one day, ads will become completely unavoidable that not even something like yt-dlp or any other front ends will work.

>>105544272 (OP)
Then I won't watch YT.

>>105544272 (OP)
Already started moving away.

>>105544272 (OP)
My kids have been watching Minecraft videos all afternoon. No ads.

>>105544367
this
I've realized that any new content added is complete slop and its only purpose is to keep people sedated with constant flow of "wait, who the fuck actually cares" - type of videos.
I have a backlog of hundreds of educational videos that I need to backup for offline use, also ~20 year old songs and music that one day will absolutely disappear off of the platform never to be seen again.

>>105544367
/thread

i still dont get any ads
i just use ublock with firefox and its never failed me

swear everyone is making this shit up

is there anything worth watching on youtube?

>>105544367
Same.

>>105544483
Just old videos, many of them predating youtube itself. I just watch those and some sports shit.

>>105544483
young girls dancing

>>105544272 (OP)
Good, I will finally quit it.

>>105544506
the videos that teach you how to make or fix things are good too

My dad pays for premium for the whole family. I also get access to youtube music which is alright

>>105544554
my dad works at nintendo

>>105544561
Tell him to tell his bosses to stop being huge faggots

>>105544272 (OP)
Pretty sure "closing the loophole" is paying my ISP to throttle me.

My speed has been dropping to a crawl lately whenever I do a wrongthink online. I spent 40 minutes talking to a robot just so I could call a real person a dirty jew and accuse them of throttling me intentionally. They called me a skitzo and denied it of course. They said their techs were working in my area, to which I replied that I just drove by the local backbone and nobody is doing any work there. Then I threatened to report them to the FCC.

Magically my internet speed quadrupled. I hate the anti Christ and denounce the Talmud.

>>105544443
stopped working for me just now on pc, laptop is still fine

>>105544483
VOCALOID stuff if you aren't familiar with jap distribution platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKGK7Ma_j8&t=2800s
Music in general too, unironically, but lately they're been hunting down original uploads and deleting those and replacing them with shitty remastered versions. Still a good source for concerts and self-published stuff though.

Everyone needs to remember YouTube is only big because people allow it to be. If YouTube becomes unusable people will just get familiar with other outlets. People are already sick of all the censorship and self censorship people are doing to avoid strikes/demonetization. Every big tech platform is just a MySpace move away from becoming irrelevant. There's nothing but complacency getting in the way of that happening again, but admittedly people have become complacent. Force feeding ads risks the captive audience so they will probably just keep prodding.

One thing that isn't often said is that the content creators themselves will be pissed off too if they have to watch ads on their end too. The big corporate shill channels and (((reviewers))) like MKBHD aka brownandbadtechtips won't bat an eye because they're soulless husks of spam, disinformation, and sponsorships but the real people making honest content the good old fashioned way might just start uploading elsewhere if YouTube pisses them off enough and if that happens, it's over, with no turning back.
Other platforms exist, they're just not being used.

>>105544537
Yes, but only if they're not too outrageous. I hate the typical corporate/infomercial shenanigans, with a fucking passion

>>105544272 (OP)
just use brave

>>105544272 (OP)

>>105544272 (OP)
Still works on my machine

>>105544272 (OP)
I would just stop watching.
Good fucking riddance

>>105544272 (OP)
I use every youtube ad blockers under the sun. I also haven't watched a youtube video for months.

>>105544413
YouTube kids has ads too now and it's only going to get worse.

>>105545711
Teach them to accept the goy slop when they're young, duh.

don't worry Ad blocker will also get more advancements

>>105544554
Lol your dad's a cuck

>>105544272 (OP)
google gave me a message: "experiencing interruptions?" - click on it: shit about disabling extensions.

google can go lick the sweat off my balls.

>>105545641
wow what the actual hell is stored there?

How hard would it be to train an AI to figure when an ad is playing and mute the audio and darken the screen? once they start embedding ads in the video stream and kill proxies in territories without ads that seems like the only bypass left

>>105544443

It's region specific.

Semi related but youtube ads are devolving in to the most atrocious AI generated slop> We may be witnessing the death of advertising.

>>105545786
>How hard would it be to train an AI
wouldn't need memeshit ai. you just need something that can read the screen for something like skip in x amount of time graphics etc.
>once they start embedding ads in the video stream
didn't work for twitch.

>>105544582
based

>>105545806
The twitch trick uses proxies to connect to regions without ads while ads play IIRC which I think would be trivially easy to fix by google.

>>105545781
About 10K vids, they span various genres and topics, but a lot of them are stuff like YTPs and other shit that's bound to get copyright struck eventually (Also, about 4K-ish is comprised of my backlog)

>>105544272 (OP)
It's amazing to me that ads are still worth anything. Surely there must come a point where the amount of money spent showing me ads far exceeds however much I could possibly spend on the advertised products?

>>105545786
What will happen is people will share web media the same way we share torrents of movies and games. You'll run a web browser extension that references a list of alternative sources for every URL that serves the content with ads stripped out. Your browser will also cache this version and act as a server to peers.

