Lol ads. Not for years. I honestly don’t know how people do it. Maybe they are just used to it but last time I tried to use the Internet without an ad blocker I wanted to throw my computer across that room. It’s ridiculous how bad it is.
Those poor souls watching multiple ads are the ones making so there’s not an even more aggressive approach to preventing our means of ad free stuff.
Doubt it, the reason it got this far is because of complacency from the general populace, more complacency doesn’t let us keep our privacy and being ad free, the existence of lemmy is an example of that.
I know, it was a joke.
Oh, that wasn’t really clear for me 😅
Oh you clicked the wrong video, believe it or not ad. Video ends ad. Restart video ad.
Youtube plays ads on music like sublime smokes joints. You can be on the hook for 4 ads total if you don’t manually rewind a music video before it ends.
I watch two ads in the morning…
I watch two ads at night…
I watch two ads before I watch two ads, because YouTube thinks it’s right.
…FUUUUCK YOUTUBE…
if the day comes where ublock origin stops working on youtube, i’ll simply stop watching youtube. plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube) out there to fill that consumption void
i can always start checking things off on my anime list.
youtube is just procrastination on my part. go ahead, make me stop using it.
I’ve already started. Most of my YT viewing was from the smart TV app, and since I can’t block ads from there I simply don’t use it anymore. It’s still OK on PC, and on mobile I use Grayjay. On my TV, I just watch shows and anime nowadays instead.
If you have an Android-based smart TV (or a device that runs Android connected to your TV), you can use SmartTube. It blocks ads, supports SponsorBlock, and casting from your phone, among other things.
Oh, thanks! I will look into this.
plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube)
Then why do you watch YT at all?
you’re right, but also i stick to the few channels that post decent content and then never touch anything outside of that
I’m starting to think it might be finally time to look into CuriosityStream and Nebula
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One of the best things I did on my Linux laptop was adding auto gain filters to Pipewire through Easy Effects to automatically tune every audio to the same volume.
And if I want to get the dynamic range back it’s easy to temporarily turn off.
That actually works to my favor for podcasts. I download everything on wifi so I don’t have to use data, and the audio player audipo shows the waveform of the audio. So when the ad sections come up it’s easy to see how far to skip.
My favorite is when there’s a countdown to hit skip, but it stays on zero and plays for an extra couple of seconds without letting me skip, and then another ad plays with a fresh skip countdown.
Or yesterday, when the video locked up because it was apparently time for an ad, but the ad wouldn’t play. So I gave up and tried to play a different video, but none of the videos would play because there was still an ad that was supposed to play at me and it wouldn’t play. So I stopped watching YouTube for the day.
Hear that, YouTube? I gave in to your bullshit adblock crackdown and the ads actually make your videos unusable. Fix your shit. None of us would mind brief, infrequent ads, but your greed is fucking the whole platform to the point that regular people are looking for a competitor. You did a Streisand Effect to adblock extensions, so now everybody knows about them. You squeezed creators into doing sponsored videos because you stopped paying them. You harassed us with non-stop pestering about YouTube TV and YouTube Red or premium or plus or whatever the fuck it is this year. You’ve forgotten what the point of YouTube originally was. It used to be a place for regular people like YOU to host a video, and now it’s pretty much just small businesses doing the 21st century version of public access TV.
This late stage capitalism is really pissing me off. Everything keeps getting shittier and more expensive.
The afmd blockers work again, you can use them.
What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.
more of a revanced guy, but yeah what ads?
Hoping for a solution on the Roku, it looks like Im going to have to abandon it for a PC. I will only miss the remote.
Google TV has an app. I ditched Roku a long time ago.
Yall are watching YouTube without adblockers and sponsorblock?
Sponsorblock can be janky to set up. If you set it up wrong it either doesn’t skip or skips unrelated parts. I had to actually double check how to properly set it up.
I’d imagine most people would give up instead of double checking.
I agree on adblock tho. uBlock Origin is amazing
SponsorBlock is IMO not that hard to set up, and I haven’t even seen YouTube actively fight against its use; the problem is that the sponsor segment timestamps are community-sourced, which means 1) they might not yet be submitted by the time you watch a recently published video and 2) they’re often very lazily done (but of course both are better than nothing).
Is skipping 30-120 seconds ahead in a video that hard if you don’t wanna watch the sponsored bit?
It isn’t.
It’s just intensely convenient where it makes the experience more enjoyable
It’s really nice to have videos do it automatically though. I don’t even think about it anymore.
No, but with sponserblock I don’t have to, it’s automated for me.
Is standing by your microwave for 60 seconds that hard? No, but the ability to set a timer and have it turn off after 60 seconds is mighty convenient.
I uses to think SB skipped unrelated parts, but it turns out it just cuts the whole ads away so I was always left wonder if there was any ad at all.
