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• updawg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d give up YouTube before ad blockers.

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  • Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, holy shit if they wouldn’t completely bomb you with ads everywhere it might change something, but I accidentally used the official app on my smartphone and I can’t even make out content between the ads in the UI.

    Not to speak of the 50s ads for a 20s video, nah won’t ever go back to the official experience.

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    • Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Revanced stonks

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    • SeeingWhereThisGoes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I used the official app up until we got two ads before every video and the first one is always unstoppable. Now it’s unbearable to use so I use an adblock.

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• Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube is WHY I have adblockers to this day. I was Ok with the ads at the beginning and end. When they started cramming 2-3 ads in the middle of a 10 minute video, that’s when I started looking for a solution.

  Their greed is why they make $0 from me many years later.

  I think it’s rich they aren’t happy with people using them when they’re the ones that made the standard viewing experience awful in the first place.

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  • sock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i remember when ads started rolling out when I was much younger and i was like this is odd but ok then they became longer than skippable then an ad played in the middle of my video and i was like must be a glitch haha.

    i cannot even look at youtube without an ad blocker i feel like 13 viruses would be downloaded at a glance

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  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only device I use for YouTube is my android phone, because it runs Firefox and ublock origin. For this exact reason.

    Google’s clever though, they broke full screen video in Firefox in Android 13. Now I have to restart Firefox after putting the first video in full screen, after that the videos still play.

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    • Litron3000@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Revanced works flawlessly on android and gives you the native app feeling

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    • Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can use:

      Revanced

      • github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager
      • revanced.app

      This patches the official YouTube app with a lot of different options including removing those ads.

      NewPipe

      • github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
      • newpipe.net
      • f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

      This scrapes the website, and is my preferred YouTube app. You cannot log into an account though, which isn’t an issue for me. You can also import/export your subscriptions.

      LibreTube

      • github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
      • f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/

      This uses Piped API

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    • Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try ReVanced: github.com/j-hc/revanced-magisk-module/releases

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    • WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you use an iOS device? I have an app that works very well and is on the app store, no side loading

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    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you tried ReVanced? Works great for me.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Standup comedy is the most painful on YouTube. Ads just get thrown in the middle of everything.

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was Ok with the ads at the beginning and end. When they started cramming 2-3 ads in the middle of a 10 minute video, that’s when I started looking for a solution.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPbpYR_RKY

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    • PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      https://www.piped.video/watch?v=vxPbpYR_RKY

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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• fat_stig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ! 2023-10-06 https://www.youtube.com
  www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope
  

  Oh no, anyway.

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  • radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this a rule for an adblock extension? What does it pick out?

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    • fat_stig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It gets rid of the nag screen so you can just watch the video. For uBlock Origin, it’s a bit crude, may affect other bits of interface, I also use the Enhancer for YouTube plug-in for Firefox which is really useful.

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• Worstdriver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The day I can’t get around youtube ads is the day I stop using youtube. I already refuse to use it on my mobile device or my TV, due to the ads.

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  • pepperprepper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    NewPipe is a YouTube app alternative that blocks ads

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Smarttube is even more gooder.

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  • charlotte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    YouTube ReVanced gets you completely adfree, configurably de-shittified Youtube with sponsorblock on your phone.

    And Smarttube Next does the same thing on Android TVs, FireTV, and probably some others I haven’t used.

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Smart tube is fucking amazing

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    • 0ddysseus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought newpipe was dead now?

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  • Hopps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On Android the Firefox app allows the use of extensions including all the adblock options you would find on PC. Works great and for YouTube as well.

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• Scrongle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ironically unreadable article, littered with ads.

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  • inverimus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know what you mean, I’m blocking all of them.

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  • nulluser@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My pihole prevents me from knowing what you’re talking about.

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Considering how prevalent scams and actively malicious ads are across ad services in general, having an ad blocker is just basic online safety at this point.

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still see fake download button ads distributed via Google’s own ad infrastructure to this day. I even reported a few that were taken down.

    For all the AI prowess Google likes to brag about, why can’t they make a simple “does this look like a download button?” detector? The scams are not that clever, most of them follow one of a small number of specific patterns.

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Malicious ad money is ad money

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    • noisypine@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not that they can’t, its that they won’t.

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    • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why should they? They would lose money if they did that

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The thing is YouTube just can’t be nice about it. It just cannot. In times that it was adblocker resistant, they’d add more and longer and worse ads until they pissed off enough engineers who collectively declared it a crisis and built the many anti-YouTube-ad solutions we have, from alternative YouTube mirrors to the Firefox packages.

  We’ve seen this play out in the tech industry multiple times, and always the public wins thanks, largely to programmers who just get ticked off and spend a weekend on pizza to create a bypass.

  The executives at Alphabet know all they have to do is allow concessions to be only mildly annoying and leave them. Five minutes of commercials for fifty minutes of content? That might be fair so long as it’s pizza ads and not Jesus ministries telling us how sinful the LGBT+ are or Matt Walsh suggesting we make it illegal for some folk to vote.

