YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto
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I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.
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I don't think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
It might, if it just blocks YouTube
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you found your way to lemmy but you don't know about https://peertube.tv/
Sure, a service that manages an infinitely smaller amount of content and complexity. It is a situational tool, hardly a YouTube killer... the banner presented on the homepage professes that it's expensive to run and please donate.
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It might, if it just blocks YouTube
Can't view ads if you can't view videos. Checkmate.
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When ads get in the way I simply don't watch the videos. It's not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.
Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.
But I'll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I'll archive important content in the meantime.
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WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET
OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.
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Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.
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I believe you're thinking of premium lite, or whatever they call it.
Correct. If they ever roll out ads on premium, I’m not sure what we’ll do. Maybe figure out a new platform or a new way to watch.
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By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they've achieved that they can do what they like. Don't feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.
FYI, this is currently happening with Uber.
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what's a youtube ad?
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youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.
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if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube
SmartTube Beta has been a life changer on Android TV. I would just avoid youtube on my tv because fuck ads. But then i found SmartTube Beta, and wow. No more ads!
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Same, also revanced on Android
Or newpipe... Or pipepipe.
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Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.
But I'll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I'll archive important content in the meantime.
I pay for nebula, they have a lot of educational content and the price is low enough that I don't mind it
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Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
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Oh please no, it's the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
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daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.
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Occasionally I try the YouTube watch together thing on discord with my SO, and it really shows just how completely unusable YouTube is without an ad blocker.
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By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they've achieved that they can do what they like. Don't feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.
I never felt bad abt that for a second. Like the thought never crossed my kind XD FUCK YOUTUBE!
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Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.
It’s all about doing it in moderation and choosing carefully what we waste our time on. I would rather “waste” time reading a stupid book than go on Instagram or TikTok, where my mind gets trapped in a circle of emotions and algorithms.
