I give up, this has really let me down.
YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.
Submitted 5 months ago by Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You aren’t doing youtube correctly.
PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube
Mobile: revanced, newpipe
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 months 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
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 months 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
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
you motherfu-
Venicon@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Veritrax@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Venicon@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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
madthumbs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 months 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.”
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
music.apple.com/us/music-video/…/1559900284potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 5 months ago
morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Now playing - Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
Nihilistra@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Yes but the billionaire got a little more billions, very important
joyjoy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months 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.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 5 months 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.😌
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
BonerMan@ani.social 5 months ago
Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
Incandemon@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Lazy, I just recognize the url from getting rick rolled so much.