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THE BOOT SLURPING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AD BLOCKERS ARE DISABLED (old.reddit.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can't with these dweebs.

Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.

fuck google for doing this.

Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.

so-true why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using "welfare queen" language. how did you know?

They don't pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.

I'm not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.

nerd

YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.

Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.

Anyway, it's your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.

smuglord

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (2 children)

there are tech workers out there who unironically believe that viewing ads is a moral imperative. I want to say "nothing human is alien to me" but these fuckers are just unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)

These people are so funny, and have been around forever. They spend time customizing their filters to only block certain kinds of ads, or not blocking on sites they like. I can't imagine.

All so they can "support the site" by being subjected to ads for hard lemonade.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's what gets me! If you engage with the concrete activity they put so much weight on - observing some banners for hard lemonade or whatever interspersed with the content you're reading - it's just so absurd in a way that is hard to capture. A company is paying to subtly massage my neurons so I possibly have a 5% higher chance of buying hard lemonade next time I pick up a 6-pack for a friend's gathering. This is the value I bring to the table, shaping a bit of my soul to corporate ends.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I stare at each ad for 5 minutes so the site can maximize value.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The wildest thing about this is that these (usually affluent) people could quite literally throw $10 at the site, keep their adblock on, and then probably have donated more directly than the ad-platform EVER would have generated off of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Patreon is such a better model for Internet content than ads that it's unbelievable that it took so long to come about. I guess the problem is that it cuts corpos out of the loop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Well, it cuts some corpos out of the loop. Patreon corpos still get their slice.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

brb making adtech to serve ads for cyanide capsules and microtargeting it at people with ad blockers but who have whitelisted the site

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Baleted

Edit: I’m leaving this picture here for now to illustrate how funny takes you agree with can be harmful, regardless of your intentions. And how when others call you out on unconscious bigotry you should address it.

Edit again: No one asked for me to remove the picture. Just thought it was the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

hexbear body shaming

time is a flat circle

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

I already pay Google with my data, they don't need more money

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

why are you complaining so much? the Doritos™ Dew™ verification can is sugar-free and ethically sourced, and it actually tastes pretty good!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Users who look away during ads will be shot.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.

jagoff

People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.

I-was-saying

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

The users are just doing what the FBI wants them to do (install adblockers):

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jfc they have Chrome flair

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Chromies are only gonna get more deranged in the next couple years.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.

Because unlike Netflix or Amazon its user generated content. Also, normal people dont pay for those either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most people I know pay for Netflix so idk what you’re saying (I agree in general of course)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

third world gang

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Oh ok so you’re just saying crackers aren’t normal, that’s true

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called findom. People don't complain about other kinks.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Paypig

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry I don't want my 6yo child seeing fucking ads for alcohol, P2W mobile games, and sex pills shrug-outta-hecks

It's bad enough he's so susceptible to click-bait "minecraft parkour" type bullshit videos...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I had turned the ad blocker off for a bit when YT first started blocking them and saw a fucking Goblin Slayer mobile game ad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I installed Playlet and got rid of YouTube on my Roku-based TV(which is also a cesspool of ads) after my kid's YouTube junk food stuff started serving up ads for Disaronno. Like he was watching KooKoo Kangaroo or one of those magnetic metal ball ASMR videos.

I'd have a pihole running too but we have AT&T fiber and they don't let you change some settings needed for a pihole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I honestly wouldn't even know how to raise a kid in this day and age. So much advertising vying for their attention, trying to whittle away at their already tiny attention span. It must be hard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It fucking sucks for a lot of reasons. The oldest is just starting to learn that things cost money and he can't just get stuff because he wants it. His grandparents spoiled him for the first couple of years and I told them I didn't want them to buy him a ton of toys and stuff, but they did. I explained to my wife that the reason was partially because my own grandma spoiled us and then got shitty when she would come over and we'd ask for gifts. It's unhealthy conditioning for a developing mind. Thankfully the inlaws now mostly buy him and our youngest utilitarian stuff like clothes.

Oldest does seem to know at least to some extent that right now we are working with a single income and a teacher's salary at that. Keep him fed and let him play Switch and he's mostly good.

But I even had a plan early on that I didn't want him exposed to commercials and ads to the extent that I could help but life got busy and that fell apart and next thing I know, he's watching a bunch of consumerist product influencer shit on YT. We don't have regular TV so like those commercials aren't an issue but Prime and Hulu still stuffs ads at the beginning of movies and Twitch injects ads into their streams. It's awful. Like way worse than when I was a kid. They took cigarette ads away from magazines(justifiable) because they figured out they influenced children but unfettered consumerism ads for dumb shit made out of plastic is ok?

Sorry for the rant. It's just something that sets me off.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I haven't had any problems on firefox yet

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (5 children)

See, that’s where the messed up part is. If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like Chrome (being a Google product) is programmed to start hoovering up CPU and RAM if it detects a YouTube ad blocker. Firefox wouldn’t do that because it’s not a Google product.

Which to me isn’t just not cool, it’s moving Chrome into the realm of malware: use our product as we intend or your computer will become borderline non-functional.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All nonFree software is malware

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

All nonFree software is malware

yes-chad

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

That's disgusting what-the-hell

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Oh, so when I had Chrome it wasn't just chrome eating up RAM because it was poorly designed bloatware, it was maliciously designed bloatware. That's pretty fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently it’s actually a bug with specifically Adblock plus on chrome not so much google. Ublock origin users apparently haven’t had any issues w yt on chrome. At least that’s what I’ve read. Google is still a trash company regardless

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I'm on chrome/ublock and no problems with yt (famous last words?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I have a set up like this for work and ice also has no issues

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

It seems there are two broad sects of pro-advertising assholes on the internet:

There are the people who believe watching ads is a necessary evil for art to exist at all, and their willingness to toil in the marketing mines is some sort of moral virtue they have over the ad blocking "freeloaders".

And there are the tech perverts who actually get excited about the latest fucking spyware hidden throughout their OS, browser, and apps because they take some sort of sick enjoyment in being subjected to increasingly personalized ads as if the only problem with marketing brainwashing is that it just isn't quite relevant enough to their interests yet.

The first group is annoying, but the second is genuinely terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Thank you hexbear for existing and you guys being here. I always thought that people simping for corpos was weird. Let me take care of this chud hillary-assassin

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money

Yes I do

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I posted it earlier, so I'll post it here as well

Using uBlock origin works as long as you add the below lines:

! 2022-07-23 https://mobile.twitter.com

mobile.twitter.com##.r-11nfnuw.r-16wqof.r-1dqxon3.r-16y2uox.r-kemksi.css-1dbjc4n

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

To add these, simply go to uBlock > Dashboard > My Filters, you can just wholesale copy/paste into there

After, go to the Filter Lists tab, and press Apply Changes, then Update Now (or maybe those need to be reversed, it's been a while)

If you had a youtube tab open, close browser and re open

Haven't needed to do anything since throwing that script on back in 2023 when YouTube forced the issue

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Chromecucks btfo

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Firefox is all good

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

imagine defending google, the west is so fucking cooked

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

You can use a Boot Slurp to generate 2 new unique advertisements!

iNoVaTiOn!!1!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I am once again asking my fellow gommunists to use alternative YouTube frontends like invidio.us

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