Submitted 2 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.howtogeek.com/youtube-is-losing-the-war-against-adblockers/
They succesfully broke Piped.
No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.
/s
I hope one day we will find a method to finance websites operating costs without ads. Meanwhile I will be using blockers and hope someone else’s do the clicking
We have a solution but….
cryptocurrency (especially 3rd generation cryptocurrencies like Cardano which uses proof of stake) is a method of funding website operating costs without ads.
I am not some reactionary or a luddist, IF the tool works it’s all fair game in my book
I hope one day we will find a method to finance websites operating costs without ads.
Never. People don’t want to donate, people don’t want to pay a subscription fee, people don’t want to watch ads. People want everything on the internet for free.
Give the people doing good stuff and social proofed a livable wage. Just print fucking money, don’t even tax, do I have to kill every economist with my bare hands ?
I’d argue part of this is true because of minimum wage and wealth disparity.
When you have a healthy disposable income, it feels more reasonable to give out some donations for good online content. But that’s not the case for a lot of people now.
It sucks because monetization models definitely influence the types of content we get. For instance, freemium video game models with cash shops are better for our current wealth gap, while a large set of consumers having extra cash through the year is much better for expensive, well-produced singleplayer games.
They kept trying to ruin my experience so I’ve switched to Invidious and Odysee.
Invidious only for the content creators that don’t crosspost to Odysee yet.
I’m getting Playback failed from time to time on reVanced. Maybe after 5mins of every 3rd video. I just go to my watch history, open the video again and it continues. Mildly annoying, but good trade-off for not having ads.
I have not encountered any issues in revanced. Maybe check and make sure it’s updated?
Updated yesterday. Maybe it is something connected with me running Adguard Home as my private DNS.
What’s YouTube?
Very noice
Oh, you’re losing the war? I HOPE SO!
If they want to fight hard, they just add the ads into the stream.
Like Twitch you mean? I think that has been blocked as well. And other addblockers can even skip adds within yt videos
What do you use to block twitch ads?
Sounds like users are trying to end up in the find out phase.
YouTube… “We provide these APIs and make our apps and privacy policies more accessible than most, but we still can’t give everything away for free.”
Users… “Haha scum of the earth we think we’re beating you and that you have no way to stop us from circumventing your ads without paying.”
My dude, white knighting a company that had almost $60 billion in profit in 2022 and $73 billion profit in 2023 isn’t a good look.
My dude… There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about, but you pick the weakest argument and then say I’m white knighting them. YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit… you’ve been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?
Meh, paywalling some videos behind Google+ (or whatever the current iteration is) would’ve been the honest option. But they chose ads and tracking for everything (makes more money), i can understand why people circumvent them.
I can understand why people circumvent them too. I can’t understand why they’d claim… “Hey Google, you suck at blocking ads. You can’t stop us from doing it.”
Seriously, fuck people that do this. Google knows people use third party apps that block ads. They might as well say… we’re not happy not having ads. We want Google to block it entirely so we can be even more pissed off.
"but we still can’t give everything away for free.”
Then why have they positioned youtube to be a public worldwide service freely accessible all these years?
It is the usual tactic of operating at a loss for years, building an unsustainable service and supporting it with revenue from other places. Google was officially declared a monopoly, and youtube is not profitable, so it’s easy to connect the dots and say youtube grew to it’s current dominance unfairly through that monopoly money.
Now they want to enforce their TOS on you, pay up or watch a million ads or leave. Well fuck their TOS, I avoid anything google like the plague, but their unfair position on video sharing makes it hard to avoid youtube particularly. I respond unfairly in turn, by proxying youtube through invidious.
if only there was a simple easy solution
I’m begging google to just bring back YouTube Premium Lite and expand it
Are they? The app I use to view YouTube without ads got taken down and so did the other ones
uBlock Origin and similar ad blockers stop YouTube ads. Occasionally YouTube changes something and ads sneak through until someone updates the filters.
Now that Chrome has essentially neutered its ad blockers, the only option for many people is Firefox on desktop and mobile, which still has a working version of uBO.
It’s odd I have unlock and my YouTube still has ads. But mostly I’m looking for a mobile app to use YouTube without ads
YouTube ReVanced still works. Also, ad blockers on desktop.
I had new pipe and another I forget, for my phone but they stopped working a while back
Tubular works nicely, and Smart Tube Next on android tv.
ha ha!! take that!
lol no they arent.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Floatplane is Linus’ smartest decision he’s made. It’s going to be needed.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Platforms like Floatplane, Nebula, Patreon etc make it so easy to support creators outside of YouTube, while also giving creators a larger share of income compared to Adsense.
There’s YouTube Premium… but I don’t think I’m alone in not wanting to give Google a single cent of my hard earned cash
simonced@lemmy.one 2 months ago
I already have Pixel phones, they can already spy on me. No f’ing way I pay to remove enshitification. Also, they’ll increase the price regularly anyway. If they want ppl to pay, they could just paywall the whole thing, well see who’s left after that lol.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The problem with things like Patreon is that nobody with an average income can afford to pay “only 5 dollars per month, 10 for premium membership” for each channel and podcaster they have subscribed to. It makes more sense to rather pay a flat fee for one or two streaming services (in my case Nebula and YT Premium) than 30 Patreon memberships.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve actually looked at these platforms as someone who has taken YouTube semi seriously in the past, and there are two major issues with them.
The first is, they don’t allow just anyone to upload video, you must already be an established creator. Second, there is no free access for viewers, meaning someone isn’t likely to share a link to your video with friends.
YouTube really does have a monopoly.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Let’s hope he doesn’t have access to any critical email account related to that service.
Bakersfield@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m out of the loop. What’s that referencing?
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Torvalds?
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sebatianalds
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
No. Of LTT