This is a long time coming. Who in their right mind thought that a service that allows pretty much anyone to upload gigabytes of videos would be free forever. I get that people don't like ads, but the amount of outrage is overkill.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Don't care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.
Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down? Isn't a degraded add riddled experience better than nothing?
Do you people really think that YouTube can pay five-year-old "influencers" millions of dollars a year because YouTube is losing money?
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down?
Good fucking riddance.
Good fucking riddance
So then don't use it if you want it gone?
They should close their doors to anyone they don't want to have on their site, so other companies get a chance to compete. Why would we stop using it, i'm literally fine with ad-free Youtube, you're the one having a problem with it.
Yes, maybe they got too big and are destined to fail at that point. They essentially have a monopoly in that space.
I get that losing something you previously had access to is frustrating, but people here act like they should have the privilege to get YouTube for free. That's not how a company works.
Who here expected a company like this to pass up on making more money by allowing add blockers? You were cheating the system, and the system caught up. It sucks. Either find a new way to cheat the system or accept that they won.
I still get ads on twitch from time to time but it's just a 20sec thing at the start and once an hour or so. YouTube tho is unusable. Friends and I tried to get through ONE video on the discord YouTube activity and it's horrible. Every 5 minutes the same annoying bullshit. If it does not drive you insane, there is something wrong with you.
Only other legal option would be premium but I don't want to
This is when you're supposed to use the FOSS alternatives
Me personally because I don't have a Google account nor saw a real gain in getting one (for what I do in my day to day), I just switched to these for subscriptions.
+to that. However I haven't found proper alternative yet.
- I got so used that dump algorithm that at least 40% of times recommends what I'm actually interested at, that it feels so hard to go back to watch unordered vids
- Newer content is still lacking on alternatives. Like coding tutorials or documentaries etc.
- On the other hand I found many old forgotten internet classics on these alternative sites like old ads and funny clips that we used to watch at 240p back in the day.
Point one hits home. It's nice that I can look through my feed but I also want to find new stuff and piped is not giving me that. I still use it in case my yt account gets banned lol
arent thpse just frontends?
Yep, without the need of a Google acc. No shitty ads, more functionality, and they're typically more customizable :p
If they manage to kill ReVanced I'm done with YouTube. I'll subscribe to Nebula or something.
Use Invidious! No ads, no username required, no reporting to YouTube, Sponsorblock can be used, and you still get unlimited access to YouTube's content. There are dozens of instances, but inv.tux pizza usually works for me.
I know that Nebula has exclusive infotainment, but sometimes I just want to watch people be bad at video games.
I feel like this might be blasphemous around here, but I actually like being logged in and getting tailored algorithmic suggestions on YouTube. Unlike most people it seems to know my interests pretty well.
Same. I really like my newpipe, but the sheer amount of unfiltered fuckface influencer bullshit videos 'currently trending' on it's frontpage is more disgusting than any algorithmic youtube bubble will ever be.
If ads weren't riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious...
Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer
Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.
Time to use Firefox mobile with ublock origin
Only on Android tho, iPhone users can’t use Firefox extensions, for iOS, I recommend the Vivaldi browser, it has a built in ad blocker with the ability to add custom block lists