YouTube's campaign against ad blockers continues with a new timer now appearing within the familiar warning popup
  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

    • ad blockers are not “on youtube”, they are on my devices

    • allowed by whom?

    • fuck you

    • PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Just click the “not using an adblocker” button. If everyone does that it’ll probably whitelist the blockers, we can hope.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Up next: An AI-enabled Web Browser extension which

    • mutes the YouTube ads and overlays it with cute cat videos
    • clicks the “skip” button for you
      • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        And then the AI script retaliates by identifying and switching to matching videos on PeerTube, whilst also learning your viewing habits. A premium version offers a subscription which pays third world workers to complete the captcha on your behalf.

        Then Google users WEI to kill the extension.

        Then someone releases a VPS which runs Chrome and supplies the whole thing by Remote Desktop, with a client side app that integrates the behaviour…

        (just thinking of how it could go.)

  • dolle@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I actually don’t have a problem paying for online services. I host my own email, I pay for Kagi search and I do monthly donations to Mozilla and Wikipedia. What I have an issue with is services that start out as advertisement based and then introduce paid plans, because now you still have all these shitty mechanics just for driving up engagement which results in unhealthy incentives for content creators and rabbit holes. I want a service that is for YouTube what Kagi is to Google Search. But perhaps that model is too difficult to monetize, I don’t know.

  • BoofStroke@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There is something fundamentally wrong with a service that shows more ads than content.

  • Rayspekt@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    How do the 3rd party clients for youtube work? Can they still circumvent the adblock-blockers or where are the “positioned” inside youtube’s code? Sorry for the weird terminology, I’m no programmer.

    • 1ird@notyour.rodeoEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      YouTube ReVanced still works. They patch the app to not play the ads.

      The way it works is you install the normal YouTube app, install the ReVanced patcher and it patches and reinstalls the app.

  • clay830ee@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    The really annoying part is YouTube gets all their content for free, while every other subscription video service pays for content.

    • Helluin@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      other streaming services dont let pretty much anyone upload gigabytes of video

  • Pratai@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    They force ads and steal money from the content creators, and people still flock to use their services. How fucking braindead can you be?

    Just stop using YouTube. That will fix their problems real quick.

    • ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      [Raises hand] I’ve been paying for a family music plan for years now. YouTube Premium was always just bundled with it. If they ever stopped the bundling I’d hop back over to Spotify.

      • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        RIP Google Music.

        Also RIP Songza which Google bought, integrated into Google Music and then killed off when they forced everyone over to Youtube Music.

        Even then I still subscribed for a while and only dropped it recently.

        • HarrBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Songza’s radio stations were incredible. I happily used that service every day and still miss it.