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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 gs17 »

Triphibian wrote: post #192
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.

Content on YouTube is shaped by the incentives Google sets on the platform. So what we get, mostly, is junk that best sells ads, best gets clicks, eyes, attention etc. etc. Just like TV was before pay cable came along. Notice how TV got better when you just paid HBO to show you good shows? Paying Google to watch YouTube without ads is like paying ABC to watch The Bachelor without ads. The content is still trash.

I think they used to (or maybe still do?) have Premium-only content. But it's no one's motivation to pay up.

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Post by russh »

huytersd wrote: post #225
nickthegreek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe this is what you are looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749 But I also recommend purchasing YouTube Premium if you watch a decent amount. I find it to be a great value.

It costs too much. I wish they would unbundle it from that music service.

Exactly, I used to subscribe to premium but it’s not worth the price just to avoid ads and I have no use for the rest of the stuff they bundle into premium to justify the price.

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Post by raydiatian »

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

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991

Fixed it for you.

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Post by heavyset_go »

LtWorf wrote: post #243
heavyset_go wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't care if Google is sustainable in the long term or not, just like they don't care if they serve me malicious content and malware via their ad networks, or take money, and show me ads, from groups that want people like me dead.

In my area they started to put ads to meet hot russian women in youtube. I reported and they said it's supposed to stay there.

We're back to 2002-style ads about meeting hot singles in your town, where you can get free "natural" Viagra, and content taken directly from weird political chain letters that are written by people who, while barely literate, are loud and opinionated.

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Post by somsak2 »

ed_mercer wrote: post #230
spullara wrote: post #195

They have an ad free subscription. You should probably do that instead of leeching.

Leeching implies that there is party that is being inflicted damage. Alphabet makes $60B profit a year.

The party that is being inflicted damage are the creators who don't make any money from producing content for you.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

gruez wrote: post #13
sneak wrote: post #11

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Paying the ad company is not a good way to get to a place where there are fewer ads.

"a place where there are fewer ads" requires some alternate form of monetization. If "paying for it" isn't acceptable to you, what's left?

Let content creators figure that out with their audiences. YouTube should just be a batteries included public video hosting service, with video creators as the customer. Creators with video views passing a threshold would need to pay google or have their videos downgraded to 240p, then temporarily disabled if they continued not to pay. Users would get some amount of space and bandwidth as part of a free tier to help them get started. It'd be like AWS but for video content creators, instead of like a shitty cable network.

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Post by solardev »

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

Elon should hire this person. Way more usable and informative than Twitter.

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Post by emodendroket »

mvdtnz wrote: post #92
_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…

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 could probably be convinced to pull the trigger for ten bucks a month. For $15 it feels like I should put up with the ads.

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Post by somsak2 »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #27

And the chase begins. I pay for premium so this won't affect me, but it's always interesting seeing the efforts even a trillion dollar company has to go through to fight against a relative few very determined "hackers" underground.

It's not really a relative few, most estimates place ad blocking usage among web users between 25-45%. Since YT is somewhere around 10% of overall Google revenue, you're looking at up to a 5% increase in total revenue just based off of this, with basically ~all of that flowing into profit since there's not much cost. Pretty huge.

https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/

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Post by russh »

jamiequint wrote: post #185
Freebytes wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, yes most do.
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