>>105544582
Your ISP does not give a single shit if you call someone a dirty jew online. You probably do need to take your meds.

>>105545847
You should spend some time around normies. They click on Instagram ads etc all the time and buy the shit.

why don't they just embed the ad directly into the video stream and do some shit with the api to make it so you can't seek forward until you're done?

>>105545774
Nice playground insults

Youtube is now just straight up malware because of this. It uses tons of ram and cpu.

>>105545864
That would make youtube unresponsive, hardly seekable garbage more than it already is.

But then again google has the kind of brain tumor to do it and many of it's users won't even squeak at the change, so might happen.

>>105544272 (OP)
just delete your cache if youtube detects your browser using ublock origin

>>105544626
delete your cache

>>105544272 (OP)

This. In the future, luxury will be the freedom to direct your own attention.

The masses will be forced to sit through advertisement in order to use all the widely available and "free" services. And I think that pretty soon, ads that are completely unskippable, pausing when you tab or look away, will be more and more common.

>>105544272 (OP)
I want to squeeze my cock into Youtube's ever tightening loophole

>>105544272 (OP)
Ummm, use case for me caring about you watching ads?

>>105544483
College lectures

>>105545864
because they need to be able to run targeted ads for each unique user, to extract the most amount of money from advertisers
the whole system is based on robo-auctions that happen behind the scenes in a few milliseconds

>>105544483
lectures, restorations (real ones not jeet/SEA shit), history, non-lecture but educational stuff. There's a lot, it's just mostly slop these days, which is what happens when it becomes about money.

>>105544367
this. I will rather yt-dlp and if they shoot that down too, just stop altogether.

>>105544272 (OP)
I haven't had any problems. You all just need to get better.

>>105544413
Your kids should be reading books, not numbing their brain with YouTube slop.

>>105544272 (OP)
Does this mean more artificial delays?
I already get popups saying its the adblock lol.

>>105544272 (OP)
Went to test it and ublock still works for me luckily. Also this >>105544367

>>105545863
>They click on Instagram ads
What? People actually willingly click on ads?

>>105544272 (OP)
one day even the normies will be forced to admit that RMS was right.

>>105544367
Simple as

>>105544417
>>105544483
People like this think they are clever saying that there is nothing worth watching on youtube, but what they actually mean is that they are intellectually incapable of learning from the vast amounts of knowledge on the site and are easily distracted by nonsense.
You come across as retarded when you type shit like this anon.

>>105544272 (OP)
uBlock Origin.
Also, fake news.

>>105546800
There's almost nothing of value on youtube. Tutorials are 99% of the time worthless or subpar advice and 99% of tutorials are just people ripping each other off and regurgitating the same crap over and over again.

You get the best advice from searching for some obscure forum no one has ever heard of or just coming here.

>>105546800
There is no "vast amount of knowledge" in youtube, the "vast amount" of it is complete slop, the platform merely exists to line the pockets of failed artists and people with no marketable skills other than their ugly mug and bad takes.
Be my guest, show us some of this stuff you're personally "learning" from, practice what you preach.

>>105544272 (OP)

Dont care.
I'm been living ad free for decads, not going back.
Youtube is trash anyways nowadays.

>>105544367
yep

>>105544272 (OP)
And the only one who will lose anything from it will be youtube

I disabled my adblock for youtube extension yet it still doesnt work. Their primarily killing off their own platform so they have a reason to shutdown youtube for "userbase declining" or "our tech is too old" then all the Pajeets will rename all references to YouTube as "was" on wikipedias. Site is nothing but full blown bot accounts spamming ai videos and the rest is political/disinformation shit or some brown skin colorized 1900's videos as a hobby whatever.

>>105546529
My gf is relatively tech-literate for a girl (she torrents, mods games etc) and yet she is constantly showing me random stupid shit she wants that she found through Instagram ads

>>105544272 (OP)
I get some ads now with the latest UBO. Haven't got the No Ad-Block Allowed pop-up anymore.
Doesn't happen on every video though.

>>105547182
Avoid buying dropship products on insta etc most the time they reach customs and ends up being either illegal or infringes someones copyright and you get fined. The ones selling you the product are the ones reporting your address/name after sending it too you.

>>105547211
>The ones selling you the product are the ones reporting your address/name after sending it too you.
What is the incentive for the seller to do this?

>>105547227
I assume it would be this. I'm NTTA.
>The "moiety program" refers to the Moiety Statute (19 U.S.C. §1619), which allows individuals who provide information leading to the recovery of customs revenue, or violations of customs/navigation laws, to apply for a monetary award.

>>105544272 (OP)
still ad free for me, not my problem

>>105546943
>>105546972
Do you work for google or something? I don't know why else you would try to chase smart adblocking users off the platform with retarded boomer takes like this.

>>105546943
>>105546972
We are in the presence of /g/ royalty that
>never watch tutorials, or seek advice on anything
>are basically peerless research scientists
>never enjoy any entertainment
>have never themselves produced anything of value and needed somewhere to be shared

I just starting getting ads on YouTube like yesterday evening.

