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Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

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NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It often makes me wonder why you tube keeps squeezing then. If the majority don’t block ads it seems like it would be an acceptable loss.

At this point, I am kind of done with youtube either way. The more I go on with life the more I want to actually do things instead if passively just watch things.

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chasteinsect@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

Whether or not that matters depends on how much and how you watch it.

Ads while I listen to music = annoying I want to navigate fast to different videos on PC to find something and almost every time an ad appears on a new video = annoying I’m watching some chill drive or walk while reading a book and a loud ad appears = annoying.

But when I just go and watch 1-3 videos before bed on my ipad? I don’t care if I get those 2-4 ads, I just mute and wait those couple of seconds. I have no youtube adblockers or different clients on ipad / phone for that reason.

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