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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.
Youtube has ads? But seriously, this is hurting the honest user.
The enshittification will continue until.. No man, it'll just continue.
I accidentally found myself outside my ad blocking bubble the other day and looking at youtube. It immediately pissed me off to have to put up with.
Well, i wont watch ads. If it comes to it i'd rather have a program thats recording videos in real time so i can skip the ad segments later in my recording like in the good old vhs times.
Sometimes I get an empty video player for 5-10s before the video starts, still better than looking at an ad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Family member spends all day every day recording and editing videos for youtube. Never finds an audience. Never gets promoted. The service is too busy pushing AI slop. All that video storage for the long tail of content with almost no views must cost a fortune. Meanwhile big quality youtubers seem to not be growing for some time like they have hit a ceiling. I think Youtube has been in decline for some time. Instead of fix it, which would require investment and ideas, I think they pull the usual bad US MBA style management practice and attempt to maximise revenues on the way down until they finally kill it.
SmartTube is pretty good on AndroidTV: SponsorBlock, DeArrow, no ads, etc.
At least while we're still able to sideload... 😔
Why are these companies wanting to pay to infuriate me? If I want to watch something and I’m suddenly interrupted by a 90 second unskippable intrusion I’m not going to have a positive relationship with your company.
On screen ads, unskippable preroll ads, mid roll ads and multi hour long ads that never end, ads on the sides and underneath the videos, embedded AI to push up their numbers that bloats the webpage.
Then on top of that, double sponsors, hidden sponsors, scams and shitty merch.
I used to think YouTube was the new public broadcast system but honestly that was never this garbage.
PBS was NEVER this garbage.
We who use Firefox are very fortunate right now since it still blocks all ads and I hope that will continue forever.
I used chromium to test YouTube without it, and its just completely unusable.
Easy, I'll just switch to... Oh, right, it's a monopoly, who would have thought they'd offer a shitty service for "free"?
The ads themselves got worse too, not just about skipping them.
I see toooooooooo many ads about Taichi for men over 60. Fml, now it becomes Military calisthenic for men over 40.....
Also those ads with the zombie games....
For everyone using an Android based platform: Just install Smarttube. It don't show ads and has sponsorblock and dearrow integrated
It's like they want people to block ads holy crap. Next chance I get I'm installing invidious on my parent's roku so they can skip this garbage.
