I will never tolerate ads. I will give up YouTube before I watch ads.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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Every time I see a youtuber cross post to peertube it makese happy.
I can tolerate ads as long as it's helping the creators and isn't used to make the platform worse. The first condition is only sometimes satisfied and the 2nd is being straight up violated.
If they can fix how garbage search is and put the dislike count back, I'll happily pay for premium as a thank you for making a great platform. But nope, they just focus on making the UI even worse.
No Google product will ever see my money. I will, however, donate to good content providers, and I do every now and then.
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War... War never changes.
If they're saying third party apps are fine as long as they show ads, I could see third-party apps displaying ads. And then having option to cover the add playback with a black screen, or with other content, but the default behavior would be to show the ad.
Sounds like trouble for Newpipe, Sponsorblock, etc...
SponsorBlock isn't affected at all, as I understood after reading an article. Why did you mention it?
I doubt it would affect Newpipe either honesty
Will lots of people stopped using adblockers last time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fuck 'em. I don't care if they don't know they're making things worse for everyone else; fuck 'em anyway.
Does NewPipe use the YouTube API, or is it a scraper? Also, how will this fix Vanced, that's using the actual YouTube app?
There are also browser extensions that just play the ads, muted, at like 100× speed. It might as well just be a tiny buffering hiccup at that speed.
I guess we'll need to see, but I'm not too worried.
It's a scraper. And, in theory, it shouldn't even cause any issues with ReVanced modified Youtube patches except if they need to be updated.
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Seems like a waste of imperial resources 🤔🤔🤔 what's the point of an arms race like that
One of my biggest pet peeves recently has been people trying to show me <30 second videos on their phone, and having to sit through a full ass 30 second advertisement. It takes such minimal effort to block the ads, you’ll make up the time invested within a week.
And you know what, as I’m typing this I’m realizing it’s not purely the ads that are annoying. Just don’t fucken show people random 30 second meme videos in person, it’s annoying as shit. Send a link or something, we all have phones.
/rant
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Well, hopefully my invidious instance holds up for a while
This is the best summary I could come up with:
YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile.
In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The following content is not available on this app.”
It also began disabling videos for users with an ad blocking extension enabled.
But now, YouTube says its policies don’t allow “third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership.” This appears to target mobile ad blockers like AdGuard, which lets you open YouTube within the ad blocking app, where you’ll get to view videos interruption-free.
“When we find an app that violates these terms, we will take appropriate action to protect our platform, creators, and viewers.”
This likely won’t come as pleasant news to all the users who watch YouTube through ad blocking apps, but it doesn’t look like YouTube is backing down in its battle against ad blockers anytime soon.
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I mean...yeah, of course this was going to happen. Did people think they would ignore 3rd party apps providing a work around for their ad block?
Revanced for the win, it's youtubes own app!
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