I've been using uBlock forever without any issues.
A couple of days ago, I had the warning popup, but found some fixes on /g/.

Now the ads are there.
Every video. There are even sponsored videos when I search for something.
It's exactly as if I had deactivated uBlock.

Any idea what the fuck is happening out of the sudden?

>>105544272 (OP)
kikes can brag all they want but since people behind ublock are more competent than all the shitskin "engineers" working for FAANG for 10 rupees per hour, they won't do much.

>>105544483
BBC archived videos so I can pretend I live in the 80s by watching it on my CRT TV and anime that isn’t on DVD that I could also watch on said CRT

>>105544272 (OP)
> one day, ads will become completely unavoidable
The exact opposite actually. Ads are on borrowed time. In the future we will have AI powered adblockers which will replace the ads with a black screen. So even though will have to sit through the ads duration, at least you won't suffer mind rape.

>>105544367
at this point youtube has been getting worse and worse for years.

Gone are the days of peaceful autists building weird and random shit in garages. I mean they're still out there, but this video is sponsored by raycon..

>>105546539
We will just destroy the infrastructure. If I can't get access then nobody will.

>>105547482
hack the planet hackerman

>>105545804
So which regions are getting shafted?
America?

Then I'll simply stop using Youtube. There is nothing on there now that I'll miss. I almost exclusively use it for music nowadays anyway.

>>105544367
Nah you won't. Every time special snowflake resistance fighters like you proclaim they will boycott [asshole brand] they just get bigger and more assholey because you come crawling back a week later.

>>105544367
same
any time my adblocker stops working I quit a website cold turkey
I've done it with twitch and I do it with youtube

>>105547649
you can block ads on twitch with a script
not like twitch has anything valuable apart from occasional background noise

>>105544629
The difference to myspace is - Youtube pays money to creators. Every hobby creator wants to make money with their content, so they go to youtube, hoping to go viral.
Also if there is another plattform, like tiktok, it will be forbidden, because no kikelcontroll.

>>105546005
At the core it's just lines of code checking other lines of code.

>>105547474
Sponsorships are fine, the issue is that it is mostly scam.

youtube has completely buckbroken ubo for now
wouldn't think the jeets had it in 'em

>>105547620
>if you find youtube ads so intrusive that you'd just stop using the side if they become unavoidable then it means that you're a "special snowflake resistance fighter"
Is this the new line from youtube corporate? I don't think it's going to work very well.

>>105546005
>In the future, luxury will be the freedom to direct your own attention.
This is already the status quo, in a not that apparent sense.

>>105547744
yeah same here, it just literally doesn't work anymore on my machine, starting like now.

>>105547861
opening vids in a private tab seems to help

>>105547744
Yup now the player doesn't even load, completely blank screen where it should be

>>105544483
The supply of music is good. There's lots of anons who've uploaded stuff you won't find on spotify or other sites. It can also be fun to follow random people/smaller channels that talks about subjects you like. They don't censor as much as facebook and instagram (despite censoring a whole lot) so there's still controversial political and other taboo discussions that can be worth checking out here and there. But in general i'll agree it's hard to find something worthwhile.

>>105547876
on my side everything plays, but there are ads and sponsored vids just as if i had ublock turned off.

Why is Google including their app store suddenly turned into a cesspool of ads like they jerk off to this shit. Ads were never useful not once in the existance of the internet, only wasted bandwidth and weird jewish forced crap. Inject ads in your service expect everyone to leave and find an alternative same goes for android we dont have time for this bullshit fucking around waiting to skip dumbass ads its nonsense.

>>105548322
well i was going to upgrade my phone but now that i realised yea im buying the same thing so it can load ads faster. Does iPhone have ads on their stuff? If not i might have to do what i said id never do in my lifetime... going to Apple.

>>105548340
Buying a dumbphone to avoid ads is out of the question as youtube still has them but no one bothers with that website anymore right now. Jews will be there waiting for you to make that switch and block your access to cellphone connectivity therefore you WILL buy another smartphone and you WILL watch these silly ads to brain rot you.

Ad are blocked on brave currently, had a problem not long ago where youtube was telling me to disable the ad blocker but now it seems fixed.

>>105544272 (OP)
Lol ok
I'm using it right now

>>105544272 (OP)
oy vey
Refreshing the page on brave makes the gay disclaimer go away, but lately I'm NOOTICING a lot of freezes on youtube, even when my connection is otherwise stable...

>>105544272 (OP)
And on that day I will download videos I like, manually edit out the ads and archive/upload them some place else. My autistic spite knows no bounds.

Bruh they literally tried DRM'ing videos from downloaders. Ytdlp still passes it.

>>105546005
(((they))) are already planning to inject ads in our dreams
it's all so tiresome

>>105547850
You will be back.

>>105544582
keep fighting those dirty kikes, fellow traveller!

>>105547679
This is not true at all. Many people just want to create something they are passionate about. They will not have the budget for as fancy things though for obvious reasons.

