I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.
In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.
All were skippable after 5 sec.
2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.
But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.
I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.
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Ads are the reason I stopped listening to regular FM radio. I used to live in a more rural town and it was at least half an hour to get to any city I would have to go to for more than basic groceries. Once when I was coming back somewhere that takes a whole hour drive to get home, I heard nothing but commercials the entire drive. Not one fucking song (aside from ad jingles) for a whole fucking hour. Ridiculous.
I switched to Sirius. And it was great… Until they got bought/merged with XM. Now they have a monopoly on satellite radio, they immediately cut features and jacked up prices. They also started playing ads. So I cancelled that.
I’ve been using Spotify Premium ever since. It started off pretty great; they’ve recently been cutting back features and jacking up the price tho. So I may end up cancelling Spotify, too, if shit keeps trending downhill. Especially if they put ads in the premium service I pay for specifically to not have ads.
For me it was TV. I stopped watching TV when I became aware of the amount of ads for cars. There’s at least one ad for a car in every “commercial break”. So I just stopped about 15 years ago.
I filled the entertainment gap with internet and lately I’ve been using YouTube a lot. However it’s also becoming annoying with the sponsors inside the videos as well. I was not using SponsorBlock before but I installed it a few days ago.
If I’m ever forced to watch the awful ads on YouTube, I’ll quit too. My life is just gonna be better for it.
I’ve been adding music to my mp3 collection since Napster got started. It feels old fashioned now but I have yet to see a reason to use an alternative method. I actually have a lifetime subscription to SiriusXM. So I pay nothing, and I still don’t listen to that shit.
Hearing new music is why I like Spotify. Sure, there are ways to find new music without streaming, but it takes actual effort, where Spotify can just make it happen.
same. I just use foobar and a bluetooth radio adapter. easy as pie.
I use Vimusic F-Droid edition and it is fucking awesome.
Fuck yeah Foobar is the shit!
Idk I pay for Spotify family premium and it’s only gone up $1 since their launch in 2011… I think that’s pretty good. Now if it becomes and annual thing then fuck’em.
damn, Spotify was $1?
What features has Spotify cut? I’ve had premium for like 5 years and I think I’ve seen a dollar raise in price.
Remember the time when people used to have a stack of CDs in the car? Some cars even had a a fancy player that could hold multiple discs.
poor people still do, at least older poor people
Older poorer people. Younger poorer people stuff a bunch of songs in an USB stick.
I just emptied out an apartment of an old lady and she had sleeves of DVD’s and newer DVDS too
Yeah I wish I still had a cd player or an aux jack. At least I can load up mp3s on a flash drive.
At least those flash drives can easily store your entire library these days. You only need one, and it doesn’t even have to be an expensive one.
I do have a little 1TB drive I got for 50 bucks on sale. It works great. The car software not so much. It picks up right where I left off in a song when I turned the car off but when the track finishes it skips to the first song of the next album then begins to play normally. Never had that issue with a CD player.
If you ever give up on spotify, ViMusic is an FOSS app on F-Droid that is compatible with androod auto (you have to enable developer options first for 3rd party apps but it is fairly easy and quick to do)
Not only the way they keep pushing more and more ads is becoming way too much, they don’t have any standards for what sort of ads they push. From blatant political propaganda to petty false advertising of apps. A reckoning is way overdue.
These ads make it impossible to use YT as a free learning platform anymore.
When I want to dig into a subject, I want to do it focused and without being distracted, and YT makes it impossible. The only content one can tolerate ads on is entertainment, which makes YT just another TikTok.
Just use unlock origin? It works for me.
Then pay for your learning ;)
Where I come from, education is free. So, nope!
YouTube is free as well ;)
Time is money. Ain’t nobody got time for YT ads
That’s just called entitlement.
I’m sorry, let me whip out the world’s tiniest violin for one of the world’s most powerful tech giants.
No, you’re just ignoring reality and circle jerking.
Call me a dirty communist but I think education should be accessible to all regardless of socio-economic status.
A well educated population is better for Democracy, better for the human species and society.
I completely agree, but that’s what a government is for.
Your original post definitely implied that it’s the individuals burden.
I agree with you, dirty communist.
I am also a dirty communist named Bort
HI Bort welcoe to dirt-loving communists
Or that could be the number one thing that the government subsidizes, instead of how to kill more people. Learning should be the first thing that’s free after food, water, and shelter.
Currently sharing piped.video with every single educator there is. There should NEVER FUCKING EVER be ads on educational videos. Youtube is run by POS’s and greedy shitfaces.
