They do it to groups of people at a time to prevent mass anger and hysteria. Don't worry you'll eventually get throttled too.

I use an old outdated version of FF because the new v3 google bullshit isn't supported for my os version.

it was working fine one day and then a week after the official "cut off" it just slowed down and dropped quality.

it's ok though. I don't mind switching the quality and waiting for videos to buffer.

there's tons on there, just because you haven't found it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Please support peertube sites - here's a list of instances to find something matching your interests: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

Oh no! You are going to make your platform work like ass? And you expect us to do mental gymnastics in such a way that instead of blaming you (you know the one that has control over the platform) we blame uBlock? The same uBlock that has made using your platform bearable for many years, to the point that I will sit in silence with the screen off instead of watch with ads?

I think even if you make us wait a min before playing the video most would take that over an ad.

Please share!

I’m happy I am finding some people on Nebula but being a payed service, it’s doomed to eventually show ads.

I now watch Climate Town and City Nerds on Nebula.
I wish Dr Becky would move. I love her videos.

The amount of people in this thread willing to go to bat for a corporate-owned entity is fucking weird.

As it currently stands, my Plex setup costs me nothing because all I do it stream from my server to my Apple TV. So it works well enough for me.

In the ultimate, you'd need to do something like run a headless browser in a virtual machine, have it play out and record the entire video, then use something like AI to splice out the ad segments and distracting elements (a souped-up sponsorblock will work for a while, but eventually ads will be injected into the raw video stream at random intervals), and present the pristine finished content to you. Basically we are going to re-invent TiVo all over again xD.

In worst case, you can't start watching until the pre-roll ad timers expire. This is how adblocking works on Twitch streams currently - you can only see a purple screen even if you block the ads.

And yes, the headless browser will need to use AI for human-like mouse movement and to solve captchas - basically whatever state-of-the-art technologies spammers and scrapers are already currently using.

Google is anticipating this future and is trying to implement and force hardware-based DRM for web video before then.

Ads on youtube are getting even more stupid. Does anyone get those ads about "procastinations" and "ADHD"? It starts off with some songs like "Procastination isnt your fault....." and some dolls dancing? So annoying

where do you get your YT Revanced from?

How? I've been noticing buffering the last few days with 1080p60 videos and up even using the suggested app version in Revanced.

So annoying

Those two words describe about every ad on youtube.

Condom delivery service you say?

yt-dlp is fucking awesome and it will be a sad day if it ever gets taken down or blocked.

This happens to me too, especially when it’s a computer that I haven’t used in a while, which makes me think that yeah it’s the arms race. It stops once my browser is open long enough for uBO to update

I would prefer an ad if it doesn’t last a stupid amount of time

Seems like a great ad

That explains the "are you experiencing interruptions" message I keep getting these days, though I kinda expected this.

I mean if they get forced ads I would understand, but at the current state I would say there are too many.

If YouTube premium was less expensive it would be a great in-between

I personally use YT premium and music by faking my country. Getting it for like 3.50€/month feels like a great deal