The moment I get blocked I'm going to Freetube for my pc and Newpipe for my phone, then to import all of my user data. (hopefully Newpipe gets a pc version as well because Freetube is a bit clunky). Maybe delete my youtube account too.
Invidious, either with Pale Moon or Tor Browser. Keep uBO on, have anti-anti-AdBlock userscripts up, block as many known malicious ad or tracking domains in HOSTS. Solved.
LOL, that's how you get page-scrapers instead (which impose more cost on the server). Reddit may be too stupid to understand that, but I don't think Google is.
We use STube; its bloody magic.. Not sure what wizzardry goes on in the background as not only does it block youtube ads it also blocks the add that the content creators put in the middle of their vids.. No more NordVpn / Squarespace or clash of twats add...
Did you know the software will only display none or at most a single 4-second skipable ad if you watch less than 15 minutes of youtube a month? I hear people complain about 5-15+ minute youtube commercials and laugh because I've never dealt with that.
The secret is to literally just stop watching youtube (and television in general). The content you find on Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, etc is all going down hill quickly.
No clue tbh how they track it - neither my partner nor I watch youtube much, so they don't see much traffic from our network. Don't know if they track usage by user, ip, cookies, etc
right there with you. i’ve cut facebook, twitter, reddit, and many physical things out of my life, and i gladly welcome youtube to join that cold shoulder list
YouTube could probably theoretically embed the ads in the video itself.
This. I have always wondered why they don't just do that. If you wanna serve ads so hard, just make them technically indistinguishable from the actual content. (Please don't.)
My assumption is that they don't want the ad to be fast-forwardable -- their own client restricts that -- but I'd think that having fast-forwardable ads would be preferable to no ads at all via a given distribution mechanism.
The ads are per-user and the video can be static, but I'd think that they could put together a piece of software that reasonably-efficiently splices per-user data into an existing video file.
I think its because, if you put it in the video itself, you will have old ads in old videos. And the companys wouldnt pay for ads for a product wich isnt made anymore.
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