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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Pro tip: open YouTube in Chrome, signed into your YouTube account. Allow the algorithm and your subs to continue recommending videos. Find one you wanna see. Copy link address. Paste it into Firefox with adblock, not signed into Google/YouTube. Prosper.

Just watched a YouTube video on my PS5 earlier today while cooking a food and saw for the first time that they will shoot an ad with a "next" button that skips to another ad, and then there's a "skip" button countdown. Ridiculous. I wouldn't bother with adblock if the ads were reasonable.

Here's a free idea, YouTube: build in the ability to add videos to a simple temporary queue and then only put ads in at the very start or very end of videos so they aren't intrusive.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 0 points 5 months ago

what I do is open a containerized tab on firefox so that youtube has no history enabled and doesnt fill the page with obnoxious content then I search for what I went there for then I close the tab so everything is purged. for my subscriptions I use a container on my server that downloads their videos and ads them to my plex server so I can watch them there when I have time to watch stuff its all in one place

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Watch time affects your recommendations, so this isn't a great solution

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Here’s a free idea, YouTube: build in the ability to add videos to a simple temporary queue

You can have that by paying for youtube premium, they want you to sign up.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Just got a one-minute unskippable ad for the first time yesterday (no way to use adbockers on a PS5). I'd rather not watch at all.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember when videos had to be at least 10 minutes long, so more ads could be added to the play time? Now they don't give a fuck.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They successfully broke almost every Piped instances.

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Until they start properly filtering ads they accept they get auto disabled in my side. No weird crypto or porn ads for me, thanks.

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[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Good.

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (21 children)

I’ll never understand the entitlement of these companies when it comes to ads. You send the content freely to my computer along with BS ads. It’s my computer. I’ll display what I want using programs I want.

If you want me to pay for that content with $ or by watching ads - then put up a hard paywall and stop sending the content for free. You can’t get uppity and complain about ad blockers - it doesn’t make any sense…

The real problem is your content sucks and nobody is willing to pay for it. And that’s your problem - not mine.

Here’s some free apples. There’s a newspaper ad stuffed in there as well. Oh you ate the apples without reading the newspaper? Foul ball! /facepalm

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good.

Youtube is a wonderful thing. It's a wealth of knowledge and resources unlike anything this world has ever seen.

And it's ran by one of the worst, most predatory corps on the planet.

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