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No, I don't see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It's really not that important to life.
Ublock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay, haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade. 😌
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Smart TVs are really just somebody else's computer that you paid for to watch ads on.
This. There is a reason why dumb displays of a similar size are much more expensive. Because the manufacturer can't feed you ads and sell your data ...
Youtube: "GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!"
Viewers: "Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?"
Youtube: "I KNOW, I'LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!"
Viewers: "JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT"
Youtube: "Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads.."
Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin
If you grew up with commercial TV, not only is the frequency of ads on youtube bad, but the placement--in the middle of a sentence or a scene--is mentally and emotionally destructive.
When cable TV first came out it didn’t have ads because you were paying for the service. When Sirius satellite radio came out it didn’t have ads because you were paying for the service. When Netflix streaming came…
Adding ads to YouTube was always the plan.
I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.
Ive been getting back to reading myself. Media's become so overstimulating
quality of content that I've been seeing on YouTube in my feed has decreased or I have gotten bored. but either way I have made a point to stop visiting that website as much as possible
I need to get back into reading. my ability to maintain focus has deteriorated so severely in recent years that I can't even play a stupid video game anymore
Hey YouTube? The endpoint of enshittification is this: I wipe my ass and flush you.
Keep going, YouTube. You're not so important that we can't just leave.
Nebula exists. Curiosity Stream exists. PeerTube exists. Odysee exits. The people I value on YT already have footholds on all four. More will arrive soon enough.
So keep at it.
Keep injecting unskippable ads, flooding the feed with AI slop, letting bots post porn, demonetising and hiding quality content, using DMCA like a digital SLAPP against content creators, and using the algorithm to warp reality.
Your value proposition is ubiquity. That's it. That's all you have. Without popular buy-in, you're dead.
We proles? We have something better than loyalty.
We have spite.
So keep pissing people off - because watching you die on a very stupid hill of your own design will be entertaining AF.
For everyone else, see you on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !privacy@lemmy.world. Come and learn how you can replace all of these pieces of shit.
And in the meantime - yt-dlp should still work to download what you actually want to keep, and SmartTube is black magic incarnate.
They did? They can't? I haven't noticed. 🤷
youtube usually rolls out "features" only for a smaller subset of users a time (to limit service disruptions and backlash), just because you are not affected yet does not mean that it will not affect you soonish
Hmm somehow i havent ever gotten those kinds of ads.......... maybe because im using ublock? Must be something else, i am just the chosen one.
Like others, desktop I'm using Firefox with ublock origin. Android phone, Firefox with ublock origin. Android TV, SmartTube. Ad blockers have always outpaced Google in my experience though I use youtube maybe like twice a week and I don't randomly browse reccomendations. Just there for specific stuff
The other day I was doing dishes and couldn't skip the ad, so I let the whole 90second ad run. Guess what followed? Another 90second ad.
It’s not just the unskippable ads but also the type of ads as well. I’ve seen some wild ones like ads to make you hard in the bedroom, but it never actually shows the treatment. I’ve seen ads for how to make “homemade” makeup to look younger, the ingredients are baking soda and honey? But I think the wildest one I’ve seen is an ad for a robot puppy but in the ad, you can clearly see it is a real puppy, but they keep saying that it is a robotic AI powered puppy.
My solution is to just close youtube. There's nothing on there I want to see that badly.
Use a vpn with exit node in albania. No ada and no forced sign in.
I just restart the video ~5 times until it starts without ads. I figure even if it takes extra effort and time if I don't know what's being advertised then I win.
