This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos"
Seems like a win to me.
"Comments are turned off"
They will still inject ads to your home feed even if you get premium. I noticed the “Introducing” titled video recommendations which are usually 1-2 mins and they essentially place an item in your home feed. When I asked support they confirmed they were targeted ads but you don’t have to click them LMAO. Filthy lying company.
uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.
Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT
"No way around it" always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.
Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite
Love to see it
Spite is a form of currency. lol
spite and hatred are incredibly powerful motivators.
Updating Firefox suddenly fixed this for me. I then later just had my entire google account banned and I had to create a new account. They even attempted to IP ban me as well. Said I was banned until 2036 or something like that.
what is the reason for the ban?
So you lost access to gmail as well?
Yeah and I had to change my gog and itch.io email addresses.
Damn, and that's just the ones where swapping the email is possible without access to the original. More and more services seem to send a verification code at login. I guess you're just shit out of luck then.
I better stop watching youtube then.
You didn't get any options to unlock your account early, like pay a penalty or something?
Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it's apps?
Please reply to this dorumon
If it's a ban from the whole google echo-system that is fucked up. I sadly still have a lot of important stuff linked to my google account.
Yeah it was a ban from the Google eco system.
Damn, that's rough
+, I've been untangling from Google for years, still find the odd thing going to Gmail that could screw me over
I've started recently too. Slow and steady. But if this is true, I need to hurry tf up. It's sad we (in Sweden) practically HAVE to have a google account since we use an app called BankID for everything with banking and identifying ourself with the government. So no google account ≈ no id
You can get the BankID for your bc but only for windows and I don't have a windows pc anymore.
I mirror my yt channel that feeds my family to peertube for my viewers. No one watches it, but I'll keep trying.
Please share a link to your peertube channel :)
Its watch.makearmy.io
For people who only go off headlines and comments and don't read the article, here's the important bits:
edit: added "the article" after "don't read" to clarify
This is why I will never get premium. You pay the motherfuckers money and still have to take it up the ass.
"there's currently no way around it"
"The issue goes away with a refresh"
lol. sounds more like a bug if it's also affecting Premium users though
Ok Google, free us from our sins. Clense our souls, show us the way to green grass
download yt videos and lets reupload everything onto peertube idk
Theres a reason that youtube has no real competitor.
because the amount of data that gets uploaded to youtube every day, every hour, is unfathomable.
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point. Just from a data center/harddrive point of view alone, the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it.
There is no real way to compete with youtube directly.
Only options are things that are not direct youtube competitors, Which are typically much smaller, possibly maintaining a narrow subject focus, and require monthly fees/subscriptions to access
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point.
There is. People just wouldn't like it. Lowering the resolution and framerates massively to save on space. The nerds (derogatory) would trash the platform everywhere they can have a voice if it doesn't support 4k 120fps, though.
Even if you limit it to 720p, if it were to be even a quarter as popular as youtube, the bandwith and storage requirements would still be astronomical.
not to even mention the computational power required to process and transcode all that data from whatever format you upload it to, into whatever format the platform wants.
I’ve stopped using YouTube for the most part. Cut down a lot once they broke the search function and I could no longer find what I was looking for because every result would be flooded with random shorts and other irrelevant content.
Then, my account, which was made in either 05 or 06, got flagged as belonging to a minor and they asked me to verify my age with an ID. Why this even happened when the account itself is over 18 now, and I’m not in the US (which I thought was the only place their age verification BS was being implemented) is beyond me.
I wish there were more options for long form video sharing, since YouTube seems to be the only viable platform for it at the moment.
fuck Youtube ads.
I'm only going to click these Articles when my adblocker actually stops working, its basically clickbait until then.
Pretty sure this does not affect Firefox as my adblocker still does the job
So my adblocker now also removes youtube comments? That's more of a feature than a hurdle!
They did successfully disable uBlock Origin for me on chrome but I found a workaround that so far seems to be sticking fine despite further updates. Still see comments and descriptions fine on youtube. Occasionally things take a little longer to load than I would expect but I'll take a longer load time on a black screen over being stuck watching dogshit ads relentlessly.
uBlock also seems to just continue to work on FireFox which also plays youtube fine.
I find getting rid of YouTube to be incredibly difficult. I use both peer-tube and odysee as much as possible, but still find myself on YouTube more than I'd like. Of course, I'm only doing YouTube through a newpipe, but it's still accessing YouTube.
I don't really get the sentiment here - what's happening is the standard development if a public good (that youtube kind of was before google purchased them) gets privatized. It's the same with communications (isn't AT&T great?), water, electricity, rail infrastructure and trains, roads - investors are never good for the public good. They're only good at lining their pockets.
