Isn’t uMatrix deprecated though? Haven’t been in the extensions game for a while.

uBlock can do everything that uMatrix can do it just has a different interface, so there’s no need to use the deprecated uMatrix

If you have an android phone with a Google account, you’re being tracked already.

As I be see it, I’m going to be tracked by everything on the internet whether I like it or not. So in the case of YouTube, I may as well support the creators I watch hours of content from.

Would definetely prefer to pay than being tracked…

But i also feel like the time is mature to produce a new type of web where nor ads, nor user payments are required, i think we’ll get there some day…

Depends how far they’re going to take it. If they’ll focus on people with a YouTube account and threaten to block their YouTube/Google account, it’s one thing. You’ll be able to work around it by using incognito mode (assuming you trust they don’t spy on you in incognito mode…) or a browser where you’re not logged in, or NewPipe etc.

If they threaten to block people who aren’t logged in (by IP and by the fact they already spy on your phone and know your Google account) then it’s another thing and nothing will be able to bypass it. They would burn a lot of bridges by doing that and expose themselves to some huge fallout and scrutiny about privacy, but you’d have no choice but to watch ads or not use YouTube.

Honestly it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if more people started using nebula and curiositystream for their content. The quality of content there is fantastic. Floatplane is another weird one out there which benefits users and content providers

But this is such a shitty, hostile way to do it. And if you give in and say yes to ads they’ve already shown where that’s going to go, with 10 unskippable ads in a row and 30 second ads.

They could make subscriptions mandatory if they really believe they have a good product, and pass a fat portion of that money to the creators instead.

…except this isn’t about the creators, or the users, or the advertisers, it’s about Google making more money at the expense of every single other party involved in the platform, and the platform be damned. Textbook late stage enshittification.

Nah fuck that they have way too many unskipable 30 second ads for a 15min video. If it was 1 or 2 ads a video sure.

While I’m not opposed to paying for YouTube (it is a service after all) the only way to do so would be by being logged in to YouTube with whatever black box algorithmic tracking and curation that entails. There is no “proper” way to anonymously access YouTube without ads.

I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

Running a video service the size of YouTube carries astronomical traffic and storage costs. Google is probably one of the only companies in the world that can stem that.

There’s smaller video sharing sites, like DailyMotion, but those would probably instantly crash and burn if their userbase were to suddenly grow to the size of YouTube’s.

I expect tik tok to make a long form video tab and compete directly. The way that YouTube made shorts to compete with tik tok.

My understanding is that its just straight up not profitable plus network effect. Requires too many resources to run the service and only profitable if doing data harvesting from users in the way that google/etc do.

It’s because google has effectively unlimited resources and first-adopter advantage combined. The people who originally made youtube in 2005 would have never made money from it, even though the max upload quality was 240p (I remember when 480 on youtube was still considered high quality lol). But they got an audience which is what mattered. When google bought them, they still couldn’t make money, but they could prevent ANYONE else making money with a similar product but throwing enough money and creator-focused policy around to make any other platform look just plain stupid. Even today, how much do you think it costs to store and serve the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded to YT a DAY? Many of them at 4K res or even 4K60hz??? It’s a massive undertaking and nobody can afford to build a competitor. And without youtube, the internet would be a much much smaller place.

I’ve tried changing to odysee and peertube. I just wished more creators would upload their videos to other platforms and not just YT.

Can <insert basically any corporation> not try to fuck people over for 5 minutes?

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)

Here it is in text format so ya’ll don’t have to type it out. I haven’t verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it’s way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]

don’t be evil

Corporations in general. Reddit with their API prices, Adobe with their montly subscription for rotating pages in the Adobe Reader, Netflix with their lockdown on account sharing… Capitalism yay!

PeerTube won’t take off unlike Lemmy did and still does. People won’t switch from YouTube to PeerTube because the creators they watch aren’t there. Also the YouTube Algorithm is what people make use YouTube in the first place.

Reddit isn’t creator based and doesn’t necessarily need an Algorithm since the users choose what to see anyways. So the Lemmy experience isn’t actually that mich worse than the reddit experience