Comment on Google used to show ads I didn't mind. Now Google is THE reason I use adblockers.

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t even need a car. You can just walk. You also don’t really need a grocery store, you can just grow your own food.

  Modern society hasn’t been about what we “need” for hundreds or thousands of years.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t see your point. I am using a front end that feeds me YT content without ever opening the YT app that I actually disabled. You don’t have to use YouTube.

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    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha, I understand now!

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    • colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which one do you use? I have a hard time finding something that works well, especially on mobile (iOS)

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t need oxygen, just die

    Lmao

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    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Going off your chain to the extreme

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YouTube isn’t a necessity — and neither is the internet, really. We don’t need them to survive. That said, I do enjoy YouTube as a form of entertainment. I’ve tried alternatives like NewPipe and Invidious, but none of them work as smoothly as YouTube with ad blockers.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use NewPipe, all YT links are redirected to NP app. It is flawless.

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    • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you mean people dont have to use YTs native frontend?
      First message sounded like you implied others could switch to peertube or something (which is an option but with tradeoffs)

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      • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I sorta shortcuted my comment. Happens all the time

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Once upon a time people would have thought it was crazy to try controlling how someone interacts with your content on the internet.

  I don’t remember anyone asking if we were okay with changing that.

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• grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Woah never thought you’d get so many downvotes on frickin lemmy for pointing out the use of surveilance software is not requied.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They built it this way on purpose, hostile takeover, then let the shit happen. Like the other guy posted, the quality or source of the ad doesn’t matter, could go straight to a scam site, so fuck them. Block anything you don’t want. Ads are about 10-12% of all my network traffic according to pihole reports. That’s entirely too much.

    And sure you don’t have to use YouTube, but where else are you going to go that has more hours of video than you got days left on this planet? The destroyed other video sites to create the shithole that many people depend on. Don’t act like you don’t use it.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, it got hot for a moment

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