• Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I swear you guys are watching videos made by low-quality people. I get ads, sure, but nothing I would find excessive or annoying. The only time I run into too many ads is on specific channels, and I don’t stick around long when it becomes clear this creator is plastering their video with ads.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I feel like YouTube has gone back to normal now. I used to need to update uBlock manually few times a day but I haven’t needed to do that for weeks now.

  • macniel@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    What are those Ads you are talking about? Asking as a uBlock Origin and Grayjay user.

  • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    if the day comes where ublock origin stops working on youtube, i’ll simply stop watching youtube. plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube) out there to fill that consumption void

    • MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      My workplace disabled extensions today, and I’m just mindblown by the amount of ads I’ve been blissfully ignorant about. I play music from youtube while working, but every time I’m in a good flow now, getting stuff done, there’s an ad-break that takes me out of that flow. Tiring having to work up that momentum all the time.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    If YouTube stops working, it won’t be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube’s place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      What makes you think any free option that takes YouTube’s place won’t have just as many ads? The traffic that pornhub gets compared to YouTube is not really comparable.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      Your comment makes me giggle that there’s a possible future where PornHub admins are getting angry at influencers for uploading wholesome content, in violation of the site Terms of Service.

      Edit: I hope the headline reads, “PornHub has issued a press release - naming an account MrBeastPhilanthropy194768 isn’t fooling anyone, and they need to take their charitable fundraising to a more appropriate platform.”

  • ComradeR@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Supposing that I sign to YT Premium (spoiler: I will not): Does the Nord VPN, Skillshare, BetterHelp and other sponsored bull*hit part of the videos skip automatically, or I will need to manually skip that part anyway?

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No, those are usually embedded into the video itself as a segment by the content creator. However, SponsorBlock works really well and will automatically skip those bits for you (assuming someone else already put in the effort to mark the sponsored content).

      • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        Which they usually already have. I’m surprised how quickly even small channels get sponsor blocked. It makes me kind of sad because I wanna contribute too, but it’s hard to find video that haven’t been edited

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Lol ads. Not for years. I honestly don’t know how people do it. Maybe they are just used to it but last time I tried to use the Internet without an ad blocker I wanted to throw my computer across that room. It’s ridiculous how bad it is.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      Those poor souls watching multiple ads are the ones making so there’s not an even more aggressive approach to preventing our means of ad free stuff.