>>105549238
>This is not true at all. Many people just want to create something they are passionate about.
Most people nowadays, even the poorest of them all (perhaps especially them), are uploading absolute garbage riddled with every trick in the book and every trendy tactic so they go viral at the cost of exploiting NPCs attention, looking for a way out of a system they themselves are feeding by trying to escape it. It's just how late stage capitalism it is. Genuine self-expression is dead and buried.

>>105544483
arnold schwarzenegger prank calls from 15 years ago

>>105547654
Implying youtube provides anything of value.

>>105545864
>why don't they just embed the ad directly into the video stream
they do that already with sponsors and you can block it with sponsor block. it skips that part automatically

>>105544483
yes
https://www.youtube.com/@SEA

I hate that ads have gone from "try to sell you on something" to "engagement at any cost".

It seems to be born from "as long as people looked at our ad it was a successful campaign". There's no elegance in it.

Plus a lot of websites seem to exist purely to make you look at ads, even if they might bury worthwhile content within that. It's all so aimless and not based on any kind of data.

>>105547620
You have no idea how annoying ads are. I stopped using twitch completely because of ads. There is no way I could keep using youtube even if I wanted if there was an ad every couple of videos.

I'll just watch movies, play games or shit post on 4chan more.

>>105549499
>Plus a lot of websites seem to exist purely to make you look at ads
You mean YouTube? That's its exact description.

Ublock origin
Sponsorblock
Youtube speed controller.

Watch every video at 4x speed while sponsorblock cuts out filler

>>105544272 (OP)
i haven't watched youtube at all for the past 5 years, having it completely blocked at DNS level as well as in my firewall
occasionally when someone links me a video i will try watch it through invidious, and if invidious doesnt work then i just dont care and dont watch it at all
it's entirely possible to free yourself from corporate video platforms, it's just that you a are a retarded nolife that depends on dopamines from youtube

>>105549127
Very Schwabian post.

>>105549930
zu vill be back, zu vill vatch the sloppa.

>>105549880
based

>>105549880
What's the purpose in aggressively blocking it like that, spiteful reaction to getting permabanned or something?

>>105544272 (OP)
Works on my machine :)

>>105544554
what is even the point in paying for it if they STILL show you fucking ads, I don't understand this cucked shit, the whole point in a paid service was to avoid dealing with slop, and yet it seems the kikes just couldn't help themselves

>>105544272 (OP)
You can always just add your favorite channels to an Atom/RSS reader and then pass the video URLs to JD2, yt-dlp, etc.

>>105549460
that's youtubers not youtube

>>105544272 (OP)
well, she already provided and demostrated the answer to that

>>105544367
This. JDownloader 2 + youtube url and they can succ me

>>105544417
most of my time on youtube is spent watching older things anyways
i'll just watch computer chronicles on archive

I hate it when no one gets my meme reference. Your youtube answer is there.

>>105544367
fpbp

>>105547272
Can you point to an example of a useful tutorial that isn't better served in a written format?

>>105547373
I think Google is bribing the adblockers. Adblock Plus has been doing this for a while; it just switches itself off sometimes when I go on YouTube.

>>105547740
The more people get mistreated by YouTube, the more likely they are to get a VPN, which is the only thing I ever see sponsoring videos. So those sponsorships aren’t going anywhere.

>>105552831
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s58rW0_LN4

>>105553037
just use text to image lol

>>105544272 (OP)
I would watch ads if i could pick the country of origin to be honest.
But as i am forced to watch the complete slop that is advertising of the third world i live in, i block the ads completely.

>>105553055
theyre not any better here, most of them are for shit thats illegal not to buy like insurance

just use Russia VPN, youtube don't serve any ads here, the perks of getting sanctioned.

>>105547579
https://isthischannelmonetized.com/data/youtube-countries-highest-rpm/
Basically YouTube is losing (out on) money if you're in one of these countries and use an ad-blocker.

>>105552079
>and yet it seems the kikes just couldn't help themselves
When it comes to advertising companies the first thing you need to know is that they want to have their cake and eat it too, and any concessions to their victims are temporary at most. I guarantee every single reptile in charge of premium said verbatim "we'll let them pay to not have ads for just long enough to build a subscriber base, and then when we think people won't leave we'll start making them watch ads even though they're paying"

It's truly one of the most vile industries out there, I can think of no other type of person I'd want to punch in the face more if I met them on the street.

>>105544272 (OP)
Tf you mean unavoidable? Nigga just close the tab wtf.

>>105544367
fpbp
Youtube is vastly overestimating how much people care about that shit website now
If it wasn't for 10 year old children watching nonstop slop, I honestly believe that website would've gone under by now

>>105549569
More than that. Clickbait and sports news sites are like that too.

>>105553335
To be brutally honest YT have some of the rarest stuff you won't be able to find on google or super exclusive private torrents sites.
I'm sorry but some videos only exist on YT and some dudes private server cluster because he saved it in 2009. At this closing YT would be a crime against humanity.

>>105544272 (OP)
Why did this shit suddenly got slower out of nowhere? I knew they are up for something bad

>>105553035
>kitchen stuff for cooking channel
>soldering station for electronics
You get the idea, shame most channels just do generic ones.

