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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by crazygringo »

danpalmer wrote: post #52

What's the point being made in this article? That TVs have lower information density than desktop browsers? Like, yeah, obviously. That if you don't sign in to YouTube and don't pay to remove the ads, that you'll get prompted to sign in and you'll see ads? That doesn't seem particularly problematic. Sure it's mildly funny that a funny projection is true in a very contrived way, but it doesn't really stand up to any c…

> Sure it's mildly funny that a funny projection is true in a very contrived way

I think you got it -- that's the point right there, nothing more...

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by da02 »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #33
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

YouTube hasn't been working for me past two weeks with uBlock Origin. Video doesn't play.

Have you tried "uBlock Origin Lite"? It is by the same author, Raymond Hill (gorhill). It has been working fine. I use "optimal" level for the filtering mode. (Note: I use Chromium on Linux)

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by locao »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #18
7373737373 wrote: post #8

Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default and impossible to disable also needs to be fired

I agree. But for the benefit of other people struggling, I haven't found a way to disable them as a user setting, but you can at least turn them off on a per-video basis by changing the video language in the playback settings (the little gear icon).

There's no little great in embedded videos or, at least, my local newspaper actively disables it.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by mattacular »

danpalmer wrote: post #36
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.) It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.

I do pay for YouTube Premium, I see no ads, and everything works pretty conveniently. What's your point, that with a bit of extra effort you can pirate content?

I pay for YouTube Premium too (probably not much longer) but can only 'comfortably' use the site through a series of increasingly hacky extensions for Firefox. On non-web apps, there is no recourse from the UI enshittification.

The general theme is the same as the article: less real estate dedicated to actual videos you might want to watch. There were two rows of completely useless garbage that I had to add to my uBlock Origin filter just now: one for Shorts (which I have blocked in the past) and a new one for some sort of Youtube Games thing (?) that looked like the worst AI generated slop you'd never want to play.

If this is the premium experience then I don't want it.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by tonyhart7 »

tcfhgj wrote: post #40
danpalmer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do pay for YouTube Premium, I see no ads, and everything works pretty conveniently. What's your point, that with a bit of extra effort you can pirate content?

Blocking ads is hardly "pirating" content

its pirating content in a way that you dont generate revenue for youtuber that expect from ads

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by akersten »

crazygringo wrote: post #58
tcfhgj wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking ads is hardly "pirating" content

I don't really see what the difference is. They're not getting the payment for the video either way. Morally I don't see how they aren't equivalent. I'm not going to stand on a high horse saying you shouldn't do either, but I don't really see how you can pretend one is less harmful to creators than the other, in terms of the basic principles involved.

> the payment for the video either way.

"the payment for the video" as if it's a given that my ad impression is required for me to watch some video that they made available to me on their website for free.

Morally, YouTube shows the most heinous and scummy ads 24/7 on their platform and fails to take them down when reported. Gambling, AI sex games, "cure what doctors miss" ads for human use of Ivermectin - it's your moral duty to block them.

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Post by daemonologist »

delichon wrote: post #47

> maybe our mandatory NeuraLinks are coming sooner than I thought. The founder of NeuraLink has recently proposed to deploy sentient robots to watch criminals, removing the need for incarceration. There is a lot of synergy possible here with mandatory neural links. The bot could not only watch us but also press our buttons. "Criminal", being such a flexible concept, should pose little problem to globalizing this para…

Ah yes, the Culture solution (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.books.iain-banks/c/nbW7GxRQ6...). (Always seemed rather cruel to the drone, to me.)

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by climb_stealth »

7373737373 wrote: post #8

Whoever made automatic AI dubs a default and impossible to disable also needs to be fired

Hold on, there is a setting to switch to original audio. Just click the cog wheel on the video.

The outrage over this seems completely overblown. Do people not see the setting to switch audio?

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Post by komali2 »

danpalmer wrote: post #59
tcfhgj wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking ads is hardly "pirating" content

To be clear, this is not a value judgement. I pirate content sometimes, and I use adblockers, but ad blocking is definitely piracy – you're circumventing the method of paying for content. I realise that online ads have other implications such as tracking that, say, a blu-ray rip downloaded from a torrent doesn't have, but the reason for piracy doesn't change the fact that it is.

> but ad blocking is definitely piracy

This is a huge escalation of an already over-stuffed term.

Equating piracy to theft was bad enough, now choosing to not view ads is also piracy, which is theft?

I try to be chill here but no, foot down, absolutely not. Blocking ads is nothing more than determing what content comes in on the wire to the computer you own, or what content is rendered in your web browser. That's it. If that means someone isn't making money when they could be, well, too bad so sad.

It's like, "if you walk past a Nike store without pausing to hear the sales pitch, you are stealing from Nike." Capitalist hellscape.

Re: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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Post by [deleted] »

crazygringo wrote: post #58
tcfhgj wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking ads is hardly "pirating" content

I don't really see what the difference is. They're not getting the payment for the video either way. Morally I don't see how they aren't equivalent. I'm not going to stand on a high horse saying you shouldn't do either, but I don't really see how you can pretend one is less harmful to creators than the other, in terms of the basic principles involved.

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