It feels insane to me that you're paying and you still get ads. I fucking refuse to do that

My uBlock Origin has been working fine on my Linux desktop running Firefox.

uBlock Origin Lite on my Chromebook, on the other hand, has gotten the "Ad blockers are prohibited" popup a couple of times.

Exactly. If every ad-dependent website went offline tomorrow and all we were left with was Wikipedia, PeerTube, government/academia sites and a bunch of Geocities-esque "labor of love" hobbyist pages, nothing of value would be lost.

They're trying to block adblockers again, it seems. I got the "adblockers are not allowed" popup again recently.

Yup I think that's it. I got a "you have playback issues?" popup today. Also it takes longer to load.

Maybe YouTube will push me away, but for now it's too convenient.

Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.

I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that

That way I won’t get DolbyVision metadata though and getting surround sound workin is a chore, also.
Not to speak about comfortable control from my couch without a keyboard/mouse.

Instead, I use an appleTV. It’s ad free, supports all streaming services I need (including my jellyfin) and almost all common video, audio and HDR formats. Even supports VPNs for getting around geofencing.

Besides the initial purchase price (which is steep but there aren’t many comparable devices), not having adblock working in YouTube is really the only actual downside. And for that a few friends and I share a YT family subscription. Has the benefit of my views actually paying the creators for the content they provide me and us not having to pay the ridiculous amounts of solo subscriptions.

Would never use the integrated SmartTV feature of the vast majority of TV manufacturers (LG used to be so good before they put ads everywhere). My TV hasn’t seen an Internet connection even once.

Just use invidious or Newpipe if the adblock ever stops working

How does revanced work? How does it protect me from ads?

I don’t use revanced, but freetube. I guess it’s similar.

It lets you play video without ads for free. It has a ui close enough to YouTube, which is nice.

Also you watch video anonymously. So it won’t propose video based on what you have watched before. Which is nice or not… you decide.

That way of thinking is a trap. They did have a more reasonably priced ad free tier but people using it only made it worse over time because it got so popular that Youtube could confidently raise prices and slash benefits. And the line has to go up. That‘s the only thing that matters to them.

How about we collectively say fuck youtube and move content to Odysee or something else?

I'm fine with uBlock, but wouldn't it be better if we just kill alphabet progressively? I'm already out Gsuite (nextcloud), gmail (own server), search (duckduckgo), chrome (firefox), I dont even link my phone to a gmail account. i just need to get ride of yt.

Cable TV executives didn't die off yet?

For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.

For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.

For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.

Ah gotcha, similar to newpipe on android

It's an android only apk which you sideload and strips all adds from YouTube content.

Same here. And I’m waiting for them to finally do it because it’ll free up so much of my time. I might start reading books again.

Also, it’s the last Google-service I’m using. So, banning me from it will allow me to finally delete my Google account.

Can you, though? Because I remember when DVB started in Europe, they’ve sent a signal during commercials that makes your device block the fast forward feature.

I don’t know whether that’s still a thing. But you needed a hacked firmware on your TV / set top box to allow to FFWD through commercials back then.

True, but my point was that even a lot of the commercial websites that do have other products do not depend on ads, e.g. Amazon and all the other stores would still be there, every company offering a paid service would still be there, every company providing a service related to their RL goods (e.g. specs, drivers, product descriptions, lists of stores where you can buy them,...) would still be there.

Advertising does not finance a very large percentage of the useful parts of the internet. And among those advertising financed websites that are useful a lot are essentially duplicates to get a chunk of the ad revenue without doing a lot of work (e.g. almost all news websites that just republish AP, Reuters,... content).