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Submitted 1 year ago by arcane@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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igorlogius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
excel@lemmy.megumin.org 1 year ago
Except WEI is going to make it so the website can detect and block you if you don’t allow the ads, regardless of your browser and extensions
igorlogius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At the moment WEI has been rejected by mozilla, so it wont be implemented into firefox. if google decides to add it into chrome and to their services, they will effectively lock out all firefox users. - A very anachistic part of me actually would like to see how that would play out … but at the moment i am unsure if google would actually dare doing this, but i guess, it will only be a matter of time and we’ll find out.
Not sure if this move would actually damage the open web … since basically google would single itself out as the enemy … and i dont see many users appreciating such a move.
But if the worst happens and the whole web follows googles example, i guess we can just call this iteration of a “open web” a failure and start over with something much simpler … maybe something like the gemini protocol as its base, which isnt polluted with clientside javascript garbage and bloated CSS/XHTML parsers and rendering engines .
le_soleil_levant@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin user here. I started getting those popups a few days ago.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Purge and update your filter cache, check to make sure you have Anti-adblock filters enabled. If that doesn’t work do some troubleshooting with the extensions, one user found that other extensions were interfering and after disabling the problematic extension it worked.
net00@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Laughs in Invidious
between2boobies@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Adblock is one of the greatest human inventions of all time.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The best anti virus innovation in decades.
tr11@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh my, the creators get paid?!?
influencermarketinghub.com/youtube-money-calculat…
Oh… So no, not really…
Sounds like they’re lying to me!
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I don’t remember which creator said it but basically by donating them even one dollar they’re profiting more than if you sit thru hours and hours of ads. I guess objectively one can claim the moral high ground by watching ads but that really is like tossing bread crumbs to a beggar.
zobatch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’ve just described YouTube Premium. Except it’s $14/month now. And I don’t know the numbers for how much of that goes to creators.
You can also “join” a channel, assuming that channel has it enabled.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Imagine believing you get paid to make videos on a video sharing platform. Who do those people think they are?
/s
Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lamo this will introduce more people to revanced
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “allowlisted”. Did someone forget “whitelisted” is a thing, or is that term finally cancelled?
tleb@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Whitelist and blacklist were indeed cancelled despite having no racial origin.
tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
There are cultural traditions of using colors as symbols, many of which are harmless – red for anger, blue for sadness, green for envy. Whitelist and blacklist come from the very long-standing theme of using white to represent good and black to represent evil.
Regardless of how you feel about the origin of those themes, it makes sense to start moving away from them now. Whether intentional or not, they can be harmful and aren’t really necessary.
bright_side_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s common since quite a few years. And blocklist as counterpart
towerful@programming.dev 1 year ago
It’s not been cancelled.
I’m sure someone raised concerns over racist origins, or that they were uncomfortable with the terms. Or perhaps programmers did it themselves as a part of introspection that came around with GitHub changing from “master branch” to “main branch”.Which likely lead people to realise that blacklist and whitelist aren’t really descriptive.
Blacklist came from the 1600s, regarding regicide. And the opposite of that is obviously whitelist.
But it doesn’t actually describe what it’s doing, and ultimately it is an idiom.
Removing idioms in coding is generally good practice.
And you can have other things like “FilterList” or “AdminList” or whatever.Apirate4life@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ever heard of newspeak? Yeah it’s real now, not just fictional anymore.
YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You are predictably behind the curve
roastgoat@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Remember when YouTube was just a video of a guy at the zoo? Pepperidge farm remembers…
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Those suckers sold it to google for a billion dollars. They got screwed.
Ktheone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wish Jawed Karim never sold YouTube to Google. But alas…
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
If he didn’t sold it to Google I don’t think he have enough budget to maintain the site
Privacy@monero.town 1 year ago
That’s did news. Perhaps after mastodon grow massive thanks to Elon, and Lemmy grow thanks to reddit, we see peertube get his time to shine thanks to Google… #fuckupyourcompanyFAST
people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Text is fine but you can’t really expect the Fediverse to serve heavy media at a large scale
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That, and content creators that aren’t hobbyists need to be paid. Some of my favorite channels rely on ad revenue. Sure, things like patreon exist, but the system won’t work without a fair way to compensate content creators. Obviously blasting people with insane ads, especially ads that are often political, isn’t the way forward.
Media that’s meant to be free, e.g. uploading videos with no expectation of revenue, should stay that way, with community support to keep the platform alive. But content that is professionally produced as someone’s livelihood also needs a way to survive.
