There's many other platforms serving video. Youtube highly constraints their content, in the same way Google does, in ways that often don't align with my searches
More and more I end up using other platforms like Rumble or Rutube
YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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#212My Browser My Rights. I don't allow ads because no matter how good you are, someone will figure out how to get malware into ads. Once a system is compromised, best to burn it and start over. And now there are UEFI viruses that can reinstall malware even after the OS is wiped. And then there is the recent Gigabyte Motherboard discovery they were loading EXEs silently without approval. So no, I will not lower my protec…
I mean that's totally within your rights, but it's also within their rights to be like, ok no ads, no free service.
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#213so if you're not logged in: clear cookies and resume?
that'll take what, 5 minutes to be added to the ad blocker extension
Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
#214My Browser My Rights. I don't allow ads because no matter how good you are, someone will figure out how to get malware into ads. Once a system is compromised, best to burn it and start over. And now there are UEFI viruses that can reinstall malware even after the OS is wiped. And then there is the recent Gigabyte Motherboard discovery they were loading EXEs silently without approval. So no, I will not lower my protec…
I don't think anyone is disputing that? Google isn't saying, for example, that you're violating CFAA or DMCA by blocking ads. They're just saying they're going to block you. That's their right.
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#215You know, if YouTube wouldn't insist on absolutely annoying the living shit out of me with unskippable, bad, long, and frequent ads I wouldn't mind that much. But YouTube with ads is one of the worst things there are.
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#216I don't have a Youtube/Google account and I don't use any of their apps, so how are they going to block me, go for my IP address? I don't see a reason to have an account, RSS works just fine for subscriptions.
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#217This is very bad: If you have ADHD ad-blockers are essential to use platforms like YouTube as they let you block comment sections and suggested content, which are highly distracting.
Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
#218Large companies have become money sucking dinosaurs. Much like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft of the 90s. Can't wait to see some competition eating them.
> Can't wait to see some competition eating them.
We let them get too big. Nowadays they just buy the competition in the cradle, even if just to drive nascent products into the ground.
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#219I already have backed off of youtube so much because of how awful they have made the experience, this will be it for me entirely if they implement this.
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#220The greedy bastards won't even pay taxes. If there was a good alternative I would switch in a heartbeat.
I am happy to pay content creators, but paying $12 or $18 per month just so they disable some anti-patterns really rubs me the wrong way.