YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
Submitted 7 months ago by TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-warns-worse-viewing-experience-ad-blocker-2023-11
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starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
so little people use adblockers already, the few sheckles they’d get form those willing to turn them off, is that really worth it?
Or is it about power? its about power isnt it
roguetrick@kbin.social 7 months ago
Youtube drove me away when they started autoplaying misogynistic and alt right nonsense.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
vermyndax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ironically, I cannot read the article because I use an ad blocker.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Really? I am not having any issues with uBlock
vermyndax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sure that is the case, however I no longer use chromium browsers due to Googleks behavior and I only use Firefox as a backup. If a site is going to be this egregious to prevent me from reading their content, I am no longer interested in what they have to say.
db2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Imagine being so cocky that you think pirated YouTube videos can’t be a thing.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 7 months ago
You can however, almost certainly correctly, predict that most people are not going to care enough to bother pirating YouTube videos, especially given how many people watch YouTube on phones or smart TVs now.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Pirates aren’t most people. Piracy finds a way among pirates.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 months ago
It does happen though. For example, in China, people would reupload YouTube videos to the local video platforms (e.g. bilibili) without permission from the video owners.
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 7 months ago
I literally have a separate app just to watch YouTube through which lets me subscribe and all the rest without an account and without ads.
I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.
“Let’s hook Americans on consumerism and turn them into animals, then we can surprise pikachu when said animals eat our faces”
🤷🏻♂️
ares35@kbin.social 7 months ago
phones and tv puts the viewing experience in their app in most cases, too, and out of the reach of effective ad blockers.
desktop pc user share on yt has to be pretty low nowadays.
RealWarrenBuffett@lemm.ee 7 months ago
And people will fight this even harder.
badbytes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How could it get worse?
grayman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have premium… Have had it for many years. The service has really gone downhill a lot in the last few months. Lots of stalls, inadequate buffer, and very low bit rates on my very fast and adequate ISP service.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
That enshittification may continue until the ad revenue improves.
(aka never)
apochryphal_triptych@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I pay for Youtube premium as a carry-over from Google Music (back when it was called Youtube Red). I let it run because I enjoy the screen off feature when I’m driving. On my desktop uBlock Origin still blocks 340 scripts/trackers even when logged into Premium. They not only want to eye-rape us with ads, but they want to track the fuck out of us across the web.
SquishMallow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
YouTube surprised at sudden lack of consumers
kzhe@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They don’t care. You were costing them money to show you video while not giving them anything.
SquishMallow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not referring to the people not giving anything. More people will leave that originally watched ads.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
of course that’s infuriating, but you want to know something else is infuriating? I’ve been paying for YouTube premium all these years, and one of the perks of that supposedly was that we could hear the audio from videos even when our screen is off. within the last few months, that is no longer true for me. The video stops playing after exactly 120 seconds if I turn the screen off. I’m paying for YouTube premium! I should be able to hear the audio from the videos when my screen is off. As far as I know I’m the only one experiencing this because other people on let me have told me they can still hear the audio when their screen is off. someone please help me. You know how there is no YouTube customer service.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 7 months ago
you might turn off youtube app’s battery optimization setting. this happened to me before, until i turned off my phone’s battery saver settings.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hey, thanks, you may be right. I just checked my settings and it was originally clicked on the last one, restricted. So I switched it to the top one. unrestricted. And I vague the recall getting a notification sometime ago that YouTube was taking up too much battery and they asked me if I wanted to optimize the settings? I’m like sure yeah whatever. But yeah since then I think that’s when I haven’t been able to play the video while phone is hibernating or while I multitasking on different apps. Thank you. hopefully now that I switch the setting I can go back to my full premium perks.
pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 7 months ago
Not the vibe here by the look of the comments but for me YT premium is worth it. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube and it’s nice watching it all ad free in HD on my TV without ads. I realize hosting, streaming, and producing that content isn’t free and I don’t mind supporting it.
Mkengine@feddit.de 7 months ago
Does that include Sponsorblock? Otherwise you still see ads, just from the content creators and not from YouTube.
pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah true, those are skippable though
Patches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You still get ads with YouTube Premium though…
hh93@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Do payouts for creators increase if people that watch them have premium? If not you are not buying it for the good content but for the service infrastructure
victorz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
you are […] buying it […] for the service infrastructure
Which in and of itself is fine, I suppose. 👍 Depending on the price, of course.
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 7 months ago
From what most creators I’ve seen who talk about it say, premium users are worth more than ad supported users. There are more ad supported users overall than paying premium subscribers though. Pushing people to a more predictable subscription service would benefit YouTube by making it less dependent on advertisers and not as affected by ad blockers so I can unfortunately see why they are considering changes like this.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
im confused. I use firefox and ublock and haven’t noticed any change in the way youtube works for me.
