YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You guys see ads? I think you're doing the Internet wrong.

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  • Gaywallet@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love how this is smug and offers no advice. Peak substack vibes

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    • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works, or you could make a PiHole

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    • Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That’s it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. And don’t use the “ad-company” browser in the future if you don’t like ads.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      On my phone I watch via the Grayjay app (I used newpipe before, but it wasn’t as reliable). If it asks me to login, I either use a VPN or watch YouTube in a Firefox-based browser with ublock. I haven’t seen ads since years…

      On my PC I also just use Firefox and ublock to watch without ads.

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• AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    uBlock doesn’t come with financial and legal penalties, I’ll take Vietnam’s solution.

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    • NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t give a shit about all that since, wel, I have ublock.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The biggest issue with Youtube is that it has no real competition, at least for traditional long-form content. They have no incentive to improve the user experience.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they found out the biggest revenue generator, is peddling propaganda mostly from right wing sources and RECENTLY ISRAEL pro-zionist agendas. drama, like from the big youtubers who are just producing slop for children.

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• Uniquitous@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guess I found my new favorite VPN home

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• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At best they will code the restrictions in for users in vietnam.

  At worst they’ll block it in the region.

  It just comes down to what costs more for them. This won’t improve things in other regions.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not yet anyway, but it might have a ripple effect on other countries doing the same.

    Just like EU consumer laws sometimes gets adopted by other countries a few years later.

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    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The EU consumer laws you see get wider adoption tend to have copycat versions show up in other regions, usually too many regions to make it worth splitting the codebase.

      GDPR is still basically just EU & California (with it’s specific version that overlaps substantially.) The rest of us are boned.

      Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.

      I know some things have been widespread like USB-C, but those are few and far between… and I still buy devices with microusb and other dumb connectors because of course people are still selling them in brand new products years after the EU ban.

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  • InevitableList@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone has to be first

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whatxunskippable ads? Havens had ads (or sponsor segments within videos) for a looooong time. Grayjay.app which has sponsor block included.

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