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.
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.
plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube)
Then why do you watch YT at all?
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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.
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).
haven't seen an ad on yt in years.
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.
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."
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
What? Can't hear you through my Invidious..
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.
laughs in AdGuard on PC and AdGuard Pro (one time purchase) on mobile
*laughs harder in UBlock Origin on PC and Adguard DNS (free) on mobile*
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by using Invidious.
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Supposing that I sign to YT Premium (spoiler: I will not): Does the Nord VPN, Skillshare, BetterHelp and other sponsored bull*hit part of the videos skip automatically, or I will need to manually skip that part anyway?
No, those are usually embedded into the video itself as a segment by the content creator. However, SponsorBlock works really well and will automatically skip those bits for you (assuming someone else already put in the effort to mark the sponsored content).
There's SponsorBlock for that.
My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?
