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Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by priced_in »

lynx97 wrote: post #19
otikik wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well not a lot of people are good at self-defense either.

Thats pretty much my point. Imagine politicians going "The world is insecure, we can't do anything about it, please attend a self-defense course to fix it yourself."

Well... You might find this read interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Sta...

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by pil0u »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #2

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

I have uBlock Origin on FF, just this morning it stopped working on YouTube. YouTube now tells me I am allowed for 3 videos because I'm adblocking them.

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Post by dbspin »

throwaway290 wrote: post #21
saubeidl wrote: post #10

Ads are psychological warfare. Adblock is digital self-defence.

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Modern advertising was invented by Edward Bernays in his book 'Propaganda'. It is literally and specifically designed to manipulate beliefs and behaviour. Broadcast TV was created as content to package advertising, not the other way around. The social impact of advertising is enormous - primarily in reenforcing the helplessness and delusion of inevitably around disengaged consumer capitalism that Mark Fisher referred to as Capitalist Realism. It's pure, constant, unending manipulation - in public spaces, in private spaces embedded in in every drop of media in both explicit and disguised forms. It negates our ability to trust one another and what we see and read. It makes the worst and least democratic aspects of modernity seem eternal and unchangeable. It creates awful incentives and enforces disingenuousness. Advertising is a psychic poison.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by worble »

pil0u wrote: post #23
_Algernon_ wrote: post #2

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

I have uBlock Origin on FF, just this morning it stopped working on YouTube. YouTube now tells me I am allowed for 3 videos because I'm adblocking them.

Nearly every time I see this, it's because people have other addons colliding which cause issues.

You only need uBlock origin; get rid of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, adblock for youtube or any of that other stuff. Other extensions can cause uBlock to not work correctly.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#all-pro...

> Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by throwaway290 »

dbspin wrote: post #24
throwaway290 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Modern advertising was invented by Edward Bernays in his book 'Propaganda'. It is literally and specifically designed to manipulate beliefs and behaviour. Broadcast TV was created as content to package advertising, not the other way around. The social impact of advertising is enormous - primarily in reenforcing the helplessness and delusion of inevitably around disengaged consumer capitalism that Mark Fisher referred…

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Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by planb »

> Besides a non-ad-free experience, the $7.99 Premium Lite subscription also removed several other cool features like the ability to download videos for offline viewing and background play, which can be quite convenient for listening to music on the app. Speaking of music, YouTube Premium Lite also does not include access to YouTube Music.

So what's the deal here? $8 for "less ads but none of the premium features"? I'd understand "no ads but none of the premium features" but even for that it would be quite expensive. Who on earth is the target group for this plan?

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Post by viraptor »

saubeidl wrote: post #14
lynx97 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The solution is making adblockers more user-friendly, not making them illegal. Ads are categorically bad, it's not just about being "fraudulent". Their stated purpose is to manipulate people to buy things - things they didn't intend to buy before, wasting their money and our planets limited resources.

Not even just buy specific products. There are massive campaigns to support whole industries which should've failed a long time ago. Every time Climate Town digs into the history of something like this https://youtu.be/NQiLly6Z1xs it makes me angry about the advertisement as a profitable business.
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