Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube
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ad blockers are not “on youtube”, they are on my devices
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allowed by whom?
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fuck you
YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
Submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-block-popup-test-with-timer/
Comments
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
pseudo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- ad blockers are not “on youtube”, they are on my devices
based
- allowed by whom?
checked
- fuck you
and redpilled
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ad blockers are not “on youtube”, they are on my devices
By the same logic, they can make any changes to youtube they want and that is perfectly OK. Youtube isn’t on your PC. It’s on their server. You don’t own that server.
Skwerls@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Technically, YouTube runs on your computer as well as their servers. They could put a crypto mining script on there if they wanted,and I think most people would concur that that is unacceptable.
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Just click the “not using an adblocker” button. If everyone does that it’ll probably whitelist the blockers, we can hope.
bappity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sponsorblock and Return YT Dislikes FTW as well.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 year ago
On desktop blocktube has improved things so much too. It has made search results so much better, since YouTube suppresses smaller channels in favor of the same large youtubers depending on the subject. Really wish it could be integrated into mobile YouTube options, but until then my hope is waiting until mobile firefox getting desktop extension support.
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m confused, if ublock origin and sponsor block and all those are bypassing this, then who is it actually targeting?
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
have you ever searched “ad blocker” on your browser of choice’s extension store and scrolled down? or had a cheap/free VPN that advertised ad blocking functionality?
those. for some reason people install those. and they never get updated.
(some of them are outright malware too)
stealin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They want to frame it so that internet ID is the solution. That way you as a person can be banned, not just the account or ip. Good luck buying and selling when everything becomes digital and you get banned.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The reason people are talking about this new change is that it will bypass the extensions.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dear Youtube: Bring back the downvote count, allow me to disable shorts, allow me to disable your bullshit annoying ass startup music, then half the price and then we’ll talk about paying for your “service”.
viking@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Youtube has startup music???
rickywithanm@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yeah this is new to me
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Being able did disable content you don’t want aside from ads with a paid membership would be a huge boon.
Killing shorts would be fantastic, and they shouldn’t care if I’m not using a feature as long as I’m paying.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That got me, the “you can only upvote stuff” bull. I should also have the option to block channels and videos.
WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Why’s everything going to shit? The world is already shitty enough, lemme enjoy some escapism ffs.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eshitification is a result of end stage capitalism. People are trying to extract their last bit of value before society goes tits up due to climate change.
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
well they better be investing in bunkers and 100 years worth of canned beans.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Squeezing max profit has been part of it from day 1.
synceDD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ironic, thats u trying to leech off youtube for free
SaintFlow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You meant lemmy enjoy?
WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 1 year ago
lemmy lemme lemmon same thing. What even is a word but words that someone worded, if you reword a word enough times the word doesn’t even sound like a word anymore. Word?
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The markets tanked which meant the cheap VC money dried up. Tech companies are rushing to implement the monetisation and cost-saving strategies they withheld before because it ruined the user growth now to ensure they are maintaining as much revenue as possible.
anywho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am paying for YouTube Premium, and yet I still have to skip over US-exclusive sponsor sections which almost every Youtuber has nowadays…
ironic_elk@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's why I still use Vanced. Sponsorblock is something I can't live without even though I have YouTube premium.
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, almost exclusively either Us-centric and not even available where I live, or so gosh darn expensive that I just will never use the stuff advertised (looking at you, magic spoon)
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
If you’re not already using it, this is gold: sponsor.ajay.app
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It’s funny how we need uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock and maybe even DeArrow (same dev as SB) to make Youtube tolerable.
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, those are frustrating. Some channels I watch have a ton of annoying YouTube ads, where premium becomes a must for sanity. But some others have baked in sponsors that can’t be skipped (but no native YouTube ads). I wish they’d reconcile the two. It doesn’t make sense that you can pay to only block some ads, and depending on what videos you watch, that could be either the majority of ads or none at all!
MrMamiya@feddit.de 1 year ago
Ah YouTube, the site where I watch a video that tells me in ten minutes what I could read in one. And only 5 advertisements!
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You might want to follow other people, my friend
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 year ago
No, they have a point. Because you earn money by views, people now make videos about everything instead of writing something somewhere that can be found by search engine. Video has its uses but it's far overused nowadays and it sucks.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I would like to use this opportunity to make more people aware of YouTubetranscript.
Sites been a huge time saver just reading through the video instead of sitting through 10 minute long videos that turn out to be a waste of time that could have been said in a couple minutes.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
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autokludge@programming.dev 1 year ago
Recommend hitting ‘4’ straight away on how to videos, its usually the start of showing you how to do the thing.
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used SponsorBlock for a while and it worked pretty well. It crowdsources where the ads are in a video and you can choose to skip them automatically.
6mementomori@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and this is why you should use third party clients/patches like revanced
jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fuck YouTube premium. why would I pay £19.99 when literally the only defining feature for me is no ads. all this will do is allow for more complex ad blockers to be made to bypass this
dmrzl@programming.dev 1 year ago
“While the duration of this timer isn’t revealed, we expect it to be somewhere around 30 to 60 seconds.”