Unfortunately a lot of people think “fuck all that, I’ll watch what I want, I shouldn’t have to pay, it should all be free.” I’d rather pay specifically for the content I like and support those creators than the blanket “put ads on everything” YouTube has adopted.
valveman@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
I’d love to see PeerTube grow just like these platforms, but I think it’s a lot more complicated to get people to use it than mastodon/lemmy.
Twitter/Reddit weren’t used as a major income source like YouTube and Instagram (I am saying this based on famous people in my country, I don’t know how it goes on other places), and so are easier to replace. The people posting and discussing topics don’t do that for the money, they do because they like it.
YT and its monetization system made possible for people to make a living from the content they produce, and many wouldn’t like or simply couldn’t sacrifice this income source just to go to a more ethical and private platform like PeerTube.
HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to 3 bytes.
Buttons@programming.dev 1 year ago
They can still ask me to join their Patreon using PeerTube.
Ayhem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just yesterday they stopped allowing me to see home page and recommendations unless I turn on watch history, which I am not doing ever. So they can keep forcing my hand and see how far it goes. If anything am stubborn enough to enjoy this kind of petty behavior from major players. They keep thinking “oh they will just do what we ask them to”, but I’ll do the opposite out of spite. I’ll just use !videos or similar communities to find my recommendations until the day comes where I stop using it completely. I quit Facebook this way, quit Reddit and Twitter, quit WhatsApp. Keep at it guys, let’s see who’s more stubborn.
PR_freak@programming.dev 1 year ago
Actually watching only what you search for or are subscribed to is a great way to stop wasting your time on stupid shorts you used to watch for hours a day (at least for me)
Plus I don’t want an algorithm to feed me stupid things it thinks I would like, that’s what leads to polarization and countless other negative aspects in social media
Also I suggest to everyone readinh to watch “The social dilemma” a masterpiece that exposes these problems
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a good point. However I trained YouTube not to feed me crap, couldn’t skip shorts though. What I did was disable search and watch history and then blocked videos and channels that I didn’t want affecting me ever. In time algorithm figured out what I wanted so I got somewhat related and interesting content. Not all of it but a lot of it since they had to focus on my likes and dislikes instead of watch history. This has now changed.
Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think they care about the small handful of people who will stop watching YouTube over this, to be honest.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is fine by me! But I doubt the number will be so small. Still I don’t care how many. Am not selling my data becauseo others are. -
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll take some of that action. There needs to be some sort of medical term for the reaction that adverts inspire in me. At this point, it’s pathological. It’s interesting to contrast YouTube’s original form with the abomination it has become today. Almost as if corporations wait patiently while they achieve market dominance before they come out with absurd and Orwellian ethical statements about ‘breaking rules’. Before that it was a big house, come on in and enjoy the cornucopia. No, Google, we will never stop blocking your poison. All we want is the service.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Shit, same thing happened to me ! I thought the website had bugged out.
tr11@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also happened to me
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sucks but on the flipside it means that I’ll have more time for myself.
I already spend less time on social media because R/all sucks balls and lemmy doesn’t have too much content. I don’t have any other social media.
I also don’t have cable or pay for streaming services, so I found a replacement in the form of YouTube and Spotify (podcasts). I’m ok if these options go away.
There are a lot of hobbies that I want to do and the less distracted I am, the higher chance that I’ll choose to do them instead of dicking around.
Tldr: brings it on!
99nights@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I used to be on reddit everyday before everything went to hell and now I’m only on it like once a week and lemmy only a few days in between usage.
Life is more… enjoyable now? Lol
jwagner7813@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For me, I wouldn’t say it’s more enjoyable per se. I miss looking into interesting topics. However, I do find myself focusing on my business more which I guess is a bonus. But outside of that, it’s very disappointing the enshitification of the Internet that’s occurring.
xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Fast forward: Adverticement for cheetoes blares from the screen and aceshigh stares, as if in a trance, at the screen of flickering colours. In the background are half finished hobbies strewn on the numerous surfaces of the room. A cat jumps up on the table, pushing a half full glass on the floor and starts to scream at aceshigh. The monitor switches to an upbeat man shouting “Surfass VPN! You need it!”. The cat, at this point almost having a red face, finally snaps aceshigh out of their absent state and they go “Not now Flufferdudel, I gotta finish this video”.