  But they can’t do that. Shareholder Primacy means Alphabet must push for record profits, even if it means enshittifying all their services, including YouTube, and that means a 1/4 ad to content ratio and increasing that until it’s intolerable and ad-based profit numbers go down due to failing viewership.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Five minutes of commercials for fifty minutes of content?

    Yeah, and besides, that shit barely functions on TV/streaming because someone paid to have quality content created. When you’re clicking around yt and you don’t know if a video is decent or dogshit, why should you have to sit through long ads just so you can watch a minute before you decide the content sucks?

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    • SeeingWhereThisGoes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is frequently brought up as a problem for twitch as well. On the rare times someone decides to check out a new streamer without many viewers they get ads before the stream and most people aren’t going to sit through that so it makes it even harder for new streamers to get discovered.

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• Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Advertising is just legal targeted harassment

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  • Melco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

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    • planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it’s it’s own thing.

      The danger of advertising is not that it is able to brainwash you into changing your opinions. The danger is that repeated exposure to inauthentic stories changes your expectations, and plants paying advertisers in your memory.

      This in turn allows your behavior to be controlled, especially in aggregate. You will remember company X sells a thing you want and go buy it, or you will think other people think company Y is environmentally friendly so you will pick them for your vegan barbecue party, or you will have heard of company Z and not automatically skip over their offering in a store. But since it all operates by tampering with your heuristics instead of trying to bowl over your adopted, explicit opinions, it doesn’t trigger any of your protective responses.

      And that’s why you should never view an advertisement.

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• tonnert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is even more infuriating, I’m from one of the countries that had YouTube Premium Lite available. €6,99 for adfree YouTube with none of the ‘offline’ or YouTube Music nonsense that I wouldn’t be using anyway.

  My wife and myself have been subscribed for about 6 months now, totally seeing the value of it. Literally one month after signing my mum also onto it, she gets an email telling her that her subscription will end in a month from now.

  Fuck that shit.

  YouTube Premium Lite was perfect, affordable and removed exactly the main issue with YouTube: ads. Endless stupid amounts of ads.

  I’ll go back to Firefox with any amount of extensions that block ads and block the ad-block blockers. Google would have to burn the browser market to the ground before I’ll consider subscribing again.

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  • DragonAce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google would have to burn the browser market to the ground before I’ll consider subscribing again.

    They’re sure as fuck trying.

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  • Backfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The irony in this? They have just announced this very subscription plan in Germany. Not even a week after axing the plan in some neighbouring countries.

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  • pewnit@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, this is the most sane take I’ve seen about this from the pro adblock side. That’s actually fucked up if they killed it out of nowhere but also sounds like Google.

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  • InternetUser2012@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I won’t ever sub. I’ll find a different hobby/time sink. I won’t ever have to worry about it though, the high seas are always more inventive so there will always be content to watch.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I recommend going to India (VPN) in order to buy premium Together with the family option, you can get to about 1$ a month

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  • tiita@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    with you all the way, brother.

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I understand that hosting video and streaming it is an expensive business that has to be paid, even if we ignore all the income Google has racked up by profiling people and (ab)using that to show ads. That said, I wouldn’t mind if they had more taste which ads play, in what number and fucking when. Most annoying thing is when the play 3 minute ads on 6 minute video. Not even shittiest TV network does that. And also unskipable ads. These days I skip all, self-promotion and in-video sponsors included.

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  • Jerkules_Jerkules@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, my experience with youtube ads

    Buy a Chromebook PragerU Right wing Youtubers Don’t vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constituition By a ford Here’s a pornographice/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you BUY A CHROME BOOK! Hey, check out this person’s scam! They paid us to force this scam on you! Look at these cable news channels’ youtube channels Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children BUY A CHROMEBOOK! buy a jeep Listen to this prepper try to hock you “survival” gear and shelf stable food Don’t you remember when families did things? wasn’t that fun? Families, doing things?

    Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!

    I am interested in none of these things

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    • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, I just get ads for drain cleaner, dog dewormer and metamucil.

      I must be boring.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This exactly!

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  • canthidium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These days I skip all, self-promotion and in-video sponsors included.

    Sounds like you probably use it but if not, get the SponsorBlock extension to do exactly this.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I am. Thanks for linking to it.

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  • inverimus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They show those 3 minute ads because they get paid a lot for them. My favorite are the 30 minute documentary ads.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t give a single fuck what they are Happy about.

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• nick@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Too fuckin bad for YouTube. I won’t change my behavior, I’ll just not use YouTube.

  Fuck em

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  • yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many literally fucked them. This hack was working for a day

    www.ozbargain.com.au/node/802407

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    • Resolved3874@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s amazing but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to here that anyone who did got it reversed if not just outright banned from Google. I certainly wouldn’t have tried in on my main Google account.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What happens when google decides to fix this? What happens to the data beyond the free tier? My guess is that it’ll be deleted, and you’d be screwed if you used this as your backup solution.

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• callmepk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Me, using Piped: what?

