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

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Post by kemayo »

gruez wrote: post #139
unshavedyak wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's somewhat defendable when youtube doesn't give you an option to pay for what you'd be "stealing". Overall i agree with you, but lets not pretend that Youtube doesn't feel exploitative in the corporate behavior here. Especially considering the data they're stealing from me, harvesting and selling, etc. Ie show me the ads i'm missing, and let me pay for the view. It would be what, $3|5|7/m or w/e in value?…

>I think it's somewhat defendable when youtube doesn't give you an option to pay for what you'd be "stealing". https://www.youtube.com/premium

Not the person you're responding to, but from how they phrased it I suspect they'd be annoyed that they're having to pay for YouTube Music as part of Premium.

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Post by kemayo »

bombcar wrote: post #229
epgui wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Costco decided they wanted to make a profit on their 1.50$ hot dogs and cranked the price up to 3$, they would lose a ton of goodwill and many of their loyal customers would be upset. Google isn’t exactly struggling to make ends meet. They seem perfectly okay to be losing money on search. YouTube is no different.

The hot dogs are getting more and more noticeable as everything else there seems majorly overpriced. $10 for some half sandwich?

It's a tangent, but that $10 roast beef sandwich is gigantic. I was surprised when they rolled out such an expensive food court item, and so I bought it, and I couldn't finish it. I took half of it home to eat later. I am not a light eater.

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Post by mmebane »

cyral wrote: post #248
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

The official/default list doesn’t block these though, so we are not supposed to make use of the user defined filters for now?

The authors of the default filter lists definitely try and block these - the biggest problems seem to be YouTube changing things faster than the default filter lists normally auto-update, or other filters/extensions conflicting. Ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...

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Post by quickthrower2 »

The real adblocker is people uploading their videos to s3 (or s3 compatible) in the first place :-)

Youtube was revolutionary when it came out but now it doesn’t offer much other than discoverablity. Since you need to work hard to be discovered anyway you can do that via X (etc.)

Just need some people to make the tools so average jo can do it.

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Post by mindslight »

paddim8 wrote: post #101
alwayslikethis wrote: post #43

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At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further

Honestly, I don't think preventing ad blockers is abusive. Hosting videos for free is simply not sustainable. It does not work. We aren't entitled to getting everything on the internet for free.

Then why did Youtube/Google start hosting videos for free? And continue to do so for so long, if it was "unsustainable" ? That was the deal they offered, and that people bought into. Now that they've achieved the soft lock in of network effects, we should accept them completely altering those terms? In the antitrust sense, this is called dumping.

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Post by harimau777 »

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.

Personally, my biggest issue with YouTube ads are how many of them are for transphobic propaganda. Paying for premium would just be rewarding them for profiting from hate speech.

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Post by copperx »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #247
LtWorf wrote: post #241

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Most creators have to get sponsors because youtube is very unreliable with what can be monetized, what can't, unblocking stuff after fake reports and so on.

Regardless, YouTube Premium puts way more money in creators' pockets than ads and is more reliable.

If that is so, YouTube should incentivize creators to promote YouTube premium instead of them having to advertise for dubious VPN services.

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Post by philsnow »

SteveNuts wrote: post #31
_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…

I'm pretty sure pihole doesn't block YouTube ads, they seem to be served server side but I could be wrong

Paramount+ on apple tv just crashes immediately for me (before even the profile picker) when I have the apple tv using my pi-hole as its dns server.

It’s not even the biggest reason why PP is my least favorite streaming platform, since I have a workaround (cast from phone, which for some reason works).

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Post by TerrifiedMouse »

nodja wrote: post #220
TerrifiedMouse wrote: post #121

I think the only "happy ending for everyone" if Google is going to ban ad-blockers for YouTube is if they make the ads less annoying. What makes YouTube's ads annoying: - the number of them 2 ads at the start is way too much. 1 max. Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled. - the ads they choose to show Google showing me the same few very annoying (to me) ads and gives me no option to avoid those spec…

> Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled. They are, sort of. As a content creator you pick the position for the ads, but it doesn't mean they'll pop up there for everyone, there's only a chance they'll show up there. For example you could put mid-roll ads every minute, but youtube will only pick one of those positions so the viewer only sees an ad every 10 minutes or so, the real "cooldown time" dep…

As long as ads don't show up at inopportune times and break the flow of the video.

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Post by swayvil »

olegious wrote: post #231
inetknght wrote: post #213

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The only happy ending for everyone is zero ads.

Then subscribe and pay for the service. One way or another someone has to pay for the content.

We could always just nationalize it. It qualifies as a public service.
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