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But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox without any ads.
Why? Does Adblock Plus block the on video ads?
The only ads that cannot be blocked are those that streams over the same origin server, like Twitch's new embedded ads.
Pasting YouTube URLs into VLC still works.
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Good for you, but you are missing out on a lot of interesting material, including online courses and presentations.
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding, but he said he _doesn't log in_, not that he doesn't actually visit youtube.
Pasting YouTube URLs into VLC still works.
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People seem to have this romanticized view of Google but this is a company that makes almost the entirety of its revenue from tracking users. Between Google, Chrome, Android, Gmail and Google Maps they have an astonishing amount of access to people's lives and most people seem none the wise to it. And yet, if another company does anything even remotely close (Microsoft with Windows 10, for example), they would be crucified. Google seems to escape the same level of criticism for some reason.
Alternative hypothesis (assuming a bug rather than intended behavior): YouTube is testing a new ad mechanism, and the new mechanism (rather naturally) wasn't tested on systems blocking ads; it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox with…
I've seen at least two other popular video sites over the years that had this symptom. (Can't remember them, maybe Hulu 6+ years ago?) One of them would occasionally have a weird overlap of the end of a commercial and the video. My guess was that the video was was queued to start playing after the length of the ad by some ad-independent logic.
Alternative hypothesis (assuming a bug rather than intended behavior): YouTube is testing a new ad mechanism, and the new mechanism (rather naturally) wasn't tested on systems blocking ads; it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox with…
lol, no malice here, it's their websites they can do whatever they want and they are far from stupid, they test all these things.
I'll still block ads and if Google prevents me from seeing Youtube content so be it. I'm not going to disable my ad blocker anyway.
The fight against ads is getting interesting. Let's see who gets the "last word".
They have virtually no business apart from ads.
AFIAK they have marketshare in the UK (and maybe US) which surpasses print+tv.
Can you imagine this 40 years ago? An invention which cuts out newspaper ads and time travels broadcast TV past the commercials?
Staggering.
Does anyone think it's possible to write a Perl/Python/Bash program to basically achieve the same thing? To "convince" the site the ads are coming down but they never get seen? This could be browser independent/act as a sort of proxy. I realize Privoxy does something like this, but gets detected.
Thoughts?