YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Post by dmd » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #174

ddtaylor wrote: post #143

I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.

You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?

Post by betenoire » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

dmd wrote: post #181

paulcole wrote: post #174

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You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?

Except they want it both ways. I tried Youtube Premium for a few months. Slowly but surely the ads came back, so back to blocking and not paying I went.

Post by nickff » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC

absurdo wrote: post #4

I was wondering when buffering was going to be a thing. I’ve been seeing it on YT and figured it’s the Adblock wars getting heated up. The next step is to scrape the videos, strip the ads, store them on a torrent magnet and serve that instead. Yes it would have to be from a shady RU or CN or NK or IN site. I’m fine with that.

Post by sidrag22 » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:48 AM UTC

frollogaston wrote: post #168

sidrag22 wrote: post #160

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its creating a problem and selling the solution to that problem. im surprised there isnt more of a distaste for youtube out there for just their overall product... ads aside. One of the better things ive done for myself this past year is remove the right sidebar as well as almost all of the homepage. my youtube homepage is just that left sidebar, which has dots if a new video for one of the channels i care about uplo…

They created the product before creating the problem

Post by HDThoreaun » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:49 AM UTC

rafram wrote: post #60

ndriscoll wrote: post #45

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A family plan says it's $23/month. That's well over the cost of a 3 lb tin from Costco ($18.69 by me), which is several weeks if not a month of cold brew.

We're kind of getting off track here, but a 3-lb tin of preground coffee is not going to taste very good by the time you finish it, if it ever tastes good at all. It's pretty likely to be low-quality and stale before you even pull it off the shelf.