I've had the same ad-blocker for ages, and I wasn't receiving any of the YT anti-ad block popups until today. Interestingly, today was when I switched my default search engine in Chrome from Google to Kagi. I have to wonder if there is some kind of evaluation of what Google-y things you use for whether the ad-block popup occurs or not.
Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Up until they notice and decide to call the police.
I use an adblocker, call the police and tell them I told you so.
If you found people who make a habit of swimming in your pool without permission then I imagine you'd be the one calling the police.
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#283I've had the same ad-blocker for ages, and I wasn't receiving any of the YT anti-ad block popups until today. Interestingly, today was when I switched my default search engine in Chrome from Google to Kagi. I have to wonder if there is some kind of evaluation of what Google-y things you use for whether the ad-block popup occurs or not.
Someone I know had this coming up in youtube today as well. I previously recommended them adblockers, now I recommended invidio.us
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#284The 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.
Just get an FTP account and mount it locally with curlftpfs...
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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…
Can you imagine some small time Roblox Youtuber blowing up and ending up with a sudden bandwidth bill in the hundreds of thousands? Popups with "this month's watch count has been reached, please ask @contentcreator to pay for more views"? Making uploaders pay would absolutely destroy the platform.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure pihole doesn't block YouTube ads, they seem to be served server side but I could be wrong
Youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp, the non-dead version) will ignore the ads.
yeah but how do you setup a one-stop-shop solution to download the new videos from channels you follow?
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe we don't want the business models of data hoarding multibillion dollar corporations to be sustainable. Maybe there are good alternatives that don't rely so much on exploitative practices. Just a thought.
Those are great reasons not to use YouTube. If you’re worried about data mining, your ad blocker has no effect there – you have to stop using YouTube if that bothers you.
What if I considered it a moral imperative to financially damage FAANG companies in any way I can? What if I was fine paying money each month as long as it went towards harming Youtube?
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#288Re: Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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?
We had the "old" internet and we had ads... a text banner here and there, and then an image or maybe a gif banner on the other side. Noone really cared, sites got ad views, users got content. Then ads moved to flash (security issues), popups, popups when you close the first popup, video was added, with sounds, two banners became 20, fixed location floating divs were added, and in the case of youtube, a 3 minute video…
The "old" internet was full of people fighting hot linking because a JPEG being embedded on a popular forum took down your website for a considerable time.
Then the internet ran on an investor bubble that let companies serve content at a loss in hopes of a future acquisition.
Now ads are proving to be the only reliable way to get income out of videos. There are affordable options out there, but because these services were once free everybody feels like they're entitled to free hosting and media.
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#290I like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?
How much from youtube premium goes to creators?