736

YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

269 comments fedilink hide all child comments

YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users::undefined

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 215 points 1 year ago

Fuck YouTube

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

I agree. YouTube can be very useful, but we really ought to be moving to other platforms at this point. Fuck YouTube.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using YouTube far more than any of my paid services for years. However I’m ready for a switch. If the YouTubers who I follow switched platforms I’d go with them in a second.

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] Ronnie@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

For sure! Which video site are you using instead?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 64 points 1 year ago

Xhamster

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

there are a few but they're all filled with right wing nutters and i doubt their ability to scale effectively

load more comments (16 replies)

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago

They have pissed 4channers. You do not piss 4channers. The last time that happened, Trump got elected.

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 95 points 1 year ago

I was using newpipe x Sponsorblock on Android exclusively, and now on desktop I've moved to freetube. Never did get the pop up telling me to remove Adblock but decided to make the jump early.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 year ago

still using Firefox and ublock and all seems fine to me

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm wondering if it's limited to certain markets for the time being.

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me it's a "soft" popup - a simple banner with a close button telling me not to block ads. And it doesn't appear very often, I think I've seen it twice.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (7 replies)

[-] schwim@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago

Freetube adopter as well. The experience is actually an improvement over using the yt site. I wish I had done it earlier.

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (21 replies)

[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For as many hours of YouTube I watch 4+ daily at least. I don't mind paying for Premium to avoid the hassle. Plus I get music with it.

Edit: haters can ligma. Down vote all you want!

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 91 points 1 year ago

YouTube isn't gonna give you brownie points for shilling for them

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] YoungLiars@aussie.zone 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a controversial viewpoint on here. You have to be pirating everything and using Linux otherwise you are corporate shill and will be downvoted for having a different viewpoint. Talk about an echo chamber.

I have used YouTube premium for years and years now, it is the best value subscription service I use. I haven’t seen an ad in years, I don’t have to find loopholes and I get to support the creators that produce great content. Also music.

[-] em2@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

I used to have premium for $9.99/mo until I got an email about them raising their rates come December. No thank you.

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Shit, dude, I was in your corner until the edit. It's supposed to be about choice. Those that wanna pay, pay. Those that can put up with ads, put up with them. Those that wanna say fuck YouTube, well, arr matey.

So, you rock on with your choice. You didn't, as far as I can see, bitch at anyone else's choice, so keep on rocking.

But ffs, never, ever whine about votes. Doesn't matter if they're up or down, they're just part of the forum. You say your peace, you get the votes you get (and if you check my user history, you'll see plenty of shit I've said where I did exactly that, so this isn't from someone that's all pristine or shit), and that's the way it is.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (29 replies)

[-] gilbert31@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Use Firefox, update the uBlockOrigin extension, update the filters, remove any other adblocking extension in case you have it. Should work just fine then.

load more comments (36 replies)

[-] jwagner7813@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Fuck it. I'll just say this instead. It's time to break up the tech monopolies. Google, Microsoft, etc.

load more comments (18 replies)

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

87.7% of the users watch on mobile, they are this mad about 12.3% possibly having access to an adblock.

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Do you mean 87.7% use the YouTube iOS/Android App or 87.7% use their smartphone to watch YouTube? Because in the latter case you also can use ReVanced, Firefox + Adblock, Invidious, etc.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

I was fine with ads a couple years ago, but the number, length and frequency of them keeps ramping up. This wouldn't need to be such a struggle if they just were reasonable about it.

[-] Rhapsodicjock_108@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Me : clicks a helpful tutorial of 5 minutes. YT: here have an unskippable ad 5 seconds. Me: annoying but the creators have to make money somehow I guess. YT: and now here's your skippable ad. Me: I just want this to be over with. YT content creator: Hello guys this video is sponsored by Raycons. 10 seconds blabbering on the product, skip skip Me: closes video.

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (13 replies)

[-] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Lol look at me change to piped

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

I'll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube's content and don't even work.

See you next week!

[-] TheBlue22 46 points 1 year ago

Google is a multi trillion dollar company. They can afford to run youtube at a loss for decades, if not centuries to come.

They don't want to because they are greedy and "need" to grow their profits yearly.

Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit ass shilling for a corporate entity that would kill you if it was profitable enough.

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would google run YouTube if it's making negative profit? Seriously. Why would anyone do that?

Am I greedy too because I expect my work to pay more than it costs me to live?

[-] TheBlue22 24 points 1 year ago

Because of the insane amount of advertising they can do on the massive majority of people who don't use adblock?

Because they hold THE monopoly on video upload?

There are many reasons why a company exists with no profit incentive.

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Fuck YouTube and fuck shills/simps

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

YouTube has a monopoly that is nearly impossible to challenge because of the network effect.

Sure there are costs but it would be better if as many people as possible would be ready to jump ship to create an alternative

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I installed a userscript today that plays ads in muted embeds hidden behind the actual player so that it effectively and quite literally blocks them while still leaving actual ublock disabled on the site. works pretty well.

EDIT: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477464-beta-youtube-no-preroll-ads-undetectable

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Revanced still going strong on mobile, which is where I watch YouTube 99% of the time.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Users complain but 99% of the 0,01% that actually use adblockers will just continue, just like how internet "boycotts" always end, by going back to the dystopian status quo

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

https://www.statista.com/statistics/351862/adblocking-usage/

similar stats to elsewhere.

you should probably not pull numbers out of your arse

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

not only is this a seemingly random site that needs you to use an account to access part of the information, all you need to do is not look at a random site that pulls stats out of their arse like you say, they dont explain where the data comes from, they dont explain anything.

I dont need to pull random ass data from that sketch site, this small amount of legwork is far more than necessary nor what you deserve for being a dick about it: (lets not forget you just say "elsewhere" without showing us, well, anything)

firefox addon site users:

ublock origin: 6.713.504 adblocker ultimate: 2.286.976 adguard adblocker: 991.481 block site: 518.605 adblock plus: 4.236.338 ghostery: 1.104.375 adblock for firefox: 1.166.799

everything else is too small and inconsequential to mention, same with github, thats a total of 17.018.078, firefox usercount FROM firefox, about 188 million

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

since webstore doesnt use proper numbers we can only assume but:

adblock best adblocker: 10million+ adblock plus: 10million+ adaway: 2million+ ublock origin: 10million+

thats again, only super roughly but 32 million users compared to chromes rough 3.3 BILLION users

both of these may nto be exactly 0.01 % sure, but we are all inconsequential and mean nothing compared to the total count of uers, who barely know what a browser is, let alone what an adblocker is.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

Google is not going to all this effort for a rounding error

load more comments (4 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (5 replies)

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Firefox and UBO still block all ads for me on YT and I'm not being blocked.

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

....what? This headline makes no sense.

[-] rurutheguru@lemmings.world 33 points 1 year ago

They could have fixed it with 1 word: "YouTube intensifies fight against ad-blockers BY showing pop-ups and users are frustrated."

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023

736 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

60009 readers

1744 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS