Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.
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Awesome, now you get only subconscious messages flashed in your eyes.
What else are people going to do to avoid installing Firefox?
I don’t know how much anyone’s subconscious is picking up in 2 seconds. Remember back in the day when people used to tell you they could study while sleeping by listening to a recording of a lecture? That didn’t really work either.
Awesome, now you get only subconscious messages flashed in your eyes.
Blipverts. If I recall correctly, they had some bad side effects on sensitive people.
Explosive effects, even.
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That’s strange. You’d think that because Google isn’t going to remove in-video ads, that would be the sole purpose of creating ad blockers, to remove them. Not for the purpose of making Google remove them from their business model altogether lol. That’s clearly not going to happen.
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Very surprising to hear this, I would never think that would be a viable endeavor to begin with. But fair enough. Honorable of them!
From my personal perspective though, I’m spending zero time in any effort towards blocking ads. Installed uBlock years ago and I haven’t done anything since. 😌 They’ve done all the effort for me.
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Exactly what I mean. I’m very grateful.
Very reasonable reasons, by the way.
I use ublock origin. Haven’t had any serious problems so far. I don’t think Google will be successful for any long period of time with their anti-adblock vendetta because people live to ruin them.
F I R E F O X
The “Look at what they need to do to have a fraction of our power” Invincible meme comes to mind.
Pathetic to be satisfied with sped-up annoyances when they can be easily skipped altogether with a browser not controlled by the ad company.
I don’t know man. This is actually pretty genius. Because this way creators still get paid. I wouldn’t mind using such extension on Firefox. Problem is I still want to block all trackers and other nonsense…
Doesn’t the creator only get paid if someone actually clicks on the ad? Pretty sure the creator gets nothing if no clicks are accumulated.
Yes its all about click through rate(CTR)
Haha two exact opposite answers. From what I remember, the advertiser can chose the payment model. They can either say “I will pay YouTube a tiny amount for every time the ad is shown” or “I will pay YouTube a less tiny amount for every time the ad is clicked”. But it was a few years ago that I read about it so it might have changed since then.
I tried actually searching for info about it, but it seems that YouTube and Google want to be as vague as possible about how it actually works.
Yes, let’s be a YouTube creator and base my income on something extremely vague and shaky. Sounds like a good life decision.
Sounds about as stable as asking the all mighty magic 8 ball how much you should be paid. Maybe yt should just do that for the creators and let them in on it. /s
No, on YouTube you also earn from impressions.
Agreed, I’m testing it on opera and might have it installed for the soel purpose of watching youtube (with firefox for everything else)
Firefox and just pay for a reasonable 30 second YouTube ad which is just a blank screen with the text “Use Firefox Already”
Use Freetube on the desktop and Newpipe (or the Sponsorblock version) on mobile (Android). No issues or ads
Oh and to add, I’ve installed SmartTube on my tv. Works great.
I use FreeTube but hadn’t heard of Newpipe before. Thanks for the recommendation!
No problem
And if you don’t want to install a thing, use any of the many invidious instances
I installed this other one https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-accelerator/gpboiedfklodfhngobidfjecdpmccehg?hl=en because this one seems to the FOSS.
When I already watch YouTube videos at 3x-4x speed so I can still understand the ad 😅
yes let me rely on 9to5google.com for the best methods to still allow youtube to still retain revenue on my views. Nice try google
On the other hand, this will royally piss off advertisers if it takes off. Make Google play a losing game of whack a mole with a ton of options on how to subvert their annoying platform
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. This add-on subverts the TrueView advertisement (or impression how they call it) that Google promises to advertisers.
I’m on the edge of what to think of it. Blocking ads primarily hurts Google since bidding never occurs and this speedup thing mainly hurts advertisers but also puts Google in an awkward situation.
What the fuck is wrong with this shit article?
The crackdown on ad blockers has been quite effective
No, it hasn’t. What’s up with the doublespeak?
While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don’t seem to do the trick.
Patently false. uBlock hasn’t had a single hickup.
Fuck whoever wrote this garbage.
Let them believe they’ve won.
They all pretend ublock origin don’t exist, they only talk about the old stupid for profit AdBlock that let’s “good ads” through.
