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[-] Morogwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

Not paying youtube a cent until they remove all the transphobes and quit blasting people with their shit ass bigoted content. I'll pirate and ad block just to spite them every step of the way. Make your bed with fascists, lay in it.

[-] SheenTStars@monyet.cc 12 points 1 year ago

Remember the time when we used to search for and share funny ads? They could've done that, but no, they chose to make shitty ads that nobody wants to see.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be "impossible to advertise to." For me, it's rang very true. I can't think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn't been the norm, or ads would be dead.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

But I guess that hasn’t been the norm, or ads would be dead.

They're alive because of all the tracking data they use now. Targeted ads are significantly more effective than their counterparts.

[-] rckclmbr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I dunno, I'm 40 and have definitely bought things because of ads. Highly targeted ones on Instagram have introduced me to a lot of cycling gear I wouldn't have otherwise known about. It seems like most of the youtube ads are pretty bad though

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[-] Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Early GenXer here. Am the same way. Have always hated ads in any form. Except maybe print ads. Especially in the old days in mags like Electronic Fun & Games or something. Even targeted ads are useless to me. If there's something I'm interested in, I'll search it out and find what I need. I don't need some company scraping my data and telling me what I want. I run a Pihole, use ad blockers and YouTube specific apps to block ads and always will

[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

block scripts with uMatrix. a little finer grained. if they block me, oh well. still won't watch ads

[-] LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

uBlock can do everything that uMatrix can do it just has a different interface, so there’s no need to use the deprecated uMatrix

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[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What absolute wankers! In case anyone's adblock goes south, here are some YouTube alternatives:

For Watching YouTube

For Uploading

  • PeerTube
  • Idk, make a video blog or something.
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[-] ArchmageAzor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Youtube is a prime example of why monopolies are bad

[-] ErgodicTangle@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Decentralize! FEDERATE EVERYTHING!

[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, the internet needs to go back to its roots. Putting your eggs in one basket is just a bad idea.

[-] iokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At some point the ratio of convenience to quality got all out of whack. Most people I know use maybe three different platforms at most and get angered by all of them. My internet experience peaked when I was checking 20 extremely specific forums regularly and using in-game chat 90% of the time (vent/teamspeak were reserved for raid night).

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As much as I dislike ads, "Company wants to make revenue from its product" is not a prime example of why monopolies are bad.

[-] ArchmageAzor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Youtube has done a lot more bad shit than push ads everywhere

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[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[-] F4celess@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set,ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Here it is in text format so ya'll don't have to type it out. I haven't verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it's way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

The one thing the Reddit exodus has taught me, is that I'm almost eager for a reason to ditch my social media and either find something new or simply take back that time and do something more fulfilling anyway.

I'm so much happier not being constantly blasted with advertisements, that now when I have to go back on insta or FB for whatever reason, I can't stand more than 30 seconds before I nope back off.

Looking forward to axing YouTube from my life next.

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[-] MonitorZero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

YouTube is seriously forgetting it's role. I liked it better when it was dbz videos to Linkin Park and looney tunes. We use YouTube to not have a premium service then maybe contribute to the creators we like. We do NOT need yet another "streaming service" bill. They're getting out of hand.

[-] Bazzatron@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Man, 144p AMVs were peak internet.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

DBZ Music Videos, that takes me back to the 00's.

[-] Plaid_Kaleidoscope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I pay for premium because I despise ads. I do whatever I can to remove them from my life. They are really playing with fire. Change is in the air rn anyway.

How I want a YT competitor, but I really don't see how anyone can compete with their storage and bandwidth.

[-] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm truly surprised there hasn't been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

I suspect the problem is that people wouldn't even pay a penny per video to content creators. From what I've seen of other competing video sites, there's a really serious moderation issue stopping them from wide adoption... So many of the competing sites are full of flat earth / anti-vax / pro-fascism content...

[-] ThePaSch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

Running a video service the size of YouTube carries astronomical traffic and storage costs. Google is probably one of the only companies in the world that can stem that.

There's smaller video sharing sites, like DailyMotion, but those would probably instantly crash and burn if their userbase were to suddenly grow to the size of YouTube's.

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[-] glaber@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

PeerTube's turn now :)

[-] mochi@lemdit.com 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there's a way to get around it, and if there isn't, then I just won't be using YouTube anymore. I survived before it existed. I'm getting tired of these companies' bullshit.

[-] sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, since we're all here, PeerTube is federated with Lemmy! There are limited numbers of creators on PeerTube right now, but maybe if we can link more videos from there on lemmy and upload some ourselves, we can get the platform into a healthy state. Not that there is nothing there, there is a decent amount uploaded already.

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[-] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Google can be counted on to make everything worse at all opportunities.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

“We want to inform viewers that ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, and make it easier for them to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience,” the company said in its email to The Verge.

Wow, thanks, YouTube! I always had such a hard time disabling my ad blocker - I'm so glad you've made it easier for me!

Really, though, I don't see this ending well for YouTube. I'd bet there'll be an ad blocking option that works to bypass this within a week.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's the sheer patrimony of statements like these that really annoy me. I get that things have costs and they also have to deliver a profit; that's just business. But why can't they just have the guts to openly say that rather than dress it up in all the bullshit

[-] igorlogius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mmh, i wonder if google/youtube is gonna learn anything from reddit. If not i guess we'll see another migrations in the ~~near~~ future.

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