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  • e_mc2@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or Revanced, or SmartTube or NewPipe etc etc. Fortunately and thanks to some great devs out there, we’re still able to give Google the big middle finger.

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    • SterlingVapor@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve found revanced to stop playing the video after a minute or two unless you frequently update it (which is a manual process)… I no longer listen to lectures while I run errands, because there’s now no convenient way to do it. Ads are out of the question, and finding a video I want to watch only to have it cut out as I get on the road has killed the experience for me

      I’m on Android, and open to suggestions

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Noob question: do I have to run my own piped server to use it?

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    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can, but you can also use one of the many public instances like piped.video, piped.yt and many more

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, you don’t have to. They have a list of public instances.

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  • LrdThndr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay. Explain something to me. I’ve tried to use piped, but it’s just so dogshit slow. Unusably so.

    What am I doing wrong?

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    • callmepk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I am not sure… are you using a shared instance or self-hosting? I self-host my own instance and have no issue since my deployment

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If people don’t want to engage with your business, maybe you need a better business

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• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been paying the €5 ad free subscription without other premium features for years until they announced that it will be discontinued from next month.

  So then I am going to take a new look into ad blockers.

  Good job, YouTube.

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    COUGH vanced COUGH

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Re*

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• iMastari@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  uBlock Origin for the win.

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  • TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I blocked the little message with the dropper tool and the stupid clear background thing it makes too.

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    • CRT@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Make sure you clear all caches and update the filters, that’s the recommended way to prevent the message from popping up

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    • AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      stupid clear background thing

      In web design that’s called a modal.

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is it with the number of people “happy” to pay for Youtube Premium? Like “why yes, I’m glad I can give a company that spies on me day and night for the privilege!”

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  • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What kinda bothers me is that I recognize that something like YouTube is expensive to run and just switching to an alternative isn’t super feasible. I would be more than happy to pay for a service like YouTube that I use everyday. HOWEVER, not with their bullshit double dipping. If I am paying a company like Google to use their services, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that their should be an expectation or mechanism where that means I am not just no longer served ads, but that all tracking and data collection about my account(s) are stopped.

    That’s never going to happen though :/

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You mean like cable that we paid for and got ads or like your cell phone/ISP provider charging you while selling your data simultaneously?

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I keep seeing these headlines, but my ad blockers all still work just fine. So, good job Google and YouTube lol

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube can get bent with its biased algorithm pushing alt-right conservative crap to the masses.

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• Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Users are not happy with the amount of ads on YouTube and are doing something about it. What YouTube does not seem to recognize is that if you take their ads, plus the sponsored videos on the platform, it is all WAY too much. Like way way way too much and thus they are fighting a loosing battle here.

  The core issue here is that there are many players involved in a video that all need to get paid. You have the YouTuber, YouTube, and most of all, shareholders who legally demand a return on their investment and will squeeze every last cent they can, even if it kills the company which seems to be the path we are on.

  There are decentralized alternatives for video like Lemmy is for discourse, but like Lemmy, most rather use a big, “safe”, corporate service so here we are. How far will we have by to fall before we recognize that centralized services with shareholders are a dead end? Based on the stagnant price of Bitcoin for the past year or so, it seems we prefer falling and being exploited. Not the smart people here though as we are not seeing any ads on Lemmy. Decentralization is the solution, but far too many are spending time installing and maintaining ad blockers versus just leaving for less exploitative decentralized alternatives.

  Oh well. Human gonna human and YouTube is gonna be a corporation to ensure shareholders get their return as they have no choice. Like literally they have no choice as directors legally need to do everything they can to drive shareholder value, not customer value.

  That felt good to write. Rant complete I guess.

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• WuTang@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  we are not happy to endure 4minutes of ads for product we don’t care about, each time we play a video.

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• flakpanzer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck you YouTube/Google I’m gonna use an Firefox + ublock origin till death do us apart. If there’s no adblocker I’ll just quit the internet.

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• Clown_Tempura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe I’ll disable AdBlock if you get rid of unskippable ads. What’s that, you’re not gonna? Then I’m not gonna.

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• skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What about android apps like “revanced” which allow you to have all the premium features and ad blocking without having to pay premium. It is legal as well.

  All a person has to do is google search for it and download a proper version YouTube apk and then patch it and they are off to the races!

  I used to pay for YouTube family , but they got greedy and raised prices. Now after about 30 mins of getting it set up once I never have to pay again.

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FUCK GOOGLE/YOUTUBE

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not happy about YouTube and I’m doing something about it too.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TL,DR:

  YouTube is going to kill your grandma on Christmas Eve unless you send all the money you have to them in an unmarked envelope. No cops…

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• Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.

  It’s tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc…

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• PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Youtube can go fuck itself. I was one of the few people who was committed to not using an adblocker - corporate assholes or not, I recognized that advertising was why Youtube exists for free.

  3 unskippable ads on every fucking video broke me. Youtube can burn, I’m just burning bandwidth until it does.

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