me. I can go to websites and they'll complain about my ad blocker, and the only help I get is "disable your extensions." I don't even have any extensions! No ad block! But sites still curl up and die on me.

Is it because my browser is hardened? Is it Linux? Do I have to fork over private data to use a site and if I don't they pretend the issue is ad blockers?

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago

Well, Google sure is trying to take us in the direction of "you have to log in to Chrome to use the internet".

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Well let’s see how that goes when chrome is no longer google

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Google is just going to stall and delay until Trump's goons come in. Then, suddenly, the DOJ will have a change of heart.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You’re right .i forgot about the trumpet

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 42 points 3 days ago

I will not use youtube and use ads. The sooner they break my adblocker, the sooner i won't be on their platform

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 17 points 3 days ago

Ngl, I run Firefox and the usual suite of adblockers and haven't experienced any issues. I do the same on my phone (Firefox in "desktop mode").

[-] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I didn’t use adblockers when they had occasional normal ad breaks. Now when I have to watch on a TV app its just a garbage experience.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

[-] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yep I know but our main entertainment device is an Apple TV.

[-] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I"m just going to watch youtube less.

[-] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I subscribed to Nebula instead

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Why paying for no longer having an ad free experience, if you can have a really ad free YouTube for free?

[-] Neptr 17 points 3 days ago

YouTube is a monopoly. The reason no one really uses multiple platforms to upload videos at the same level as YouTube is because it was run for a long time at a lose to push out all competition. I have no simpthy.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

I ❤️ FreeTube

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

smarttube.app

[-] obscur_e@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Newpipe!!!!

[-] ngn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

i genuinely dont see why would anyone use the official youtube app/website to watch content at this point

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I ended up paying for it because, frankly, expecting Youtube to be completely free and fighting how it could be paid for is kinda crazy. We’re just used to it being free but running Youtube is expensive. I watch hours of Youtube nearly every day and don’t use Crunchyroll nearly as much so why am I ok paying for that but not Youtube?

Yes, if they do actually start pushing ads then I’m going to wonder what the hell I’m paying for but for the time being I’m ok with paying for a service. I only started paying for it recently, to be fair, but I get it.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

If you want YouTube to keep existing, you should pay for it. That's why I use adblocker.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So you don’t want it to keep existing(use of ad blocker because you don’t pay for it) but still use it because you…don’t like it? There’s always Nebula if you want to make a point, but not if your point is that you’re an entitled little weirdo.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I use nebula and a handful of other platforms. But of course most creators are exclusively available on YouTube.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Ok so you use Youtube and just think it should be free because…?

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I want youtube to fail. I want content creators to move on to other platforms.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

So you don't want a free place to upload videos? .. why? Is it just because it's Google or too big or why?

I love the idea of a free place to upload videos, I just wish there was a way without as many ads or with a cheaper ad free prem.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It depends how many hours per month you use it I guess.

I am fine paying for Netflix (it is quite cheap here as well) which I watch probably at least 20-30 hours per month but not for youtube which I use for the music maybe an hour per week or less.

YouTube frequency of commercials is unacceptable. If they were to play a commercial every half an hour or so, I would say it is too often but I would understand it.

They don't, they try to play a commercial every other song start, so every 7-10 minutes. They are taking a piss.

[-] Zorsith 14 points 3 days ago

At the end of the day, Google is just going to double dip and take your money, and still sell your data.

They are, first and foremost, an ad company. Their money maker is the data they get from you; your viewing habits and whatever they can scrape from your computer.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

edit: for context, I have 7000 hours of uninterrupted streaming on YouTube. It's been well worth the cost to me. But this is with the model being ad-free. If that ever changed I would need to re-evaluate my position, but I do like that my subscription can give support to creators (support which is larger per view than that of an ad user) at the same time.

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[-] obscur_e@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I still didn't get why you paid

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Because it is a service, not a favour. Keep up.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Give an inch, they take a mile

Instead of trying to make money, they should be looking at how to operate without it

Peertube is an example of figuring this out

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

How to operate without money? Hosting countless hours of high-quality video on demand and streaming it to your computer at highspeed? Are you high?

I had never heard of Peertube before your comment and it sounds great! It also puts a lot on the content creator, though, and regardless of whether Youtube should follow that model or not how would you expect them to make that change? Just suddenly tell every creator that they must start self-hosting? Genius, that’ll go over so well!

Peertube themselves are saying that they don’t want to replace Youtube, simply to offer alternatives and choice(which I’m cool with).

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

How to operate without money?

Have the public libraries host the peoples internet. There are options if you can think outside your little Gmail inbox.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I don’t use Gmail, and in fact my email isn’t attached to any big company. I know you couldn’t have known that but still.

So now you want to shift all this content onto poorly funded public libraries? Do you have any idea how difficult all that would be? Do you have any idea how much content is on Youtube? And that’s not to mention how much bandwidth a person would need to be able to send out the content they’re hosting to tens of thousands of people at once.

You’re living in a dreamland. Other options can start these things from scratch but Youtube is not about to make their system infinitely more complex and unreliable just for you and the small handful of other people who are high on their tiny corner of the internet. You’re asking me to think and you haven’t done the bare basics of it yourself.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The transition would be saving videos users watch on their devices not just creators

However it’s just one path, if Google’s engineers find a better solution then they can do that.

[-] howsetheraven@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

On firefox I've been occasionally seeing ads leak into videos lately but refreshing usually fixes it.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Google's, not Youtube's.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Clipious + invidious (Wish Piped worked) ftw

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