Friendly reminder: indians do not mind ads, the natural anger response everyone else has when their slop is interrupted by ads does not exist on indians

>>105544367
this guy gets it

>>105553238
The worst thing about it all.. it actually works.. I remember when Netflix had the gall to not only bump adds for lower tiers but to increase the price by a good jump, people went apeshit over it.. well, they said they did, then it came out Netflix had the biggest quarter ever, people just stuck with the fucked-up price, these companies know they can drain people and they'll be happy about it :(
and if you try to tell them they are getting fucked people get mad at YOU..

Ads are malware and will simply not be allowed to run on my machine at any cost.

>>105555360
All the people who actually cared left years before that because of shit like "dear white people"

>>105546800
Most educational content on youtube is people reading research pappers and books, so yeah, it's just slop.
And it gets worst with people narrating movies. Or those stupid tittles like "the problem with (insert thing)"

Do these faggot zoomers and alpha gens realize that the reason why we flocked to the internet in the first place was because it was uncensored and completely devoid of corporate control. We preferred youtube because it didn't have any fucking ads that we had to deal with when watching television. Youtube has basically become the new cable TV as in none of the shit they show on it is enjoyable anymore because it's all been watered down and completely sterilized. It's all just bullshit slop made by people with no real creativity. Nothing but reaction channels, review snobs, AI narrator bullshit. Have you started missing actual television shows? Because I sure fucking do. Take true crime content for example. TV crime shows were MAX comfy. The production value was there. The narrator didn't sound like a virgin weeb teen trying to sound ominous and it didn't sound like artificial robotic slop either. It was just nice. Fucking miss TV. Youtube content creators don't know who they're kidding. They couldn't make proper content to save their fucking life.

>>105549460
Fuck that I aint missing Nobbleberry

>>105547272
But, anon... they are absolutely right and you're a retarded faggot.
>>105553037
If you watch this to learn to paint, you're never gonna make it. You lack everything needed to become a painter.

>>105555673
I2P hidden sites are the future of the internet at this point. I really need to get around to setting up a node one of these days

>>105544533
you're thinking of tiktok

youtube NEVER fucks with me and has never shown me a single ad or any sort of warning.
>t. in USA running Gentoo GNU/Linux+KDE+Firefox ESR+uBlock Origin

>>105544367
yeah, I tried it out with the forced ads, and the viewing experince is completely unbearable. Ads every few minutes.

>>105555784
They aren't. They could be the future of the non-normie internet, reverting the Great Normie Invasion of the internet 2007-2012) or even the Eternal September (1993), but that would take a great collective effort. I use I2P constantly and would love for it to happen, but I'm not sure enough developers can get behind the idea.

Alphabet will pivot from ads to subscriptions for YouTube and AI. Youtube only became profitable once YouTube premium had hundred of millions of subscribers, before that Alphabet lost money for years.

This dropped today:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/google-buyouts-search-ads-unit.html

Alphabet is telling their engineers to accept/embrace the pivot or leave.

>>105556196
Please, God, let this happen.

>>105556196
>only now are they requiring *only some* teams to actually show up to an office to work
I wonder how many Goolag employees still wear a face diaper.

It didn't even give me the warning to not use an adblocker, YT finally just cut right through it and showed me an ad

If you sign in to YouTube and you’re tempted to purchase anything you see in the ads then do this.

https://youtu.be/T5MimQxzNX0&t=11

>>105553081
Cool, I didn’t know about that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/19c8wjy/the_list_of_adfree_youtube_country/

>>105544272 (OP)
>>105544367

>>105556449
same here

>>105544582
>skitzo
Why do schizos always spell schizo this way?

>>105544443
you have to be logged out for it to stop working

>>105544367
It's that easy, the only new movies I've watched the last 10 years is Dune 1 and 2 for example. There's loads of other things to do, I've read a lot more books since, there's good entertainment for the at least a couple of hundred years.

>>105556666
checked

>>105544272 (OP)
Can still watch YouTube with chromium-based browsers and ublock. They aren't even close to getting through Firefox yet.
Just don't log in.

>>105556196
wasn't their move from ads because they got in deep shit over their ad sense monopoly?

>>105556586
>Pirate from these companies!
>ACK NO GOYIM, NOT US, WE ARE A SMALL INDEPENDANT COMPAN!!
Linushypocritips

Wow, just around the same time as manifest v3. What a coincidence

>>105556666
so much checked. Throwaway entertainment is virtual pollution anyway.

>>105556666
checked btw

>>105547464
Have you got a loicense for that?

>>105544272 (OP)
Remember what happened to TV?

>>105552079
This is targeting people who don't pay for premium now. They're hoping that by making ads sufficiently insufferable, giving people a sufficiently cheap cure, and making regular video creators subsidize their broken model (music is exempt because you don't fuck with jews) they can squeeze some more blood out of the stone.

