Memes @lemmy.ml

12mo ago

your video will play after this ad

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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.
- 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.

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...

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.
- 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'm starting to think it might be finally time to look into CuriosityStream and Nebula

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

What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.
- more of a revanced guy, but yeah what ads?
- 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.

Yall are watching YouTube without adblockers and sponsorblock?
- 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
  
  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).
  
  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.
  
  Is skipping 30-120 seconds ahead in a video that hard if you don't wanna watch the sponsored bit?
  
  You have to set up sponsor block? This is news to me
  
  Just change it so it doesn't auto skip anything. Done.
- 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

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
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  The ad starts at 5:05
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  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.

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.

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.
- 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.
  
  Also, all those tube sites are littered with ads.
- 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."
- 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.

youtube has ads?
- Not if you're doing it correctly

laughs in Freetube on desktop and Newpipe on mobile
- laughs in Revanced on mobile and Ublock Origin on desktop
  
  Laughs because of solid sense of humor*
  
  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.

What? Can't hear you through my Invidious..
- Invidious is a life saver in the ocean of ads.

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.
- 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
  
  What browser do you use?
  Google slows down YouTube for any browsers that don't run chromium
  
  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)

Hurt the spy-ware giant,
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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.

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
- There's SponsorBlock for that.

My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?

Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony's voice?!

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

With all the machine learning and ai bullshit, why can't somone stick the technology on the YouTube ad urls?

Get into the piehole
- If only Pi-hole removed YouTube ads.
  
  FreeTube does and also Newpipe.

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.

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