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How Subscriptions RUINED the Internet (and everything else) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world to c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

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[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 39 points 3 months ago

How YouTube links instead of articles ruined social media - By Me

10 minutes of waffling and filler then one minutes-worth of info buried in there somewhere

Don't forget to like and subscribe

[-] cumtownenjoyer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Can't stand this YouTube Voice anymore, I used to watch legal eagle and this future proof dude, but honestly the YouTube voice is so grating. Just talk normally!!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

bUt how are the content creators going to get paid??!

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

Old Netflix when it was DVDs by mail was actually really neat and had a variety of movies. They dropped lots of movies when it went to streaming-only and further enshitified from there.

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a browser extension for that. When I open a page and a 'subscribe' popup hides the text, I click on that button, and it shows me the URL it's going to block, and I click OK. The next time I get tricked into going to that page, it tells me it's blocked.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I SUBSCRIBED to his channel

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Our boss paid for our department's Netflix accounts (4K plans, 8 people on 2 account). I feel bad because I barely ever touched it since I have Stremio. It never has the thing I wanted to watch and all their new shows is garbage that guarantees to get cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the internet was ruined the moment it went mainstream.

as soon as it ceased to be that cool thing for nerds, ruled by passions and interests, and went mainstream with targeted content and profiteering, it lost its magic.

and everything since then have just been increasing horrific layers on the shit cake.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Kinda works for everything, IMO, but perhaps that's the hipster in me.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pfsense and pfblockerng. You will need at least 16gb of ram if you want to block porn otherwise it will run on a potato. When you crank it up it honestly blocks too much in my opinion. AD's are just the beginning.

[+] fraksken@infosec.pub -9 points 3 months ago

Why on youtube? 😓 It's like driving a hummer with bumper stickers saying you hate big oil.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

Ah, just run things through a pi-hole, run sponsorblock, and it's only costing youtube for you to watch it. I enjoy costing them.

[-] copd@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Lol at using the word "just" in your sentence, that can be out of reach for many users here.

Alternatively for less techy people. Just install grayjay: https://grayjay.app/

[-] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 3 months ago

Tubular and Freetube are two other options. Tubular is a fork of NewPipe with sponsorblock and such added.

Just wanted to add some options for those that may not like GrayJay for whatever reason.

[-] BallsandBayonets 4 points 3 months ago

Have you been able to get pi-hole to block Google ads? Mine always fails to update that blocklist.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

I'll be honest, my kid got pissed at any ads coming through so he updated the blocklists. No ads come through. Here's the list of what is running:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt	
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt	
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt	
https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt	
https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts	
https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt	
https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt	
https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts	
https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/	
https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser	
https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt	
https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/abuse.txt	
https://big.oisd.nl/domainswild2	
https://big.oisd.nl/simplednsplusdblpi	
https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/ads.txt

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you for the lists, I have added them to my gravity in my pihole

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

I should have added a little warning. Having all those blocklists active does break a fair amount of the internet, but it's worth it for me.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

For now, the internet still works for me, I will change the settings if something breaks

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024

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