Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?
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Long gone are the days when I used be excited to read update notes for new features... No I just hope they don't god damn force an update on me.
I went back to an old APK of Twitch and refuse to update to the current dumpster fire.
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Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000's they stopped making products "for" the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.
Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they're the most profitable demographic to market to.
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Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.
And your speakers are on subscription plans that charge you for every second that they play noise. Better upgrade to the next tier if you want to listen to anything else!
That's fine, the ad co struck a deal with speaker co to not bill for those sound-seconds.
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Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...
Like way to kill your platform for anything educational where you want to pause to like at a graph.
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It's like all the sci-fi stories of ads everywhere
So dystopian. The number of novels I've read where Advertisements existing on a screen has become the main source of revenue, what a bizarre science fiction fantasy land that would be...
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The sad thing is that most people won't even give a damn.
I use uBlock Origin and haven't seen a YouTube ad in 6 years, I cannot imagine trying to watch videos that try to show advertisements in the middle of them, lol. It's why I download all the TV and Movies I watch too. Advertisements are for people who, don't know how to silence them, the lazy, and those got guilted into allowing themselves to be brainwashed.
YouTube is unwatchable. No way I can make it through those ads.
And next... after opening the app you will have to watch ad before you can do anything
Come on, this is Google we're talking about. The ads come before opening the app.
True, maybe they do both and then some more when you try to close it.
YouTube premium, only time I hear ads are when my coworkers crank their shit too loud in the office, or when I have a brand new phone and have forgotten to log in.
Worth every red nickel.
God I hope my adbock holds up......
If it doesn't I will make something that records the entire f****** stream and removes the commercials out of it the old fashioned way If I have to. Not my first rodeo.
I will find text versions of everything I need to learn about and create my own video, and then watch it.
Wait a couple more years you'll be able to feed the descriptions through AI and make really trippy videos
.......how?
My guess: Youtube-dl derivative then an ffmpeg script to detect black frames that usually sandwich commercials on TV and delete the video inside those frames.
Video content never changes, but the order and content of ads do. Automated browser, record the video 2-3 times. Diff the frames and slice out the ones that don't match between runs.
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If it happens, and you do, host it, and set up a donation box too.
Most likely, I just dedicate an old laptop, a 4k HDMI capture device, store off MP4 and feed it through comskip then take it h265 and store it off.
If I don't do anything tricky with the browser they can't detect that I'm doing anything tricky at all.
The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that they're going to start doing advertising like broadcast TV did and put quarter screen commercials up for other shows in the middle of running shows.
So you want someone to broadcast, and you're willing to pay for it, but not willing to support the content creators in any way?
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Yt-DLP and it's variation (Seal, YTDLnis, etc.), newpipe and it's variation (Tubular, Newpipe Sponsorblock, etc) already allow you to do this without having to get manual.
And I use YTDLP now. At some point they will make it inoperable. I'm honestly surprised they haven't sorted it out yet.
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If it doesn't goodbye Youtube. I love the creators, but hate you as a platform.
Yeah, uBlock Origin not working would take me from liking YouTube a fair bit to making it unusable.
- I use Proton but keep legacy Gmail accounts around to ensure I still have access to accounts I may have forgotten about or people I knew a long time ago sending a stray email. The only other usage is logging into YouTube.
- I use a Captcha solver extension.
- I use uBlock Origin to block all their ads.
- I don't use their DNS.
- I use DDG over their search engine and Firefox over their browser.
- I don't use Google Drive or their office suite (I think the latter is abysmal to use tbf).
- I use DeepL over Translate.
- I use NewPipe for YouTube on mobile and have a subscription to Nebula.
- I no longer use Google Maps, opting for OSM instead.
- I still use Android and unfortunately can't unlock the bootloader but have degoogled as far as I know how, including never even registering a Google account with it (F-Droid + Aurora Store).
YouTube is far and away the biggest means by which I interact with Google, and that falls off a cliff if I'm forced to interact with a mess of their ridiculously shitty ads every time I have to use it. uBO has likely saved hundreds of hours of watching ads over my lifetime (and probably thousands of dollars from not being subconsciously influenced by ads), and I'm not paying a subscription fee to such an unethical company to get rid of the ads. This would bring me from YouTube as a timewaster to YouTube only as strictly necessary. Even though I don't support them directly through ads, I do support them by supporting creators I like monetarily, by sharing links and maintaining the network effect, and by giving them plenty of metadata by interacting with their service. If they do this, they ensure that I continue to monetarily support competitors like Nebula and permanently lose a grip they've had on me since I was a kid.
+1 on the Nebula subscription. It's worth every penny. That and Dropout are the only streaming subscriptions I still maintain.
Captcha solver add-on? Had no idea about that. If a captcha can be solved this way, why is still being used? What's the point?
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That's what we need tbh. If people get fed up and leave then eventually creators will too
Having a hard enough time just trying to fucking skip back 20 seconds without accidentally tapping on the creators' page.
Just use the arrow keys
accidentally tapping
Sounds like mobile to me
What if you paused so you could see something? You're not allowed to read that text in the background because ads
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Is anyone even remotely surprised by this?
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