Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
People have told me that everyone is a freeloader, a cheapskate and that they're not gonna miss "us", amirite ?
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YouTube: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube". Bad news
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People have told me that everyone is a freeloader, a cheapskate and that they're not gonna miss "us", amirite ?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Using Edge with AdBlock. YT works fine.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Fuck man we really need some competition for this sad sack of fucking shit called YouTube.
Is there any other alternative out there?
Is there any other alternative out there?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
For what YouTube provides I find paying for premium justified.
Been paying for 3 years now at least.
Cooter.
Been paying for 3 years now at least.
Cooter.
nkarafo
Member
If you need to ask, it means no.
Unknown Soldier
Member
LOL you just need to find someone who's willing to pay $5 billion a year* to run a video streaming service that people view for free. Because that's what Google is doing.
*Estimated as of 2019. It's most certainly more expensive today than that.
Boss Mog
Member
Youtube is really obnoxious with the ads. If you're watching a 30 minute video there will be ads like every 5 minutes and they will cut right into the video even if it's mid sentence. Fuck that!
On android there's an app called NewPipe to serve as a Youtube app replacement. Let's you access Youtube without ads. It's obviously not on the Play Store so you gotta download the .apk and install it manually.
On android there's an app called NewPipe to serve as a Youtube app replacement. Let's you access Youtube without ads. It's obviously not on the Play Store so you gotta download the .apk and install it manually.
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GymWolf
Member
No one with the same amount of contents unfortunately.
Cyberpunkd
Member
So you want stuff for free but are unwilling to watch ads to have free content? Bye I guess.This is the popup I got today on youtube.
I will not pay premium, and I will not be forced to watch adds, so good bye youtube, was good knowing you!
Cyberpunkd
Member
One and done. The OP’s outrage is hilarious: “I was not paying, I’m not going to pay, I will take my business elsewhere”.
What business? Is this a new spin of “work for exposure”?
DirtyBast8rd
Member
No because there are always sheep that follow the flock and say: okay I'll pay. The problem isn't the ads, its the amount of ads they throw at you to make it insufferable so they annoy you enough that you go sheep mode and pay.
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LegendOfKage
Member
Seriously though, the more your favorite creators mirror their content to that platform, the better we'll all be. I'm pretty sure they pay creators more than you tube, they're not censorship happy, and they don't act like self-appointed judge and jury by demonetizing people who haven't broken any terms of service because they were anonymously accused of a crime. Guilty until proven innocent doesn't work for me, and it shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
It's also absurd timing for you tube to be squeezing their users like this, considering the monopolization accusations being made against them right now, along with some pretty shady ad practices.
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nkarafo
Member
This is not a reasonable way to run ads. They are too many, appear too often and they are too disruptive.
You think people are just cheap but that's not the case. Personally, i didn't use an ad blocker before it got too bad. I had a somewhat obsolete CPU in 2010ish and when ads start being more fancy and animated bloated flash trash, my PC would crawl. I could hardly use it while the ad was on screen. For what, a stupid animated ad banner? Fuck that. I didn't have issues with ads before that but that crossed the line for me. With Youtube today, it's the same principle. The ads are designed to be disruptive, in order to force premium subs. They made free viewing unreasonably useless on purpose.
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Cyberpunkd
Member
Not "unreasonably", exactly in order to make you buy a Premium sub.
nkarafo
Member
No, it's useless. And if they were honest about it they could just disable free viewing completely and make it a paying app, just like every other streaming service. Now that would be the best method to combat ad blockers and help people decide what they really want to do once and for all. As it is now, they will only increase the demand for better ad-blockers. And they will get better, don't worry about that.
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Tams
Member
Eh.
I pay for what I care for and think is of good quality.
YouTube is the lowest form of video entertainment. Even most of the good YouTube stuff is not up to the quality of other services.
Netflix is just full of shit.
nkarafo
Member
Depends on what content creators you watch.
Tams
Member
Read the following sentence I wrote.
Phobos Base
Member
I find YT Premium worth the money. I can't use adblock on my TV, which is where I watch most of it, and when I'm driving or in the office I can listen to YT music. Being able to play audio through your phone with the screen off is really handy as well.
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
You know what ? I agree.
- friggin stupid clickbait faces "culture" originated from YT
- Everyone and their grandmas being able to put "content"
- Dubious people putting "content" while acting like some sort of authority
- ASMR thots in suggestive clothing licking microphones (although it's even worse.on twitch)
- Attention whoring videos
- Opinionists everywhere
...and so on so forth.
And yet, unfortunately, it's still the 1st platform that someone visits for hardware tips/troubleshooting, media news, VG news/updates, comparisons etc etc.
It's a double edged sword really and you have to take the good alongside the (very) bad.
And yet (pt.2), I still couldn't justify paying for it, it's all so...low quality and trashy.
I'd have no problem whatsoever paying for something like HBO but YouTube ? no fucking way.
The fact that i'm an old fart and experienced YT for free back in the day doesn't help either.
Again, I could justify SOME ads but...this new "3 ads before a video even starts and 3-4 others in-between a video" is not only not the answer to this problem but it's also insufferable.
This comes from a guy that has cut TV for more than 10 years now, there's just no way I'd be able to watch an hour and a half movie turned into a 2.5 hour one due to all the ads, I don't know how people can deal with it nowadays.
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Tams
Member
Oh, there's some good stuf on YouTube for sure.
But it's not that common.
Too much Mr Beast, MrWhiseTheBoss, MKBHD, shite.
keraj37
Member
For all wondering, the uBlock Origin on my FF deals with this popup, so for now I am still freeloader on yt.
