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I actually didn’t care when there was an ad in the beginning of the video or what not. It was when I had to start watching multiple ads in the middle of a 10 minute video as well. Like come on, not even broadcast TV is that annoying.
Shorts are such a stupidly blatant way to start showing more ads than content, and they make navigating channels impossible. Hell you can’t even get away from ads in search results with premium.
Noaw I understand why so many people hate shorts! I never use the official app or browser to watch, so I don’t see the advertisements.
Adding an insane amount of ads is a dark pattern to convince you into joining Youtube Premium. Which is crazy expensive by the way, 13,99 $/month
SponsorBlock addon
The holy trinity: ublock origin, sponsorblock and dearrow. Using all of them makes YT great again.
Same here. I was listening to a beautiful violin piece being played by a soloist and an ad interrupted it. I would be fine with watching the ad before. I immediately went and watched it elsewhere.
Later, I came back to YouTube for something unrelated and had a message/popup that said ‘tired of being interrupted? Upgrade to premium here!’
They know exactly what they are doing, trying to make it unbearable to use anything other than premium. They can get fucked.
Or the knack of starting the add 2 seconds into a guitar solo…
laughs in firefox + uBlock Origin
If I understand correctly, there’s nothing about Firefox that makes ad blockers any harder to detect. What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site?
That said, I use Firefox and uBlock myself, and I’ve yet to see YouTube stop me from using the site.
They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.
Coming to you later… “Your browser violates YouTube’s Terms of Service.”
Firefox currently enjoys protection from being “relatively niche” in the browser market (aka not Chromium based trash).
But if I had to place a bet on which browser would put effort in to protecting your privacy, including which extensions are installed, my bet would be on Firefox over Chrome.
The difference is Firefox is not a chromium based browser and thus not subject to googles fucking bullshit, esp when we come to things like web drm
It has always been my understanding that uBlock and uBlock Origin were two totally different extensions for ad blocking. Is this not correct? Back several year ago when ad blockers were new, I recall seeing two different Firefox listings for them, and people would caution users to get uBlock Origin and not the other truncated named one
Ublock fucked the creator who made ublock origin
I am assuming that is metaphorical?
What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site
Not sure if you question is serious … but just in case, Mozilla is one of the few non-profit orgs that is fighting for an open web
ref. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/and uBlock Origin can literally work its magic because firefox provides the necessary APIs that allows it to work. (old ref. but AFAIK still relevant: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox)
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Just another Firefox fan boy. They do this shit when as blockers get brought up too as if Brave, Vivaldi, etc isn’t going to strip out the ad blocker nonsense when they build their versions. Just because these versions use Chromium as a base in no way means they have to use their code. Firefox fan boys are too busy talking about Firefox to understand this.
Lamo this will introduce more people to revanced
Oh my, the creators get paid?!?
https://influencermarketinghub.com/youtube-money-calculator/
Oh… So no, not really…
Sounds like they’re lying to me!
Two days ago I noticed when watching through the app on my phone that I could no longer just skip ads, and the trick of reporting them to skip didn’t work anymore either. I effectively had to just sit and wait.
That same day I got NewPipe, imported my subscriptions, and honestly even if this is just a phased trial or something, I won’t be going back to the standard YT app.
Creators make pennies from ad revenue. If I want to support them, I’ll make a donation or subscribe to their Patreon or something.
I won’t just sit and suffer a slew of ads while my data is harvested under the false pretense that it’s all to support the creators.
The problem is that YouTube infrastructure is ridiculously expensive. Streaming 4K videos is not a joke. Creators won’t create crap without YouTube. Sadly all other platforms have died. Again, because running such service is ridicolously expensive.
They’d still be trying to pull this shit if all streaming was limited to 144p.
And?
You can also try out ReVanced if you wish to access YouTube with your account
Thanks for the tip! Will give it a go.
Aw that’s so cute, they think they’ll be able to stop adblockers from working for more than a few days. Just like everyone else before them. Good luck with that guys.
I have YouTube ReVanced on my phone. If YouTube ever defeats uBlock Origin on my desktop, I just won’t watch YouTube on desktop anymore. I refuse to watch or view ads.
Back in the day my grandma would literally mute TV ads and look away while setting a timer to indicate when to look back. So I come from a long line of people refusing to watch ads and not about to start now.
Does it work normally for You? Mine broke last week and freezes every video at around 70 seconds.
I pay for Premium and I still used ReVanced for the sponsor block. However, after some time, I couldn’t watch videos beyond the 40 second mark, ever happen to you?
