Google is waging war on ad blockers — throttling YouTube to force users back in line
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The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.
  • happydoors@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 天前

    Yo I pay for premium and it’s been fucking slow. Cancel my subscription? Guess I might need to.

    • scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      22 天前

      I had to turn off privacy badger and ublock for it to not be slow. It’s stupid I’m paying for the service to be ad free it should be ad free without complaints.

      • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 天前

        Your premium tier has been upgraded to the basic plan with ads at no extra charge for you yet, Dear Customer! Aren’t you happy?

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 天前

    Ive been commenting on creators videos asking them to upload elsewhere as well. I doubt it will work, but we could try

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      23 天前

      A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I’d ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.

      • LeTak@feddit.orgEnglish
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        23 天前

        I also asked some creators, but they can’t because of the Google partnership Programm, it prohibits reupload on other platforms

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 天前

    Then I suppose it’s a good thing they’re limiting non-premium users from using the “high bitrate” quality options?

    ^ that was sarcasm. HARSH sarcasm. With both middle fingers pointing toward a Google logo and spitting.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      22 天前

      yeah I had some blender visuals I made that only look good high quality because of the detail and it looks sick as my desktop wallpaper with hidamsri but horrible and blurry viewing it on youtube at the highest quality

  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
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    22 天前

    That’s a relief. I’ve been dreading the day when they introduce server-side adsm but it seems we’re not there yet 😅 I’m not sure what they think they’ll accomplish with this when it’s A LOT less painful than turning off your adblocker and dealing with the ads, though. Maybe they’re just trying random things to see what works.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 天前

    I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      22 天前

      Direct sponsoring has worked in the past with many open source projects (including lemmy.world). Could be closer to what Patreon does.

    • Coil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 天前

      There was a time where they only used banner ads. Or ads before the video and not in the middle. Honestly, if they had a cheap, no frills ad free sub, I’d pay for it.

        • Coil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          22 天前

          Most likely, especially if it’s not locked to one device. I know about their premium lite sub, but 8 dollars for “less” ads isn’t going to do it for me.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 天前

      I would prefer a model that does not demand infinite growth, leading to ever declining quality and services. I would prefer a tech site that’s satisfied bringing in a comfortable and steady flow of profit.

    • poloqualle@feddit.orgEnglish
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      22 天前

      I would happily pay for yt premium, if that also meant that google does not violate my privacy and sell my data.

      • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 天前

        That’s my problem, you have to be logged in if you pay and that’s just more data for them to suck up. I watch not logged in. If I want to comment I use a different device.

        • Manalith@midwest.socialEnglish
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          22 天前

          I’m fine with reasonable ads. Plex Live TV has ads that don’t always get caught by NextDNS for me and it’s always some local business and like 30 seconds, NBD it’s a free service and needs to operate somehow and I’m not aware of any major privacy breaches from Plex. I feel the same way about YT video sponsor segments, they don’t always get caught by ReVanced, also, NBD the creator also needs to get paid for their work.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 天前

    I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up

    They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      22 天前

      My wife and I were discussing this. This isnt “slow” to us, its just a tiny bit inconvenient. We were used to the old AOL pictures taking a good minute or two to load.

      We would get rid of Youtube before we get ads.

  • PixelPilgrim@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    22 天前

    fine by me i listen to audio of videos i watch and i dont mind the lower resolution because it means im using less internet

    • xzot746@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 天前

      Or “Might as well do EVIL”, what is anybody going to do about it, maybe make some noise but we just pay off TACO and we good.

      • stellargmite@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 天前

        You’re right, but also They get alot more from the deal than you acknowledge. The service has never been free. They already had a profitable model, and now they want even more. I call it evil, but in a sense it’s standard corporate behaviour.

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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        22 天前

        They can get fucked. A while ago O was like you know what let’s give them money, seems only fair. So I finally subscribed, and then like a month later they sent me an email they’re raising the prices effective immediately - basically changing the deal on me without any delay.

        So I unsubscribed, because fuck that.

        More recently I looked into sharing the family plan with …my family, but it turna out they consider family only in a single household, and I’m not gonna try to give them money while also potentially having to prove how much of a family we are, so yeah…

        Fuck them, either take my money when I’m actually trying, or I guess they didn’t need it that bad. I’m over YouTube, and would probably ditch it earlier than ever watching an ad there.

  • farboo99@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 天前

    Ok so im not crazy. I was wondering why videos kept buffering every minute this past week.

  • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
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    23 天前

    I had to allow a bunch of stuff in pihole because I wasn’t able to use Google flights or Google News and some functions in Gmail, the sites never finished loading

    • PushButton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 天前

      You might need a little bit of degoogleizer.

      In a small dose, it eases the pain, but with the right treatment, your life will become yours again.