youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • @uranibaba@lemmy.world
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    221 year ago

    While uBlock Origin does the trick and has for a every long time, I just installed FreeTube and I am quite happy with it. It is also much better at keeping track at what I have watched, and I can even mark videos as watch (which I cannot over at YouTube).

  • @alldreadme@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah same. Idk why I’ve got ublock setup, tried resetting the filter cache, reinstalled unlock (idk if that helps but had to try) and I still get these.

  • @Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I see nothing wrong with Google wanting to make money on YouTube, and I actually own YouTube Premium myself.

    But they should really fix YouTube experience, if you don’t use subscriptions box, your main page will be filled with click-baity low-effort videos and that really sucks. There are also other issues as well.

    • kirk781
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      111 year ago

      That is true. I hate Shorts and have to block it via uBlock filters. Also, I hate their mobile app. I can’t select a precise app wide video quality. There are only two options: High and Low in the settings. I need to go to Advanced settings upon playing each video to manually set a precise video quality, say 720p. This experience is sub par and below what NewPipe used to provide. I mainly use YouTube Music as a service but they bundle YouTube Premium for little onto it.

  • @lastrogue@lemm.ee
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    -131 year ago

    People are going to throw a brick at me, but I’m using brave and have never seen this.

    • @khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      171 year ago

      This has probably nothing to do with the browser in this case. YT is A/B testing this, which makes reproduction harder as they slowly roll it out.

      • @lastrogue@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Very plausible. I also haven’t recently been signing in when watching.

        I noticed some thoughts in this thread estimating that this is being rolled out to users logging in for the time being.

  • AphoticDev
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    121 year ago

    Open the extension settings, purge the filter lists and then update them all. I was getting warnings and I did this, and I haven’t had any further warnings.

  • @Darksouls1234@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Brave luckily do not have those problems. Edit: to be more precise, yesterday this appeared, and then recordings stopped, but only with a refreshing returned to normal, today this did not appear and the recordings work normaly.

  • Rouxibeau
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    41 year ago

    That too. There’s. New dystopian Rayman universe show on Netflix rn.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    191 year ago

    Currently with Firefox uBlock and am getting no pop-ups for three days now (this after pop-up nags with a five-second delay).

    Not saying you are not having trouble, but I think this is a fight YouTube is going to lose.

    • @31337@sh.itjust.works
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      61 year ago

      I think they are A/B testing to see how people react. I have gotten pop-ups and my coworker wasn’t getting them while having the same IP address. I haven’t gotten the “x videos left” popup yet. I think it’d be pretty easy for youtube to make ad blocking very hard; they’re just testing the waters right now.

  • @aufheben@lemmy.world
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    61 year ago

    Not exactly an original opinion but I hate this. I watch ads on my Roku app, I watch them on the mobile app, can’t they just let it go on web browser? This just wreaks of greed

  • Arma
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    81 year ago

    Man I hate YouTube so much by this point, and had even before this anti adblock thing due to their mobile apps never working properly on any of my devices, mobile website basically made the clunkiest experience possible (to force people into using the app?) and desktop site being just so damn heavy. Would totally completely move to federated alternatives if not the 20 years of YT exclusive content that won’t ever be reuploaded elsewhere. It’s not even like a social network or a forum where you minutely talk to someone about something, get a response and then forget forever, it sadly grew a lot bigger than that

  • WheatleyInc
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    1 year ago

    The EU stepped in, they have to remove it in Europe. Not sure about America though…

      • WheatleyInc
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        21 year ago

        Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user’s terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

        In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    1 year ago

    I knew Google would get around to killing YouTube sooner or later: Looks like the slow death has begun.

    Like all things Google that people like: It must die, Google will not allow it to live.

    Coming to you in 2025: GoogleTube, brought to you by Alphabet!

    • ares35
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      271 year ago

      there’s enough people mindlessly consuming content off the site via mobile or tv, or are clueless about adblockers to begin with, youtube will continue to exist and be profitable even if every adblocking user never visited the site again.

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        1 year ago

        Until alternatives take off because the user experience becomes increasingly shitty. You really think Google isn’t going to ratchet up the ads over time?

      • @TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        People who use ad blockers aren’t the type of people to click the ads. We’re doing a Google a service by improving conversion statistics.

        • @Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de
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          31 year ago

          I’m sure using hours of 4k bandwidth while getting nothing in return is a great deal for alphabet… 🙄

          Bandwidth is EXPENSIVE. If you are not clicking on the ads and not even watching the ads, every minute you use the site is costing them money. They are just optimizing costs by cutting all “leechers”.

          YouTube doesn’t need “exposure” or to “convince investors of an active user base”. They don’t need to keep users that cost them money because they have enough users already. They are well into the “monetization” phase.

      • BraveSirZaphod
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        01 year ago

        It’s always amusing to see people claiming to be these masters of business strategies pushing such excellent advice as “pay money to provide a service to people who supply no revenue”.

        Don’t get me wrong; there absolute is a point where you can be so overly burdensome that you’re going to push legitimate customers away and ultimately hurt yourself more than you help, and YouTube absolutely does do some stupid things, but business is so much more complicated than people like to think.

        • FartsWithAnAccent
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          1 year ago

          They get tons of money harvesting data alone, the service isn’t free: We are the product and, on top of that, they get their content for free with the actual creators of said content getting a pittance compared to what they provide for Google.

          Additionally: I have never seen a credible report that indicates ad blocking actually has any sort of significant impact on revenue. Do you happen to have any because that argument sure smells like corpo bullshit.