How desperate can you be to put yourself out of business?
YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
Submitted 3 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2814755/youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads.html
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Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Having to wait with a black screen before the video starts is completely acceptable to me.
Having to watch Ads is not.C1pher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Seems like its already happening.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, for at least 6 months.
UsoSaito@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Now you’ll actually get a pop-up claiming “click here to find out why” in regards to the slowness.
cyberphunkisms@lemmy.org 3 months ago
we live in a neoliberal gorgon dystopia
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You said it hombre😅
bfg9k@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’ve already tried this.
We’ve already sidestepped it.
It’s just going to keep on going like this till a viable alternative shows up.
COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
How? I’ve been noticing buffering the last few days with 1080p60 videos and up even using the suggested app version in Revanced.
tymon@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’m trying very, VERY hard to pound the correct knowledge into my brain to be able to switch my freelance business services away from Google to something like Proton Unlimited.
Leaving the Google ecosystem will literally make me lose work, but man, this shit has gotta stop
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The problem is, nothing short of NA and EU governmental intervention will force Google to stop being such a nefarious, monopolistic, antitrust piece of shit. They’re just so utterly ubiquitous for Western businesses. You literally cannot have a small business and hope to be successful without partaking in either Google or Facebook/Meta’s ad services. TikTok was becoming a huge threat to both those companies and look how viciously they were attacked.
The whole thing is beyond fucked, man. Kudos to you for trying to break free for your business, but I feel like you’ll just be fucking yourself in the long run.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Agree with this. For my business, and most customer facing ones honestly, Google is how people discover you. They are the modern day Yellow Pages. You don’t exist on Google and you may as well not exist.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 months ago
Depending on which services you want to replace, Nextcloud might also be worth a look. There are quite a few hosted options available by Hetzner and others.
Leomas@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Only thing I’m getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I’il take that over an ad that long any day.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ads on youtube are getting even more stupid. Does anyone get those ads about “procastinations” and “ADHD”? It starts off with some songs like “Procastination isnt your fault…” and some dolls dancing? So annoying
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Haven’t seen ads in 10 years, people actually use the internet without ublock?
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
So annoying
Those two words describe about every ad on youtube.
shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I pay for YouTube premium so that I can leave the app and listen to videos. I still get ads even though I’m paying. I don’t think there’s a single surefire way to avoid them.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Get Revanced or Newpipe or something like that. You get the same benefits you’re paying for, plus many that you aren’t, and it’s all for free. Not only that, but you’re not giving you’re money to Google.
Hawk17@lemmy.world 3 months ago
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Use Firefox + ublock origin.
Start the video, get out of the app/lock you phone, then swipe down and click on ‘play’ on the media controls.This works on andriod, unsure about ios.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
and i might just stop using youtube. does youtube think there aren’t other options?
RKL@feddit.dk 3 months ago
What options? Where can I find stuff about fixing my motorcycle? Oceanliners? Deep Space documentaries? Fixing dieselinjectors in my car etc?
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
one option
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bbdku
hell of a lot less censorship, and better video quality there as well.
hightrix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There exists a massive, global network of websites that are all easily searchable through various means.
I look up and view similar topics to you and never use YouTube for them.
Try searching the internet as a whole!
AugustWest@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Most of those things are better without videos anyways. So much wasted time to get to the point.
As for documentaries… Are good ones actually on YouTube?
suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
makertube.net, youtube is mask off at this point
mhague@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But I don’t have adblockers installed and I still get told to turn my blocker off. I have no extensions and YouTube randomly stops my video to tell me I’m doing it wrong.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 months ago
Haha, I would see Youtube go bankrupt before I ever watch a single ad or pay for it. Stay mad. Google is a massive corp, I owe them nothing.
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Umm… Maybe. Let’s take a look.
www.statista.com/…/quarterly-revenue-of-google/:
In the first quarter of 2025, Google’s revenue amounted to over 89.52 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 79.97 billion U.S. dollars registered in the same quarter a year prior.
… They’ll survive.
I guess the content creators take the hit when users block ads or refuse to use premium.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s the same mentality of we shouldn’t mute ads or go to the bathroom when they come on. That’s the advertising businesses problem, not mine. They haven’t made life better for most of us.
mhague@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If I thought that way about YouTube, why not just be a sovcit about laws in general? I don’t want to cherry pick philosophy. Let’s go all in on technicalities and loopholes and definitions and wording. Life is a video game where X leads to Y because that’s the rules. YouTube is merely answering requests, and I’m merely watching a curated selection of data. They have a TOS but I never agreed to it. For I’m not a user or customer, but a Netizen, and we have rights.
mitexleo@buddyverse.one 3 months ago
Time to pin Odysee and Peertube in my browser even though I pay for YT Premium (only $2 per month here in BD).
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Holy crap that’s cheap! Honestly, I’d pay that.
mitexleo@buddyverse.one 3 months ago
Yeah. Spotify also has similar pricing. I bought YT Premium as it includes both YouTube and YouTube Music.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh they already do as of this week. But I am sure it‘s only temporary like last time and even then it‘s better than being served an ad. Google won‘t win this feud.
Buske@lemmy.world 3 months ago
USE PORNHUB, Start uploading your content there.
diptchip@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The banned my ip. Been looking at alternatives
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
How they ban you? They aren’t like reddit Nazis
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 months ago
They probably overused yt-dlp and are now required to fill a captcha + log in to an account.
diptchip@lemmy.world 2 months ago
diptchip@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Must have been temporary. Pipepipe displayed a message saying ~“youtube has blocked this ip”, but it’s working now.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A previous version of uBlock Origin (1.64.1b4) seems to work perfectly on Firefox, just in case.
dzsimbo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Dang, thanks. I read the post, thought it wasn’t happening to me, and I just realized that the start of some videos is being throttled. The more ya know 🌈
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reminder, Newgrounds is still here.
shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
YouTube might bite me
Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
it already happened, it takes few seconds to star the video, a popup comes upa nd says, “whats slowing your video down”
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There will be a solution for the adblocking side, there always is
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have revanced on my phone and adblock on my laptop so I don’t see ads on youtube on them, but I can’t get rid of the youtube ads on my smart TV so I’m forced to deal with the ads for now… and the contrast shows just how insufferable youtube has become. They’re so fucking aggressive with the ads now. I’m starting to get a full minute of unskippable ads for a 2 minute meme video. It’s completely ridiculous. Not only that but the number of skippable ads, short ads, or videos with just one ad are quickly decreasing. Youtube is destroying itself.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 months ago
YouTube was lagging to play vids the other day now i wonder if it was A B testing. screw off YouTube. 10 ads for a 20 minute video isn’t normal and never will be. also the ads pause if you aren’t watching them. wtf? as always I expect uBlock Origin to get around this