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’m starting to think it might be finally time to look into CuriosityStream and Nebula
plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube)
Then why do you watch YT at all?
you’re right, but also i stick to the few channels that post decent content and then never touch anything outside of that
What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.
Hoping for a solution on the Roku, it looks like Im going to have to abandon it for a PC. I will only miss the remote.
Google TV has an app. I ditched Roku a long time ago.
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.
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.”
What makes you think any free option that takes YouTube’s place won’t have just as many ads? The traffic that pornhub gets compared to YouTube is not really comparable.
Also, all those tube sites are littered with ads.
I’d bet traffic is similar but view time is way off.
Traffic is not even close from anything I can find. YouTube gets as many hits in a month as PH does in a year.
I guess that makes sense when you consider how many children are on YouTube.
haven’t seen an ad on yt in years.
Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony’s voice?!
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.
Those poor souls watching multiple ads are the ones making so there’s not an even more aggressive approach to preventing our means of ad free stuff.
Doubt it, the reason it got this far is because of complacency from the general populace, more complacency doesn’t let us keep our privacy and being ad free, the existence of lemmy is an example of that.
I know, it was a joke.
Oh, that wasn’t really clear for me 😅
Hurt the spy-ware giant,
by using Invidious.Free leeches their bandwidth,
without the spy-ware and ads!laughs in Freetube on desktop and Newpipe on mobile
laughs in Revanced on mobile and Ublock Origin on desktop
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That actually works to my favor for podcasts. I download everything on wifi so I don’t have to use data, and the audio player audipo shows the waveform of the audio. So when the ad sections come up it’s easy to see how far to skip.
One of the best things I did on my Linux laptop was adding auto gain filters to Pipewire through Easy Effects to automatically tune every audio to the same volume.
And if I want to get the dynamic range back it’s easy to temporarily turn off.
laughs in AdGuard on PC and AdGuard Pro (one time purchase) on mobile
What? Can’t hear you through my Invidious…
I feel like YouTube has gone back to normal now. I used to need to update uBlock manually few times a day but I haven’t needed to do that for weeks now.
You’ll find one right at the top of your home page, then the moment you tap on a video, it’ll be preceded by an infamous unskippable ad. mapquest directions
Yall are watching YouTube without adblockers and sponsorblock?
My workplace disabled extensions today, and I’m just mindblown by the amount of ads I’ve been blissfully ignorant about. I play music from youtube while working, but every time I’m in a good flow now, getting stuff done, there’s an ad-break that takes me out of that flow. Tiring having to work up that momentum all the time.
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).
Which they usually already have. I’m surprised how quickly even small channels get sponsor blocked. It makes me kind of sad because I wanna contribute too, but it’s hard to find video that haven’t been edited
Can’t you tell SB to ignore said channels?
