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YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by throw_a_grenade »

kelnos wrote: post #9

Then pay for YT Premium so you don't have ads. Look, I hate ads. I really do. You can pry uBlock Origin from my cold, dead fingers. But the thing is, sites and creators and whatnot still often choose ads as a way to fund the things they create. If they're pushing ads at you over a medium where you have control (there's a reason why a web browser is a "user agent"), then I think you totally have the right to choose wh…

May I introduce you to NewPipe, an excellent client for Android, and https://piped.kavin.rocks/ on desktop/web?

I disagree with the statement that this is " a medium where you don't have full control" — after all those are my devices and I like them to be my (user) agents, not some thurd (sic) party.

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by christophilus »

Aachen wrote: post #26
nomel wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An alternative is, of course, YouTube Premium. Their pricing always seemed very high to me, but now I wonder if it was meant to be in the context of this number of ads.

Yeah I realized that I should add why that seems even worse to me, so I edited that in. To elaborate a little, I pay for Spotify, Netflix, F-Droid, OsmAnd, Simple Mobile Tools, FairEmail, K9, Internet Archive, and other software and services I use.... independent companies and creators that don't already track me to hell. Giving money to google would be out of necessity, not to help them strengthen their position if…

I’m in the same boat. I watch YouTube via Brave or uBlock + Firefox. If YouTube spun out of Google, I’d pay for premium. I get a lot of value out of it. I just can’t bring myself to pay Google for anything. I know it’s not really rational, and in a way, ad-blockers feel a little like piracy. But it’s where I am.

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by christophilus »

Nas808 wrote: post #4
db48x wrote: post #3

Why does anyone put up with ads? Install uBlock Origin → no ads. Also, if you install SponsorBlock then at least for popular videos you will probably never see an ad from a video creator either. You can even have it skip self–promotional segments (Subscribe Now!), repetitive animations and intro sequences, credits, previews, etc.

That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.

> YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS

Not for me. (Typed from iOS + Brave.)

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by ssharp »

The solution to this is $11.99 a month.

The way consumers value things is insane to me. People will fork over $12 on DoorDash delivery fees, an overpriced drink, a coffee, etc. but to remove ads for access to an enormous vault of content that provides endless value, NEVER!!!

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by [deleted] »

kelnos wrote: post #9

Then pay for YT Premium so you don't have ads. Look, I hate ads. I really do. You can pry uBlock Origin from my cold, dead fingers. But the thing is, sites and creators and whatnot still often choose ads as a way to fund the things they create. If they're pushing ads at you over a medium where you have control (there's a reason why a web browser is a "user agent"), then I think you totally have the right to choose wh…

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Post by vgeek »

Nas808 wrote: post #30
vgeek wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pihole with ad blocking or an OpenWRT (or really any router) router with ad blocking DNS is an alternative.

The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.

Can they evade uBo, too? I had a stretch where I was getting them in FF with uBo & Privacy badger, even after updating all rules, but then they started being blocked again on their own.

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by Aachen »

christophilus wrote: post #32
Aachen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I realized that I should add why that seems even worse to me, so I edited that in. To elaborate a little, I pay for Spotify, Netflix, F-Droid, OsmAnd, Simple Mobile Tools, FairEmail, K9, Internet Archive, and other software and services I use.... independent companies and creators that don't already track me to hell. Giving money to google would be out of necessity, not to help them strengthen their position if…

I’m in the same boat. I watch YouTube via Brave or uBlock + Firefox. If YouTube spun out of Google, I’d pay for premium. I get a lot of value out of it. I just can’t bring myself to pay Google for anything. I know it’s not really rational, and in a way, ad-blockers feel a little like piracy. But it’s where I am.

100%. I have a hard time explaining even to myself what makes it feel so wrong to pay google for their monopoly, it's a good product after all and usually that means I feel obliged to make money roll.

On pc I indeed also use the ad blocker, but on tv that doesn't work. (I also tried pi hole)

Re: YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

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Post by pier25 »

rekabis wrote: post #12

…Ads? On YouTube? _confused look_ I haven’t seen an ad on the Internet in nearly 20 years, ever since the first adblocker got released for Phoenix in 2003 (what became Firebird, then Firefox).

You're ok knowing YT content creators can't monetize their content when you watch it?
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