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Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by eviks »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #45
eviks wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, especially if you ignore all the risks - does that solution you googled in 5 seconds steal your data after 5 clicks - it is easy

The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store? What's Google got to do with that?

I wasn't talking about your personal case where a tiny browser is relevant, but a huge search engine isn't (this is the same mistake that led you to believe it's trivially easy), but about the "non-elitist" general public

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by eviks »

HenryBemis wrote: post #20
lynx97 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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To paraphrase the words of the lady in the political scene: "keep your filthy hands off my computer." I will run on my PC whatever I want and you don't dictate it I want to run adblockers or not. I don't think anyone minds the ads. I think we all mind the tracking, data brokers, and that OUR data and OUR profile are mishandled by a bunch of greedy thugs. So yeah, cat and mouse till the end of time. I don't know about…

It's the opposite, ads are what everyone sees with their own eyes and wants to remove since they interrupt consumption. All the tracking is something a small % is even aware of.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by AndrewDucker »

eviks wrote: post #51
AndrewDucker wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store? What's Google got to do with that?

I wasn't talking about your personal case where a tiny browser is relevant, but a huge search engine isn't (this is the same mistake that led you to believe it's trivially easy), but about the "non-elitist" general public

It's just as easy in Chrome.

And over 30% of the population use an ad blocker. So clearly not as hard as all that.

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

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by pil0u »

worble wrote: post #25
pil0u wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have uBlock Origin on FF, just this morning it stopped working on YouTube. YouTube now tells me I am allowed for 3 videos because I'm adblocking them.

Nearly every time I see this, it's because people have other addons colliding which cause issues. You only need uBlock origin; get rid of Ghostery, Privacy Badger, adblock for youtube or any of that other stuff. Other extensions can cause uBlock to not work correctly. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock?tab=readme-ov-file#all-pro... > Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than…

For the record, I don't have any other adblocker and have not for years since I actually had a clash with Privacy Badger in the past.

No, this is new.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by captain_coffee »

HenryBemis wrote: post #20
lynx97 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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To paraphrase the words of the lady in the political scene: "keep your filthy hands off my computer." I will run on my PC whatever I want and you don't dictate it I want to run adblockers or not. I don't think anyone minds the ads. I think we all mind the tracking, data brokers, and that OUR data and OUR profile are mishandled by a bunch of greedy thugs. So yeah, cat and mouse till the end of time. I don't know about…

Ah no - literally everyone absolutely *DOES* mind the ads, let's get this clear. Not sure if you're trolling or not.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by throw_m239339 »

globular-toast wrote: post #5

Cue shocked Pikachu... Look, people are greedy. YouTube evidently works and is enormously profitable. As is the rest of the copyright industry. It didn't disappear once people had the power to make their own copies. If anything the industry has become more profitable and more powerful. None of this is about survival, it's about greed. If you give people the power to take more they will take it, every single time. The…

> If you want it to stop then we need AGPL software and a decentralised internet. We are in a local optimum so it will seem worse at first before it gets better.

But we already have a decentralized internet, it's just that most people will go for convenience rather of freedom...

Furthermore, some people here keep claiming that they are willing to pay for ad-less services, yet learned nothing from cable TV... even paid streaming services have ads...

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by prmoustache »

Most youtube content is made of ads anyway.

It is baffling to me that people would pay to access it: the viewer is the product that is sold, not the youtube content. This is merely a bait. Content creator's customer's are the brands that want to be advertized.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by EspadaV9 »

saubeidl wrote: post #34

If you're on desktop, use ublock origin and sponsor block. If you're on Android, use tubular ( https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ). It has no ads, built-in sponsor block and allows you to download videos and play them in the background for music. If you're on Android TV, use Smart Tube ( https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube ). It basically has the same features as above, but with a TV-friendly UI. If you'r…

How does Tubular compare to PipePipe (https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe). Both seem to be forks of NewPipe + SponsorBlock, but PipePipe seems like it might be a bit more active.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by lynx97 »

viraptor wrote: post #30
saubeidl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is making adblockers more user-friendly, not making them illegal. Ads are categorically bad, it's not just about being "fraudulent". Their stated purpose is to manipulate people to buy things - things they didn't intend to buy before, wasting their money and our planets limited resources.

Not even just buy specific products. There are massive campaigns to support whole industries which should've failed a long time ago. Every time Climate Town digs into the history of something like this https://youtu.be/NQiLly6Z1xs it makes me angry about the advertisement as a profitable business.

Dairy industry going for school kids isn't really US specific. We have the same weird stuff here in the middle of Europe. It used to be worse in the 80s, but the milk industry is still strong with ads and lobbying. I still remember noticing the contradiction as a child. "School milk" ads at the same time as my first biology teacher explained to us that cow milk isn't really a good idea. Those are the small moments where you learn, as a kid already, that the world is full of manipulation and dishonesty. One of the thausand cuts that tells you "public" society can't really be trusted.

Re: Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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Post by saubeidl »

EspadaV9 wrote: post #58
saubeidl wrote: post #34

If you're on desktop, use ublock origin and sponsor block. If you're on Android, use tubular ( https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ). It has no ads, built-in sponsor block and allows you to download videos and play them in the background for music. If you're on Android TV, use Smart Tube ( https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube ). It basically has the same features as above, but with a TV-friendly UI. If you'r…

How does Tubular compare to PipePipe ( https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe ). Both seem to be forks of NewPipe + SponsorBlock, but PipePipe seems like it might be a bit more active.

I'm not sure, to be honest. Haven't heard of PipePipe before!
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