YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”
I think my viewing experience will be even worse if I turn off my ad blocker.
Youtube advertising is absolute trash. It’s already bad enough to sit through ads when you don’t even know if you want to watch the video. Their ads consist of fake Joe Rogans with tts voices advertising scams.
I get some dodgy casino and gambling ads … Before a children’s program. Reported the ad multiple times, but it keeps coming back under a different name.
which is a hilarious threat because the #1 way to make my viewing experience worse would be turning off my ad blocker, lmao
“if you don’t voluntarily make your experience 10x worse, we will make it 2x worse”
Ads have reached the level of “suboptimal viewing”.
How about you suck my balls accordingly, google?
How could it be worse than with ads?
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It’s official, Youtube now has people employed as product worseners.
YouTube has human employees? I thought they were just all bots.
Turning off your ad-blocker is like running in jail, naked. So no thanks, YT.
Both Firefox + uBlock Origin saved me countless times from malicious ads since years. You should do it too.
Keep it up, dumbasses.
Catch the hint…the harder you try the harder we do. There’s no trying from our end.
So I’m a little lazy and have to watch ads when I watch YouTube on my TV. I don’t care enough to fix this.
Anyways, I don’t mind the short ads. I get it, you gotta pay for your stuff somehow. What I don’t get is these ads that can stretch on for 10, 15, even 150 minutes. I think I had a 3 hour ad at one point. It’s insane. You should have to opt in to these ads that are longer than say 30 seconds.
Opt in?
A Google exec should be shot for any ads longer than 30 seconds.
I was taking a shower once and wanted some music. I started the YouTube app on my phone cause revanced was acting up at the time. It starte off mildly enough, with like 2x15seconds ads, but by the time I was all shampooed one of those huge ads started playing. It didn’t stop until I finished my shower. I was seeing red by the time I got out of the shower and turned it off.
I’d hazard a guess that this old quora post that was estimating the average American loses 4.2 years of their life on ads would now result in even more time lost on ads, but let’s go with 4.2 years per person. This means that for every 20 people, there’s one person’s lifetime of ads. “A life for a life” is a fair concept, Google. Start the culling. One Google employee shot for every 20 people that use YouTube. It’s the only way to atone.
I recently saved a post somewhere with a complete guide on cracked youtube on smart tv’s which wasn’t all too difficult iirc… let me know if you want me to dig it up.
Found it! https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition
How does this kill their platform if there’s no competition?
Let them keep this shit up and you’ll find out.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.
peertube exists
it’s in development, their new roadmap looks nice
The difficulty isn’t in developing a platform, but in actually hosting the videos.
Videos are huge files, and Peertube instances will have to make do with pennies in donations while paying for massive amounts of storage if they actually gain a userbase.
YouTube losing the war on AdBlockers, lol.
If for some reason you can’t use a full-on ad blocker, “SponsorBlock for Youtube” is another Firefox extension you can install. It doesn’t block ads per se, but it will auto-skip segments of a video that have been reported as ad content. Kind of a grassroots thing, like reporting cops on Waze.
How can they make the experience worse for people using adblock if they cant even detect it
If they can detect adblockers, why not just block everyone using one like they were doing previously?
I wonder if it’s a switch in strategy, i.e. The ad block ban popup gives clear notification to the user to update their adblock but slowing the video load speeds without giving feedback might be a more effective in slowing the arms race.
Google: “Fine, I’ll turn off your adblocker myself!” *rolling out Manifest v3*
I mean… it definitely will if you turn off your ad blocker.
