An interesting component here is that it's possible that the video creator is responsible for this silly level of ads, but it's impossible to know. Creators can select points in the video where ads will happen, which they can use to preserve the video's flow as much as possible. In theory, you can even select to not monetise your video at all, which is a useful tool if the topic is something particularly dense or sensitive. In practice, I've seen plenty of creators apologizing when an inappropriate ad plays at a sensitive part of the video, despite them having tried to disable ads on the video. It must suck to have so little power over one's own work.

In your case, I suspect this was a creator choosing to maximally monetise their video, given the regularity and number of ads. However, it's possible that this is a 100% "Fuck Google" situation, given how opaque they are. I find it frustrating that when we have poor experiences like yours, we don't even have a clear target to get angry at. It leads to accountability so diffuse that it's like homeopathy. Getting angry doesn't necessarily help change things (at least individually), but it can be incredibly cathartic even then

YouTube already had too many ads, and I stopped using as a result. That was several months ago. I guess I'll just have to stop using it even harder.

Adblock, maybe a noticeable fraction on desktop, but Revanced users are within a rounding error of the total users, surely?

I feel like both populations are now dwarfed by the numbers watching YT on their TV's built-in apps, which throw demented amounts of ads at you.

It complained about it for me as well.

And then kept working.

I am currently crippled and basically just do PT, shitpost on lemmy, and watch youtube... all day long.

If it was gonna block me after 3 videos, it missed it by about 100.

I used to watch YouTube with ads since they added ads. It wasn’t too bad.

Then during the start of Covid tons of people watched YouTube and googles greedy eyes lit up… they went from 1-3 (skipable) ads per video to ads every minute of video. I was like WHAT THE F&$@… then installed U-block.

I couldn’t believe their greed.

I also spent Covid downloading (yt-dlp) every video I wanted to archive for offline (never know if they will someday block downloads), I’m also worried for a time we loose YouTube. 99% of the things I loved about the internet is dead now, someday it will happen to YouTube too.

Oh no... Anyways,

* Adds a filter for the pop-up*

I’m dating this person and we were watching YT and she didn’t have any ad blocker up and I was fucking blown away

Because the fucking line must go fucking up! the large hot forks should be going up the CEOs and investors asses instead!

Revanced users are within a rounding error of the total users, surely?

Some of us use NewPipe. ‍️

Had my first ones yesterday too.

I'll use FreeTube if I have to, though I don't quite like the UI, but cleaning the cache seems to have done the trick for now.

Edit: Guys. I think a lot of you missed where I said EASIEST METHODS.

Easiest methods to ditch Youtube ads:

• PC: Firefox + uBlock Origin
• Mac, option 1: Safari + AdGuard
• Mac, option 2: Firefox + uBlock Origin
• Android, option 1: Youtube ReVanced (FYI: ALL Play Store listings for this are fake; the official site is revanced.app and is the only place to get it)
• Android, option 2: Firefox Mobile + uBlock Origin
• iPhone/iPad: Safari + AdGuard

For those who may have heard about Pi-hole and are wondering why it's not on this list: PI-HOLE DOES NOT BLOCK YOUTUBE ADS. IT NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL.

It's like cable TV, pay $100+/mo just to watch ads

YT Premium has no ads. YT Lite does, just fewer of them (supposedly).

Had a “youtube doesnt allow adblock” pop up yesterday

I haven't run into that on any of my devices yet...

What were you using before?

Ublock with firefox. Wasn't able to set up a filter for the popup, didn't try very hard though.

Can I block youtube ads with a transparent proxy like squid ?
What about a self-hosted youtube auto-downloading queue list ? I'm fine with .mp4 files !

Youtube ReVanced

Revanced still Relies on G services

Also, Theres this very unknown app Called Freetube for all plattforms or newpipe for Android

When options like uBlock and FreeTube no longer block ads, I'll stop watching YouTube. They'll never get a cent out of me.

If it weren't Google, I wouldn't be against paying. Fuck Google.

Interesting. I'm just running vanilla uBlock Origin, never got a popup. I suppose we'll see what happens...

Revanced uses microG, which is optional. I also mentioned that these were the easiest methods. But, you're absolutely right in that there are plenty of other methods to choose from.