I don’t know. I bet it has been pretty effective, but I also don’t think I’d trust any data I’d see from Google.
But, their goal isn’t to get you or me to watch ads. Hell will freeze over before I spend 30s watching an ad for a video that’s barely double that. Their goal is to target the people we’ve installed ad blockers for: friends, parents, siblings, in-laws.
I’m not going to watch ads, and I sure as hell am not going to click on anything, but my mother in law does now. My mom does too. They now feel like an ad blocker is “too much hassle,” so Google won that fight. I don’t know if new people are installing, updating, or changing ad blockers enough to offset right now.
uBlock Origin works just fine. I use Firefox btw
I watched two hours of Rocky & Bullwinkle uninterrupted the other day thanks to FireFox and uBlock Origin
Anyone else getting the “you will be blocked after 3 videos” yet? Haven’t seen anyone talk about it but I saw it for the first time yesterday.
I haven’t seen it, but I usually use Invidious on my computer because of YouTube’s buggy, slow design
This may require a refresh of your blocking lists and/or a making sure ublock is updated to most recent versions.
I know it’s explained in the subreddit for ublock origin and I think people reposted it sonewhere on lenmy too, but I can’t remember where exactly.
Anyway, after doing that it works perfectly. No more of those screens. Best of luck.
Not if your uBlock origin is up to date, sometimes you have to clear the cache so the filters update to bypass that
I have less problems with actually watching it than the fact that those ads they serve are very often times completely inappropriate and not respecting my online privacy.
Same here. If I’m watching a biography about Nathaniel Hawthorne, then why would I want to see an ad where someone is twerking their ass in my face?
A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.
I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…
Ya know the “it’s for targeted ads” is total bullshit. Where the fuck are the targeted ads YouTube. These data collectors are creeps. Simple as that.
In before Ads are recorded at 1/16th the speed in order to play at the correct speed with one of those extensions.
But then they only get 1/16th the frames?
I suppose it depends on your system’s abilities, but my guess would had been that you get all frames but for shorter period of time
Just a quick “BUY THIS” followed by a photo of Brad Pitt.
Wasn’t this pitched by a character on 30 Rock?
I must be an anomaly but… Ublock still works perfectly fine for me on chrome lol
You aren’t. I also use Firefox and ublock origin (but sometimes have to use chrome for work).
Nah, the article is just bullshit. uBO works flawlessly on both Chrome and Firefox (we will see what happens in 2024).
I’ll have Youtube start bitching about… once a week or so, but that just means I have to clear my block lists and re-load them.
Or just use something like Redirector and redirect all youtube links to invidous… or piped.
Or use Firefox
My ff got hit by the blanket ‘no fire fox’ issue. Now even with no mods youtube won’t work at all.
Downloaded free tube. Keep thinking to make some kinda macro to auto switch to it when I search in ff search bar.
I said it was novel. I didn’t say it was good.
Between uBlock and Sponsor Block I’ve had absolutely no interruption in service and it’s the exact same experience that I’ve had for years
Imagine using Chrome 😂
Some people have to use it for work. Including me, although I don’t have this problem because I don’t use it for YouTube.
I’ve been A/B testing Chrome and Firefox at work since we’ve had it drilled into us that we absolutely have to use Chrome. I haven’t had a single issue with Firefox, even with internal web apps. Your mileage may vary though.
They’re probably not making the infrastructure decisions around which browser they get to use.
True. Having said that in the majority of workplaces you can still download another browser if you wanted. If Firefox works just as well as chrome, why not use it.
For me specifically (though I don’t use it for YouTube) the work apps I’m required to use are codes for a chromium browser and the IT department doesn’t want us downloading anything to the work units. So I either have to use edge or chrome (both of which are provided). If the work apps don’t work with one we’re instructed to switch to the other and so on. When I was in the military we were told to use Internet explorer and a lot of websites made for the military didn’t work without it. This is a legitimate thing.
I completely understand you. My previous company had an incredibly strict IT policy, they blocked all downloads on their devices so you’d need an administrator to download anything for you.
I’ve heard of stories with internet explorer. I know a lot of web apps built for labs only work on Internet Explorer, they just never update them to work with anything else.
