Jesus what the hell is going on in those comments over there.
[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful
Submitted 7 months ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-accidentally-made-ad-blockers:e
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lea@feddit.de 7 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 months ago
triple parentheses unironic use of the word cuck conspiracy theory about Google being a fake company
Welp.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
His comment section is pretty fucking wild.
I really hope Louis Rossmans’s fan base is less toxic. The fact that he has been on Tim Pool probably imported a lot of weirdos.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
“((( )))”? I thought that was a crowd saying something e.g “((( that’s what she said )))”. Or being a really fat dude. I remember :-))) being a smiley with a triple chin.
((( What does this mean to some people now? )))
hakstc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I went to odysee once and saw the Babylon Bee advertised front page. Told me all I needed to know about the platform.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s wrong with the Babylon Bee? Isn’t that a site similar to The Onion?
LWD@lemm.ee 7 months ago
[deleted]girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
For real. I didn’t realize how bad all of the YouTube alternatives are. They are just flooded with neo-nazis and bigots. It just sucks with how we really don’t have much choice other than to use something like newpipe.
ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So many alternatives get flooded with these crazy people
interloper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What the hell indeed.
adam_b@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Personally, I always click on the controversial button to have a laugh, and 90℅ of the time I do… Odysee is promising
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Personally, I prefer peertube, but odyssee had potential… before the nutters. Peertube has this issue, too, but being decentralization, it’s more of finding an instance with less nut. Like soy, nuts are in everything.
danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How did you find the “care of” button instead of “%” symbol?
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s funny cuz I had an ad blocker that worked on Youtube for a while but then stopped working one day. That was 3 years ago and I was too lazy to find a better blocker. Since they started putting that pop up in EVERY video, that prompted me to finally install a working one. Good job, Youtube. Ya played yaself.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I could deal with the 2 ads at the beginning of the video and the end but when they added ad interruptions in the middle of 5 minute videos and had ads covering the comments on every video. Yeah, screw off YouTube.
I just sideloaded uYou and it doesn’t even know what ads are so it never loads them. I would never had bothered circumventing the ads if they were reasonable, but they aren’t. They want everyone on premium and obviously have disdain for non-premium users. Have no zero respect for that kind of business.
ours@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was OK with a couple of ads in the beginning until their system went bonkers. For days it fed me the unskippable Kingsman movie trailer every single damn video I tried to watch.
That and my favorite Youtubers (mainly Red Letter Media) fighting Youtube which auto-inserted ads in the middle of their videos against their will, really cemented my ad blocker usage. They kept configuring their videos removing the ad placement and the ad was readded automatically. Now thankfully they are demonetized so Youtube ignores them.
STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tldw?
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 7 months ago
His argument is:
- A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
- Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
- People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)
Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Which is why you always finish your antibiotics
criticon@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I wonder how true that is for the average user
My father disabled ublock because it didn’t let him use YouTube. I sent hima tutorial on how to update the list and purge the cache but it was too much work for him
The_Vampire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
- The video’s comment section on its native site is… interesting.
- I don’t trust this guy. It feels like he’s just slinging things at the wall that most people could intuit without any research. Yes, sometimes things backfire when you try to stifle them. Sometimes, however, the stifling works (otherwise dictators would have a much harder time ruling). That’s just the way things go.
- I’ma need some actual data to back up Youtube’s anti-adblocker experiment succeeding/failing. People are so quick to jump on the ‘it failed’ or ‘it succeeded’ bandwagon but the truth is we simply don’t know the result yet, and may not for a long while.
- This could’ve been an email. This guy’s delivery is sprawling and lacks conciseness.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
He’ll often take a two minute point and then extend it by 10 minutes.
He’s also one of those people who acts like everyone who doesn’t use Linux is a sheep. Linux is fundamentally not ready for widespread desktop use. The only way I see that changing is if a corporation decides to make their own distro and find a way to monetize it. It would also need to be pre-installed.
A10@kerala.party 7 months ago
There is one mistake in this Video. Unlock origin doesn’t accept donations the last time checked.
ours@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re right: uBo doesn’t accept donations out of integrity but they propose people donate to the list maintainers on which it depends instead.
A10@kerala.party 7 months ago
Can you share some details, I can not find anything about it on their github page.
nfsu2@feddit.cl 7 months ago
“oh no, anyway” moment…
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
TIL Odysee has Reddit comments.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
I thought odysee was dying because LBRY got got by the SEC?
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As they say, “like a bitch”
Tygr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everything has to be video huh? Based on the comments here, this could have been a text post with a paragraph of text.
oatscoop@midwest.social 7 months ago
Alright, so I watched the damn video so you guys don’t have to. Here’s a synopsis:
Youtube’s ad blocking is going to backfire because:
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s funny to me because I recently downloaded an app for my nvidia shield called smartTube which blocks ads and all that jazz. And I donated $8 to the dev. And posted to the git.
I only did this because of the recent headlines about YouTube policies changing. I don’t mind paying for things. But I will pay someone else out of spite if you charge me too much, pester me, or take away things like that were free.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 7 months ago
🥇take my lemmy gold
camr_on@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sums up a lot of mental outlaw vids
paraphrand@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But he’s so edgy!
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You just described 99.7% of videos on the web.
Pretty much anyone can read about 4x faster than they can speak, and that’s before all the fluff that shitty presenters add.
Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
There is a website I discovered recently for doing text summaries of YouTube videos.
www summarize.tech
Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
It’s ironic how it injected an ad in “ad blocker” in the summary
demosthememes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
‘Content Creators’ really need you to smash that “Like” & “Subscribe” button though!