Violette@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Same, except that I listen to podcasts and Youtube videos while working (it’s a boring job) so I still don’t want to totally quit Youtube and Deezer
Frishi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck this shit with the force of a billion adblockers.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The streaming crash has only just begun.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A new dark age is dawning.
Olap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The golden years of the 1650s to 1730s await
TheEntity@kbin.social 1 year ago
The ads are not the true problem. The tracking and profiling is. They keep the rhetoric about the ads while forcing both. I'd be kinda okay with just untargeted ads. Maybe not fully okay but I'd be far more willing to tolerate them. This privacy violating thing the modern Internet made a norm? Hell no!
tleb@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s weird because there’s lots of studies showing that tracking users’ interests isn’t even that much more effective than targeting based on the page content.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Efficacy man not always translate to ad sales.
When you’re selling your product and school and society have told you that you need to know your democratic, when you get to that ad manager page, you want to see your ad only being paid for on that demographic.
You’ve been told you need is, and you’ll pay.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aw that’s so cute, they think they’ll be able to stop adblockers from working for more than a few days. Just like everyone else before them. Good luck with that guys.
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Even the FBI recommends you use an adblocker, for your personal safety. Source: tomsguide.com/…/the-fbi-now-recommends-using-an-a…
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So, alphabet can rip off the creators but we can’t? What a crappy double standard.
poudlardo@jlai.lu 1 year ago
TV : SmartTube Mobile : NewPipe / LibreTube Desktop : Piped / YouTube with a bunch of browser extensions
Getallen@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Firefox + Ublock Origin Or Youtube Revanced (their only official site is their github) (android only)
archomrade@midwest.social 1 year ago
YouTube has also started showing me a blank “home” screen since I turned off my watch and search activity history on privacy settings.
Joke’s on then, all I want is to see my subscriptions anyway
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
(Creators should start backing up their content and get ready to shift to new platforms)
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well they need ads to pay for streaming all of those conspiracy videos, aliens crap, repackaged copies of other videos, ai generated crap, shitty “click and subscribe!” videos, etc…
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like New pipe. Hopefully doesn’t affect it.
IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Until earlier this year I just watched the ads because in some small way it supports creators and I could deal with it. Then they increased the number of ads per watch-time to egregious levels.
I certainly wasn’t going to reward a company for making the existing service worse by subscribing. Started using the apps people mention immediately and also setup pihole to block more ads.
squaresinger@feddit.de 1 year ago
If they really force me to subscribe, I will… to Nebula.
elmiar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not just that. I have always turned of history and analytics since 2020. I use you tube to check news about happening events in my region(politics and stuff), so I can open the video on invidious or newpipe. But yesterday, as I opened you tube, it threw me this message… So, now I feel better, but seems, they have never stopped tracking what I search and watch, even when I opted to keep it off. Also maybe it is due to new feature where we can see the full video in hover mode, without clicking it to watch. But whatever, I wanted to let lemmy people to know that something like this happened yesterday to me.
turbochamp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
cool. don’t need YouTube and the constant “OMG you won’t believe what happens next” crap littered in the feed
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We need an AdBlock for adblockers now. Hopefully this will get bypassed.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Maybe one day all of the mega corporations on the internet will finally drive me from the internet itself and I’ll finally do something useful with my time.
Until that day…
SymphonicResonance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually didn’t care when there was an ad in the beginning of the video or what not. It was when I had to start watching multiple ads in the middle of a 10 minute video as well. Like come on, not even broadcast TV is that annoying.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shorts are such a stupidly blatant way to start showing more ads than content, and they make navigating channels impossible. Hell you can’t even get away from ads in search results with premium.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
Shorts are just a TikTok clone…
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noaw I understand why so many people hate shorts! I never use the official app or browser to watch, so I don’t see the advertisements.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SponsorBlock addob
dan80@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Adding an insane amount of ads is a dark pattern to convince you into joining Youtube Premium. Which is crazy expensive by the way, 13,99 $/month
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Premium will eventually show ads too.
Acid@startrek.website 1 year ago
Honestly I bought YouTube premium through a VPN to turkey for that price for the entire year. Seems worth it.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same here. I was listening to a beautiful violin piece being played by a soloist and an ad interrupted it. I would be fine with watching the ad before. I immediately went and watched it elsewhere.
Later, I came back to YouTube for something unrelated and had a message/popup that said ‘tired of being interrupted? Upgrade to premium here!’
They know exactly what they are doing, trying to make it unbearable to use anything other than premium. They can get fucked.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or the knack of starting the add 2 seconds into a guitar solo…