Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.
what’s a youtube ad?
Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.
I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.
When ads get in the way I simply don’t watch the videos. It’s not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.
Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.
But I’ll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I’ll archive important content in the meantime.
I pay for nebula, they have a lot of educational content and the price is low enough that I don’t mind it
Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave
Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads:
uBlock Origin + Firefox
NewPipe on Android
Libretube on Android
uYou+ on iOS
FreeTube on *NIX and Windows
yt-dlp + mpv
YouTube Revanced
Invidious self hosting
Piped self hosting
And finally, last and definitely least
YouTube Premium
Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.
I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.
I believe you’re thinking of premium lite, or whatever they call it.
Correct. If they ever roll out ads on premium, I’m not sure what we’ll do. Maybe figure out a new platform or a new way to watch.
There’s also Pipeline for *nix (and possibly Windows, but I didn’t bother to check.)
Then stop using youtube. It sucks ever since googol bought it. Haven’t used it since.
That is right thinking. I admire that.
Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!
WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET
OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.
By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they’ve achieved that they can do what they like. Don’t feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.
FYI, this is currently happening with Uber.
I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?
Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel
And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.
Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.
you found your way to lemmy but you don’t know about https://peertube.tv/ ;)
Sure, a service that manages an infinitely smaller amount of content and complexity. It is a situational tool, hardly a YouTube killer… the banner presented on the homepage professes that it’s expensive to run and please donate.
We do, but you probably don’t like it (TikTok).
You’re right :)
I meant idk something like Oddysse (but a website with actual moderation)
Do you know of PeerTube? It’s not mainstream at all either, but it seems more known to me.
It’s also in the fediverse, and isn’t accused of the same moderation issues (though idk if PeerTube is really better than Odyssee at moderation, I suppose it’s just a difference in policy).
Edit: I read a bit about it, and I can see I was wrong about Odyssee being less known than PeerTube. It’s strange, I never heard of it, but anyway. Odyssee also includes some crypto bullshit, so yeah…
How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?
I don’t think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
It might, if it just blocks YouTube
Can’t view ads if you can’t view videos. Checkmate.
They do get they’re not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?
That’s why they have to spend so much time trying to force you to watch all the get rich quick schemes, gambling, and expiring legal claims videos. What quality ad pushers they work with.
AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.
It will continue until it overshoots TV and they’re all 3x more ad than vid.
