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- technology@lemmy.world
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”
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Ive had my ad blocker turned off for a week on Youtube. Theres a preroll ad on every video and a shitload of ad break mid video and at the last 3 seconds of a video.
Its the worst viewing experience I can imagine. I cut out Twitch and even stopped all my subs when they went mandatory ad viewing. Im full on ready for third party options in the same spirit as Lemmy.
SmartTube Next for watching YT on TV and LibreTube for Android.
I just thought I would log in to Twitch just to say hi to the streamer I was in the same game with. Twitch loads, starts to play the stream with no problem. BUT when I try to login, it says Firefox is not a supported browser. It had no problem playing all the content, showing the chat, etc. - but for some reason it still says my browser is not supported and I can’t log in. I looked it up. FF is “not supported” because it has an enhanced tracking protection feature. Twitch wants to track you, and it can’t if you use Firefox. Such a petty way; this will just turn me away from Twitch even more.
S0undTV is a good app for Twitch if you have an android TV device. No ads and support for the emotes if you like having the chat up. You’ve got to login to twitch through the app though to start watching. It’s broken before and had ads play, but gets fixed within a few days. Lastly there is a delay compared to desktop. If that’ll be a deal breaker.
Why would you even subject yourself to such torture?
I also think they are fucking with the sound levels in the same way TV did prior to the FTC ruling. The commercials are awfully loud compared to the content.
Honestly this is what pushed me to look into alternative ways to watch YT years ago. Muting every time an ad comes on gets old quick, especially when the ad is way louder than the content
How about you suck my balls accordingly, google?
I’ve been wondering why YouTube keeps playing the same three videos that I’ve already watched after each new one.
Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition
Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.
peertube exists
it’s in development, their new roadmap looks nice
The difficulty isn’t in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.
Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.
How does this kill their platform if there’s no competition?
Let them keep this shit up and you’ll find out.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Get fucked, YouTube.
So I’m a little lazy and have to watch ads when I watch YouTube on my TV. I don’t care enough to fix this.
Anyways, I don’t mind the short ads. I get it, you gotta pay for your stuff somehow. What I don’t get is these ads that can stretch on for 10, 15, even 150 minutes. I think I had a 3 hour ad at one point. It’s insane. You should have to opt in to these ads that are longer than say 30 seconds.
I recently saved a post somewhere with a complete guide on cracked youtube on smart tv’s which wasn’t all too difficult iirc… let me know if you want me to dig it up.
Found it! https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Opt in?
A Google exec should be shot for any ads longer than 30 seconds.
I was taking a shower once and wanted some music. I started the YouTube app on my phone cause revanced was acting up at the time. It starte off mildly enough, with like 2x15seconds ads, but by the time I was all shampooed one of those huge ads started playing. It didn’t stop until I finished my shower. I was seeing red by the time I got out of the shower and turned it off.
I’d hazard a guess that this old quora post that was estimating the average American loses 4.2 years of their life on ads would now result in even more time lost on ads, but let’s go with 4.2 years per person. This means that for every 20 people, there’s one person’s lifetime of ads. “A life for a life” is a fair concept, Google. Start the culling. One Google employee shot for every 20 people that use YouTube. It’s the only way to atone.
Until an alternative to Youtube happens, then this will continue.
Odysee? Rumble? Freetube? Re-vanced?
How could it be worse than with ads?
240p
Then don’t use it.
which is a hilarious threat because the #1 way to make my viewing experience worse would be turning off my ad blocker, lmao
Ads have reached the level of “suboptimal viewing”.
“if you don’t voluntarily make your experience 10x worse, we will make it 2x worse”
Obviously the “optimal” term vary according to the POV folks.
Oh no, so how will I be able to tell a difference?
Kind of shocked it took this long.
It always cost more more but the games that used clever traps were a lot more effective than just drm. Because warez groups can easily check if the game launches. Not if every enemy after mission four has infinite health and pinpoint accuracy.
Just curious if this maps to “shit, Google knows Twitter exists and figured out what we are doing” or “YouTube servers are broken”
It’s official, Youtube now has people employed as product worseners.
YouTube has human employees? I thought they were just all bots.
I’ve switched to the FreeTube app on desktop and now I’m just using it without a second thought. No ads and a much faster and better YouTube with absolutely no ads.
I’m not about to pay one of the richest and morally corrupt companies in the world for YouTube.
