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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
youtube has ads?
Not if you’re doing it correctly
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).
There’s SponsorBlock for that.
My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?
With all the machine learning and ai bullshit, why can’t somone stick the technology on the YouTube ad urls?
Get into the piehole
Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony’s voice?!
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.
