Submitted 1 hour ago by beep@piefed.world to [deleted]
"YouTube could make ads 90 days long & completely unskippable, and i STILL wouldn't get premium. i do not negotiate with terrorists!"
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1300166/youtube-could-make-ads-90-days-long-completely-unskippable-and-i-still-wouldn-t-get-prem
I pay for premium and have been for years
Yup, I don’t have time to mess around with blockers, and I enjoy supporting the platform that hosts the people I listen to… Not sure why anyone wants to make life harder
I really wouldn’t shame anyone for buying premium, because even if Google is the antichrist, YT is probably the website whose services I use more than any other. On the other hand though, there’s really nothing hard about adblocking. It’s maybe a single 30 second block out of one day and carries over anywhere you go online.
I think it’s much more effective to support them by giving 5 dollars to their Patreon or buy an item of their merch. (assuming they have either) from what I’ve heard, ad revenue is next to nothing.
Use a browser that doesn’t suck and install uBlock Origin. Ads are for bads.
Just use an adblock
yt-dlp helps, but really people need to stop using YouTube and all other Google services
I’d love to. Are there (actual) alternates? I’m not talking about YouTube players or downloaders.
Peertube is great, I sometimes archive youtube videos I find to be important on it, like this one that was age-gated to require login.
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the fuck up! [National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI]
I haven’t heard much about them, but there are services like peertube, odysee, and kick. Personally I think popularizing grayjay is the first step towards dethroning YouTube since everything stays in one app it’s easier to follow anyone that switches.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You get ads? Why?
eurodyne@piefed.world 44 minutes ago
I remember, like a decade ago, you used to have to install a whole bunch of different extensions to fill them all out. Now it’s one extension, and it pretty much comes perfectly configured right out of the box. You don’t even need to fiddle with it.
I’ve practically forgotten that ads exist.
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 26 minutes ago
Anything chromium (well manafest V3) needs uBlock Origin lite, otherwise it is just UBO
mrmisses@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
Ok serious question. On my phone I use Firefox with ublock and don’t get any ads. But on PC I use the same and it doesn’t stop the ads. wtf?
yesman@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
FF with Ublock should block Youtube out of the box. Have you messed with the block-lists or other configuration?
Davel23@fedia.io 33 minutes ago
Are you using uBlock or uBlock Origin? You should be using Origin.
Klear@piefed.world 34 minutes ago
Are you using Chrome?