Turn off the ad blocker or you’ll be cut off after three videos.
    • Ivyymmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For Android:

      Newpipe or Tubular (Newpipe X Sponsorblock fork)

      VueTube (still under development, the team is working slow because it’s pretty small, they have a few time to spend on it and they need devs, it’s a complete FOSS alternative to Vanced, and will have most of its features including optional Google log in with interactions)

      If you need to login and have a full YouTube experience: Revancedapp

    • F4celess@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago
      youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set,ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

      Here it is in text format so ya’ll don’t have to type it out. I haven’t verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it’s way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]

  • littlecolt@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be “impossible to advertise to.” For me, it’s rang very true. I can’t think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn’t been the norm, or ads would be dead.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The one thing the Reddit exodus has taught me, is that I’m almost eager for a reason to ditch my social media and either find something new or simply take back that time and do something more fulfilling anyway.

    I’m so much happier not being constantly blasted with advertisements, that now when I have to go back on insta or FB for whatever reason, I can’t stand more than 30 seconds before I nope back off.

    Looking forward to axing YouTube from my life next.

  • mochi@lemdit.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure there’s a way to get around it, and if there isn’t, then I just won’t be using YouTube anymore. I survived before it existed. I’m getting tired of these companies’ bullshit.

  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    block scripts with uMatrix. a little finer grained. if they block me, oh well. still won’t watch ads

    • LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      uBlock can do everything that uMatrix can do it just has a different interface, so there’s no need to use the deprecated uMatrix

  • Morogwen@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not paying youtube a cent until they remove all the transphobes and quit blasting people with their shit ass bigoted content. I’ll pirate and ad block just to spite them every step of the way. Make your bed with fascists, lay in it.

  • igorlogius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    mmh, i wonder if google/youtube is gonna learn anything from reddit. If not i guess we’ll see another migrations in the near future.

    • rckclmbr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Youtube is much harder to migrate from. It has a loooot of data. Where else can I upgrade 60 minutes of 4k gopro footage for free?

      • igorlogius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Youtube is much harder to migrate from

        yeah, i agree, even with alternatives like peertube but since hosting of video data is more expensive it might take longer for reliable instances to appear, but … the unfriendlier the youtube enviroment becomes, the more likely it will be that people will look for and create alternatives. Guess that at least means there is some hope for the future, even if that might be farther away.

    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I signed up to Odysee the other day to upload a video. It was too hard and I gave up.

      You need to be confirmed to upload. Their options were:

      1. Do a test transaction ($1 to CC). Broken, not available at this time.
      2. Pay some money (CC transaction). Also broken (I checked my bank history to make sure the money didn’t get taken anyway. I would have been happy to pay a few dollars to host a video, I know it’s not trivial)
      3. Join their discord and say “Hi” to the verif bot. The bot said “message me with details of your IRL public social media accounts”. I don’t have those.

      Nope nope nope. Made an account on Vimeo and uploaded there instead. Everything worked.

      Maybe I’m just not the target audience? Bigger barriers to entry might only let the more profitable people pass? Not sure.