YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
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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.
AI might be overkill? I recall back in the day people working out which images where manipulated by the way the underlying flow of colour and pixel layout didn't line up, each image ends up with a kind of grain of different size and direction. You could spot ads by detecting which image data doesn't line up with the majority and cutting it out that way.
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That's what they're banking on, but we know that eventually they will f*** it up and lose everyone.
Unless we have some serious alternatives, that won't happen anytime soon
Video hosting is really expensive. Every service running for free will eventually enshitify and turn out similar, because there's no such thing as free massive servers
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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
Haven't seen ads in 10 years, people actually use the internet without ublock?
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That’s great! I spend too much time on yt, it’ll break me of my addiction and I’ll do something else besides passive consumption.
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Techlore, futurism, jeff geerling
Reminder Techlore is an Apple shill
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If it forces you to pay and have an account, how is it better than YT?
It's basically netflix not youtube.
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Nebula is an invite basis
Wait what ?? Damn
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we live in a neoliberal gorgon dystopia
You said it hombre
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Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.
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Holy crap that’s cheap! Honestly, I’d pay that.
Yeah. Spotify also has similar pricing. I bought YT Premium as it includes both YouTube and YouTube Music.
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Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.
Oh, did you not pay for YouTube Extra Premium Plus for the enhanced bit rate?
Bloody peasant...
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Unless we have some serious alternatives, that won't happen anytime soon
Video hosting is really expensive. Every service running for free will eventually enshitify and turn out similar, because there's no such thing as free massive servers
It is... they've out spent the competition. Now that no one else is around, they're trying to make all the money they can. Luckily, it won't be long before some other alternative will pop up anyway.
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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.
??? You realise that the manifest v3 in ff isn't the same as that in chrome? Ublock works on latest firefox. And unless you're using esr. Congrats on the vulns you've cultivated.
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they also slow down videos if I use Firefox.
YouTube can eat my ass.
Youtube works a lot better for me after switching from Firefox to Librewolf.
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Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.
Artificial scarcity so you'll pay their dumb subscription fee
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Oh, did you not pay for YouTube Extra Premium Plus for the enhanced bit rate?
Bloody peasant...
And really you're just paying extra for the original 1080 bitrate. What a fucking scam, like I'd pay for that crap.
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Don't care, still better than the ads.
I'll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it'll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.
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Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.
Yes, some video have a 1080p Premium high nitrate quality option that you need to pay for. It's just the standard quality, but the free 1080p is now shitty.
It's very sad there isn't anything that can even remotely compare to YouTube at this time. All the content is there, can't get it elsewhere. At least with Firefox, ublock and SponsorBlock, it's bearable.
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Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed
