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Use the Vanced app. It's ad free youtube Edit: https://vancedapp.com/
I use NewPipe.
Though it's just that I don't like the video format in general. If there was an ethical decentralised platform I probably wouldn't use it either.
However the way video has been centralised online is a big problem IMO. Imagine if every blog you read you could only get through Google.
Two parents w 6 Google logins between them (2 personal, 4 work entities) and 4 kids, each w a personal and school account. This would require 14 YouTube Premium accounts. Um...no.
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Also, isn't Vanced closed-source? I find the people behind it slightly sketchy.
It's YouTube reverse engineered so it seems a bit difficult to open source something like that
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> But will "Manifest V3" tip things back to unbearable? We'll see. Switch to Firefox now before Firefox market share dips to the level where publishers can justify not supporting it and you're stuck with only crippled adblocking forever?
If a browser doesn't render the web properly, that's the browser's fault, not the web's.
Youtube, especially, turns into a whole different experience. Ad in front of every video makes it impossible to quickly browse and sort through videos. I might watch just a few seconds and then go to the next one. When ads are enabled, the experience is so painful that I'm not likely to use Youtube this way any more. I have to watch an ad before I've made the decision if I want to watch the video.
Well, you can buy YouTube premium and have no ads.
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This has to be the most unpopular opinion so far I have a few questions for you 1. How long have you been doing this ? 2. What do you think of other (not just monetization) ways ads are bad as in bloating the web, privacy and security issues ? 3. What if you truly need to access a website but it has too many ads ? You give up ? Use adblock ? Continue with ads ?
Not the parent, but I've been doing the same thing. For maybe a slightly different reason. 1. Since the 90s. 2. Needs to be solved by user agents. Ad blockers generally work by host name or css selector. This doesn't filter out any of the bad guys that are really trying. 3. Continue with ads I guess. This doesn't actually happen in real life as far as I can tell. The reason I don't use an ad blocker is that I like be…
Next gen ad blocker will be a headless web browser in a data center to capture the canvas, plus automated video editing to remove the ads.
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it is abuse, all non requested & for-profit message is abuse.
It is not abuse. You are using the platform, the platform is monetized through ads. You requested it when you agreed to view any content on their platform.
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It also provided some incentive for creators to edit and post video. I had a problem that I figured out the solution to and put up a video of it that made me a few dollars a month. Then YouTube moved the goalposts and demonetized it because I don’t (and frankly, won’t) have 1000 subscribers. So that’s the end of my video posting on YouTube. I’ve discovered some “hack” repairs to other devices (common washing machine…
Please share your knowledge, if you don’t expect to have 1000 subscribers surely you wouldn’t expect revenue anyway. Maybe a better approach would be to encourage ‘buy me a coffee’ donations. Either way, you’re punishing society for google being an asshole.
Most likely outcome will be me posting videos on some alternative video platform. Looking at rumble.com
(I wish Amazon got into hosting videos like this, being at the place to buy seems the best place if you fail to fix).