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Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Re: Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Post by kccqzy »

NietTim wrote: post #97
francislavoie wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Premium actually gives more money to creators you watch on YouTube than ads do. It's win-win IMO. Save yourself time, give them more money. Also comes with YouTube Music which is quite good (arguably worse than Google Play Music was but eh)

How much do creators actually get from premium subscriptions? All you're doing is repeating some empty marketing mumbo jumbo. I've never heard a creator say anything about the "youtube premium" income they've gotten, pretty sure it's not even broken down that way for them and google being able to bundle in a music streaming service just further affirms to me that they do not need my money. I'd much rather directly su…

> pretty sure it's not even broken down that way

That's false.

I'm not a creator but a while ago there was this creator who was widely applauded on HN for their transparency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34225192 Scroll down a bit and you can see Google shows that they made $27,099.86 from YouTube premium.

Re: Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Post by epgui »

neoneye2 wrote: post #107

If one were to make the ideal alternative to YouTube. What should the specs be like?

Here’s a crazy idea… I don’t want to give any money to Google, but I would happily pay double the amount in taxes to get public infrastructure of comparable quality.

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Post by mvdtnz »

Diti wrote: post #165
mvdtnz wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mate if you get so much value from YouTube that you'll jump through these hoops just to use it without ads, why not just subscribe to premium? Personally it's by far my most bang-for-buck service.

I don’t know about OP, but, personally, the reason I don’t subscribe to premium is because they get aggressive on ads on purpose (waves of unskippable ads followed by a YouTube Premium subscription request the day after), which I believe is a dark pattern. I would have been okay with paying for a subscription if it was to support the website or its creators – but I take manipulation attempts very badly.

Premium does support creators. Views from premium subscribers are worth significantly more than views from freeloaders.

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Post by travoc »

acdha wrote: post #160
basilgohar wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying for your own Internet, accessing something publicly accessible, and downloading your preferred subset of bits of what's available on your own hardware is not stealing. Compelling my own property to behave against my wishes is the moral failing.

YouTube is not publicly accessible: they offer it under specific terms, namely that you watch ads or pay directly. If you don’t want to accept that deal you don’t have any more right to use their private property than you do to complain that the local movie theater wouldn’t let you sneak in when you didn’t like their ticket prices.

YouTube has no problem serving content to my yt-dlp client without ads, payment, authentication or terms of service.

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Post by jamiequint »

Freebytes wrote: post #157
kennyadam wrote: post #143

Please pay for YouTube Premium if you can afford it and watch a lot of videos. It's not cheap to stream and store the insane amounts of data they handle and I think it's a genuinely fair price. If everyone just constantly tries to circumvent YouTube's evolving adblock-detection methods, at some point YouTube is going to do something drastic. There's no way of knowing what they might resort to, but usually efforts to…

Making someone watch 5 to 8 advertisements to see a 2 minute video is already drastic.

So pay if you hate it so much. Do you think people make the content for free?

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Post by kccqzy »

askiiart wrote: post #96
alsodumb wrote: post #73

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How about you stop using YouTube? Getting annoyed by ads is understandable, but server space isn't free.

While I understand your point, I still wouldn't give money to a company with such privacy violations. If YouTube had a subscription option where YouTube only used my watch history to improve my suggestions, then I'd gladly pay a subscription for it. But in its current form, I either give money to Alphabet while they continue to track me and sell my data to advertisers, or I just block the ads myself to avoid giving t…

Google doesn't sell your data to advertisers.

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Post by hexfish »

Arch485 wrote: post #148
_huayra_ wrote: post #14

Maybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :( After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this! In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one…

The "only 3 more videos" thing is easy to get around (at least it was for me): Turn your adblocker off, and watch YouTube until an ad plays. Then, turn your adblocker back on. I don't even get the anti-ad blocker popups anymore.

Disable 'auto play next video'

Re: Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Post by jamiequint »

NietTim wrote: post #159
Grazester wrote: post #105

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Aren't you entitled!

Principled.

What's the principle? I should get anything I want for free as long as I can get away with it? I shouldn't have to pay for anything if I don't want to?

Genuinely curious what the principled argument is here.

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Post by electrondood »

alexlur wrote: post #172
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #68

Gorhill (uBO's developer) is in the comment section urging people to not use these types of unverified fixes: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991

For people who don’t want to open Twitter: > These filters have been obsolete since a long time, no content blockers is using these. They are just being spread by non-official sources since at least last June

Appreciate ya.

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Post by Gloomily3819 »

francislavoie wrote: post #56
NietTim wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if it was 10 cents in some other country, I'll never pay a single cent to google, they don't need and most of all don't deserve my money.

Premium actually gives more money to creators you watch on YouTube than ads do. It's win-win IMO. Save yourself time, give them more money. Also comes with YouTube Music which is quite good (arguably worse than Google Play Music was but eh)

My problem with it it's that demonetized channels don't get money from premium viewers. If a creator gets demonetized because of advertisers guideline, why go out of your way to punish him by removing premium monetization as well?
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