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Oh no youtube
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Hit report issue to confuse their algorithms lol
As if they even take time to view or utilize those reports. It has always taken a ~~Twitter~~ campaign to get YouTube to even notice an issue with the algorithm.
If you're using uBlock Origin. Go to “Filter Lists” and Purge All Caches. That may help.
Anti adblock-blocker-blocker time
Fuck YouTube. All my homies use PeerTube.
Well, at least in my dreams.
Here's the thing, YouTube. When you first started running ads, I didn't really mind. They were short, there weren't that many, and if they were particularly annoying or repetitive, there was a skip button. I respected that you needed to make money and that you wanted to pay the content creators, and you respected my time.
But then you decided to flood the fucking platform and cut the revenue share with the creators. Without adblock, I can't watch a 5 minute video without 5 minutes of ads. You're trying to force me into paying for your premium service by annoying me to death.
Which I might do if I thought the people whose videos I actually like got a decent share of the revenue. But they don't. Hell, at least one of my favorite YouTubers is regularly demonetized, so they wouldn't see a penny.
So, YouTube, I'll keep blocking ads and use services like Patreon to support my favorite YouTube folks the best I can. And if you won't let me use adblock? Well, I guess I have to find some other way to occupy that hour or so a week I use your service, because I'm sure as shit not using half of it to watch ads that don't benefit the people whose videos I enjoy.
ETA: this post contains hyperbole (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole ).
Well achshuellly what you mean is hyberpolic. You see the two old men inside some random college discussing English had a fight and now it’s offensive to say hyperbole cause one of the guys died and the other won
Err… no?
As far as I can tell, "hyperpolic" is a typo, and you meant "hyperbolic", which kinda fits, but it would be "contains a hyperbolic statement," rather than "contains hyperbole." It would be less clear, though, since "hyperbolic" can refer to either "hyperbole" or "hyperbola".
Meanwhile hyperbole refers only to a figure of speech and not potentially an open curve with two branches.
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Sorry, did I ruin your joke? I ruined your joke didn't I. Man, I just can't stop myself from being a pedantic jackass…
Worse yet, on Firefox for Android I got an ad despite using uBlock Origin.
I have like 4 different ad blockers installed now because of that. Seems to do the trick. :p
It's not an ad-blocker, it's a wide-spectrum content blocker which is necessary for security.
I've found that I watch YouTube more often than Netflix. So I said "fuck it" and subscribed.
Yes I'm tempted to too. What bothers me is that Youtube is literally the same company that runs the monopoly spyware OS in half the world's pockets. That is just so unrelated to its mission, so screwed up. If Youtube were a separate media company competing on a level playing field with a bunch of media-company peers, i.e. if it were Netflix, things would be so much healthier and I would be much more inclined to give it money.
The case for forcing Google to divest itself of Youtube is overwhelming.
I mean I'm somebody who used to ad block for a long time and then subscribed to premium for the music.
I get their point of view given the costs but it still really sucks. As someone who definitely couldn't have justified the cost of a different point in life this would have drastically reduced the quality on YouTube.
That's their right but I don't have to be happy about it
Ads allow YouTube to be used
You're saying that as if it was a good thing…
Just get youtube premium if you don't want ads. The people you watch deserve to be paid for their work
If you think people are getting paid by youtube then your are wrong. The amount per user is insignificant.
You can spend a $ directly to any creator you like and watch his channel ad free for the rest of your life and they have more money from you than they would get by ads from youtube
Nah, I only ever liked YouTube because it was a site where complete randoms could share stuff for free
I'm not interested in paying someone's salary, I just want to watch people's videos of their pets and kids and stuff like that
complete randoms could share stuff for free
who do you think opts to put ads on their videos. Google doesn't force anyone to monetise their videos if they don't want to.
Yeah, it's their choice, not mine. Exactly.
But there will still be ads.
Its sad this is being downvoted. Ethically you should pay to use the service either through ads and personal data or subscription and personal data.
I don't do either because I don't like Google and don't care about being Ethical to them. I understand why they would try and stop me and I've come to terms with the fact that I will have to give up youtube in the next decade.
I don't get it why is ethical when the options includes "... AND personal data".
If you sign into YouTube with a Google account you've opted into your watch history being linked to your online profile. That's not unethical.
If you're talking ethics, I think the most important thing is that the user controls what their software does. YouTube videos are hosted on the web, and fundamentally people can choose how to display web sites on their own computer. Of course, if YouTube doesn't like this it's their prerogative to not host their content like that.
The user controls what they display but Google controls what YouTube should be. And it should be ad supported or subscription.
@Fizz @Dindonmasker I pay for Youtube Premium.
I still run uBlock Origin on there to cull behind the scenes analytics, and block cross-site cookies from tracking me across the web.
this is more an adblock plugin issue than a firefox issue. Had this notification a few times now...
Nah. YT/Google is consistently working on breaking adblocks, this is just the tip.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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