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.
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.
Honestly if I had to sit thru ads to watch youtube videos I'd stop watching. I have 300+ subscriptions and after 15 years, can barely stand to watch more than a couple of them anymore. It's just not that interesting anymore.
I've seen people bring up Youtube blocking adblockers a few times now, but I have yet to see anything myself despite using Youtube daily with an adblocker. What adblocker are you using?
It’s got nothing to do with the blocker itself, Youtube is just doing a very slow A/B test (only showing a feature in testing to a small subset of users at a time) while they work out all the different tweaks needed to make it work at scale when they finally unleash it on the full userbase.
Paying to host your videos instead of getting paid to upload your videos is a big leap for youtubers. The monetization model really ruined everyone’s expectations when it comes to hosting massive data for free.
Happily watching no ads with premium. Sure the sponsor spots are still there, but they pay the creator and I can skip them, so I dont mind... Propably not a popular opinion, but I do think YouTube/Google should get money by hosting the video content...
Yeah its a lot of money. The thing that sold me (besides the ads removal) was, that creators get a cut of that price. The mount is determined by the watchtime on the creators channel.
My issue with premium is that it doesn't fix so much of the other shit that revanced fixes for me on the mobile app (I don't want shorts, community posts, I want my dislike button etc) that I'd be using revanced anyway. And at that point I can just also block ads. If piracy gets you a better experience than that of paying customers, then you have an issue with your product.
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