• Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • KooMSlayer69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Ash@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    They’re trying everything to get us to buy YT premium. At what point do they start becoming full-on commercials? Lol

      • LemmyKnow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.

            1. Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)

            2. Under the My filters tab add twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad).

            3. Under the Settings tab, enable I am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears.

            4. Modify the value of userResourcesLocation from unset to the URL https://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.

  • hismajesty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Aer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • TheFreed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      There’s a Revanced? I’ve been clinging on to Vanced hoping YouTube API will not change anytime soon

      • Srootus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

        • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Dude I had vanced and it died after YouTube got them to stop updating. You’re saying it’s still going!?

          • Srootus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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

  • dill@lemmy.oneEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    That’s wild. I would never sit through that. I’ve been a YouTube premium sub for years because it’s bundled with music. Never knew it was this bad

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Careful, lots of people take issue with paying for a service these days. /s but only kinda

      YT premium has been by far the most worth it subscription for me. I spend a frankly unhealthy amount of YT, even have it running in the background while not watching actively, and I listen to YT music for hours every day. Really easy value sell for me.

      But somehow people expect YT to host and deliver literal exabytes of data for free.

      • deaconblue@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        These kind of unsolicited reports from users prove a really important point, and one that Spez and company would prefer to ignore. If you have good enough content people will pay for an ad-free experience.