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YouTube cracking on ad blockers. (lemmy.world)

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[-] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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2028: Web Environment Integrity inserted. Hand warmer sales crater as mobile viewers relish their new handset functionality.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Even if I have to sit through 30 seconds of silence, is there a way to redirect the ad to a ghost browser so I don't have to listen to something like grubhubs stupid video?

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[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Hold the line uBlock Origin. If YT becomes unusable, I'll find somewhere to binge-watch true crime videos at 3am.

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[-] b0gl@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

"allowlisted" topkek

[-] laylawashere44 28 points 2 years ago

Look this is different than pirating a game or bypassing a newspaper paywall. Watching content on YouTube simply costs money to YouTube. It's not like torrenting a game or movie, where while you haven't paid for the content, it didn't cost anything to the owner other than theoretical revenue. And it's not like bypassing a newspaper paywall, either, where the cost to the newspaper to serve you the story is practically negligible and the real costs are fixed and not related to how many people actually read the story.

Hosting video costs money and nobody can replace YouTube's massive library or realistically replicate their business model. I mean just look at image/gif hosting sites, they constantly go bust like Photobucket because storing everyone's pictures forever and for free isn't not a real business model.

YouTube needs to be paid for its gonna go the way of Photobucket.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Corpo shill alert

YouTube doesn’t need to get paid (by the users watching their ads) they get paid through you, the actual product. What you watch what you click on what you search for, these are ALL monitizable. You think Google is protecting your data instead of selling it lmao

Furthermore how much is enough? They gonna keep adding more and more unskipable ads more pre/mid/post rolls, b-b-but the multi fucking billion dollar corpo needs to get pAiD!!!!

Grow up

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[-] uriel238 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google has billions. YouTube pirates (can we call ourselves that yet?) are not going to bankrupt Google. In fact, Alphabet is spending more on their crackdown for sake of principle.

But Google is beholden to its shareholders, whose interests are diametrically opposed to that of the general public, so any gain by Google is a loss to the rest of us.

So any profit we can deny the Google machine remains instead in the economy, rather than vaulted in offshore accounts or used to further lock down the empires of the shareholders.

The day I can't watch YouTube sans commercials is the day I quit watching YouTube. And then it will get absolute-zero engagement from me.

So bring it. I do not need YouTube, and it needs viewers like me.

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago

Fuck youtube

[-] Metatronz@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Eh, don't need YouTube that badly. I think we'll collectively figure out video distribution without em just fine.

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[-] aswinbenny@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reset Ublock orgin and update the filter and Ublock extension. Disable other adblock extension if you have one. Still you would be getting the popup once a while.

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[-] deez_ballzzz@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

Yeah. This is becoming a problem with Google. Whatever they have created they just want to make it shit. Like everybody can't just pay and the amount of ads just makes it unwatchable.

On my firefox this rarely shows up though. I use the privacy extensions uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes.

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