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.
yt-dlp is the goat
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Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads:
uBlock Origin + Firefox
NewPipe on Android
Libretube on Android
uYou+ on iOS
FreeTube on *NIX and Windows
yt-dlp + mpv
YouTube Revanced
Invidious self hosting
Piped self hosting
And finally, last and definitely least
YouTube Premium
Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.
I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it's Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they're pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.
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WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET
It's a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.
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Ive been using adblockers, piped and other tools for so long that i dont even remember what the last time was when i saw a youtube ad.
Hard to do if you watch directly from your TV using some dongle and don't know or can't modify your router to block ads.
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I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.
Amazon Premium started this trend. They're shameless.
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It's a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.
Yes but not everything needs to make a profit, just not make a loss. Also it could be community supported with donations and stuff:)
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Hard to do if you watch directly from your TV using some dongle and don't know or can't modify your router to block ads.
SmartTube is on AndroidTV
Kodi can be installed through the play store, you can transfer files over smb and ftp and move the apk using it.
You're welcome.
Excuses:
I use a Roku or Roku TV
Don't, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.
I use AppleTV
Don't, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.
FTP? SMB? Apk? What are these, words?!
These terms can be searched for and learned about.
Why not just use Kodi?
You're ahead of the game, find a plugin pack and enjoy
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SmartTube for Android TV devices
Absolutely. And they update pretty quickly when YouTube breaks something.
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I meant iPhone
I mean, yeah. What did you expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT's video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?
Why couldn't Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT's viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power...
A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.
I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.
For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.
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I just use a frontend to remove ads + Extra Privacy too
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I should just read a book at this point
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I guess I need someone to explain it to me, because they even fixed their typo.
The RandomVideos is joking, not z3rOR0ne
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Or newpipe... Or pipepipe.
Or Freetube on pc, a FOSS desktop client
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Sounds good, but if I search "microwave repair" or "improve vo2max" , it comes up with zero results.
That's the sort of stuff we'd lose if creators don't move away from YouTube.
Thats true, I once had to repair my washing machine and I could only find 1 video about the same model and same repair. It was a large Russian man that I could not understand (this was before auto generated subtitles).
Anyways, I just looked at the video and copied everything he did and I fixed my machine.
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I mean, yeah. What did you expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My dude I know, some people need to use iPhones tho. I have a solution anyway and sharing it here for others cos I heard it’s a popular phone….
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Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.
Damn, fixed, I had a brainfart and was installing Arch while browsing Lemmy lol
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I highly recommend creators to upload videos to another site as well.
what other sites are there to use?
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Yes but not everything needs to make a profit, just not make a loss. Also it could be community supported with donations and stuff:)
YouTube was operating at a loss under Google for years. The only reason it is able to exist is because a massive entity like Google was able to absorb that without folding, and keep providing a free service until it becomes profitable (is it even yet? I'm not sure).
I mean fuck Google, and yes a big enough non-profit (or even government) could do it (probably better), but unfortunately that's not the world we live in right now.
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My dude I know, some people need to use iPhones tho. I have a solution anyway and sharing it here for others cos I heard it’s a popular phone….
Haha I'm kidding, it's good that you share your solution here.
