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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by sleepytimetea »

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.

I have observed a more insidious problem - the Youtubers that used to be genuine and down to earth are now themselves compromised by being sent products to give their honest opinion. The other day I was watching a video about this nice couple who wanted to start their bulldozer that was frozen in the forest and suddenly they pull out this "powerbank 1300" (name deliberately changed) and started a sales spiel ! About how they have all these gopros and iphones and look how many ports this thing has, and how it can charge the dead dozer battery blah blah.

Matthias Wandel today released a video about a Ecobank 1300 - I am shocked at how the content creators themselves have become a poisoned well !

These 1300WH banks are waaay overpriced for the amount it would cost to buy the individual 18650 cells (probably $100 worth of cells being sold for $999), so these content creators are shills and sellouts to these marketing tactics.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by codazoda »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #91
deltree7 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads". Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this

Please teach me how I can watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube without ads with YouTube premium and without installing an extension. There are several levels of ads on YouTube and paying for YouTube premium only gets rid of one.

Really? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ad on Premium.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by jonplackett »

I don’t block ads - I block YouTube trying to monetise things that are built into the internet and my phone - eg. Video that plays in the background when I close the website

It is just offensive that they want me to pay for something that is my phones feature not theirs.

Sadly I expect this to get blocked just the same

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by brokenmachine »

odessacubbage wrote: post #90
deltree7 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads". Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this

i don't even hate ads or the idea of targeted advertising in theory but 20+ years into the panopticon and the company that has the most information about my purchasing habits, interests and dislikes still has never shown me any advertising that was even remotely relevant to my life. i still have better odds of seeing something i actually want to buy just by flipping through the paper and those adverts don't demand th…

I love getting ads for things I've already bought.

Yes, I just bought a mattress, of course I'm interested in getting another one.

Oh, a new fridge! Always good to have a spare! Thanks Google!

Modern internet is absolutely unbearable without adblock.

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by [deleted] »

reaperman wrote: post #87
Nextgrid wrote: post #82

Invidious is a third-party frontend (you can self-host) that solves this problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious As a bonus, it is super fast because it doesn't have to justify the salaries of dozens (hundreds?) of frontend developers and can get away with server-side-rendered HTML and minimal amounts of Javascript.

Does YouTube get any money from this for their infrastructure costs?

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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by AuthError »

everdrive wrote: post #89

I'm pretty torn here. I don't believe I deserve access to free content, and there's _nothing_ wrong with any site blocking access if you don't want to see ads. I've done a lot of digital curtailing in my life, but Youtube has been hard to avoid. It's both good and bad, as they have some of the most amazing content in the whole world, but also some of the most addictive trash that I can't stop watching. Because the se…

consuming content for free where creators expect to get paid is polite way of stealing if you really think about it

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by [deleted] »

reaperman wrote: post #87
Nextgrid wrote: post #82

Invidious is a third-party frontend (you can self-host) that solves this problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious As a bonus, it is super fast because it doesn't have to justify the salaries of dozens (hundreds?) of frontend developers and can get away with server-side-rendered HTML and minimal amounts of Javascript.

Does YouTube get any money from this for their infrastructure costs?

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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

#108

Post by LeSaucy »

lostgame wrote: post #69
thematt wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes it worth it? Isn't the experience the same as just running an ad-blocker?

Well, my hubby’s iPad and our iPhones don’t support ad blocking on YouTube, nor does my Smart TV, so…ad blocking only works on 1/5 of my husband’s devices and my own would actually be effective with ad blocking, for one… (And before you say ‘just switch to Android’, I’m an iOS/WatchOS dev and a music producer for a living - if anything with the recent announcement of Logic on the iPad, I’ll be buying another iPads no…

Vinegar for iOS has made YouTube much less obnoxious https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by lelandfe »

jonplackett wrote: post #103

I don’t block ads - I block YouTube trying to monetise things that are built into the internet and my phone - eg. Video that plays in the background when I close the website It is just offensive that they want me to pay for something that is my phones feature not theirs. Sadly I expect this to get blocked just the same

> I block YouTube trying to monetise things that are built into the internet and my phone - eg. Video that plays in the background

Sounds like the situation is unchanged for you then?

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by StayTrue »

lostgame wrote: post #69
thematt wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes it worth it? Isn't the experience the same as just running an ad-blocker?

Well, my hubby’s iPad and our iPhones don’t support ad blocking on YouTube, nor does my Smart TV, so…ad blocking only works on 1/5 of my husband’s devices and my own would actually be effective with ad blocking, for one… (And before you say ‘just switch to Android’, I’m an iOS/WatchOS dev and a music producer for a living - if anything with the recent announcement of Logic on the iPad, I’ll be buying another iPads no…

Install Brave for ad blocking YouTube on iOS.
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