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
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.
Oh you clicked the wrong video, believe it or not ad. Video ends ad. Restart video ad.
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.
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…
“Hey, look, this video-essay has a very constant volume, I can perfectly adjust it to my ea-”
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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.
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.
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.
Thank God I pay them for protection, I don’t know how I could live otherwise.
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.
Like fighting the system, building barricades, car tyres on fire?
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? Can’t hear you through my Invidious…
Invidious is a life saver in the ocean of ads.
youtube has ads?
Not if you’re doing it correctly
laughs in AdGuard on PC and AdGuard Pro (one time purchase) on mobile
*laughs harder in UBlock Origin on PC and Adguard DNS (free) on mobile*
Opens a book
How do you set up adguard DNS on Android? Is their an easy to follow guide? I already use uBlock, and sponserblock, on my desktop.
Settings > Type “DNS” into the search > set it to dns.adguard-dns.com > done.
Supposing that I sign to YT Premium (spoiler: I will not): Does the Nord VPN, Skillshare, BetterHelp and other sponsored bull*hit part of the videos skip automatically, or I will need to manually skip that part anyway?
No, those are usually embedded into the video itself as a segment by the content creator. However, SponsorBlock works really well and will automatically skip those bits for you (assuming someone else already put in the effort to mark the sponsored content).
Which they usually already have. I’m surprised how quickly even small channels get sponsor blocked. It makes me kind of sad because I wanna contribute too, but it’s hard to find video that haven’t been edited
Can’t you tell SB to ignore said channels?
yes you can. also, not watching the sponsors usually doesn’t give them any less money afaik.
There’s SponsorBlock for that.
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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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.
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
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.
Youtube pro (cant remember what the plugin was actually called) is what was fucking me over for a while
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
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)
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!
Yeah I have the YouTube enhancer aswell with adblock disabled and it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues.
My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?
Get into the piehole
