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YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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YouTube premium family is best value for money for all streaming services. Just don’t waste time on adblocking, as it works reliably only on desktop. I used ublock and it was more or less cuccessfully fighting ads on desktop, but they still were present on phone (new pipe just sucks, and I moved to iPhone anyways), iPad, Xbox and tv. Premium removed all of them. Also gave downloads for offline viewing. I still use sp…

> I moved to iPhone anyways

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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YouTube premium family is best value for money for all streaming services. Just don’t waste time on adblocking, as it works reliably only on desktop. I used ublock and it was more or less cuccessfully fighting ads on desktop, but they still were present on phone (new pipe just sucks, and I moved to iPhone anyways), iPad, Xbox and tv. Premium removed all of them. Also gave downloads for offline viewing. I still use sp…

Just use revanced or libretube, who uses stock YouTube app!?

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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> Child is dying from choking. YouTube search: how to stop a baby from choking > Two 30 second ads about how important vitamins are for me to get pregnant Meanwhile baby is dead. Install adblocker so I can save my next eligible heir quickly. > Next baby is choking. Quickly open YouTube. YouTube: you are blocked. Now I have two dead babies but thank god I know how to get pregnant again because of those Vitamins.

Ad-free experience: Hey what's up child-rearing nation! I hope you're having a wonderful day! Today we're gonna be about saving your child from choking! I know right, my kid is choking, your kid is choking, it just keeps happening! They're blue in the face and gagging and you don't know what to do! *laughs* But before we get to that, I need to tell you about our sponsor, ridge wallet, fuck, skip ahead alright, that w…

This is spot on.

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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> Child is dying from choking. YouTube search: how to stop a baby from choking > Two 30 second ads about how important vitamins are for me to get pregnant Meanwhile baby is dead. Install adblocker so I can save my next eligible heir quickly. > Next baby is choking. Quickly open YouTube. YouTube: you are blocked. Now I have two dead babies but thank god I know how to get pregnant again because of those Vitamins.

Ad-free experience: Hey what's up child-rearing nation! I hope you're having a wonderful day! Today we're gonna be about saving your child from choking! I know right, my kid is choking, your kid is choking, it just keeps happening! They're blue in the face and gagging and you don't know what to do! *laughs* But before we get to that, I need to tell you about our sponsor, ridge wallet, fuck, skip ahead alright, that w…

That's what SponsorBlock is for.

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

#15

If they break uBO and yt-dlp, it might actually kill the platform.

Money from advertisers doesn’t decrease long-term without uBO/yt-dlp users (since they don’t watch ads and pay for them). So less operating costs for Youtube, and more money for creators (in theory, if YT doesn’t keep the costs savings). That should help the platform, not kill it.

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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you can use vpn to sign up to youtube premium from india or some other cheap location without strict address requirements and pay two bucks a month

Isnt youtube basically merged with google, thus you need to have separare indian account jusr for google?

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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post #2

> Child is dying from choking. YouTube search: how to stop a baby from choking > Two 30 second ads about how important vitamins are for me to get pregnant Meanwhile baby is dead. Install adblocker so I can save my next eligible heir quickly. > Next baby is choking. Quickly open YouTube. YouTube: you are blocked. Now I have two dead babies but thank god I know how to get pregnant again because of those Vitamins.

If a kid is choking and your impulse is to open youtube and search for tutorial, you should buy a phone. 911 or equivalent is free

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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post #2

> Child is dying from choking. YouTube search: how to stop a baby from choking > Two 30 second ads about how important vitamins are for me to get pregnant Meanwhile baby is dead. Install adblocker so I can save my next eligible heir quickly. > Next baby is choking. Quickly open YouTube. YouTube: you are blocked. Now I have two dead babies but thank god I know how to get pregnant again because of those Vitamins.

With that logic everything should be free and provided on the spot, even for the 0.001% scenarios

Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

#19
post #4

YouTube premium family is best value for money for all streaming services. Just don’t waste time on adblocking, as it works reliably only on desktop. I used ublock and it was more or less cuccessfully fighting ads on desktop, but they still were present on phone (new pipe just sucks, and I moved to iPhone anyways), iPad, Xbox and tv. Premium removed all of them. Also gave downloads for offline viewing. I still use sp…

> Also gave downloads for offline viewing.

I used to have those "downloads" on Youtube. There are not a real downloads because I do not have an access to the file. Also the feature tends to be misworking - from time to time one of "downloads" just stucks with eating 100% of 1 CPU core and the recipe is to remove all the "downloads". This was one of the stupidiest features I ever had, because if I need a video for offline wieving but do not want to get a file, I can just watch 100% of video (of course with adblock because YT advertisements use to destroy cache) and do not close the tab, then suspend my PC and unsuspend it in the place I want to watch.

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