Hit report issue to confuse their algorithms lol
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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As if they even take time to view or utilize those reports. It has always taken a ~~Twitter~~ campaign to get YouTube to even notice an issue with the algorithm.
If you're using uBlock Origin. Go to “Filter Lists” and Purge All Caches. That may help.
Anti adblock-blocker-blocker time
Fuck YouTube. All my homies use PeerTube.
Well, at least in my dreams.
Here's the thing, YouTube. When you first started running ads, I didn't really mind. They were short, there weren't that many, and if they were particularly annoying or repetitive, there was a skip button. I respected that you needed to make money and that you wanted to pay the content creators, and you respected my time.
But then you decided to flood the fucking platform and cut the revenue share with the creators. Without adblock, I can't watch a 5 minute video without 5 minutes of ads. You're trying to force me into paying for your premium service by annoying me to death.
Which I might do if I thought the people whose videos I actually like got a decent share of the revenue. But they don't. Hell, at least one of my favorite YouTubers is regularly demonetized, so they wouldn't see a penny.
So, YouTube, I'll keep blocking ads and use services like Patreon to support my favorite YouTube folks the best I can. And if you won't let me use adblock? Well, I guess I have to find some other way to occupy that hour or so a week I use your service, because I'm sure as shit not using half of it to watch ads that don't benefit the people whose videos I enjoy.
ETA: this post contains hyperbole (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole ).
Well achshuellly what you mean is hyberpolic. You see the two old men inside some random college discussing English had a fight and now it’s offensive to say hyperbole cause one of the guys died and the other won
Err… no?
As far as I can tell, "hyperpolic" is a typo, and you meant "hyperbolic", which kinda fits, but it would be "contains a hyperbolic statement," rather than "contains hyperbole." It would be less clear, though, since "hyperbolic" can refer to either "hyperbole" or "hyperbola".
Meanwhile hyperbole refers only to a figure of speech and not potentially an open curve with two branches.
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Sorry, did I ruin your joke? I ruined your joke didn't I. Man, I just can't stop myself from being a pedantic jackass…
Worse yet, on Firefox for Android I got an ad despite using uBlock Origin.
That happened to me on desktop aswell. I updated Firefox and uBlock and rebooted my computer and that seems to have solved it. For now..
I have like 4 different ad blockers installed now because of that. Seems to do the trick. :p
It's not an ad-blocker, it's a wide-spectrum content blocker which is necessary for security.
Ads allow YouTube to be used
You're saying that as if it was a good thing…
I've found that I watch YouTube more often than Netflix. So I said "fuck it" and subscribed.
Yes I'm tempted to too. What bothers me is that Youtube is literally the same company that runs the monopoly spyware OS in half the world's pockets. That is just so unrelated to its mission, so screwed up. If Youtube were a separate media company competing on a level playing field with a bunch of media-company peers, i.e. if it were Netflix, things would be so much healthier and I would be much more inclined to give it money.
The case for forcing Google to divest itself of Youtube is overwhelming.
I mean I'm somebody who used to ad block for a long time and then subscribed to premium for the music.
I get their point of view given the costs but it still really sucks. As someone who definitely couldn't have justified the cost of a different point in life this would have drastically reduced the quality on YouTube.
That's their right but I don't have to be happy about it
this is more an adblock plugin issue than a firefox issue. Had this notification a few times now...
Nah. YT/Google is consistently working on breaking adblocks, this is just the tip.
Just use invidious.
Best named instance: https://yewtu.be
I use freetubeapp.io/ and newpipe. Althought freetube is electron, it is good in its use case.