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Oh no, the ads I block are getting even longer!?

Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.

YouTube has ads?

I often entirely forget that youtube and most of the internet is plagued with ads. It's a shock to use a family member's phone or laptop that does not have adblock

I recommend Peertube. There's not much there yet, but myself and others are trying.

Also, did you know you can upload your video to Peertube and have YouTube pull it via RSS? That's what I'm doing!

All of my stuff you'll find on Peertube and I don't have to do anything else to get it up on YouTube.

It's so fucking funny though. I would love to pay YouTube. But I will never pay a company that abuses my data the way they do.

Who still watches YT without adblocker? It must be horrible.

what YouTube ads

The article about crappy ads wants me to turn off my ad blocker, lol

YouTube has ads?

I set my VPN to Albania. Ads on YouTube are banned in Albania.

On the web, I be Albanian.

Youtube: "People are blocking are ads and costing us money, what should we do?!"

The People: "Police your platform and stop advertising scams, hate speech, pornography, and all the other shit."

Youtube: "I just have no idea what to do, so I guess I'll just invest millions/billions into making ads harder to block, and make the ads longer and unskippable. You know, Just make the platform almost completely unusable without adblocking"

The People: "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, JUST POLICE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM ALREADY. IF YOU DID YOU WOULDNT NEED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT"

Youtube: "Oh, btw, heres another PragerU video thats 3 hours long and talks about how the black man should be grateful for the white man uplifting them via slavery, followed by a ad thats basically a woman fingering herself to advertise chinese AI girlfriends"

The People: adblocking intensifies

I wonder what the breaking point is for those who don’t use adblockers.

Nebula is pretty good these days, I can't remember the last time I deliberately watched something on YouTube.

We need an alternative with people on it.

why not have UBLOCK origin.

That's unfortunate for the content creators. I realize that majority of their revenue comes from ads, but this is probably going to drive viewership down. The average person doesn't have that kind of attention span anymore.

Ads are already a nuisance, making them unskippable will turn people away from the video especially if they also decide to go down the route twitch went of you having to physically be present and not minimize the ad. Creators already resort to their own product placement in their videos, which fortunately can be skimmed through. I just try to buy THEIR products to show support, if they offer.

Also, nothing makes me want a product less than intrusive annoying ads. That's a product I would steer clear of.

Businesses pay youtube to show ads and viewers pay youtube to not show ads.

and they'll be unskippable

I'm sure i've heard this before, but yt-dlp still skips them fine.

Pretty much stopped using it once they decided my 20 year old account must belong to a child and demanded my ID. (Still don’t know why that happened. The account itself is over eighteen and I don’t live in the US where that policy was supposed to take effect.) This doesn’t make it any more appealing.

I remember when you just had, like, banner ads and an ad next to the video. And now you get those gross ads for AI sexbots and stuff.

And I really don’t think the latter is just because of my own search history. I’m asexual and don’t look at porn sites. I also noticed an uptick in the sex ads after YouTube decided I was a minor, so that’s pretty freaking weird.

Then I also get far right ads about how trans people are terrible, that are basically hate speech and propaganda.

I wish other platforms for long form video content existed.