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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[-] Papanca@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.

It's tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc...

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago

Greedy companies like youtube thinking tracking people is fine don't need my money. I won't end using adblockers.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago
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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't worry, I did something about youtube. That being uninstalled and only go there if I absolutely have to.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Youtube can go fuck itself. I was one of the few people who was committed to not using an adblocker - corporate assholes or not, I recognized that advertising was why Youtube exists for free.

3 unskippable ads on every fucking video broke me. Youtube can burn, I'm just burning bandwidth until it does.

[-] archchan@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

I already only use FOSS front ends to access YouTube. If content existed elsewhere like Peertube or Odysee I wouldn't be using YouTube at all.

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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Too bad. If we can't block these ads, everyone will go elsewhere

[-] PorkTaco@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago
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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty happy paying for YouTube Premium; it seems like a fair deal given how much my family uses YouTube. But I'm worried that sooner or later YouTube Premium is gonna get Google Graveyarded, or they're going to insert ads anyway.

[-] dan@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Guaranteed they’d find a way to double dip. Price gouging, restricting content behind further paywalls, adding ads anyway… absolutely they’ve investigated all those and undoubtedly more.

Switch to Firefox, Chrome is their biggest lever to force this kind of stuff onto people. While Firefox exists and it remains uncool for them to block it they’ll have to compete against piracy and adblockers which will limit their ability to aggressively monetise.

Switch to firefox!

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Just look at where Netflix and Amazon Prime are going.

The days of YouTube premium being ad free are numbered. I suspect 2-3 years before it's announced, rolled back, and then a stealth rollout is done.

[-] waitmarks@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I consider it already not ad free considering how many video creators shove sponsored segments in all their videos.

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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I'd be down to pay YouTube to watch 2k - 4k videos, I'm shocked they allow people to upload videos on that resolution to begin with.

Now, if they start intentionally blocking adblockers, or have a way to force around them (like Twitch) I'd immediately stop using it (like Twitch)

[-] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

I read that 2% uses adblocks...

[-] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

I do find it a bit funny that their adblock-block is to my knowledge just client side JavaScript. Ya' know, the kinda stuff adblock is built to cutout.

Unless they're going to be splicing up videos to put the ads into the same file (which would be astronomically resource intensive) or only allow YouTube in app and in seriously locked down Web-Environtment-Integrity browsers it'll be impossible prevent a device from running or not running code as the user see's fit.

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