Turn off the ad blocker or you’ll be cut off after three videos.
  • Morogwen@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Not paying youtube a cent until they remove all the transphobes and quit blasting people with their shit ass bigoted content. I’ll pirate and ad block just to spite them every step of the way. Make your bed with fascists, lay in it.

    • Ivyymmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For Android:

      Newpipe or Tubular (Newpipe X Sponsorblock fork)

      VueTube (still under development, the team is working slow because it’s pretty small, they have a few time to spend on it and they need devs, it’s a complete FOSS alternative to Vanced, and will have most of its features including optional Google log in with interactions)

      If you need to login and have a full YouTube experience: Revancedapp

  • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be “impossible to advertise to.” For me, it’s rang very true. I can’t think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn’t been the norm, or ads would be dead.

    • Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Early GenXer here. Am the same way. Have always hated ads in any form. Except maybe print ads. Especially in the old days in mags like Electronic Fun & Games or something. Even targeted ads are useless to me. If there’s something I’m interested in, I’ll search it out and find what I need. I don’t need some company scraping my data and telling me what I want. I run a Pihole, use ad blockers and YouTube specific apps to block ads and always will

    • F4celess@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago
      youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set,ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

      Here it is in text format so ya’ll don’t have to type it out. I haven’t verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it’s way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The one thing the Reddit exodus has taught me, is that I’m almost eager for a reason to ditch my social media and either find something new or simply take back that time and do something more fulfilling anyway.

    I’m so much happier not being constantly blasted with advertisements, that now when I have to go back on insta or FB for whatever reason, I can’t stand more than 30 seconds before I nope back off.

    Looking forward to axing YouTube from my life next.

  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    block scripts with uMatrix. a little finer grained. if they block me, oh well. still won’t watch ads

    • LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      uBlock can do everything that uMatrix can do it just has a different interface, so there’s no need to use the deprecated uMatrix

      • Stefen Auris@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree, the internet needs to go back to its roots. Putting your eggs in one basket is just a bad idea.

        • iokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          At some point the ratio of convenience to quality got all out of whack. Most people I know use maybe three different platforms at most and get angered by all of them. My internet experience peaked when I was checking 20 extremely specific forums regularly and using in-game chat 90% of the time (vent/teamspeak were reserved for raid night).

    • GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As much as I dislike ads, “Company wants to make revenue from its product” is not a prime example of why monopolies are bad.

      • ArchmageAzor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If a company has no competition, being a monopoly, it’s basically free to do whatever it wants. Youtube controls the video streaming market of the internet. If they choose to not pay content creators, to run 10 ads in a row every 3 minutes, or to ban content creators for saying something their automods think is a bad word, what will you do? Where else will you turn? Odds are there’s nothing for you on Vimeo. So you either make do with how Youtube operates, or you don’t get to watch cat videos, or video essays on WW2, or playthroughs of Super Mario Sunshine, or what have you.

  • ThePunnyMan@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I know how obnoxious ads have become on the internet and I’ve seen how they have progressively gotten longer and more prevalent on YouTube but I don’t really know how to feel about this. Conceptually, they are handling and storing so much video data their operating costs must be astronomical. As far as I know, advertisement is the main way they recoup any of that cost so I can’t really blame them for this. Maybe they are just reaching a point where they are just too massive to work.

    • ruination@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I would agree with you on this if it weren’t for the fact that scam ads are so widespread on Youtube and Google that it’s almost like they don’t care about their users, only money. If they don’t care about their users, why should I care about their bottom line. Also, ads I don’t have too much of a problem with, but data collection and surveillance I do, and it’s hard to block one without blocking the other.

      • SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        People will choose the most convenient option. It just so happened that, for a brief period, it was more convenient to go through the hassle of installing an adblockers than to sit through the ads for regular users.

        The unfortunate reality is that, for some people, moving over to TikTok will be more convenient than watching YouTube ads. Our attention span shrinks a little more, and Google takes one step closer to MySpace.

    • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I actually pay for Nebula already and it has been great so far for me. I use it a lot more than Youtube and you don’t need to sift through a bunch of garbage to find something decent to watch. They just need to add more content creators.

  • mochi@lemdit.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure there’s a way to get around it, and if there isn’t, then I just won’t be using YouTube anymore. I survived before it existed. I’m getting tired of these companies’ bullshit.