HooPhuckenKarez@kbin.social 7 months ago
Video background play fix. Long winded title. Let's me play youtube videos in FF mobile while leaving shitty comments on the fediverae.
_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ever since they’ve been getting so obnoxious and haughty lately i’ve deleted the app (which is barely worth having without premium; esp with them INTENTIONALLY DISABLING background playback on mobile which is a fucking joke and should literally be against the law) and honestly barely visit anymore. i don’t think my quality of life has dropped at all
HooPhuckenKarez@kbin.social 7 months ago
Literally listening to youtube in the background right now without premium. Firefox mobile ftw.
Video background play fix is the add-on I use.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bring it.
SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 7 months ago
Yeah bring it on Google. I didn’t thought I could leave Reddit as there is so much content and I thought I always would fall for the sheer quantity of Reddit. I am suprised by myself how easily I accepted Lemmy over Reddit even all these Month later. Maybe I could leave Youtube too and would be okay with another platform that does not provide so much content. And you know how I find out? Not by doing it on my own. But by getting a really good incentive to make this step. If youtube thinks I am gonna bend over and accept hours of ads in my life they are wrong. I will choose the alternative. As soon as they force be to disable adblock, I have all the reasons to pack my coach wagon and go west searching for another life. Maybe it will not be better, but I will certainly be free. And it will be exciting to be part of something new. Bring it on Google. Make me leave you!
Prometheus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do they have a way to cut off FreeTube? I just started using it recently.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not really, unless they start requiring you to log in before you can watch any content.
viking@infosec.pub 7 months ago
In theory they can cut off everything, but it takes some more intrusive behavior on your phone. Essentially they can build a layer required to authenticate your phone as unmodified before allowing it to access any content, using a special api.
x4740N@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hahahahahahahaha get fucked google
PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Youtube can eat shit and post it to ‘shorts’ before I turn my ad-blocker off.
notafox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck 'em.
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Time to move to NewPipe and ViMusic?
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 7 months ago
SmartTube is quite nice also.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SmartTube on Android TV is a far better experience than the official Youtube app. I love it!
EqMinMax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
peertube
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hey Google, you gotta remember that you won’t get any ad revenue from people who get fed up with your shit and just stop going to YouTube.
nutsack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
don’t care suck my balls
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ll just start downloading the YouTube videos I wanna watch. Maybe even have it on my Plex server.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s what I did for ~6 years before I started using Piped with LibRedirect in my browser and LibreTube on my phone. It’s honestly the best YouTube experience I ever had. FreeTube is great if you prefer a desktop app, as well as Yattee with this guide on iOS or SmartTubeNext on Android TV.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Here I’m just talking about pasting the link into another website to download. I just learned quite a bit from your comment lol.
I’ll definitely be checking out the stuff you linked to
Willer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mobile game ads are the worst now. I could not turn ads on and watch with others because its soo bad.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, it’s already terrible.
nexussapphire@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s not the first time I stopped paying for a service that use to be good. If it effects me I’ll drop the service and stop using the platform altogether.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 months ago
How about invest in actually using all the data you have on me to show me ads for products I would actually be interested in? I wouldnt hate ads so much if it wasn’t so repetitive and for crap that is useless to me.
rockandsock@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s fine. The more they do stuff like this the less I watch YouTube.
Plenty of other things to watch out there.
spencer@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Would they make it worse than watching ads?
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 7 months ago
YouTube made my viewing experience worse for the past decade already, and I'm not just talking about the fucking ads, which I don't see either way and never will be, regardless of what they do. If they think this is going to make me want to support them, then they should just drink the bottle of bleach as their next fabulous idea.
NightOwl@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Their algorithm certainly made videos worse the moment they started priorizing the promotion of longer videos over shorter ones leading to an increase in incredibly long winded videos that waste everyones time.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 7 months ago
Their algorithm is generally just complete garbage. Watch a video from channel X and it throws everything form channel X at you. Watch anything from category Y and it throws any video about category Y at you. It also loves to push "recently uploaded" videos. Meaning some garbage 47 views video of some random idiot uploading some random ass video that might be roughly related to a topic I'm potentially interested in. It also constantly recommends me the videos that I've already seen, so I have to tell YT every fucking time that I already watched the video and don't want to see it again. Or all the garbage clickbait titles & thumbnails that are just the fucking norm apparently. I cold go on an on and on... I watched so much videos in the past and nowadays it's almost nothing. It's all just shit.
_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i love how they’re trying to introduce pReMiUm 1080p which looks slightly less shitty than normal 1080p. what fucking dipshit children do they have thinking of this rancid garbage