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Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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And by "community" they mean business model.

Where and how do the content creators fit into this?

Presumably many would choose to block Invidious, and many would not. It sounds like none of them get a choice in the matter, which is why it's not crazy to question whether community is used as a euphemism in this case.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

#32
post #21

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you still get the baked-in ads, and I get weird ads when watching video embedded in other websites.

SponsorBlock generally works well for auto-skipping the baked-in ads, but of course only works on the website, not in the YT app.

Revanced has a patch that makes sponsor block work on the android app.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Maybe they should focus on improving their frontend They have. Do you know how many ads they can stuff into people's faces now? Youtube is unbearable without ablock. If there are people who are able to watch it like that, then it shows just how long you can boil the proverbial frog.

Paying for YT premium is even better. No ads and you support the content creators

You also support a shitty advertising business model.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

#36

One day all your online accounts could be blocked with the message: Your account is blocked. This helps protecting the community. In my case this kinda happened with most social networks on which my accounts are suspended. Yes my opinion is not default. But thats the issue.

Yeah, welcome to cloud feudalism (not a concept I invented). Just like the a serf in feudal lordships of old times, the lord can decide anything and you have to suffer the consequences. Maybe if you scream loud enough they'll hear you, but the castle decides, the henchmen execute and they don't listen to your protests.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most creators only have a small percentage of revenue from ads. A lot of the creators I like are demonetized anyways. Superchats and paid comments are way more lucrative than ads. Google is in the malvertising business. Creators are not.

this is just not true, even the huge creators mention that it's usually 30-50% of their revenue.

This is likely skewed by the creators I follow. I imagine there's a lot of youtube poop child audience content that's near 100% ad revenue.

Personally speaking, if low quality "creators" suffer I won't feel bad.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

#38
post #27

I use individious because the current youtube frontend is bloated and slow on firefox. Maybe they should focus on improving their frontend instead of blocking frontends that other people prefer.

I’ve been using Firefox for maybe 15 years. It has always been great. But in the past year or so, I’m finding that more and more web experiences are buggy and slow in Firefox, which is really frustrating. I don’t know if it’s that developers don’t do sufficient QA testing in Firefox, or the creators of Firefox have fallen behind. Either way it doesn’t bode well. I’m being forced to reach for Chrome more and more just…

Firefox has a built in mechanism for reporting issues to https://webcompat.com

>People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about.

Issue search: https://webcompat.com/issues

https://webcompat.com/issues?q=youtube

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