If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto
Submitted 2 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I should just read a book at this point
JohneryCreatives@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 months ago
They do get they’re not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 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.
krousenick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 2 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.
Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Revanced still working great for me.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Will check it out thanks!
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Newpipe seems to be working fine.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think this one’s a winner for me, thanks!
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I forgot about that site. I knew it just as the host for TV series streams back in the day
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months ago
testing
Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won’t roll it out?
zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Very likely - but that’s not going to happen. Some people will watch less, some will complain but keep watching the same amount, and the majority will just take it as a fact of life and not change their behaviour.
fodor@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I think we’ve seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it’s not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we’ll see how long YouTube is relevant.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 1 month 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
derpgon@programming.dev 1 month ago
GrayJay, Vanced, or Pipewire is the way
Statick@programming.dev 1 month ago
Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I don’t think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
Hoticeberg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GrayJay
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months ago
NewPipe or Piped
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And thus we say fare thee well - U-Toob
BadNewsNobody@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield TV box and don’t ever deal with any ads. It’s appalling whenever I have to use vanilla YouTube for anything.
miridius@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker
ManlickerM2001@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’m grateful I have a job so I can afford premium 🙏
Laser@feddit.org 2 months ago
Bless your heart
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Well we found the average YouTube user.
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏
Kevnyon@lemmy.world 2 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.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Enjoy paying to be fucked by the corpos!
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Red’s worth paying for, especially if you dont mind yt music.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
It’s not. Alphabet is already making billions off our data. Just use uBlock or ReVanced or whatever and don’t shovel more money into their greedy pockets.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And if they have your data, they didnt steal it, you signed it over or they bought it from someone you signed it over to, personal data is rarely stolen, mostly just handed off and then people act like they put a gun to their head to get it.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well because an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, i dont base my actions on how poorly someone else has acted. I just try and do the right thing.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 months ago
What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?
I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.
In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.
Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.
Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
I just use a frontend to remove ads
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
youtube sucks
ever since googol bought it.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
revolt.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
For free?!
Philzlaus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking. 👍
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Future uBlock/NewPipe users
Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️
raid_dad@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Their wallets.