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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rush@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] DrVerlocher@feddit.ch 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And I still don't give a damn! There are two scenarios in case of sponsors.

The creator already got paid for the ad before the video. or
The creator is payed by percentage of their affiliate link.

It doesn't matter if I skip for number one, obviously. Number two could be an argument. But 99% of those sponsors are borderline scams anyway, so I really don't care, because I will never buy something off a sponsorship like that. Not NordVPN (which still tracks you btw...), nor Raid, nor any other crap.

Additionally, SponsorBlock also gets rid of those annoying reminders to "like and subscribe" barely a second into the video, and other such annoyances like fillers or those dumb spoilers that show the best parts of the video right at the start.

SponsorBlock isn't the issue. It is a symptom of Googles unfathomable greed and the creators/consumers collective Stockholm Syndrome. I value my time more, than hearing the same five sentences about World of Tanks, Raid or any other braindead "game" repeated 500 times.

The only sponsors I don't skip are the ones from InternetHistorian. He at least puts effort in and makes it fun to watch.

[–] seyrine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Agreed. If any content creator makes an effort in their ad spots (Jay Foreman, How to Drink, and the aforementioned Internet Historian) then that automatically gets whitelisted on sponsorblock.

And often the ads for stuff like Raid or similar stuff can be jarring, with the audio louder than the actual video or beginning with some random sound that "captures your attention". Thank goodness for sponsorblock.

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Before I found sponsor block I would just lazily skip large sections of videos. The app is just more convenient.