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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834

If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.

Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I don't see any mention of the YouTube adblock trick, so from the vid:

Copy YouTube URL. Paste it in Bing and search. Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit and click on the thumbnail for the video you searched. It will then play, still in Bing, with no ads.

So if you're on a work or government or w/e computer that doesn't allow installing adblock extensions, there ya go. No downloads or anything, just YouTube and Bing.

...this is the first time I've ever had any interest in using Bing, lol.

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is this lengthy process preferable to using ublock on Firefox?

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[–] mke@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's a chance duckduckgo does something similar, but sadly I can't check at the moment.

Leaving a comment so I remember to try it later—unless anyone reading is willing to do so.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 2 months ago (81 children)

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

I mean I get that Youtubers have no morals and it's all about money but that seems excessively hypocritical, even for a Youtube "personality".

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

He's also got a generally nuanced opinion of piracy, in that it's justifiable in some situations. If you call it piracy and you're okay with piracy then it's not really a contradiction.

Being willing to talk about it despite working against your interests isn't always bad depending on context.

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Breaking news, people on the Internet have no concept of nuance.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 0 points 2 months ago

How dare you make such a direct and personal attack on me!

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 0 points 2 months ago

A fact I struggle with on an almost daily basis...

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I had the vague recollection of him having a small-business-owner-brain moment and going on about how it's theft, and it's taking money out of his pockets, or something along those lines.

Looks like I may have been either thinking of someone else, or misinterpreted a snippet of video of him ranting about something.

I will admit to not watching his stuff for a good number of years now, and could be totally conflating things.

[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was probably his stance when YouTube ad revenue was his stream of income.

In 2024 they pay pennies, and his real income is from sponsorships like those d-brand skins and manscaping utilities. And their own merch, of course.

They've been pushing their own media platform (floatplane), so I'm willing to bet this was a bit of a game of chicken with YouTube. YouTube wouldn't ban one of their biggest channels, and if they did it'd turn into great PR for floatplane.

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm pretty sure that it was more recent, like 2023 or 2022

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (8 children)

He directly called it bad because it hurt his revenue stream. He is ok with ad blocking as long as it isn't being done to him. That's pretty bold if you ask me. A double standard, quite the opposite of nuance. He equated it with entering a cirque due soleil show without paying a ticket, which is a false equivalence. He thinks that he is entitled to have his ads seen as a price of admittance to watching his videos. No one is entitled to have their ads watched.

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

Yes. Because it is, and I do it gladly.

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[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Isn't that essentially what it is? Getting something for free through certain means you wouldn't get for free otherwise? Which means no money goes to whoever owns the service you're using?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Getting media without paying (either in currency or in data for ads). Which they also address and talk about plex and jellyfin to consume the newly "liberated" media. I find his opinion on this quite fair.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Piracy is distributing media you don't own. How does blocking ads equates with acquisition and distribution of media you don't own? It doesn't.

Evading advertisement is not piracy.

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[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

LTT always seemed "slimy" to me, especially after the whole mistreatment allegations ordeal

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I find what happened, and their response to everything, completely unacceptable.

But even if you forget that entirely, i decided to see if anything has changed after a year, and the quality of videos is genuinely shocking. A production studio of such scale makes videos, that your typical 14 year old would find embarrassing. The attitude towards everything, and the overwhelming fake energy, are both very repulsive

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, ever since all that stuff came out just before the new CEO took over, including the video/audio of the sexual harassment meeting which was treated as a total joke, I unsubscribed and stop viewing their content. I couldn't reconcile their fun and approachable/friendly image with how they're treating staff. Moved on to watching more from other creators like Jayztwocents. Unfortunate that people keep turning out to be shitty left and right.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All I want is a tech youtuber that doesnt do clickbait, currently I only know hardware unboxed

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gamersnexus?

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Tech Jesus does not fuck around. Jokes aside- it's a good channel.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Calling it piracy doesn't mean you think it's the worst thing in the world. I do it unless I like a service, and c'mon, it is piracy.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Massive cunt is actually a massive cunt irl.

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[–] simonced@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It has been reuploaded already with a nice "re-upload" added in the thumbnail.

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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He should totally upload it to HornPUB

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard the legends of the Chinese anthem being at PornHub and took a look a while ago. It turns out that they've removed all videos from unverified users and blocked them from uploading.

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[–] wolfcatreader@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (20 children)

I have no longer watched their content since the scandal.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which one?

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Probably the sexual harassment one that's when I left. The billet labs stuff was bad too though.

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[–] flork@lemy.lol 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for sharing? Why is every Lemmy single comment section filled with unrelated iamverysmart comments.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What happened to his hair?

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago

don't you know, it's hate speech against corporate profits

[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is curiously silent on this matter. Their SJWs are usually all over shit like this.

Wouldn't surprise me if their new deal with Google has some influence on which posts go down the drain, and which ones go to the front page.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

Linus Insurrection Tips.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Ironically, watching this video on Osysee results in me consuming more ads that help LTT than usual, because I don't have SponsorBlock set up for that.

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