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.

I 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.

If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.

And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em

Depending 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.

On LG WebOS, the Homebrew Store has an Ad-free YouTube app that works well too.

Technically that's 100% buffering.

Touché

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.

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.