Peak journalism.
knobbysideup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There is something fundamentally wrong with a service that shows more ads than content.
clay830ee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The really annoying part is YouTube gets all their content for free, while every other subscription video service pays for content.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just got my first 30 second UNSKIPPABLE ad on my TV the other day…I closed youtube, as watching a 1min video is NOT worth 30 seconds of ads
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Up next: An AI-enabled Web Browser extension which
- mutes the YouTube ads and overlays it with cute cat videos
- clicks the "skip" button for you
FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man, all these companies just pushing me away from using their services. I don’t need it.
shashi154263@lemmy.world 1 year ago
moitoi@feddit.de 1 year ago
This is one of these problem with multiple unsolvable issues:
- people are used to ad block and won’t change
- the price is too high for part of the population (-> ad block for part of them)
- $1/month, $10/year would attract new paid account but not that much
- people can’t afford/don’t want a subscription everything
- users don’t see any value in it
- a fraction of the paid will go ad block with the price increase
- people will circumvent the ad block block
- capitalism
- …
dolle@feddit.dk 1 year ago
I actually don’t have a problem paying for online services. I host my own email, I pay for Kagi search and I do monthly donations to Mozilla and Wikipedia. What I have an issue with is services that start out as advertisement based and then introduce paid plans, because now you still have all these shitty mechanics just for driving up engagement which results in unhealthy incentives for content creators and rabbit holes. I want a service that is for YouTube what Kagi is to Google Search. But perhaps that model is too difficult to monetize, I don’t know.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Next they will detect if you mute the tab and go to another one to wait the ad out.
hackitfast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NewPipe, and YouTube Revanced are great apps you can use on mobile. They aren’t attached to any Google account so you can just use them and skip adds all day without getting any account theoretically banned.
For those who continue to use YouTube and adblockers on PC, simply just make a new throwaway Google account. In the case that they aren’t actually bluffing (they are) then at least your temp account will be banned.
LemurEyes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting banned from YouTube might be the best thing google has ever done for me
Graphine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dear YouTube,
Go fuck yourselves.
Sincerely, the 1% of people who actually use adblockers happily.
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
clicks on link
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They force ads and steal money from the content creators, and people still flock to use their services. How fucking braindead can you be?
Just stop using YouTube. That will fix their problems real quick.
Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Piped
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 year ago
But what happens when the timer is done? Just a scare tactic?
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
i was a YT premium subscriber when google play music didn’t suck… they lost me when they switched it to youtube music
UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Youtubes own data said 2% of their viewers use adblock. This was from their technical reaserch as well as surveys. Ask yourself what is really going on.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d pay for YouTube premium if t wasn’t more expensive than HBO. It’s ridiculous. Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.
BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YT may not have “production costs”, but they certainly not only have huge costs for hosting video, but they also have to pay for staff to develop and support their software, support content creators and sell ads that make their whole business model make sense. YouTube just isn’t a company that has little to no expenses and larger content creators will tell you just as much. And again, video hosting is fucking expensive at any scale and their scale is actually insane.
I’m not defending YT Premium, I just unsubbed after they increased the price because it’s not really worth it to me at the moment, but the fact that it’s not as expensive as HBO, which by the way will undoubtedly will increase in price like everything has in part because endless VC money is drying up, is not the only factor determining how much a service costs to a consumer. I think we might have to start looking at these things a little more objectively and start weighing how much these services actually cost to run now that maybe businesses can’t just operate in the red forever while shiny teethed confident people convince others that they can and then you.
For a lot of people that will probably come with a realization that you’re not actually willing to pay for some of these things at all.
dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 year ago
the users do get paid though, although i’m sure it’s a fraction of what youtube makes.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hmmm. $20 a month for the big budget action of Westworld, or $20 a month for a cooking show filmed in someone’s basement. Decisions, decisions.
beckerist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We actually don’t know what percentage they’re making. They can tell you how much they’re paid, but no one but Google can tell you how much of the subscription cost goes to them versus Google.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s such a disgustingly low number most people would be disgusted.
We’re talking a few bucks for a million views.
smeeps@feddit.uk 1 year ago
More video is uploaded every minute than anyone can ever watch in a lifetime. It costs money to store and serve all that.
Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then they shouldn’t store everything.
Pechente@feddit.de 1 year ago
You can get Premium cheaper through other countries. It’s super simple. I only pay about 1€ / month and that feels about right to me unlike the 15€ or something I’d have to pay otherwise.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Isn’t there a risk of getting your Google account banned for doing this?
sugarfree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which country did you go through? I assume you purchase on a VPN and then after it applies normally?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m guessing via a VPN, but which country do you connect to for the low prices?
focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol zero production costs because they’re not a production studio, genius, lmao. they do have a shit ton of overhead costs though - look into it instead of acting like it costs nothing to be the largest video hosted site on the planet.
ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Keep 720p only for users who upload crap and aren’t generating revenue and keep 4k for the channels who are uploading quality content. I’ve seen a podcast uploading hours of content in 4k. That is incredibly costly to stream to people.
I’m not going to pay for a service that is so wasteful with their income and then they want more.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Isn't their issue more hosting costs and not production costs? Unless they start telling people they can't upload videos (exception being copyright of course) Youtube greatly outpaces the storage costs of other social media sites.
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
their problem is probably paying $2 billion a year or some crazy number for nfl football.
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The pricing feels like it only makes sense if you want to use YouTube Music (and thus also don’t use one of the many streaming music competitors). Paying a couple of bucks extra for ad free YouTube is fine and that’s why I pay it personally. But if I wasn’t a YTM user already, I don’t think I would.
And most people don’t want to switch streaming music services. I did that years ago and it sucked. Music is the kinda thing where you really benefit from the service knowing your tastes. I only did it because back then, Spotify was missing some of my favourite artists while Google Play Music had them. I don’t even know if that applies today.
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It should be a crime the way they make you subscribe to YouTube Music to get YouTube Premium.
seg__fault@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s a bit disingenuous, IMO. Of course they don’t pay to produce content, but they definitely pay quite a lot to store all of the video that millions of people are uploading daily for free.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A part of your YT Premium payment goes directly to creators that you watch based on your watch time. That is their content expenses just like HBO for making new shows.