YouTube revanced 👌
Or Morphe. Same devs.
I just realised i haven't watched a single ad in like 2 years
Thanks ublock origin!
I haven't seen an ad in 16 years. Thanks ublock origin/dns hole/not watching TV/not going to the movies/not reading magazines.
And FM - the local radio stations are the biggest dumpholes of ads
Smart TVs are really just somebody else's computer that you paid for to watch ads on.
Don't forget to use ublock and adguard !
It has been nearly ten years since I purchased the lifetime AdGuard membership for Android.
I can't believe most people are out there raw dogging the internet. It's damn near unusable and the dark patterns aren't even hidden anymore.
When you see the long ad, just close the fuckin' browser window. Immediately. And then use something else.
They'll only get the point and change if you stop giving them your eyeballs for shit you don't wanna see.
youtube has ads?
Yeah, it is a great advertisement company, that lets you watch ads for free, but sometimes it shows videos that are not ads. I am glad that they are slowly patching up this issue. /s
Youtube: "GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!"
Viewers: "Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?"
Youtube: "I KNOW, I'LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!"
Viewers: "JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT"
Youtube: "Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads.."
Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin
If you grew up with commercial TV, not only is the frequency of ads on youtube bad, but the placement--in the middle of a sentence or a scene--is mentally and emotionally destructive.
When cable TV first came out it didn’t have ads because you were paying for the service. When Sirius satellite radio came out it didn’t have ads because you were paying for the service. When Netflix streaming came…
Adding ads to YouTube was always the plan.
No, I don't see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It's really not that important to life.
I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.
Ive been getting back to reading myself. Media's become so overstimulating
"unskippable"
I haven't seen an ad on YouTube for years, with 2 simple browser plugins. Assuming you're on a PC:
Ublock Origin Sponsor Block
If you're using chrome, you already fucked up.
I like paying for services rather than using free services that sell my data and brainwash me with ads. Adblock is fine, but how are they supposed to make money? Should the service be free?
I get where you're coming from, but the issue isn't that YouTube makes money, it's how aggressively they're doing it simultaneously.
The platform runs on creator content, yet payout rates, especially for smaller channels, have barely moved while YouTube's revenue keeps growing. They're squeezing every side of the equation at once while the people actually making the product worth watching see the least of it.
Ad-blocking isn't theft. It's a rational response to a platform that's decided unskippable ads are acceptable on top of an already profitable model. If the value exchange felt fair, fewer people would bother. Early days of streaming showed that people accept a fair deal. Enshittification has driven many of us back to the seven seas.
What is adblock? Can someone explain it to me like I'm five?
Think of your computer or phone like a dance club. Adblock is the bouncer you hire (download for free) that keeps ads out and let's content in. Ads are clever and wear disguises so you have to regularly update your adblocker.
An ad blocker is some sort of a plug-in for a computer browser? What do you do on your phone? Is there a separate ad blocker plug-in for the browser on my phone?
On PC it's a browser extension that works best with Firefox (uBlock Origin is generally recommended). It also works on Firefox for Android. You will likely need separate extensions for each browser and device you use. I don't think Firefox syncs extensions between phone and desktop.
The day ad block stops working is the day I stop using sites with ads
I mean, I'm not.
Last time I saw a youtube ad was probably 2009. Or it might have been 2008.
Android: https://newpipe.net/
Smart TV: https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
Computer: https://ublockorigin.com/
Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.
Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.
Is there a way to put uBlock or similar on a smart TV? PiHole doesn't block YouTube ads. I just use my PC because I haven't figured out how to put an ad blocker on the TV.
maybe adblock is good
Firefox/Ublock origin + adguard DNS + sponsorblock. My personal devices are not billboards, and they haven't allowed ads in years
Edit: youtube revanced on Android. Sponsorblock has saved me over 4 hours since I reinstalled the app earlier this year
and smarttube for android tv. i had friends over "wait, youtube without ads is actually enjoyable???"
Hey YouTube? The endpoint of enshittification is this: I wipe my ass and flush you.
Keep going, YouTube. You're not so important that we can't just leave.
Nebula exists. Curiosity Stream exists. PeerTube exists. Odysee exits. The people I value on YT already have footholds on all four. More will arrive soon enough.
So keep at it.
Keep injecting unskippable ads, flooding the feed with AI slop, letting bots post porn, demonetising and hiding quality content, using DMCA like a digital SLAPP against content creators, and using the algorithm to warp reality.
Your value proposition is ubiquity. That's it. That's all you have. Without popular buy-in, you're dead.
We proles? We have something better than loyalty.
We have spite.
So keep pissing people off - because watching you die on a very stupid hill of your own design will be entertaining AF.
For everyone else, see you on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !privacy@lemmy.world. Come and learn how you can replace all of these pieces of shit.
And in the meantime - yt-dlp should still work to download what you actually want to keep, and SmartTube is black magic incarnate.
Hmm somehow i havent ever gotten those kinds of ads.......... maybe because im using ublock? Must be something else, i am just the chosen one.
If you just click into the article you are absolutely blasted with statement after statement that this is only for TVs. Obviously if you have an ad blocker you wouldn't see ads. 🙂
Ublock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay, haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade. 😌
Like others, desktop I'm using Firefox with ublock origin. Android phone, Firefox with ublock origin. Android TV, SmartTube. Ad blockers have always outpaced Google in my experience though I use youtube maybe like twice a week and I don't randomly browse reccomendations. Just there for specific stuff
Where?
Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don't use the web interface. It's video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.
on YouTube's TV app
That's where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.
My solution is to just close youtube. There's nothing on there I want to see that badly.
For TV - SmartTube Next
For android - Youtube With Morphe Patches.
And, life is beautiful again!
Youtube has ads? But seriously, this is hurting the honest user.
It’s not just the unskippable ads but also the type of ads as well. I’ve seen some wild ones like ads to make you hard in the bedroom, but it never actually shows the treatment. I’ve seen ads for how to make “homemade” makeup to look younger, the ingredients are baking soda and honey? But I think the wildest one I’ve seen is an ad for a robot puppy but in the ad, you can clearly see it is a real puppy, but they keep saying that it is a robotic AI powered puppy.
The enshittification will continue until.. No man, it'll just continue.
at this point, I consider that 26 eur i'm paying monthly simply my US Tech Bro tax.
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