>>105544367
this
i will use youtube as long as it is useful, it's still extremely useful. brave with ublock origin, still no ads, youtube knows i'm blocking them but they're chickening out.
the worst thing would be losing the music library, anytime i want to listen to something there are pretty even odds i can find it on youtube, but i can pirate music. streaming just made it so i didn't have to pirate to listen.

>>105556586
this is probably corporate and not actually linus. i don't believe linus is that petty. guy is rich af.

>>105558793
Most rich people are incredibly petty. I imagine it's even worse if you made your fortune from a Kafkaesque system you can never truly understand. The insecurity never goes away.

>>105558827
yeah that's true, it's always really well-off middle class people that sweat shit like sub-$5 convenience fees

>>105544272 (OP)
>one day, ads will become completely unavoidable
Then I will stop using internet. I already don't have tv, I think I can survive without the internet. People survived 10000 years without internet, I can manage.

>>105544272 (OP)
If YouTube goes down, what have you saved off of it so you can watch in a post-YT world?

I installed AdBlock on top of uBlock and now the ads and sponsored videos on YouTube are gone, for the moment. Using Edge while logged in to YouTube by the way.

>>105558761
old tv wasn't so bad when they threw commercials on every 30-45 minutes. youtube has it worst when they do it every 2-3 minutes...

>>105559123
Old content was also designed around adbreaks, so there would be a scene change, or pause when it was going to be an adbreak, now you get them in the middle of a sentence.

>>105559016
Are you logged in? For me, it depends entirely on whether I am logged into YouTube for how well the adblockers work.

>>105556196
>finance chief Anat Ashkenazi
LOL

>>105559270
Yeah I'm logged in.
uBlock just completely stopped working yesterday.
I added like three more adblockers this morning just to see, and found that adding AdBlock actually worked. I assume Google will soon "fix" this though.

>>105544367
i'm basically at this point already

>>105544272 (OP)
And then, for no reason at all, TikTok will take advantage of jewtubes greed and make watching fun people videos an adfree experience.

>>105559270
>logged into YouTube

for what godforsaken reason would you log into youtube unless you are a youtuber, aka not consuming your own slop

I tried to login to my Gmail with Brave and it started saying my browser is not secure. Anyone else got the issue?

>>105559348
some "mature themed" videos require signing in (not talking about porn)

>>105559655
fair enough, I don't have patience to deal with age restriction

>>105544272 (OP)
This is actually illegal under EU law btw.

Never seen any ads on Youtube with just FF+ublock Origin, is it because I am on Windows 7?

>>105559323
The Chinese government could literally fund the bandwidth themselves and run TikTok at a loss forever until YouTube goes out of business. This would be based, of course, but I don’t really trust them either.

>>105544483
oh yes fap fap
>>105558936
soon this won't even possible because google might implement site wide drm

>>105553590
Loading vids has become slower for me as well at least on certain browsers. There's always something going on with youtube.

i just want youtube to stop turning on ambient mode. I hate it so much

>>105552615
every time I see news of a company pushing ads harder, I ask myself how close are we to seeing this happen again

>>105544272 (OP)
works for me

>>105558793
I'm pretty sure he's made statements like that on camera.

>>105544367
You can't not use it.

>>105558936
Mostly misc. videos that I feel might get taken down soon. Once (if) I'm not a poorfag anymore I'll probably buy a bunch of hdds and start mass archiving channels I care about. Right now I'm willing to leave it in the hands of fate because a lot of them are popular enough that someone's probably already archived them

>>105544272 (OP)
Nobody is going to put up with ads. Either they'll fail technically and people will still use adblock/yt-dlp, they'll back down, or another platform will take the top spot.

>>105544272 (OP)
Videos often take a bit longer to load and I get the "experiencing interruptions?" popup, but other than that it works fine for me

>>105555870
The ads are unbearable. It's the same ones all the time and they are super shitty too. I haven't seen a single ad for years and I can't take it. I will not watch the ads.

>>105544367
Honestly this. Mandatory ads would be the last straw for me. I'm already not too fond of the platform and only check once in a while.
>open youtube
>scroll for a bit on the feed
>it's all shit I don't care about and clickbait
>check formerly great channels
>they're washed and out of ideas
>close youtube
My youtube experience 8 times out of 10. The other 2 are usually clicking on something that looks interesting, only to be disappointed by the actual video because it's full of padding to reach 10 minutes of "content".
>"but first we have to start from the beginning...he was born in 193-"
>close youtube

>>105544483
ManlyBadassHero

>>105545847
A lot of advertising is more about bribery than actually getting normies to buy things.
For example medical companies, car companies, and tobacco companies (b4 they got banned) would pay big advertising dollars to television networks as an incentive to keep negative press about their fuck ups out of the news cycle.
With something like google it’s an even more convoluted spiderweb of unwritten favors, except it’s wrapped in an extremely opaque defacto monopoly.
The only time putting effort into an ad actually pays off is with kids, who are the only ones actually dumb enough to buy a brand of cereal because they like the cartoon characters.