That means you need to update ReVanced
Thanks! I’ve missed sponsor block
Same here, but you just need to update ReVanced, fixed a lot of stuff
Ya. That’s the point. They don’t want you consuming their server CPU cycles unless you are paying for it via youtube premium, or advertisers are paying for it.
I paid $12 to watch oppenheimer and that was 3 hours. I watch way more than 3 hours of youtube every week. Easily worth paying for premium.
why are you shilling for youtube they dont give af about you
Just yesterday they stopped allowing me to see home page and recommendations unless I turn on watch history, which I am not doing ever. So they can keep forcing my hand and see how far it goes. If anything am stubborn enough to enjoy this kind of petty behavior from major players. They keep thinking “oh they will just do what we ask them to”, but I’ll do the opposite out of spite. I’ll just use !videos or similar communities to find my recommendations until the day comes where I stop using it completely. I quit Facebook this way, quit Reddit and Twitter, quit WhatsApp. Keep at it guys, let’s see who’s more stubborn.
I’ll take some of that action. There needs to be some sort of medical term for the reaction that adverts inspire in me. At this point, it’s pathological. It’s interesting to contrast YouTube’s original form with the abomination it has become today. Almost as if corporations wait patiently while they achieve market dominance before they come out with absurd and Orwellian ethical statements about ‘breaking rules’. Before that it was a big house, come on in and enjoy the cornucopia. No, Google, we will never stop blocking your poison. All we want is the service.
I don’t think they care about the small handful of people who will stop watching YouTube over this, to be honest.
That is fine by me! But I doubt the number will be so small. Still I don’t care how many. Am not selling my data becauseo others are. -
Also happened to me
What is !videos ?
The streaming crash has only just begun.
A new dark age is dawning.
The golden years of the 1650s to 1730s await
I’m unironically considering ditching any online interaction(s) on the internet and use my PC solely for offline content (write documentaries, texts, play retro games). Because I really don’t want to use the internet with that level of intrusion in my pc.
Take any cybersecurity class and you’ll want to burn your tech in a dumpster. In most cases it’s security by obscurity from sheer numbers that hackers/sites don’t give a crap about you alone.
Additionally, every site you have ever visited tracks your browser, IP, OS, location, and more. This AdBlock tracker is just observing that you have a plugin for ad blocking. That’s the least intrusion that YouTube does.
In summary, there’s no need to be paranoid, but only because everything that can be stolen or observed already has been.
Also to add to what you said, switch away from (Google) Chrome everyone!!
Imagine this message, but on every website, and it literally cannot be prevented, as the browser itself will sooner than later just straight up tell the sites “yo, your content has been modified, maybe block the user from viewing”, snitching on you.
Come to think of it now, I wonder if this will affect poorly implemented sites using that feature to accidentally (or intentionally…) disable dark mode/reader extensions.
And then, due to Chrome’s market share, if left unchanged, web developers/companies will at some point just not bother anymore. Imagine “this works best in Google Chrome, download now” you see for some web apps today, but even with the most basic text based site that can’t prevent you from using your Adblocker in e.g. Firefox or Safari.
It is like people freaking out over giving out their phone number and SS number. I guarantee you that info is already out there in countless databases.
They also started to fight piped and invidous, nevertheless it won’t make me buy their subscription, I’ll just ditch the platform.
YouTube has also started showing me a blank “home” screen since I turned off my watch and search activity history on privacy settings.
Joke’s on them, all I want is to see my subscriptions anyway
I just spent about 2 hours trying to figure out how to turn off google assistant always listening and turning off the driving mode for maps. Still can’t solve the maps thing. Looking for an alternative, this is getting so shitty.
I bought a pixel because I couldn’t stand the bloatware that came from Samsung devices, now I can’t uninstall chrome or any google apps, fuck this.
In exchange for no bloatware, a Pixel offers you an all-in-one spyware device.
Actually I just used GMaps yesterday and noticed it no longer suggests locations (recent or otherwise) when starting a map search because I have “web and app activity” turned off in privacy settings too. It is just a blank screen with a search bar. That one just seems spiteful, but also why the fuck would “app activity” be relevant to locations of interest around me?
All these changes put together tells me Google is desperate to squeeze out as much ad placement value from their services as possible and are willing to nuke their app experiences to do it.
I’m considering rooting at this point.
Recommendations just mean every month I have to spend a week telling it not to recommend channel or not interested
I wish there was a plugin to auto - not recommend channel based on video view counts or video length
Fuck this shit with the force of a billion adblockers.
So, alphabet can rip off the creators but we can’t? What a crappy double standard.
Of all the streaming platforms, YouTube treats its creators the best.
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I guess such things are going to get broken as well if YouTube walks down that path.
And so grew another head for hydra.
