Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox

Post by samstave » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

aosaigh wrote: post #16

On a related note, I cannot believe how many ads YT are showing nowadays. I know the word “unuseable” is thrown around a lot but its really become that way for me. I got 5 ads in the first 3 minutes of a video yesterday. I know people say “just pay for it” but I don’t think that the alternative to not paying should be ads every minutes. My usage has gone way down recently as a result. I use an adblocker on desktop bu…

Post by Darmody » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 9:52 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #31

aosaigh wrote: post #16

On a related note, I cannot believe how many ads YT are showing nowadays. I know the word “unuseable” is thrown around a lot but its really become that way for me. I got 5 ads in the first 3 minutes of a video yesterday. I know people say “just pay for it” but I don’t think that the alternative to not paying should be ads every minutes. My usage has gone way down recently as a result. I use an adblocker on desktop bu…

It's even worse on long form pods, YT will stick in multiple ads, which themselves become long. YT is an actual joke these days, completely lame to use on Android. If you have logged into Amazon prime recently you can see bars and bars and bars of "rent or buy or subscribe" content, to the point I hate even looking at the site. I'm paying for Amazon prime, what happened to simply "free to me" listings based on the fa…

Post by Pigalowda » Sun, Sep 03, 2023, 3:27 AM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #20

spoiler wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am always a bit conflicted when I see posts like theses. On one hand I also like free stuff, but on the other hand I also know running services like these costs money (and I'm not only talking about digital/IT resources). Everyone has an idea of what they'd do, but nobody can agree on one. So, I guess the easy defaults are ads+premium, or a completely walled garden?

I'm not conflicted because no amount of $10 subscriptions will be enough for them to survive independently without being docked to the Google mothership. Proof: YT Premium costs $14/mo. now. Would anyone say there's been a 40% improvement in the quality of the product?

Post by mvdwoord » Sun, Sep 03, 2023, 2:34 PM UTC

Kibae wrote: post #4

mrandish wrote: post #3

FF 117 on Win10 x64 with latest UBlock Origin. YouTube is still working for me. The Reddit thread you linked has some posts with things to try.

Yup. This[0] comment seemed to do the trick. https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_...

Post by Glome495 » Sun, Sep 03, 2023, 5:15 PM UTC

Darmody wrote: post #33

samstave wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even worse on long form pods, YT will stick in multiple ads, which themselves become long. YT is an actual joke these days, completely lame to use on Android. If you have logged into Amazon prime recently you can see bars and bars and bars of "rent or buy or subscribe" content, to the point I hate even looking at the site. I'm paying for Amazon prime, what happened to simply "free to me" listings based on the fa…

On Android you have NewPipe for video and ViMusic/Blackhole for audio only. You have to install the .apk manually or from f-droid, but they work like a charm.