>>105544272 (OP)
I mean, I've already started putting my time into twitch instead of youtube anyway after that adblock BS a couple years back.
I've been saying this every time this youtube ad thing come up, whether its adblock related or YT premium related.
MAKE ACCOUNTS ON OTHER VIDEO SHARING SITES.
especially if you are a creator. I mean, why aren't you already doing this? what harm is there in making a video for youtube and then uploading copies of it on other sites. even if it doesn't generate much views or money, it's not like it requires any extra work from you, especially if you own a channel that is backed by a team as your editor can just upload the video to multiple sites.
the immediate benefit is reaching more people and the long term benefit is taking power away from youtube by giving viewers alternative ways to find your content.

>>105560550
wdym? Are you locked in a basement and forced to watch youtube slop?

Is there any way to block certain geographic regions on youtube search? I'm sure if I blocked SEA and India 90% of slop would disappear.

>>105544272 (OP)
good

>>105562003
God I wish.

>>105544272 (OP)
I don't understand why they haven't already just injected ads directly into the video stream itself, and limited the download speed to be around the same as the playback speed. I think that would end the usefulness of practically any ad blocker overnight.

>>105562045
Because they tailor ads to the user meaning that they'd have to reencode the whole video for every person that watches it

>>105562186
>they'd have to reencode the whole video for every person that watches it
no they wouldn't, the video is already delivered as chunks anyway, you can just inject ad chunks in the middle that use the same encoder parameters and then the client can't tell the difference.
how do you think live streams work?

>>105544367
FPBP
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>>105562216
I dunno there must be some complication to it otherwise they 100% would have done it, it's not a hard idea to come up with

>>105544272 (OP)
When blocking ads is outlawed, only outlaws will block ads

>>105562247
The complication is fucking up their CDN caches and then also having to host the ad content themselves (ublock etc work by blocking the domain the ads come from, moving them to yidtube servers would cause a lot of extra bandwidth on them)
Actually now that I think about it the actual complication is that pajeets are running the show and they can’t implement shit like that to save their life. Sometimes I thank their incompetence for saving us from complete cyber dystopia

>>105562247
the only complication is their moral dilemma from alienating too many users by being hostile to them

>>105545864
If I can't seek forward, then it is a sign I'm in an ad and I can make an extension that automatically mutes and blackens the video stream until I can skip again. Next level: an extension that records the video while cutting out the skipped parts. It will take time to watch each video but for a staunch anti-ad person like myself it is preferable.
>>105546237
They can do the ad embedding on-demand and only then send the video stream to you. It will be resource intensive but it is possible. They can also make non-ad-blocking users receive regular ass ads, and only have a fallback embedded ad for ad-blocking users.
>>105549460
Sponsorblock requires volunteers who mark the sponsorship parts, and is usually only good for big normalfag channels. He also implies that they will make this unskippable somehow.

>>105562535
>It will be resource intensive but it is possible
It shouldn't be resource intensive at all. video streams are made up of chunks, splicing chunks together is basically free.

>>105560518
I am so fucking glad that anti-vax is mainstream in the US now so that their fucking population will just die of from curable diseases soon. Bonus point for their new isolationism that will make the retards stay in that shithole.

>>105544367
this. already haven't watched it for years. anything worth watching is on multiple platforms anyways. YT doesn't really have any market dominance.

>>105560591
I just had tampons advertised to me. I am a 37-year-old single male in northern England who was clicking a video of 1980s pop music from communist Hungary. But all they could sell me was tampons. They're not even trying.

>>105560550
I can't use it if there's ads. So if they ever do manage to detect & block uBlock Origin with Firefox, then that basically means they've shut down Youtube.

>>105544367
this

>>105563796
Back when I was going through an incel phase, I kept getting ads for baby products

>>105558936
Nothing on yt was worth saving

>>105552079
there's something so jewish to serve ads to your paid customers

>>105544272 (OP)
Not my problem. I'm gonna keep burdenmaxxing until they kick me out, then I'll move on to the next slop.

>>105564001
Hot take that’s probably not that hot: advertising should be 100% unconditionally “fuck holding a trial somebody will merc you in the middle of the night if you even think of doing this” illegal on anything that you have to pay to access. Make the adkikes choose: you can have subscriptions OR you can have ads, you can’t have both. What’s it going to be?
oh, also, I’d make any technology that exists to combat adblockers illegal, but this is beside the point. If yidtube actually had sense they’d charge the uploaders for hosting instead of the viewers for accessing

>>105544533
Kys retard

>>105564001
it's basically to brute force the lower-class subs into paying for the more expensive option, but give it time, either the highest tier will be price hiked or put ads in as well,

>>105558936
A bunch of video tutorial series on graphics and compiler programming and a ton of memes. I gotta pull it all off my old desktop and make multiple backups of them all. One of these days.

I just taped the upper part of the screen where ads go and I don't see ads anymore

>>105544367
fpbp

>>105544367
This. I've already watched less and less videos since few years, now I watch like 10 vids a week.
But you know what? They won. This is actually what they want.
You either watch ad and generate revenue, or fuck off and don't waste bandwidth.

