Don’t forget, on a “free” platform, you are the product.
You’re the product on paid platforms, too.
I use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube and I haven’t seen an ad in ages. When I do see an ad, it’s because I’m trying to browse on somebody else’s computer.
SponsorBlock in particular is life changing. You don’t realize how much nonsense filler is in these videos. You can easily cut a 10 minute video from a mainstream YouTuber down to like 6 or 7 minutes worth of content if you skip intros, skip recaps, skip sponsorships and product plugs, and skip interaction reminders.
Sponsorblock is so good, it’s amazing. Even use it on Smarttube (firetv).
Alright I’m convinced. I’ve been using just uBlock but I’ll give sponsorblock a try.
Oh well, I have already left Twitter and Reddit this year, I’m down for one more.
It’s even worse that they’re apparently going to crack down on adblockers too. Ik people will just make anti-adblock blockers but it’s still fuckin dumb. I swear yt wants to make itself worse than cable tv in terms of ads.
I was thinking what if we switched to a fediverse Youtube replacement, such as PeerTube. However, I don’t think this would work. For one, because there are no ads, there’s no money being made, and creators would have to be backed by donations. Not sure how much money that would bring in.
Additionally, the difference between a “creator” on lemmy/subreddit (creating a community) vs a “creator” on youtube (uploads videos) is that I can be a creator without hosting an instance here. Looks like if I wanted to upload videos to PeerTube, I’d need to make my own instance or pay for one. Maybe if there was an option to select an instance just like here on lemmy, but videos take waaayy more disk space and processing to stream than text and a few images. Could be cool to host yourself though.
I obviously don’t have a lot of data but I’ve checked the financial for the YouTuber StupidEconomics. I’ve checked him because he is the one I know that publish a detailed financial report. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1uEk4Td0fyFSGTBUhG_n6oxOanmknXi21p3VmFszCCYU/htmlview#
It looks like YouTube ads revenus are only 5-10% of his revenus. Most of his revenus are donations and public subventions.
Not only that but Youtube often demonetizes videos while also cutting ad-payments. Payments per-view today are much lower than they were 5 years ago.
Oh no! Anyway…
continues using an AdBlocker
Not when they disable ad blockers like twitch
This aged as expected 😓
I think website developers and ad block developers will be in a continual back and forth. Websites trying to find ways to disable ad blockers and ad blockers trying to find ways around them so they could continue blocking ads.
My AdBlocker still works on twitch, you just have to do some fanaegling with user scripts.
Really? How do you do it? I’m assuming you use ublock origin
Yes. You can block ads by creating a special script, you can find the info on how to do that at the end of this GitHub ticket but I’ll paste it here too.
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Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)
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Under the My filters tab add
twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad). -
Under the Settings tab,
enable I am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears. -
Modify the value of
userResourcesLocationfromunsetto the URLhttps://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/raw/master/vaft/vaft-ublock-origin.js
Then just disable and reenable uBlock to refresh it and you should be good to go.
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NewPipe x Sponsorblock on Android, Invidious on iOS, Adblock + Sponsorblock in Firefox, SmartTubeNext on Android TV box.
They really want to tv-ify web content huh? People left TV because they were sick of ads.
I only have YouTube premium because I do not want a TV license and one is definitely cheaper than the other but the fuck man.
Cable TV did not originally have ads. That was part of the reason that people started paying for it.
What you are seeing is the natural cycle of content and greed.
Christ I love the Revanced project
Don’t forget SmartTube for Android TV!
There’s a Revanced? I’ve been clinging on to Vanced hoping YouTube API will not change anytime soon
Yes, instead of an app you install, you patch the app yourself using a separate app. Kinda like xmanager if you’ve used that before. I’d point you to their official reddit, but… yknow… Here’s their official Discord https://discord.gg/revanced
Dude I had vanced and it died after YouTube got them to stop updating. You’re saying it’s still going!?
As far as I know, not the same team, at least officially. Unlike vanced, they don’t provide the app themselves, you have to build it yourself, but that isn’t too hard. Your given the patches and the app that writes them patches to a stock version of YouTube downloaded on APKMirror, all that plus vanced MicroG and you got Revanced
This is why we use Piped and Newpipe/Libretube.
Must be the season of boycott, youtube about to do a reddit moment.
They’re trying everything to get us to buy YT premium. At what point do they start becoming full-on commercials? Lol
Can someone create frontend app for TizenTv? I feel like it will be annoying as fck or i’ll just stop using yt on tv for good.
Here is the clean link: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/xfnihd/no_just_no/
Here is how to clean links: https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-clean-urls/
Here is why you should clean links: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/importance-clean-urls-when-sharing-social-media-mary-silva
On that note: https://github.com/AUTplayed/imguralbumbot/blob/master/README.md
Proper source or GTFO, please
