I swear you guys are watching videos made by low-quality people. I get ads, sure, but nothing I would find excessive or annoying. The only time I run into too many ads is on specific channels, and I don’t stick around long when it becomes clear this creator is plastering their video with ads.
One is too many. Ads are mental abuse.
I mean, are you expecting strangers entertain you for free? Are you expecting the video host to operate as a charity? If you pay for the service, I’m just as mad as you are, but if it’s free, someone has to pay for it somehow.
Don’t give a fuck. I’m blocking the ads. If they want money out of me they’ll have to find another way of getting it. I pay money to Patreons and streaming services I value. Google is spying on me for money. If they can’t make that work they can all fuck off. Nobody has permission to subject me to mental abuse.
Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony’s voice?!
My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?
What? Can’t hear you through my Invidious…
Invidious is a life saver in the ocean of ads.
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.
You’ll find one right at the top of your home page, then the moment you tap on a video, it’ll be preceded by an infamous unskippable ad. mapquest directions
haven’t seen an ad on yt in years.
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
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.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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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.
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.”
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.
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.
Traffic is not even close from anything I can find. YouTube gets as many hits in a month as PH does in a year.
I guess that makes sense when you consider how many children are on YouTube.
Also, all those tube sites are littered with ads.
Like fighting the system, building barricades, car tyres on fire?
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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.
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
plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube)
Then why do you watch YT at all?
you’re right, but also i stick to the few channels that post decent content and then never touch anything outside of that
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.
Oh, thanks! I will look into this.
I’m starting to think it might be finally time to look into CuriosityStream and Nebula
Yall are watching YouTube without adblockers and sponsorblock?
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.
My workplace disabled extensions today,
This gives me cold sweats
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
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.
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).
Is skipping 30-120 seconds ahead in a video that hard if you don’t wanna watch the sponsored bit?
No, but with sponserblock I don’t have to, it’s automated for me.
Is standing by your microwave for 60 seconds that hard? No, but the ability to set a timer and have it turn off after 60 seconds is mighty convenient.
It’s really nice to have videos do it automatically though. I don’t even think about it anymore.
It isn’t.
It’s just intensely convenient where it makes the experience more enjoyable
You have to set up sponsor block? This is news to me
It’s basically just one button press that is “Yeah I wanna skip stuff” and if you press the wrong button because most people don’t FUCKING READ you might mess up your settings
Just change it so it doesn’t auto skip anything. Done.
Hurt the spy-ware giant,
by using Invidious.Free leeches their bandwidth,
without the spy-ware and ads!What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.
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.
Google TV has an app. I ditched Roku a long time ago.
more of a revanced guy, but yeah what ads?
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.
I know, it was a joke.
Oh, that wasn’t really clear for me 😅
