if the day comes where ublock origin stops working on youtube, i’ll simply stop watching youtube. plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube) out there to fill that consumption void
i can always start checking things off on my anime list.
youtube is just procrastination on my part. go ahead, make me stop using it.
I’ve already started. Most of my YT viewing was from the smart TV app, and since I can’t block ads from there I simply don’t use it anymore. It’s still OK on PC, and on mobile I use Grayjay. On my TV, I just watch shows and anime nowadays instead.
Oh you clicked the wrong video, believe it or not ad. Video ends ad. Restart video ad.
Youtube plays ads on music like sublime smokes joints. You can be on the hook for 4 ads total if you don’t manually rewind a music video before it ends.
My favorite is when there’s a countdown to hit skip, but it stays on zero and plays for an extra couple of seconds without letting me skip, and then another ad plays with a fresh skip countdown.
Or yesterday, when the video locked up because it was apparently time for an ad, but the ad wouldn’t play. So I gave up and tried to play a different video, but none of the videos would play because there was still an ad that was supposed to play at me and it wouldn’t play. So I stopped watching YouTube for the day.
Hear that, YouTube? I gave in to your bullshit adblock crackdown and the ads actually make your videos unusable. Fix your shit. None of us would mind brief, infrequent ads, but your greed is fucking the whole platform to the point that regular people are looking for a competitor. You did a Streisand Effect to adblock extensions, so now everybody knows about them. You squeezed creators into doing sponsored videos because you stopped paying them. You harassed us with non-stop pestering about YouTube TV and YouTube Red or premium or plus or whatever the fuck it is this year. You’ve forgotten what the point of YouTube originally was. It used to be a place for regular people like YOU to host a video, and now it’s pretty much just small businesses doing the 21st century version of public access TV.
This late stage capitalism is really pissing me off. Everything keeps getting shittier and more expensive.
Haven’t seen that shit in years. Nostalgia.
Same. Only if someone is showing me something on YT.
alwas happens when friends show me vids on their iphones. all of my android friends already have revanced.
Thank God I pay them for protection, I don’t know how I could live otherwise.
If YouTube stops working, it won’t be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube’s place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.
Removed by mod
I still think most sites would struggle dealing with the stream of people continually uploading full episodes of copyrighted works, as well as finding a profitable revenue stream for all the bandwidth used. Even YouTube has a hard time with it.
What? Can’t hear you through my Invidious…
Invidious is a life saver in the ocean of ads.
youtube has ads?
Not if you’re doing it correctly
Supposing that I sign to YT Premium (spoiler: I will not): Does the Nord VPN, Skillshare, BetterHelp and other sponsored bull*hit part of the videos skip automatically, or I will need to manually skip that part anyway?
No, those are usually embedded into the video itself as a segment by the content creator. However, SponsorBlock works really well and will automatically skip those bits for you (assuming someone else already put in the effort to mark the sponsored content).
There’s SponsorBlock for that.
My video will be closed right at the start of this ad. What second ad?
Get into the piehole
Why did I instantly hear this in Fat Tony’s voice?!
With all the machine learning and ai bullshit, why can’t somone stick the technology on the YouTube ad urls?
