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YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by stqism »

smashah wrote: post #8

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is fair game - much better than their previously scummy tactic of sending legal threats to the stellar team at invidious. Thirdly, adversarial interoperability is a human digital right. Fourthly, g…

While you’re probably right, this isn’t super relevant. From Google’s perspective, they just want to auction off the advertising slot and get that view, the actual click through rate on that ad is a secondary issue.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by snailmailman »

smashah wrote: post #8

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is fair game - much better than their previously scummy tactic of sending legal threats to the stellar team at invidious. Thirdly, adversarial interoperability is a human digital right. Fourthly, g…

So many of the ads I see on youtube aren’t even products - they are scams.

The ad will be a clip of a celebrity with what’s clearly a separate ai-generated voiceover telling you “you can get thousands of dollars now if you do this one thing.”

I’ve seen the same style of ad nearly every day for the last month. The celebrity changes every time I see it and has had so many people. Oprah, The Rock, Steve Harvey, Joe Biden, etc.

I’ve reported the ads every time. They are always different companies from different countries. If YouTube is doing anything about it- it isn’t working.

And then YouTube is trying to stop me from blocking these ads? They can try. But I refuse to pay for premium.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by asfdgionio »

smashah wrote: post #8

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is fair game - much better than their previously scummy tactic of sending legal threats to the stellar team at invidious. Thirdly, adversarial interoperability is a human digital right. Fourthly, g…

>Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it.

One of the reasons I block advertising is that I think it works. I'm only human. I can be deceived and I can be manipulated. I don't see any reason to give people the opportunity to hurt me.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by kazinator »

smashah wrote: post #8

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is fair game - much better than their previously scummy tactic of sending legal threats to the stellar team at invidious. Thirdly, adversarial interoperability is a human digital right. Fourthly, g…

> I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube.

That user is using YouTube resources, without being of benefit to YouTube.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by robblbobbl »

Forcing the playing of ads like this is really bad for all users and results in a viewer decline in the long term. Maybe you should look for/shift to alternatives like dailymotion or vimeo. Even projects like github.com/teampiped/piped (privacy friendly yt frontend) getting heavily throttled now. Shameless move.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by monsieurUK »

Erratic6576 wrote: post #18
monsieurUK wrote: post #16

I hate youtube, haven't used it since 2015 and screw google and youtube users are brainwashed and full of **

There are a handful of amazing Creators, praised be

I wouldn't call them amazing, they're people who decided to give part of themselves to the evil corpo google/satan/freemasons/jewish cult, name it anything you want.

Re: YouTube is trying to block Invidious

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

kazinator wrote: post #14
smashah wrote: post #8

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is fair game - much better than their previously scummy tactic of sending legal threats to the stellar team at invidious. Thirdly, adversarial interoperability is a human digital right. Fourthly, g…

> I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube. That user is using YouTube resources, without being of benefit to YouTube.

They still are a benefit to YT in that they’re strengthening YT’s network effects and not helping a fledgling competitor hit a critical mass of videos, comments and viewership.

MS and Adobe had similar logic for not going after piracy very hard in certain markets. They wanted users on their platform, even when they couldn’t get them all to pay.

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