YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
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They've been doing this for close to 20 years. Ever since shortly after google bought them.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 08:23 zuletzt editiert von masterofn001@lemmy.caYou know the people who created youtube are all part of the same OG corp/group that gave rise to the monsters who have created the hell we currently live in.
The PayPal mafia.
Thiel, musk, howry, Chen(yt), wong(reddit),Hoffman(LinkedIn)
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 08:34 zuletzt editiert von
That's a lot of effort for a website that mostly offers background noise.
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And this is different from the usual YouTube jank how, exactly? I can't block ads on the YouTube TV app and it's a buggy mess and I have no idea why one of the major tech companies in the world allowed that to happen.
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Time to pin Odysee and Peertube in my browser even though I pay for YT Premium (only $2 per month here in BD).
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I mean, when I want to watch TV or Movies, I load it into my torrent program
️ and let it download in the background. I could do the same with youtube videos.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 09:53 zuletzt editiert vonWait, you think all YouTube content is available in torrents?
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And this is different from the usual YouTube jank how, exactly? I can't block ads on the YouTube TV app and it's a buggy mess and I have no idea why one of the major tech companies in the world allowed that to happen.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 09:58 zuletzt editiert vonYou can block ad on tv by side loading smarttube
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schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 09:59 zuletzt editiert von
I mean like the downloading aspect. There are a lot of youtube downloading tools available for practically every OS desktop or mobile (well except iOS)
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For about the last 3 years I've been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.
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I mean, when I want to watch TV or Movies, I load it into my torrent program
️ and let it download in the background. I could do the same with youtube videos.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 10:09 zuletzt editiert von ayaya@lemdro.idI already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like Pinchflat because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.
All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there's nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 10:10 zuletzt editiert von memmingenfan923@feddit.org
If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.
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And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em
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I'm trying very, VERY hard to pound the correct knowledge into my brain to be able to switch my freelance business services away from Google to something like Proton Unlimited.
Leaving the Google ecosystem will literally make me lose work, but man, this shit has gotta stop
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 10:23 zuletzt editiert vonDepending on which services you want to replace, Nextcloud might also be worth a look. There are quite a few hosted options available by Hetzner and others.
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You can block ad on tv by side loading smarttube
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 10:40 zuletzt editiert vonOn LG WebOS, the Homebrew Store has an Ad-free YouTube app that works well too.
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Yeah, I download whatever I want to watch and fire up vlc. 0 ads, 0 buffering.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 10:54 zuletzt editiert vonTechnically that's 100% buffering.
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Technically that's 100% buffering.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 11:31 zuletzt editiert vonTouché
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schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 11:59 zuletzt editiert von
There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I'd like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that's happening, thanks.
Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 12:28 zuletzt editiert von mhague@lemmy.world
But I don't have adblockers installed and I still get told to turn my blocker off. I have no extensions and YouTube randomly stops my video to tell me I'm doing it wrong.
Edit: I guess this is the result when dealing with the kind of users who refuse to watch ads, but also can't fuck off like decent human beings. Just millions of people who will climb your fence, pick your locks, smash your window, because they deserve to watch content, but they won't pay or watch ads.
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For about the last 3 years I've been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 12:33 zuletzt editiert vonFWIW, I've been using ublock origin, too, and it's mostly worked fine.
Until a few days ago, when Youtube started detecting it and showing down the site and telling me I can only watch 3 more videos before it cuts me off. That hasn't happened yet, but I definitely feel the slowdown. I'm hoping a ublock upgrade will fix it soon.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 12:37 zuletzt editiert von
YouTube might just go fuck itself!
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Can't slow down videos I've downloaded to my Plex server.
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