You have to set up sponsor block? This is news to me
It’s basically just one button press that is “Yeah I wanna skip stuff” and if you press the wrong button because most people don’t FUCKING READ you might mess up your settings
Just change it so it doesn’t auto skip anything. Done.
My workplace disabled extensions today, and I’m just mindblown by the amount of ads I’ve been blissfully ignorant about. I play music from youtube while working, but every time I’m in a good flow now, getting stuff done, there’s an ad-break that takes me out of that flow. Tiring having to work up that momentum all the time.
My workplace disabled extensions today,
This gives me cold sweats
haven’t seen an ad on yt in years.
The only ones I see are the ones that are part of the video, like how Hugbees does it. I don’t mind that because 1) I can skip through it right away and 2) he actually makes his pretty funny
Example: The ad starts at 5:05
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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yeah on new pipe i can tap right side to skip ahead if the artist inputs sponsors into the video. so i suppose i do see ads just not in the “yt interruption” sense.
Thank God I pay them for protection, I don’t know how I could live otherwise.
If YouTube stops working, it won’t be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube’s place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.
What makes you think any free option that takes YouTube’s place won’t have just as many ads? The traffic that pornhub gets compared to YouTube is not really comparable.
I’d bet traffic is similar but view time is way off.
Traffic is not even close from anything I can find. YouTube gets as many hits in a month as PH does in a year.
I guess that makes sense when you consider how many children are on YouTube.
Also, all those tube sites are littered with ads.
Your comment makes me giggle that there’s a possible future where PornHub admins are getting angry at influencers for uploading wholesome content, in violation of the site Terms of Service.
Edit: I hope the headline reads, “PornHub has issued a press release - naming an account MrBeastPhilanthropy194768 isn’t fooling anyone, and they need to take their charitable fundraising to a more appropriate platform.”
Like fighting the system, building barricades, car tyres on fire?
I still think most sites would struggle dealing with the stream of people continually uploading full episodes of copyrighted works, as well as finding a profitable revenue stream for all the bandwidth used. Even YouTube has a hard time with it.
Haven’t seen that shit in years. Nostalgia.
Same. Only if someone is showing me something on YT.
alwas happens when friends show me vids on their iphones. all of my android friends already have revanced.
The Simpsons or ads?
Ads. Simpsons still slaps, regardless of what the Internet hivemind says.
youtube has ads?
Not if you’re doing it correctly
laughs in Freetube on desktop and Newpipe on mobile
laughs in Revanced on mobile and Ublock Origin on desktop
*Laughs because of solid sense of humor*
Laughts because my apartment is slowly filling with carbon monoxide
uBlock Origin doesn’t always block YouTube’s new pop-ups, and I actually have grown used to not having stuff synced to my Google account. I like it. I don’t have to worry as much about Google tracking my viewing history.
Edit: Also, besides, it doesn’t support the newest YouTube app version for non-rooted devices.
What? Can’t hear you through my Invidious…
Invidious is a life saver in the ocean of ads.
I feel like YouTube has gone back to normal now. I used to need to update uBlock (origin) manually few times a day but I haven’t needed to do that for weeks now.
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50 yo sysadmin using uBo, had the same issue as the other fellow. Don’t be so dismissive, you are not the average case.
Well I did get the warning several times while using Firefox + uBlock Origin and I had to manually go update the “quick fixes” filters in order to get it to work again. I did have other add-ons for YouTube aswell but no other adblockers.
Youtube pro (cant remember what the plugin was actually called) is what was fucking me over for a while
Funny, I still have yet to see ads or performance changes and I’ve been using Vivaldi with no ad blocker but the built in one.
Guess that answers whether it has a better ad blocker than Brave.
I didn’t even know know there was a non Origin version of uBlock and I’ve had the same problems as everyone else
On my laptop I actually have AdGuard (I think? The one with the hedgehog mascot) and that has never given me any ads
It’s really a case by case basis
YouTube keeps buffering and skipping short sections of videos for me on PC with uBlock origin. I’m so confused since apparently AdBlock Plus which I don’t use was responsible for the whole buffering thing and now I’m here and wondering wtf is wrong with my setup
What browser do you use?
Google slows down YouTube for any browsers that don’t run chromium
Yeah my videos sometimes skips forward a few seconds aswell but it doesn’t happen often enough to be an issue. Assuming you have other extensions disabled for youtube and if you’re on FIrefox; remember to also turn off the enhanced tracking protection for YouTube (shield icon at the address bar while you have youtube open)
I do have Firefox although on LibreWolf I didn’t experience those problems a few weeks ago. Thanks I’ll check! I also have Enhancer for YouTube as a plugin so I can set custom speeds etc for videos but I disabled its ad blocker and use ublock for that. Wasn’t a problem on Librewolf either but I’ll try to look into it. Thanks!
Yeah I have the YouTube enhancer aswell with adblock disabled and it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues.
