Oh no, the ads I block are getting even longer!?

what YouTube ads

Who still watches YT without adblocker? It must be horrible.

YouTube has ads?

Sincerely,

Ublock Origin User

Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.

I wonder what the breaking point is for those who don’t use adblockers.

Youtube: "People are blocking are ads and costing us money, what should we do?!"

The People: "Police your platform and stop advertising scams, hate speech, pornography, and all the other shit."

Youtube: "I just have no idea what to do, so I guess I'll just invest millions/billions into making ads harder to block, and make the ads longer and unskippable. You know, Just make the platform almost completely unusable without adblocking"

The People: "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, JUST POLICE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM ALREADY. IF YOU DID YOU WOULDNT NEED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT"

Youtube: "Oh, btw, heres another PragerU video thats 3 hours long and talks about how the black man should be grateful for the white man uplifting them via slavery, followed by a ad thats basically a woman fingering herself to advertise chinese AI girlfriends"

The People: adblocking intensifies

YouTube has ads?

YouTube has ads?

I recommend Peertube. There's not much there yet, but myself and others are trying.

Also, did you know you can upload your video to Peertube and have YouTube pull it via RSS? That's what I'm doing!

All of my stuff you'll find on Peertube and I don't have to do anything else to get it up on YouTube.

It's so fucking funny though. I would love to pay YouTube. But I will never pay a company that abuses my data the way they do.

The article about crappy ads wants me to turn off my ad blocker, lol

I often entirely forget that youtube and most of the internet is plagued with ads. It's a shock to use a family member's phone or laptop that does not have adblock

Pretty much stopped using it once they decided my 20 year old account must belong to a child and demanded my ID. (Still don’t know why that happened. The account itself is over eighteen and I don’t live in the US where that policy was supposed to take effect.) This doesn’t make it any more appealing.

I remember when you just had, like, banner ads and an ad next to the video. And now you get those gross ads for AI sexbots and stuff.

And I really don’t think the latter is just because of my own search history. I’m asexual and don’t look at porn sites. I also noticed an uptick in the sex ads after YouTube decided I was a minor, so that’s pretty freaking weird.

Then I also get far right ads about how trans people are terrible, that are basically hate speech and propaganda.

I wish other platforms for long form video content existed.

I set my VPN to Albania. Ads on YouTube are banned in Albania.

On the web, I be Albanian.

why not have UBLOCK origin.

and they'll be unskippable

I'm sure i've heard this before, but yt-dlp still skips them fine.

Businesses pay youtube to show ads and viewers pay youtube to not show ads.

I buckled and just got YouTube Premium Family. Via India. For 4 bucks a month. For 6 people.

I needed a cheap music streaming service anyway.

Nebula is pretty good these days, I can't remember the last time I deliberately watched something on YouTube.

We need an alternative with people on it.