Thanks,
winjer
and
U
Unknown Soldier
for recommendation.
Before I was using two ads blockers one was AdBlock ultimate and the second was just YouTube ad blocker, or whatever the name was it.
Thanks,
winjer
and
U
Unknown Soldier
for recommendation.Before I was using two ads blockers one was AdBlock ultimate and the second was just YouTube ad blocker, or whatever the name was it.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I remember socializing on YouTube I don’t even know if people connect on YouTube channels anymore, at some point they have to remove the ads because they’ll lose people fast.
I understand the point of "if you dont like it dont use it" but lets not be naive. A user of Youtube is giving revenue to Google. So you are "business" just by using the site, they are making money off you by selling ads to comapnies to show you, by selling your data etc. So yes a regular user of Youtube is "business" for them.
keraj37
Member
On top of that, youtube before google was totally free with ads completely bearable. It is hard to go from free service to premium just to get rid of stupid and artificial inconvenience of ads.
Vicetrailia
Member
Exactly, where’s the value at? The key couple of things that people like about premium is something that was already around before google paywalled those features. The YouTube music inclusion is the only legit value add that people mention.
No ads aren’t legit because Google is trying with great intent to force subscriptions by making their service extremely unbearable without that key paywalled feature.
I am not your bitch google, you don’t get to do that to me. It angers me that they do that, and I am not paying out of spite, and I will block their ads.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Youtube still works when you're logged out, so what good would banning you do? Nagging you is probably their best option.
Spyxos
Member
I have about 300 subscriptions on youtube and many playlists. In addition, about 200 euros in google play points. But it's true, I forgot that you can also use youtube without logging in. Only you lose a lot without the channels you have already subscribed to.
VulcanRaven
Member
I can just click don't show this ad on the TV app. It takes few seconds and works most of the time.
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thegame983
Member
Google does not get to know what I jack off to and serve me ads.
I have to keep my dignity.
I have to keep my dignity.
ultrazilla
Gold Member
I've also been going on about two years of premium as well. With the amount of music and video content my family listens/watches, it was a no brainer.
We are getting our money's worth. And what's nice is that because we have the family plan, everyone can use the premium whether it be on their phones or pc/watching through
the PS5 console. And Youtube recently threw us a bone with their "enhanced bit rate 1080p" setting for premium users.
We cut the cable many, many years ago and basically do Netflix, Hulu, Youtube Premium and Amazon Prime. Our two sons chip in for the services as well since they use them
more than my wife and I.
I'm afraid with the actors strike most likely ending soon, they're gonna get PAID and it's why Netflix has already announced another increase in sub prices. It'll be interesting to see
if Hulu, Youtube and Amazon also follow suit and raise rates again.
cormack12
Gold Member
I'm blown away people actually wqtch youtubers.
My youtube usage is I need a tutorial for something so its a one time use. I use Spotify for music so don't use music. I sometimes Google something and if there is a video result I may check out one or two. I might watch a fails compilation if I'm bored out of my head. I find it hard to believe so many people use it as a proper service. It's wild to me.
My youtube usage is I need a tutorial for something so its a one time use. I use Spotify for music so don't use music. I sometimes Google something and if there is a video result I may check out one or two. I might watch a fails compilation if I'm bored out of my head. I find it hard to believe so many people use it as a proper service. It's wild to me.
ForAcademicPurposes
Gold Member
Shhh... not too loud.
Even the porn industry has more sense than google. They have ads too but not to this level of disruptive fuckery. Gotta think of the boners and lady boners.
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Melon Husk
Member
Ads that are shown above, below or on the sides the video: great.
Ads that are shown as an annoying small yellow one-line text popup inside the video player: meh.
Ads that are shown before the video plays, or breaking up the video into ad breaks, and cannot be skipped: no thanks, I'm not watching it.
Ads that are shown as an annoying small yellow one-line text popup inside the video player: meh.
Ads that are shown before the video plays, or breaking up the video into ad breaks, and cannot be skipped: no thanks, I'm not watching it.
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Unknown Soldier
Member
That is a very slippery slope that all ad-dependent companies are very wary to slide down. Antitrust action from world governments would follow very quickly if they suddenly decided to ban the 30%+ of users who use ad blockers
Google has been trying to neuter the effectiveness of ad blockers by switching to the Manifest 3 extension framework for Chromium but that has been delayed again and again because Google fears the backlash that will result once it's implemented and ad blockers stop working for some mysterious reason. They fear antitrust action more than they fear customers
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Syphon Filter
Member
youtube can get away with that due to many dumb sheeps being docile and conforming to anything.
RavageX
Member
Not paying for any of that bs. Youtube is for tutorials on how to fix something or the random quick interview. The only channels i do bother with are Nintendo, Playstation, and some guys (excellent)collection of old school Japanese wrestling(I need to download it all before something happens). I dont even check out reviews anymore 'cause most ppls opinions these days are bought or simply not worth a damn.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I've been using YouTube Premium for about a couple years and I also do the "unintentional ASMR" videos to help me sleep at night.
chlorate
Member
Another sterling example of Cory Doctorow’s enshittification principle
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
SmartTubeNext goes vrrrooooommmmm
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Throttle House
Top Gear
Hagerty
Engineering Explained
Etc..
Are well done high production and entertaining content if you're into cars and car culture.
Kilau
Member
How else am I supposed to know why I’m mad at Disney?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
My Ad Blocker has either already caught up to the idiotic change or it just hasn't hit my region yet.
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