Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its an all put assault on half your senses without an adblocker. Literal torture.

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The entire web is like that without an ad blocker these days.

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I miss those cheeky gif banners from the 2000s

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      • fasterthancat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        [With hindsight] The commercial use of the internet should never have been allowed.

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yt-dlp download script + text file with fav channel urls + jellyfin.

  No bullshit, saves bandwidth.

  Also look into invidious.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also look into invidious.

    And peertube, some content creators also post there, e.g., The Linux Experiment.

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  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were serving videos with ads spliced in, basically DAI in podcasting industry. I’m not sure how that experiment went, but if that’s how they’d serve the videos, downloaders will have ads embedded as well.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yt-dlp supports sponsorblock, i am not worried.

      I also dont even need tools for this as my usual style of watching is with my fingers on the arrow keys to skip back and forth

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      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I actually don’t know if/how the ad block people worked around it or if YouTube pulled back. The problem with DAI on podcast and in stream ads is that the ads aren’t always 1:05~1:35, the ad could be longer or shorter, then the next ad won’t necessarily start at the same time, and most definitely won’t end at the same time. So sponsor block won’t know precisely where the ads are, thereby making it much harder for a crowd sourced solution to accurately skip embedded ads. Hopefully they figured out a way, but as mentioned earlier, I don’t know what happened to that experiment.

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    • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Put it on a VHS, then use one of those VCRs that removes the ads for you.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YouTube had beaten ublock origin for a while so I resolved to using invidious.

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