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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by thot_experiment »

mikece wrote: post #3

If YouTube blocks me from watching videos because I use an ad blocker then I'll stop watching videos on YouTube. I don't care if this doesn't hurt YouTube... it will help me stop spending so much time on YouTube.

100% this, I'm not watching ads. I haven't really seen any advertising on my electronic devices in a decade (edit: actually closer to two decades) and that's the way it will continue to be. My time is valuable, my mental space is valuable, my computer is mine. You will not make it do things I don't want it to do. Advertising is a plague on society.

(I speak from experience, I worked for 3 years at an ad agency.)

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by jstanley »

mikece wrote: post #3

If YouTube blocks me from watching videos because I use an ad blocker then I'll stop watching videos on YouTube. I don't care if this doesn't hurt YouTube... it will help me stop spending so much time on YouTube.

You can always watch on one of the Invidious mirrors if YouTube proper becomes unusable.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by nickthegreek »

thot_experiment wrote: post #21
mikece wrote: post #3

If YouTube blocks me from watching videos because I use an ad blocker then I'll stop watching videos on YouTube. I don't care if this doesn't hurt YouTube... it will help me stop spending so much time on YouTube.

100% this, I'm not watching ads. I haven't really seen any advertising on my electronic devices in a decade (edit: actually closer to two decades) and that's the way it will continue to be. My time is valuable, my mental space is valuable, my computer is mine. You will not make it do things I don't want it to do. Advertising is a plague on society. (I speak from experience, I worked for 3 years at an ad agency.)

…you can purchase ad free YouTube.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by sundarurfriend »

doodlesdev wrote: post #18
marcodiego wrote: post #13

https://joinpeertube.org/

I wish Peertube was more usable. The UX is generally subpar (although impressive for an ActivityPub-based system). There's also the problem that hosting servers to host video is _so damn expensive_. There is literally only one Peertube instance I ever watch videos on ( https://tilvids.com/ ) and I'm honestly considering stopping using it altogether. I'm not sure what I want out of Framasoft really, but I don't think…

> I don't think my client has ever uploaded more than 100kb from a video I was watching, nor has it downloaded from anyone but the server.

Where is that info available?

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by alexb_ »

nickthegreek wrote: post #23
thot_experiment wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% this, I'm not watching ads. I haven't really seen any advertising on my electronic devices in a decade (edit: actually closer to two decades) and that's the way it will continue to be. My time is valuable, my mental space is valuable, my computer is mine. You will not make it do things I don't want it to do. Advertising is a plague on society. (I speak from experience, I worked for 3 years at an ad agency.)

…you can purchase ad free YouTube.

Which I will absolutely never be doing.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by crtasm »

haunter wrote: post #8
jacooper wrote: post #2

It doesn't look very complex, nothing a simple ublock/brave block element can't remove, at least not yet.

Yet. Twitch has some pretty hardcore ad system that even uBlock can't block straight up and you have to use a combination of tools/scripts https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions https://old.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/10fgy9y/twitch_adb...

I only have uBlock Origin and never see ads on Twitch.

Downvoting does not change this fact (and if I knew exactly why my experience is different, I would provide details).

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by wnevets »

quechimba wrote: post #10
wnevets wrote: post #4

On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.

Yeah, and YT Music is included too right? Because I have YT Music and no ads and it's really cheap compared to other services. I pay COP$17900 which is little less than USD$4. I used to pay around USD$10 for Spotify.

> Yeah, and YT Music is included too right?

Correct and I believe YT Music pays much more per listen than Spotify to the artist.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by christophilus »

mkmk wrote: post #11
pwg wrote: post #6

Or just download with yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ).

Slightly off-topic, is there an easy way to automatically stream files you've downloaded to your local machine to play on an iPhone later?

I use Brave on iOS, and it has the ability to download videos for offline watching. It’s one of my favorite features.
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