Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

• Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’ve been “cracking down on adblockers” for over a decade

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  • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “They” have also been trying to prevent consumers/us from taking ownership of our devices and data for the last 2-decades.

    … and, ya know what? It’s working.

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• knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I’ll just waste my time elsewhere.

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  • Salvia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same, I low key hope they do it so I’ll read more. This might be the only way. 🙃

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    • Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      real maybe I’ll actually go through the mountains of DVDs and blu rays in our apartment

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• monketman82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s always a workaround…

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Firefox + uBlock Origin has worked well for years.

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    • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      ++ SponsorBlock and you got chef’s kiss

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    • m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      +1 combo. privacy badger, ublock origin and umatrix for fine tuning. also a youtube specific addon. seems okay

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      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What’s a YouTube specific add on?

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  • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because they don’t put the effort in.

    Add a simple “the video isn’t served until the ad’s length has elapsed” and suddenly your only workaround is to spend 30s staring at a black screen.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Better then ads

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    • monketman82@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Deal.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Laughs in

  Txt file with favorite channels as input for a yt-dlp download script schedule. Combined with a selfhosted invidious and freetube desktop app for other then favorite videos.

  Honestly I am really tired of jumping trough hoops, have to make sure yt-dlp and invidious use a proxy (cloudflare warp) or google will ban your ip for being a bot.

  But having to deal with the actual YouTube site or reopening my google account is worse.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why not run tubearchivist or something?

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First I hear of if but a quick scroll shows it mostly to organize an existing collection so you would still need to download.

      I put them straight into jellyfin which works fine for me.

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  • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You got that script handy?

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wont be home till quite a few hours.

      But also its general boilerplate enough an ai can help you get you one according to your own preferences.

      There are also a number of examples online.

      This one looks pretty interesting github.com/panchi64/auto-ytdlp

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The moment I’m unable to watch YouTube ad-free is the moment I never watch YouTube again.

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• Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When it reaches that point I’ll stop watching YouTube. I will never feel the pain they inflict.

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cracking down just means I don’t watch the content, still not getting ads.

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