The interruptions supposedly caused by my adblock are tiny compared to the interruptions when I turn it off.
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Yeah no shit. "Experiencing interuptions," nope I'm not actually thank you very much. Youtube has gone down enough in quality to where I would probably just dump it if they manage to hamfist the ads back in. The algo is straight up terrible at keeping me engaged. You watched one video about Y? Whole feed is now about Y for the next week. I find better videos browsing incognito sometimes.
On the other hand, you watched a bunch of videos of X consistently,but skipped the last 3 we recommended? You'll never see that topic again.
Me: Searches for a very specific video that I know exists because I have seen it within the last three months.
YouTube: Nope, sorry, just can't find it. Don't know where it went. I don't think that video ever actually existed. I'm not even gonna show you results that contain your search terms because of how stupid I think you are.
In my case, it was looking for a specific video of pulling a 4.2 liter Jeep engine out of a CJ7. YouTube responded with dozens of videos on CJ5's and Wranglers, and the 4.0 liter engine, but not the 4.2 CJ7, and not the video I was looking for, and unfortunately it's not the Jeepin with Cool Guy video.
Although, in one scroll, they did offer to show me the exact same video three different times.
Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.
Have you seen google photos ? The search function there is shockingly bad. Even when I know a photo exists of xyz, searching for xyz or words related to xyz finds either nothing at all, or unrelated images.
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I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I'm avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.
Google: ~~Don’t~~ be evil
I have ad blockers on my PC, use Smarttube on my Firestick, and ReVanced on my phone. And when someone sends me a youtube link in a group chat or something and I click it, it'll open the standard Youtube. 1/2 ads, 30+ seconds long, can't skip them.... I just don't even bother watching what you sent me.
Try installing URLCheck (it's on F-Droid) and make it your default browser, then remove open-by-defaults from the YouTube app.
It should let you open in the ReVanced or better yet Morphe version of YouTube. If tapping the link doesn't open URLCheck, then "Share" the link and select URLCheck.
Simply disabling the Youtube app (since at least on my phone it can't be uninstalled) does the trick as well
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Ah yes, experience a <15 second loading buffer...
Or watch potentially multiple entire minute long, unskippable adverts.
Honestly part of me has considered paying for YouTube premium - but aside from not having to fight off ADs, I don't care about the other perks, and am more than happy to just give to the creators directly without Google getting a cut.
Same, any creators that I seriously follow on YouTube also get a Patreon sub from me.
I’ll close and reopen a video multiple times until it goes straight to the video before I watch an ad.
ProTube is solid, and the SponsorBlock extension is also nice.
I considered paying for it but the cost vs benefit just wasnt there.
To prevent a few ads playing vs blocking those ads anyway for free.
yeah nah.
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Their website is so laggy and slow I didn't realize it was intentional
I'm using Firefox with Ublock Origin, and it's really funny that youtube videos open without any problems or delays, but still, the questions about interruptions appear. They failed to ruin my user experience, but still fucking hope they did.
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What interruptions, Youtube? Literally nothing changed other than the fact there aren't ads playing.
It's like Internet Explorer on Windows. If you rip it out the whole system does not work anymore and there is no way to make that work. /s
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So much malicious code going on to piss us off and force compliance. And normies have no idea this is a thing.
Which, oh no i have to wait an extra 2 seconds of no ads, instead of waiting 15 seconds of ads that will continue playing unless i actively skip it
I will gladly wait 1 minute of video loading before playing than watch 2 skippable ads that I need to click skip on.
Hell, I will go rampage and claim that I'll wait 5 minutes before video starts rather than watch a single 30s ad.
I just download them shits and delete when I'm done. Ffmpeg and VLC do a better job than YouTube even wants to do
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If adblock didn't work perfectly on YouTube, then I'd just entertain myself elsewhere.
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No YouTube I'm not experiencing any interruptions
The only interruption I’m experiencing is your asking me if I’m experiencing interruptions!
"We got it. We'll remember that." and other lies the devil tells you.
I found that opening several videos in different tabs and letting the tabs load in the background minimises YouTube's deliberate slowdown of videos.
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It's funny, I found that switching tabs will immediately make it start playing the video. The idea of losing you entirely is too much, I guess
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I don't even get the "find out why" link. It's literally just a popup that says "experiencing interruptions?" with no explanation. Just there to taunt me
The one I get, the words "experiencing problems?" is the link. But really, the only "problem" I experience is a momentary black screen as it loads the video without the ad.
All the link does is take you to the support page where it explains how to disable your ad blocker.
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Oh dont worry I actually do pay for the "convenience" of premium and I still experience interruptions, youtube either refusing to load the video list for minutes at a time or severe buffering issues watching a stream with left leaning content, usually losing a second out of every five unless I turn the phone screen off and just listen to the audio. I'm expect it will only get shittier too
We watch a ton of Youtube and have had premium for years. Twice now over maybe the last month, we've gotten errors stating "account in use at another location" or thereabouts, so we're waiting for them to cancel the old family plan that lets us share an account with separate profiles.
At that point she'll probably keep the account and I'll go the hack route to get sponsorblock, since premium only skips half the ads anyway with everyone doing promos mid video anyway.
premium only skips half the ads anyway with everyone doing promos mid video anyway.
Fwiw with premium if you hit fast forward once during the promp theres usually a "jump ahead" button that appears that allows you to skip to the promo's end
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I've found the jump ahead button to skip the promo spots can be hit or miss. It usually pops up if I press skip forward once though. Whatever the button that jumps a few seconds ahead is, depending on the device I'm using.
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So shady
Right but also, turn on your sponsorblock.
Got the extension. Love that Waterfox comes with it now by default else I wouldn’t have known about it.
*Laughs in ReVanced
Why people would watch vanilla YouTube without a privacy front like invidious, newpipe or SmartTube is beyond me. No ads, no algorithm, sponsorblock, no click bait thumbnails and convenient download options
As much as the algorithm can be annoying and awful. Something the scope of YouTube with out an algorithm at all is fucking stupid.
It is literally humanly impossible to sift though YouTube with out some form of algorithmic assistance.
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That is why I self-host https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped ; it is a bit of work to setup, especially because you need a SSL certificate. But man that thing is fast.
But you can also just play the video in mpv.
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Experiencing bullets in your foot? Remove your kevlar and helmet.
Part of the loading process now. Sometimes I'll open a video at work and be reminded how having adblocking isn't a default thing.
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