Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

• theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Normies genuinely turn on their Smart TV, watch start menu ads, open the YouTube app, wait 90 seconds for the shitty cpu to load the web view, scroll through hundreds of Spider-Man Elsa brainwashing, open a video, watch 3 minutes of ads, straight into a 3 minute sponsor segment. All before seeing any actual content.

  And they see no problem with this at all, the thought that you can make ads go away literally does not even occur to them as a possibility.

  Humanity deserves extinction, I’m gonna go release some refrigerant real quick

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  • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know people IRL who get offended whenever I mention that I just block ads. Shit’s insane.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ikr? I throw some money at creators I care about, but I’m not watching their stupid ads.

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    • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stockholm syndrome is a very scary condition.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      God this is so weird. “You have to watch and see ads to support content creators!” The fuck I do.

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    • Bizarroland@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How are you going to make any money then?

      Answer: paywall their fucking site.

      I'm paying for Internet access. If they don't block their site it's free game.

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• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can use SmartTube on Android TV, Yattee with this guide on iOS/iPadOS/tvOS or this app on webOS

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is webOS?

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OS for LG TVs.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The shambling remnants of Palm, Inc.

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The OS that runs on LG TVs

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• sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.

  Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.

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  • Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t need to be in desktop mode for ublock origin to work.

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    • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm, they may have changed it or I could be misremembering.

      Desktop mode also allows you to play a video while your screen is off which is good for listening to music.

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or use revanced or an open source alternative.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not Firefox on iPhone though

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    • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple users love having control taken away from them so I never factor them in when giving tech-related advice.

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      • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was always an Android but broke down after the thousandth idiot friend told me I wouldn’t have problems if tried iPhone. Let’s be honest though. Android folks don’t have privacy or are tech savvy either. It’s the ones using graphineOS and the other stripped down android OSs that do

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