The problem is, nothing short of NA and EU governmental intervention will force Google to stop being such a nefarious, monopolistic, antitrust piece of shit. They're just so utterly ubiquitous for Western businesses. You cannot have a small business* and hope to be successful without partaking in either Google or Facebook/Meta's ad services. TikTok was becoming a huge threat to both those companies and look how viciously they were attacked.

The whole thing is beyond fucked, man. Kudos to you for trying to break free for your business, but I feel like you'll just be fucking yourself in the long run.

Edit in advance: I should clarify that there will of course be exceptions where a small business can be successful just fine without advertising, but for those that rely on being discovered on a larger scale versus purely local, it is essential.

Any recommendations?

If you went somewhere else their competition is winning (directly as another video site and indirectly as anything else you would do with your time).

Remember 10 years ago the YouTube app only showed ads on every 3rd video and often only a single 5 second ad, and everything longer could be skipped.

Like a frog in a pot I could tolerate that amount, a few years later they started the ad ramp-up and what finally drove me to install vanced were 3 unskippable ads you had to endure just to watch something.

i added 2-3 other adblockers

Never run multiple adblockers at the same time. You gain nothing except broken websites, performance issues, and an increased chance of triggering anti-adblocks.

Using uBO, but have noticed a slightly longer delay of a few seconds between hitting play and the video starting, but I can deal with that over being forced to watch 30s of ads.

Yep, lol. Same mindset here. Although I doubt YouTube will ever do a hard cut on piracy. That would lead to a major decline in viewership and wouldn't look good to shareholders.

Relevent Username: If you went to Tau Zero, you can finish watching every youtube video in mere moments from your point of view

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.

Yeah, I download whatever I want to watch and fire up vlc. 0 ads, 0 buffering.

Oh they already do as of this week. But I am sure it‘s only temporary like last time and even then it‘s better than being served an ad. Google won‘t win this feud.

Because the "Why is the video being slow?" pop-up now sends you to the page blaming adblockers instead of the ISP shaming thing it used to do.

You 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)

PayPal Mafia - Wikipedia

(en.m.wikipedia.org)

That's a lot of effort for a website that mostly offers background noise.

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.

Time to pin Odysee and Peertube in my browser even though I pay for YT Premium (only $2 per month here in BD).

Wait, you think all YouTube content is available in torrents?

You can block ad on tv by side loading smarttube

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)

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.