Freetube adopter as well. The experience is actually an improvement over using the yt site. I wish I had done it earlier.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I was using newpipe x Sponsorblock on Android exclusively, and now on desktop I’ve moved to freetube. Never did get the pop up telling me to remove Adblock but decided to make the jump early.
schwim@reddthat.com 11 months ago
rkk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also this seems to be the safest way as your account not linked to freetube. Yt looses all data like age, likes and comments. Only the number of views gives them any feedback. This will bring down yt. All we need is time to work out alternatives. Yt censorship and demonetizing rules are killing the platform anyway.
schwim@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I don’t think anything is killing the platform as the longstanding ones seem pretty durable. Reddit did just fine throughout the API exodus and Twitter has somehow managed to survive Musk’s repeated and constant attempts to kill it. There will be enough viewers on youtube that will take whatever Google decides to throw at them. Don’t ask me why but a large portion of the viewers( redditors and tweeters, etc) just don’t care enough to make a change.
rkk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
what is reddit? and what is twitter? my memory is bad.
Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The only issue I have with freetube is that I sometimes like to click on the recommended videos on YouTube’s front page. If I switch to freetube entirely, I’ll lose that. But if uBlock doesn’t continue to work I will make the switch and the YouTubers I wouldn’t normally see just won’t get my views any longer.
schwim@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I never thought of that aspect as I’ve never used them. My subscription list is so long, I don’t have the time to watch the videos I’m subbed to, much less any bonus content. I wonder how many people use that feature.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why are so many of you alergic to paying creators to make videos? I get doing it on most sites, but buy premium of the sites like nexus mods or YouTube where people make content so they aren’t making shit you enjoy for free.
pelotron@midwest.social 11 months ago
The insinuation that website users somehow have a responsibility to watch ads so that the website’s 3rd party content creators can make money reads like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. YouTube are the ones paying the creators, not me, and can change the terms by which they calculate creator payments at any time. If YT decides that now, ads viewed during the hours of 7pm to 10pm result in higher creator payments, where is my role in that? Am I now obligated to prefer viewing ads during that time?
Plenty of content is uploaded to YT by people who don’t and never will get creator payments. Do I have to watch those ads?
My contract with YT is that I control what data is downloaded by and presented on my PC, not them. That Silicon Valley has decided that everything is free, but with ads, is unfortunate. If they’re unable to fund their business or their content if I use an ad blocker, then it seems to me like they’re pretty fucking bad at business.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you new to the internet? Every website, every single one of them, costs money to maintain and keep running. If you don’t pay to keep it online, someone else has to. Ads are a way for everyone to contribute a super small amount to keep the thing you’re on, online. When one or two people block them, it’s not a big issue. When most people do, it becomes one.
How do you pay to keep the servers up when most users are free booting? What do you do about high traffic when most of it isn’t paying for the servers you need to keep it running smoothly?
It’s the fucking apex of entitlement to think you should be able to slink through every website without paying a cent either through your data, your attention, or your wallet. You’re on lemmy, you should have a basic understanding of how shit works and it baffles me you don’t. Maybe we’re just finally getting normies with how big the site is growing.
pelotron@midwest.social 11 months ago
Come on man, I’ve been on the internet since the beginning. Back in the day I paid $10 to join the Something Awful forums. We used to host our own game servers, back when games would let you. We rented our own Ventrilo server for over a decade.
There are ways to pay for things besides making the user experience godawful.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
I’m okay with paying for YouTube but I don’t want a Google account. If Google ever reinstates having YT accounts then I will consider paying.
deur@feddit.nl 11 months ago
In the EU they are doing exactly that! You will be able to have individual accounts.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean I can respect that choice to an extent but I personally don’t find too much of an issue with the account itself. I’m comfortable with it having the data it collects as it’s mostly nonpersonal but I refuse to use their search engine.
MikuNPC@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Some of us pay for premium but still use Revanced and Freetube because they are simply better youtube clients. Sponsorblock, themes, customizable UI, performance, etc. The adblocking is just icing on the cake
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wasn’t aware any of them had baked in Sponsorblock or OLED themes. I might look into those platforms if that’s the case. But yes, Youtube does need to keep up on features instead of paygating the ones that already exist (like queue).
gingersneak@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Using ReVanced and having a fantastic time. If they find a way to block a locally patched client that is only a few versions behind, I will be impressed.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
still using Firefox and ublock and all seems fine to me
grte@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Same. I’m wondering if it’s limited to certain markets for the time being.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For me it’s a “soft” popup - a simple banner with a close button telling me not to block ads.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You will get the timer one in due course.
I first got the ‘soft’ banner, then it went to timer one (and this timer comes after watching 3 videos with ‘soft’ one.)
However, uBlock still removes the banner, but you have to click on the video after a few seconds to start it. Alternately you can hit F to fullscreen the video, and the banner just goes away and the video starts (without uBlock).
Azzu@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Many people have either not up-to-date filters, or are using some other addons that interfere with uBlock/trigger the adblock detection.
silver@lemmy.brendan.ie 11 months ago
I am using unlock and Firefox and getting hit by the anti-adblock
Spyd3r@lemmy.world 11 months ago
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 11 months ago
I got the AdBlock screen only every 2nd or 3rd video…
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I have never gotten a adblock popup using Firefox and ublock origin while my friend has gotten several on Chrome. I wonder if I’m just lucky that I’m not in the adblock block rollout on YouTube or if Firefox+ublock is working
Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Probably just lucky. They didn’t roll it out to all Firefox users at once. I got it several days after other Firefox users started reporting getting the popup. I followed the instructions to update my quick fix list in uBlock and it’s gone again. However, the first time I did it it came back after a day, so it may just be a never ending game of whack a mole.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Same Firefox and unlock setup (also sponsorblock) but I got a pop-up about ad blockers the other day and I just closed it and the rest of the site works fine.
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who asked