YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined
Greedy companies like youtube thinking tracking people is fine don’t need my money. I won’t end using adblockers.
The day I can’t get around youtube ads is the day I stop using youtube. I already refuse to use it on my mobile device or my TV, due to the ads.
NewPipe is a YouTube app alternative that blocks ads
It doesn’t block it, it doesn’t even download them or even request them. There is no concept of ad in NewPipe.
Which one? There are 3 newpipe apps in the app store all by different developers, and all “contain ads”
The official newpipe isn’t on the play store because it breaks their terms of service, which makes sense considering 2 of the 3 “newpipes” on there are just completely different apps using the name and logo of newpipe. The third is actually newpipe but with loads of ads added, not sure how long it’ll last before Google nukes it.
But yeah for newpipe just get the offical ad free and open source version from TeamNewPipe on GitHub or on F-Droid in the main repo. Or if you want newpipe with no ads and also with sponsorblock, you want to get it from polymorphicshade on GitHub or through F-Droid with the Izzyondroid repo.
The real version is on F-Droid
Thanks!
Smarttube is even more gooder.
My guy there are like 34 different ways to get around YT ads on mobile and TV.
On Android the Firefox app allows the use of extensions including all the adblock options you would find on PC. Works great and for YouTube as well.
YouTube ReVanced gets you completely adfree, configurably de-shittified Youtube with sponsorblock on your phone. (And Youtube Music ReVanced is premium YT music, for free, of course also without ads.)
And Smarttube Next does the same thing on Android TVs, FireTV, and probably some others I haven’t used.
Smart tube is fucking amazing
I thought newpipe was dead now?
Still works for me without any issues
Newpipe’s last git commit was two days ago
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Me, using Piped: what?
Noob question: do I have to run my own piped server to use it?
Okay. Explain something to me. I’ve tried to use piped, but it’s just so dogshit slow. Unusably so.
What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. It’s dogshit.
I am not sure… are you using a shared instance or self-hosting? I self-host my own instance and have no issue since my deployment
I really don’t give a fuck what Youtube is happy about
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE TRILLION DOLLAR SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM APPARATUS !?!
THE DYSTOPIAN 1984 OCEANIA SUPPRESSION SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS THE TRUTH ALONGSIDE THE BIG BROTHER HAS FEELINGS TOO, YOU KNOW ?!?!?
! 2023-10-06 https://www.youtube.com www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scopeOh no, anyway.
I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.
It’s tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc…
If people don’t want to engage with your business, maybe you need a better business
I’ve been paying the €5 ad free subscription without other premium features for years until they announced that it will be discontinued from next month.
So then I am going to take a new look into ad blockers.
Good job, YouTube.
COUGH vanced COUGH
I’m pretty happy paying for YouTube Premium; it seems like a fair deal given how much my family uses YouTube. But I’m worried that sooner or later YouTube Premium is gonna get Google Graveyarded, or they’re going to insert ads anyway.
Youtube premium is a very short sighted band-aid solution. Because the more people sign up for it early, the more expensive and/or less convenient it will become later when the ‘market is saturated’ (meaning there’s no one left who wants to sign up for it). When they can’t grow their income through more users, they’ll ramp up prices and shave off services. It’s happening everywhere already and in the end you’ll wish everyone advocated for adblockers a little more because by the time you’re fed up with their pricing, it might already be too late to go back.
The main reason I never went for premium is that they basically do what the writers strike in Hollywood recently had to deal with: YT keeps pretty much all of the money from subscriptions and creators get almost nothing. Many saw huge drops in revenue after the program went live.
To show just how exploitative their system is: subscribing to a channel (supporting them directly) still has you seeing ads. Even white supremacist “cracker is a slur” Twitch realized the importance of not playing advertisements on the channels you sub to.
FYI, subscribing on YT is equivalent to following on Twitch, free and just for notifications. Twitch subscriptions are more like YT channel members, emotes and all.
I used subscribing as shorthand for channel membership because that shit’s hard to work into a sentence.
Just look at where Netflix and Amazon Prime are going.
The days of YouTube premium being ad free are numbered. I suspect 2-3 years before it’s announced, rolled back, and then a stealth rollout is done.
I consider it already not ad free considering how many video creators shove sponsored segments in all their videos.
There are plugins to automatically skip those segments too. They crowd source the begin and end times of the ads and automatically skip ahead.
Between uYouPlus on my Apple devices and SmartTubeNext on my Android devices, I’ve almost never seen an ad on YouTube. I’d just stop using the service if I started to see them in any real number.
Speaking in general, and not about you specifically…
but I’ve seen so many people scream “if company does X, I’m not buying/using their product anymore!”
And company does X
And they scream about it for… a week, then go back to using it, and buying the next version, and singing its praises after the controversy passes.
So I have no faith that the general consumer has the willpower or the give a fuck to stop using these things.
and individuals like you and me, who do actually stop using them, are so rare as to not actually matter.
You’re absolutely not wrong. I have the luxury of just using YouTube to watch golf videos and some niche hobby stuff; I clock in at less than a few hours a week. So, I could easily use that time on the treadmill or riding in a car to read, watch scripted media, or write my DND modules. My consumption of YT is far below most, so I’m certainly an outlier.
My YT consumption has declined drastically.
but in honestly, thats mostly because of covid, and a lot of the intelligent, reasonable people I used to watch falling face first into the conspiracy pit and going absolutely fucking braindead.
Twitch ads are worse
Twitch is worse, in general.
At least youtube tends to crack down on the pornography on their site, while twitch features it on the front page and actively advertises it
Literally some almost completely naked OnlyFans reject on the front page, right now, doing jumping jacks to make her tits flop about.
True that but I was talking about how youtube allows you to skip ad after 10-20 seconds while twitch has 5 mins unskipable ads. Youtube streaming is better (you can skip and rewind any time) and pays streamers more too. Their ads are both repeatitive cancer though
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Yeah, my experience with youtube ads
Buy a Chromebook
PragerU
Right wing Youtubers
Don’t vote to make abortion a protected right by the state constitution
Buy a ford
Here’s a pornographic/semi pornographic anime game we are paid to show you
BUY A CHROME BOOK!
Hey, check out this person’s scam! They paid us to force this scam on you!
Look at these cable news channels’ youtube channels
Listen to this mom who is totally concerned about some bill that will kill or save all the children
BUY
A
CHROMEBOOK!
buy a jeep
Listen to this prepper try to hock you “survival” gear and shelf stable food
Don’t you remember when families did things? wasn’t that fun? Families, doing things?
Soon it will also be flooded with THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!
I am interested in none of these things
I mean, I just get ads for drain cleaner, dog dewormer and metamucil.
I must be boring.
You could always spice it up and see what you get.
I use VPNs and ad blockers where I can / when they work. I also have an extension that makes my Internet traffic useless by sending random data. When I need to go to the official YouTube app and get ads I get a smorgasbord. Right now they seem to think I’m either a recently divorced middle aged man with ED who just discovered they are actually a balding gay man or a teenaged girl with period problems and a desperate need for a social media following. Neither of these even come close but it’s always entertaining to see what I get.
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That thing, you know that thing that you already buy? Here’s an ad for it! Now we get to lie and say we were the reason you bought it!
It’s so fucking weird how I got way more ads for runescape when I played runescape, and it’s not like I watch less runescape content today. They also seem to think I’m a girl because whenever I do get something unique it’s always for purses, make up, fashion and hygiene products; all of which I have a below-zero chance of ever buying.
I have never gotten an ad for a game I was currently playing. For me it’s always these mobile games, namely ones that use hentai art to sell the game, I have found out some of these are not actually porn games, or the most recent offering from the biggest studios.
Oh you reminded me, hygiene products, all sorts of hygiene products that have been branded to assure me I am not gay, or a woman, for wanting bathe and groom myself. There is also the one where some douche tells me I am not a dish.
I never get fashion ones, however my feed is periodically bombarded with videos to people who make subculture fashion for women. like lolita dresses. I have no idea why. The only thing I can think of is that I show an interest in music with associated subcultures and they just do not know how to get them right. Hey, this guy listened to Lingua Ignota, let’s send him 20 channels discussing pastel colored lolita clothes and kawaii culture.
These days I skip all, self-promotion and in-video sponsors included.
Sounds like you probably use it but if not, get the SponsorBlock extension to do exactly this.
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Ironically unreadable article, littered with ads.
My pihole prevents me from knowing what you’re talking about.
I watch YouTube from my TV, and my Pihole can’t block the ads. So I splurged for premium (which costs about $5/month where I’m at) and would do it again in a heartbeat. Way better experience.
Is this account run by Google intern? Look at how it’s written.
“Also, I love listening to the newest tunes. And with YouTube music, I can get songs, subscribe to podcasts, and more!”
No, I hate YouTube music
