YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”
which is a hilarious threat because the #1 way to make my viewing experience worse would be turning off my ad blocker, lmao
“if you don’t voluntarily make your experience 10x worse, we will make it 2x worse”
Ads have reached the level of “suboptimal viewing”.
I think my viewing experience will be even worse if I turn off my ad blocker.
Youtube advertising is absolute trash. It’s already bad enough to sit through ads when you don’t even know if you want to watch the video. Their ads consist of fake Joe Rogans with tts voices advertising scams.
I get some dodgy casino and gambling ads … Before a children’s program. Reported the ad multiple times, but it keeps coming back under a different name.
Oh no, so how will I be able to tell a difference?
How about you suck my balls accordingly, google?
The whole page loading delay thing is hilarious because it doesn’t tell you why it’s happening, so viewers are likely to just assume the service is becoming even more shitty.
Google: “Fine, I’ll turn off your adblocker myself!” *rolling out Manifest v3*
How could it be worse than with ads?
240p
It’s official, Youtube now has people employed as product worseners.
YouTube has human employees? I thought they were just all bots.
I’ll just leave this here.
You da real MPV
Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition
How does this kill their platform if there’s no competition?
Let them keep this shit up and you’ll find out.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.
peertube exists
it’s in development, their new roadmap looks nice
The difficulty isn’t in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.
Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.
Turning off your ad-blocker is like running in jail, naked. So no thanks, YT.
Both Firefox + uBlock Origin saved me countless times from malicious ads since years. You should do it too.
Get fucked, YouTube.
If for some reason you can’t use a full-on ad blocker, “SponsorBlock for Youtube” is another Firefox extension you can install. It doesn’t block ads per se, but it will auto-skip segments of a video that have been reported as ad content. Kind of a grassroots thing, like reporting cops on Waze.
Until they try to kill that too.
I don’t think Google gets any money from YouTube sponsorships directly. Not watching a sponsored segment and not clicking the affiliate link are one and the same in the eyes of the company.
Loving Freetube, Newpipe, and Grayjay more and more every day!
in the short term they work, but YouTube can cut those 3rd party apps access at any time for any reason. Use Peertube for the better long term.
I thought All three of the ones I listed weren’t reliant on YT APIs and instead scraped their content.
Edit: Just confirmed both NewPipe and Freetube do not use YouTube’s api. I’m not sure about GrayJay though.
Even the scrapping in theory could be restricted. I might be wrong there.
Possible maybe, but at that point if YT bascially becomes paywalled I will just stop using it entirely like I did with Reddit.
