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YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨moe90@feddit.nl⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I should just read a book at this point

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just use a frontend to remove ads

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  • Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I highly recommend creators to upload videos to another site as well.

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    • _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what other sites are there to use?

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yes

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ive been using adblockers, piped and other tools for so long that i dont even remember what the last time was when i saw a youtube ad.

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    • chinchillas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hard to do if you watch directly from your TV using some dongle and don’t know or can’t modify your router to block ads.

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        SmartTube is on AndroidTV

        Kodi can be installed through the play store, you can transfer files over smb and ftp using it.

        You’re welcome.

        Excuses:

        I use a Roku

        Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.

        I use AppleTV

        Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.

        FTP? SMB?

        These terms can be searched for and learned about.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same… And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I’ll just stop watching YouTube

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  • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was using uYouPlus+ sideloaded on my phone until it broke recently, now I’ve found using Brave browser for just YouTube is the solution

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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      GrayJay, Vanced, or Pipewire is the way

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      • Statick@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.

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      • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I meant iPhone :(

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  • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Occasionally I try the YouTube watch together thing on discord with my SO, and it really shows just how completely unusable YouTube is without an ad blocker.

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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only ads I see are on a local sports podcast. The advertisers are all local businesses. From restaurants to local credit unions. And those I’m fine with.

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  • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.

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    • LSNLDN@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I forgot about that site. I knew it just as the host for TV series streams back in the day

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  • JohneryCreatives@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube

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  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what’s a youtube ad?

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yt-dlp is the goat

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  • Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.

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      • kalpol@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It might, if it just blocks YouTube

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do get they’re not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why they have to spend so much time trying to force you to watch all the get rich quick schemes, gambling, and expiring legal claims videos. What quality as pushers they work with.

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  • Vari@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave

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  • krousenick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yewtu.be

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When ads get in the way I simply don’t watch the videos. It’s not like I ever really need to watch any particular video.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.

      But I’ll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I’ll archive important content in the meantime.

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      • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I pay for nebula, they have a lot of educational content and the price is low enough that I don’t mind it

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  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!

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  • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase.

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      • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes but not everything needs to make a profit, just not make a loss. Also it could be community supported with donations and stuff:)

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    • Tregetour@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulting all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT’s video might be too much for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?

      Why couldn’t Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT’s viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power…

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.

        For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.

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    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to a absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.

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      • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am causing a netloss to googs. I don’t pay for Google plus or whatever, and j don’t view their fucking ads. Win win if you ask me.

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    • amorangi@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they’ve achieved that they can do what they like. Don’t feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.

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      • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I never felt bad abt that for a second. Like the thought never crossed my kind XD FUCK YOUTUBE!

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        FYI, this is currently happening with Uber.

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      • anas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel

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    • airportline@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We do, but you probably don’t like it (TikTok).

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      • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right :)

        I meant idk something like Oddysse (but a website with actual moderation)

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  • Philzlaus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking. 👍

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  • drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can skip or avoid ads on YouTube, so meh. What really grinds my gears though, is the stupid, fucking algorhythm, which routinely offers me videos I just recently watched, vids in languages that I can’t speak and channels/vids that I have specifically blocked. I curse YouTube daily, but will bless anyone who has a viable alternative…

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    • ewenak@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could put the subtitles for videos in languages you don’t speak. What was much more annoying to me was the automatic audio translation (it’s still available, but it seems YouTube doesn’t select it automatically when you watch a video in another language).

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Adblocks allow you to not have to skip the ads physically, the algorithm is something else though. Now it starting to push right wing propaganda if your not logged in, and recently they said they are allowing even more now

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  • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.

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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker

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  • sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads: uBlock Origin + Firefox NewPipe on Android Libretube on Android uYou+ on iOS FreeTube on *NIX and Windows yt-dlp + mpv YouTube Revanced Invidious self hosting Piped self hosting

    And finally, last and definitely least YouTube Premium

    Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it’s Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they’re pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.

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    • qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      SmartTube for Android TV devices

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Absolutely. And they update pretty quickly when YouTube breaks something.

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    • Brumefey@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should add Brave on iOS to the list. Never seen any ad with Brave.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s also Pipeline for *nix (and possibly Windows, but I didn’t bother to check.)

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then stop using youtube. It sucks ever since googol bought it. Haven’t used it since.

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      • Frenezul0_o@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is right thinking. I admire that.

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    • Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.

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      • chinchillas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Amazon Premium started this trend. They’re shameless.

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      • strict0768@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe you’re thinking of premium lite, or whatever they call it.

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  • ManlickerM2001@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful I have a job so I can afford premium 🙏

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

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    • Kevnyon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can afford it too, but I won’t pay for it on general principle when it costs more than Prime and Tidal combined.

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    • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enjoy paying to be fucked by the corpos!

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    • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well we found the average YouTube user.

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    • hark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏

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  • Hoticeberg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GrayJay

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  • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.

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  • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m actually looking to start a YouTube channel, but I don’t know if I should even bother since YouTube seems to be going out of its way to try to kill itself

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  • dirthawker0@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I seem to have the right stuff on my laptop, but not on my phone. When I play escape games on the phone I occasionally need a walkthrough video, so I’m switching between 3 apps: the game, my notes (a paint app) and the video. Walkthrough videos typically have an ad at the beginning and maybe one in the middle, and I don’t mind watching 15-30 seconds of ads for the YouTuber’s work.

    This used to be pretty seamless, but a couple weeks ago something changed. When switching back to YouTube, it would not return me to the video but to the home screen. I have to go to “You” to get the video I was just watching, and when I click it it plays the ads again, then jumps to where I left off. So now every time I switch away I have to view an ads again when I switch back, which really sucks balls. I don’t think the phone is running out of memory since other apps I have open switch right back to where they left off. So I’d love to get something that will skip all that.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.

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