Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most people don’t even know what Invidious is, let alone the fact that there are other video hosting sites that aren’t youtube (Vimeo, for one).

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• bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.

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• OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content? The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone, and that not a lot of people really watch their subscribed page.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed

    Why would i have an account in that hellhole?

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some of us made Gmail accounts long before Youtube even existed, and still rely on youtube for tutorials and other things of that nature that aren’t found anywhere else.

      Don’t be a pretentious dick about it.

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      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I was just thinking that I should host a “how to” peertube instance.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s almost irrelevant to subscribe to a channel, the algorithm anyway pushes whatever it wants ignoring your requests

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content?

    I actually don’t watch a whole lot of YouTube anymore so I can’t really comment on this here.

    The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone,

    But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in algorithms?

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    • OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in less algorithms?

      Yes. Invidious and other programs, websites and anything else are useful for these kind of things. When you go to another house and in another computer you want to see some video but not affect the watch history of the user that uses the computer mainly. Or just simply watching some video that you wouldn’t normally watch.

      But most people who use YouTube actively on their main computer binge-watch. Sometimes they follow creators, sometimes they follow what the algorithm recommends them for the day. Invidious does not have such algorithm, since its a proxy. So, it is really not for everyone.

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