Well, it’s owned by Google…so…
The reason your ads are of terrible quality is because it doesn’t know who you are. You’re not logged in and it doesn’t have any cookies to go off. If I open an incognito window at work and watch a YouTube video it is HORRIBLE. Get rich quick schemes, cheap Chinese scam products, etc. There are a tonne of employees behind this IP and it’s a blank slate browser, so they give untargeted ads.
Think of it this way: Tech companies want to know everything about you, why? Because it helps them sell you for targeted advertising. If Dove wants to show their shampoo commercial to women age 14-30 then Google will gladly offer that for a price. Untargeted ads are literally bottom of the barrel ads and can be considered the “junk mail” of advertising. That’s what you get when you use YouTube without an account. It’s honestly despicable what Google will allow to be sent out in this category and it’s clear they don’t do any human reviews before approving the ads for distribution.
BS, even while logged in, when I don’t adblock, the ads are actual trash, literal scams.
I live in the Philippines and get ads for cock fighting.
I live in Canada and gets ads for Philippino cock.
I have a VPN set to Sweden as the default country. I have weird ads, I don’t know what they are selling.
Guess YouTube figured out your algorithm.
In America we just call that gay porn
Chumba casino ads are the so dystopian and bleak it’s like I’m listening to an ad in a GTA game.
https://lemdro.id/post/2379465
Do you want peace, or do you want problems always?
I know it’s not, but that totally looks like the domain of a porn site.
Baby, you’re going to get piped so hard.
YouTube AIDS
I just found a new app called Grayjay, it combines all the platforms, haven’t used it much, but it doesn’t have ads, or at least is not supposed to
I just downloaded it from the play store but can’t figure out how to add YouTube to it. I see I can add sources but it wants me to scan a QR-code. Do you happen to know how to add YouTube or at least where to find these add-ons?
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Thanks, it looks like the issue was that I was using the play store version which was more limited.
I would get it from their website just in case. In the video where Louis announced it he talked about another app he promoted, FOSS stuff, that people download from the play store that had malware in it. So I went straight to futo for it. That and I figured Google would probably not like it.
Yhea, O just I’d that and it seems like the clear winner. Thanks for letting me know though. Was half asleep while watching the video last night.
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Grayjay is awesome. Found out about from Louis Rossmann, I think he’s involved in the project
This is the way forward
Don’t see mention of Invidious in here so may as well share.
Like piped - front end for youtube. No ads.
hey is there anyway to watch 1080p videos? using https://yewtu.be/
You can do that with yt.whateveritworks.org which is an Invidious instance
Reminds me the first time watching a movie on TV in the UK in year 2000. 4 long ass commercial breaks and… News in the middle.
if they come for yt-dlp i will record their videos with a fucking VCR and clip out the ads so help me god
I’ve got a vcr in my closet, I don’t know why, but maybe their days are coming back.
I’ve got a Betamax at home. One day I’ll pick up a tape, to see if it works.
I read this in Brandon Rogers as Bobby Worst voice.
Put that candy back down I ain’t buying you that meth
If I’m provoked to retaliation, my tactic would be to start aggressively mirroring other people’s content to PeerTube.
I haven’t done so yet out of respect for the creators, but my patience with Google is wearing thinner and thinner…
I can’t watch YouTube without getting ads with some gravy seal in camo walking around in the woods telling me there’s a storm coming.
Who’s allowing these clowns to spread their propaganda?
YouTube. Obviously.
And the rest of us are, too.
Seriously!! I don’t mind the frequency so much as the absolute SHIT they’re serving up. Conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory. I’ve been skipping some of my favorite creators because I just don’t have the emotional wherewithal to deal with the bullshit every five minutes. It is truly enraging.
I also got a Nebula subscription. It’s not perfect, and I wish more of the people I follow were on there, but it helps so much, mentally. I don’t have to see crappy ads I didn’t sign up for, or feel guilty for using an ad blocker, because the people I follow are getting paid through the subscription.
I don’t know what a “gravy seal” is, but I’m trying to picture it and I’m kinda laughing to myself
Member of Meal Team 6, Vanilla ISIS, or Y’all Qaeda. Usually drives a pavement princess.
Imagine a fat, old, or otherwise unfit civilian who has purchased tactical-looking gear and weapons, which he uses for aggressive posturing. That’s my understanding of the term.
Pretty much spot on. This imaginary man also owns a truck too big to park and will assault you for being gay and/or brown. People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.
People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.
People like him populate rural America everywhere. The South is just slightly more rural than other parts of the country.
Fuck YouTube
