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People allow their TV to connect to the interpipes? Tut tut, I thought y'all were better than that!
if you have an apple tv and an iphone, use youtube in the browser with adguard and airplay. No ads, no bs
you could also try this for iPhone: https://github.com/arichornloverALT/uYouEnhanced it has sponsorblock included too
This presents a good demonstration of what we can expect Alphabet / Google / Youtube to do if ever it should win its war on adblockers, or convince people to watch YouTube without vetting. Any time it promises to compromise and make a tolerable user experience, it will ratchet up advertisement plugs until it becomes intolerable.
This is why we can't relent, ever.
Youtube frontends are good. But Youtube alternatives (Odysee & Rumble) are great. Also we need more alternatives. More competition for Youtube.
They've even started having "next" instead of "skip" so it just goes to another ad. But the worst is when it gives you an unstoppable 90 second ad roll, comes back to the video for all of 2 seconds and starts yet another 90 second ad roll.
If I want to watch YouTube on the bigger screen now, I just open it in Firefox on my VR headset.
I just pay for YouTube premium family. We all get add free YouTube. Plus music which we all use. It's a great value and no hastle. More money goes to creators this way as well.
This is the right answer. If more people subscribed... Well, it wouldn't have to be this way.
Sadly, YouTube TV doesn't include YT Premium.
Which is the weirdest shit imaginable to me.
In any case, adverts on the pause screen should be banned.
The entire advertising industry is long overdue for a massive clapback and course correction, because it has infested every inch of waking life.
I get it but how else do you expect them to be able to host all these videos and make them globally available? For free? Ad free? Private donations? It's an incredibly useful service that for some reason people can't stand to pay for.
does anyone here use librewolf? for the past month or so YouTube has been completely fucked there. constantly freezing, sometimes pic only, sometimes fully as if my internet is slow, which it isn't.
I'm suspecting they're purposely fucking it for non chromium browsers but haven't seen much complaining about it. i go back to Vivaldi for YouTube for now which works perfectly but soon enough the ublock will stop working.
does it happen to anyone? is it non chromiums? is librewolf? is it just mine?
Firefox working fine for me
I'm using LibreWolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript where I selectively allow scripts and I never got an ad served on YT
i don't get ad served either, that wasn't my question... but maybe it's the script thing, i don't have script blockers.
Yep, when ive resorted to yt directly on librewolf it usually freezes/buffers and tab needs refreshing every 5-10mins or so of vid. Sometimes it’s ok. Pretty inconsistent. I use ublock and sponsor block with librewolf . Usually i use invidious or yattee, Which have their own issues also playing whackamole with the giant
based on another comment I'll check out privacy badger and noscript; see if that helps
Yes. Noticed yesterday. I was even logged in to a friend's YouTube Premium account. Loaded like I have slow internet.
Hot take: stop paying for Spotify and get YouTube Premium instead.
that is actually a really hot take but also really fucking stupid
pirate everything + get an adblocker
Yeah, it’s bad….. I didn’t feel like login into my premium account the other day and it was kinda much…….
I am hoping we get a Democrat to in office this year. With the balls(Well she technically does not have balls; but you get my drift) to break some FUCKING monopolies up. We need to break up Ma Bell again
Honestly looking at the article this seems way less intrusive than pre-roll and mid-roll video ads. If this was to replace them I’d be ok with that. But this is Google so of course it’s just going to be as well as, so my adblocker is staying on for as long as it works
I'm just tired of my electronics doing "extra". I want to pause the video/player, I don't want that to activate other activities for my device to perform...I just want to pause the fucking video. They're all guilty of this though, either they show ads or screenshots of what they want you to watch next. I can't even pause a video anymore to look at something or show something. The amount of times I've paused to have a discussion and the distracting shit plays in the background annoyed me to the point I no longer use the "smart tv" to watch anything and only use the tv hooked up to the comp so I can actually control and have a pleasant viewing experience.
