Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

Anorack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the funny thing about this threat. It implies that using YouTube the regular way is “optimal” viewing. It’s fucking shit without adblock.

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  • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even without ads it’s shit without sponsorblock for me. Not even for the sponsor spots, but the absolutely annoying copy paste of please like, subscribe, hit the notification icon, blah blah blah blah blah.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s shit, but it’s still usable as I can shortcut my way around it. The ads are hot liquid swamp ass that make it unusable. I see ad, I circumvent or close tab.

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sponsor Block???

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  • rob299@bookwormstory.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s optimal to them. You just don’t understand Youtube’s perspective of it yet. And then it’s unoptimal for them when you watch with the adblocker.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How to quit YT in a week?

    1. disable adblocking
    2. Suffer watching ads
    3. Get bored, because you no longer feel like watching adTube
    4. Switch to something else

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is absolutely zero possibility that they can find a way to make my experience on YouTube worse than my experience on YouTube without uBlock.

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  • rob299@bookwormstory.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a way to look at, but i’l personally still be using Peertube. instead of 3rd party YouTube apps.

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    • xe3@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some of those alternative “YouTube” apps are not limited to YouTube as a backend/source of content. I don’t recall if it’s freetube, new pipe or both that allow using Peertube and YouTube from the same app, which helps bridge the gap in content / ease the transition from an end user perspective.

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      • Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Newpipe supports Youtube, Peertube, media.ccc.de, Soundcloud and Bandcamp

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• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that my children know the Liberty Mutual jingle from watching YouTube at school says no.

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yo what can you even do about this

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