• JCreazy@midwest.social
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    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.

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      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.

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    Oh you clicked the wrong video, believe it or not ad. Video ends ad. Restart video ad.

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      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.

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        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…

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        you’re right, but also i stick to the few channels that post decent content and then never touch anything outside of that

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    “Hey, look, this video-essay has a very constant volume, I can perfectly adjust it to my ea-”

    DOWNLOAD NOW, RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS AND

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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.

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      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.

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    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.

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.world
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      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

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        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).

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        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.

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      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.

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    What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.

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      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

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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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.”

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      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.

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        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.

         

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    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.

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        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.

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        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

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        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.

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        Youtube pro (cant remember what the plugin was actually called) is what was fucking me over for a while

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      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

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        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)

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          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!

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            Yeah I have the YouTube enhancer aswell with adblock disabled and it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues.