Technology

YouTube revanced 👌

For me it isn't the length, but the frequency that is bothering me. It's insain, it's like every 3-5 mins depending on the video length. It's unusable atleast in my case. Only watching from devices I have adblocker on now. Not my phone.

I just realised i haven't watched a single ad in like 2 years

Thanks ublock origin!

What is adblock? Can someone explain it to me like I'm five?

Don't forget to use ublock and adguard !

When you see the long ad, just close the fuckin' browser window. Immediately. And then use something else.

They'll only get the point and change if you stop giving them your eyeballs for shit you don't wanna see.

at this point, I consider that 26 eur i'm paying monthly simply my US Tech Bro tax.

I mean, I'm not.

The day ad block stops working is the day I stop using sites with ads

maybe adblock is good

Smart TVs are really just somebody else's computer that you paid for to watch ads on.

Who’s these users? I have an ad blocker. It does the job.

"unskippable"

I haven't seen an ad on YouTube for years, with 2 simple browser plugins. Assuming you're on a PC:

Ublock Origin Sponsor Block

If you're using chrome, you already fucked up.

No, I don't see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It's really not that important to life.

Youtube: "GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!"

Viewers: "Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?"

Youtube: "I KNOW, I'LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!"

Viewers: "JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT"

Youtube: "Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads.."

Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin

Pihole+ublock+privacy badger = win

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

Then there's me using Revanced and Unlock Origin

Hey YouTube? The endpoint of enshittification is this: I wipe my ass and flush you.

Keep going, YouTube. You're not so important that we can't just leave.

Nebula exists. Curiosity Stream exists. PeerTube exists. Odysee exits. The people I value on YT already have footholds on all four. More will arrive soon enough.

So keep at it.

Keep injecting unskippable ads, flooding the feed with AI slop, letting bots post porn, demonetising and hiding quality content, using DMCA like a digital SLAPP against content creators, and using the algorithm to warp reality.

Your value proposition is ubiquity. That's it. That's all you have. Without popular buy-in, you're dead.

We proles? We have something better than loyalty.

We have spite.

So keep pissing people off - because watching you die on a very stupid hill of your own design will be entertaining AF.

For everyone else, see you on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !privacy@lemmy.world. Come and learn how you can replace all of these pieces of shit.

And in the meantime - yt-dlp should still work to download what you actually want to keep, and SmartTube is black magic incarnate.

Where?

Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don't use the web interface. It's video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

on YouTube's TV app

That's where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.

Hmm somehow i havent ever gotten those kinds of ads.......... maybe because im using ublock? Must be something else, i am just the chosen one.

For TV - SmartTube Next

For android - Youtube With Morphe Patches.

And, life is beautiful again!

Like others, desktop I'm using Firefox with ublock origin. Android phone, Firefox with ublock origin. Android TV, SmartTube. Ad blockers have always outpaced Google in my experience though I use youtube maybe like twice a week and I don't randomly browse reccomendations. Just there for specific stuff

Ublock must be blocking them. Huh, oh well.

My solution is to just close youtube. There's nothing on there I want to see that badly.

It’s not just the unskippable ads but also the type of ads as well. I’ve seen some wild ones like ads to make you hard in the bedroom, but it never actually shows the treatment. I’ve seen ads for how to make “homemade” makeup to look younger, the ingredients are baking soda and honey? But I think the wildest one I’ve seen is an ad for a robot puppy but in the ad, you can clearly see it is a real puppy, but they keep saying that it is a robotic AI powered puppy.