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YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • joyjoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.

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      • BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol

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    • BonerMan@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.

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      • Incandemon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lazy, I just recognize the url from getting rick rolled so much.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I give up, this has really let me down.

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  • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You aren’t doing youtube correctly.

    PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube

    Mobile: revanced, newpipe

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    • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Freetube has been failing consistently on all my desktops lately. None of the instances on the main site work. Can you verify it’s till working and maybe DM me the instance you’re using?

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tenor’s has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you motherfu-

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  • Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.

    And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.

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    • Veritrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.

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      • Venicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Same in UK for Sky. You have to be a Sky TV customer (paying) to use the Android or iOS Sky Go app and it still makes you watch adverts without skipping.

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  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know theres a github page. I believe its shatterdisk? When i was in school they firewalled youtube. So i found alternatives to rick roll.

    Where there is a rick roll There is a rick way

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  • madthumbs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wrong

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.

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      • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was a vociferous but somehow under the radar outcry about this back in 2018 and an incredibly simple solution was widely suggested: demonetize the video.

    However, the highly viewed video is a significant source of royalty revenue for Mr. Astley, which, as he well argued at the time in a series of tweets, is only just compensation for the way his image has been turned into a joke literally hundreds of millions of times now.

    Mr. Astley implored YT not to bow to pressure and demonetize the video. YT famously replied “don’t worry, we’re never going to give you up, never going to let you down.”

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
    music.apple.com/us/music-video/…/1559900284

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    • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      DRM-free link

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just use a different site here

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not true

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    • DrownedRats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now playing - Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.

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  • Nihilistra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t understand why people have to watch those ads. It’s one websearch that will save you a lot of time.

    I use Mozilla for desktop and brave for Android to listen to videos while the screen is off.

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  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but the billionaire got a little more billions, very important

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