Hmmm, so what you are saying is that I am just one ad blocker failing away from being productive in life?
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing. News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.
And also.. I’ll never understand this. I use YouTube and don’t give a shit about ads. The moment they start bothering me- I’ll stop using YouTube. It’s that easy. Don’t like it, walk away.
If you hate something so much, yet can’t stop using it- you have an addiction. Ads are not the problem here.
Silliest comment of the week
People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing.
Go ahead and show the alternative, the alternative that has the content we need.
Before you respond that youtube is an entertainment service, I want to remind you that it isn't, but that it's only a part of it. You won't handwave it away as if we were discussing netflix being enshittified.
I'm not using youtube for listening to music videos and such things, never were. When I end up there it's because of a search result showing a relevrelevant video there, like disassembly of this or that, and such.
News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.
That's objectively false. uBlock Origin devs and filterlist makers are doing a very good job.
Don’t like it, walk away.
That's very similar to saying "don't like your government? don't like it, walk away, found your own".
Yeah, that's not his it works.
I bet you would be the first to call those who abandoned youtube as cavemen for not being able to access some video you shared
I don’t care if there’s an alternative. You’re not obligated to watch YouTube. It’s not a job.
You can walk away.
I stay a few steps ahead of them. I haven't seen a YouTube ad in months.
Firefox with ublock origin on desktop / laptop
Grayjay mobile app
Smarttube on Android TV (also Flauncher customer launcher so I don't have to see any ads on my TV home screen)
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It's excellent that alternatives and ad blockers do exist but we need regulatory action to hold companies accountable for things that are designed to worsen user experience to pressure people into paying. It's also a serious accessibility issue, to increasingly have everything be bright and loud and motion filled and unpausable all the time. This trend goes beyond YouTube and it sucks, we need to regulate this nonsense.
It's pretty stupid to introduce ads on the pause screen. Usually I would pause something because I am either:
A) Being interrupted and need to focus on something else like a phone call or a family member talking to me, and wouldn't be paying attention to the screen anyways.
B) Need to leave to go somewhere else like the fridge for a snack and wouldn't be paying attention to the screen anyways.
Or
C) Just want to take a break and want to do something else which involves opening another window or program and wouldn't be paying attention to the window with YouTube open.
In every scenario where I pause YouTube and add playing would not provide any value to the entity paying YouTube to play the ad.
And in every scenario, if an ad began playing when I pause youtube it would cause me to mute my sound and/or turn off my monitor and just cause me to get super annoyed at YouTube or at whatever product is being advertised and how to never buy it ever.
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Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.
Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...
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"We need to make double the money"
You're joking but infinite growth is the broken basis of our financial system. Shareholder are legally entitled to request growth.
YouTube has cornered the earth market, they have practically no room to grow, the only thing they have left is to increase the revenue per view, so ad stuffing will get worse quarter after quarter. Eventually they'll have to put ads in the ads and play them 5 at a time.
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Like way to kill your platform for anything educational where you want to pause to look at a graph.
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I wonder what made their leadership continue to escalate into increasingly bullshit decisions. What happens if I need to pause because I need my PC to be quiet so I can address something and still an ad suddenly starts playing, completely interrupting what I wanted to address in a completely intrusive way? I'll tell you what happens, I'll either find some way to disable that from happening, switch to a service that doesn't do it if I can, or just begin avoiding it all together.
Brilliant planing, YouTube. Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.
Not to mention it'll push more people towards using Adblockers. And since chrome is cracking down on Adblockers as well, people start using another browser altogether. It seems like Google is self-sabotaging with these kind of decisions.
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Stallman was right.
When they said?
I'm guessing not when he justified pedophilia and zoophilia.
when he said that software should be free as in freedom, because that would solve this problem
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I use uBlock Origin and haven't seen a YouTube ad in 6 years, I cannot imagine trying to watch videos that try to show advertisements in the middle of them, lol. It's why I download all the TV and Movies I watch too. Advertisements are for people who, don't know how to silence them, the lazy, and those got guilted into allowing themselves to be brainwashed.
Is anyone even remotely surprised by this?
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