The CEO said shareholders needs to be appeased by making new sacrifice
Fuck YouTube
As a Premium user who still had uBlock installed, I was noticing the other day a loading problem when I had it activated until I deactivated and reloaded. Still, Google is entirely within it's right to target people even according to one of its greatest critics: https://youtu.be/KMLMQRS3Krk?t=175
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/KMLMQRS3Krk?si=topYLrXiiYqpF1GE&t=175
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It doesn't seem to be working for me. I've never been blocked for using ad blockers. It's still the same speed it's always been. I have all these work arounds just waiting to be used that I haven't even had to actually try.
Are they only doing this shit to like 12 people who write articles about it? Why wouldn't it be globally done all at once for everyone?
Yes, they are rolling these changes out in stages to make it harder for the internet to collectively address the issue.
Trust me, you will get hit eventually.
My biggest problem with the ads is that it's louder than the thing I'm watching, oftentimes a lot.
They are sometimes an hour long and I gotta press the skip ad button with my nose cause it'll take me ten minutes or more to clean up.
I have no love for the automatic gadgets where you can speak your commands. They get suggested by my coworkers quite a bit.
They want too much for what is ultimately hours of people playing chess.
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Theyre also blatant scams. Whenever I accidentally open youtube on my phone when clicking a link the ad is literally claims of free money using ai voices of celebrities, “cures” for blindness that are selling watered down bleach, and other scams
Despite their wasted efforts, it just doesn’t matter. Circumventing all this is still too easy. Only the impatient are doomed.
Still using Vivaldi with only the built-in ad blocking, still noticing no ads, still noticing zero performance issues.
It just doesn't play on my Firefox anymore.
Open your videos in Incognito mode, the block is cookie-based. I open YT on my browser in normal mode to see all my subscriptions, then open the videos in incognito with adblock enabled.
Why can't people just stop using google? Genuinely curious
It is frightfully expensive to host video content. YouTube would cost Billions per year to run.
There's no alternative to youtube that isn't complete garbage
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