>>105547620
i stopped using duolingo because of their shitty ads, kys submissive little faggot

>>105544272 (OP)
Still works on my machine. Firefox+UBO.

>>105560222
they had a memory hole on firefox for a whole year where a single tab could flip a switch when loaded for too long and suck up the entire unallocated ram.
The EU should sue youtube into bakruptcy for the 6 gigatons CO2 pointlessly emmited annualy from clientside due to their "Actual indian promt engineers"

>>105548411
i run ublock on top of brave logged out and i havent seen any warnings about adblockers or anything yet. however i can no longer stream youtube audio by piping it into mpd with yt-dlp because i only get m3u8 audio streams now and im too retarded to fix it

>>105544483
Youtube unironically has an endless amount of content for whatever interest you might have. If you have a hobby, there's an entire community of 'tubers built around it, no matter how niche that hobby may be. If you want to learn something, there's tutorials and educational vids. If you want news updates, there's that. If you want live streams of ongoing things, there's that. If you want to use youtube for music it is extremely good for that as well.

Yeah there's a lot of fluffy garbage on youtube but there's also a ton of great content, not to mention genuinely funny shit, great animations as well. I just watch it on Brave browser which is running Ublock I believe and never have an issue with ads. I've gotten the disclaimer that ads are le bad a couple times here and there but never for more than a day.

Most youtubers get their money not from ad revenue but rather sponsorships, so using an adblocker isn't gonna bust their wallet too much. If you really wanna support them they're always shilling patreon or buy me a coffee or some bullshit. Never paid a youtuber a cent. Well I bought a shirt from a very small channel of some cool dudes years ago, but that's it.

>>105562535
Me on the left. Pay your fair share, chuds.

>>105547620
I stopped watching television entirely because of ads.

>>105544272 (OP)
i'll just pirate them

>>105544272 (OP)
Rumble exists.

>>105544272 (OP)
Gonna violate an NDA, but I'm part of a community that basically gets paid to suck off Google products and services and I gave them a lot of shit last week for what they did to YouTube with ads to people from Google that listen, which I think contributed somewhat what just happened here.

>>105544367
Also this, I basically told them to get fucked knowing that they'd still pay me anyways for giving some sort of feedback.

Also Google, if you're reading this post, suck my dick and pay up dumbfucks.

>>105544272 (OP)
>shit becomes shittier
There's very little worth watching on youtube now and getting worse by the day.

>>105566179
>bestiality
this is a blue board

>>105544367
I agree with the sentiment. uBlock & sponsor skip are a must. I, too, will simply quit once ads are embedded into the actual video. It seems like the only thing stopping them from realizing it is creator backlash.

Unfortunately, this is actually the preferable situation for YouTube though, as AdBlock users don't generate any profits and they still generate costs.

>>105545777
Anyone got a ublock filter for this crap?
I try using the filter tool but it goes away before I can accurately highlight the whole element.

Speaking of this, I've been getting the whole "experiencing interruption" issue for months now, it just hardly ever shows the box. Firefox w/ ublock origin. I assume they throttle Firefox clients or something, the video takes a few seconds to load initially while chrome loads instantly. Now that box shows up for virtually every video I watch.

>>105544367
Holy Based!

>>105553081
lmao, so they still serve them the content just not the nagging ads?
no wonder they want the war to go on
Imagine getting Ukraine back AND not having ads. LMAO.

I just got the gayest, most passive aggressive adblock message
>click video
>it stays "loading"
>little pop up in the corner says "Experiencing interruptions? Find out why."
>click it
>takes you to the YT help page with a # anchor to the "try turning off adblock" section.
At least on Chrome they just tell you they're not gonna play the video until you turn it off. But on FF they're just making playback shitty then telling you to turn off adblock in the gayest possible way. Whose idea was this?

>>105562003
Same, I want to stop hearing burgers say their overpriced made in USA shit are cheap and affordable "this is the best bag for EDC for only half your sea monkey monthly salary!"

>>105562535
>2022
there's nothing worth buying or torrenting produced past 2010

can you clowns stop pretending the only content on youtube is shit produced for and on it. there's tons of media and (obscure) internet history, some of it has no backups and nobody will think about them until it's too late

>>105544483
There's like 38,000 years worth of videos on YouTube. If you honestly believe there isn't any good content in there, it is you that is in fact a retarded person.

>>105544582
meds buddy

>>105544367
You'll miss the videos and end up back on the site anyway. You can't resist.

>>105570436
The problem is they make it incredibly difficult to find. The search is worthless and actively working against your interests, you basically just have to find a direct link somewhere.

>>105544483
There's tons of great content on Youtube. The issue is that you have to know exactly what you're looking for, since their algorithms lean heavily towards recommending the worst slop available.

>>105544272 (OP)
Does yt-dlp still work if I pass it a cookie from an account that subscribes to YouTube Premium? I don't mind throwing my money at the problem if it means I can keep data hoarding YouTube videos.

>>105544367
feepee beepee

i wonder how many libraries of alexandria google will have burnt down if they kill youtube

>>105571135
the 2nd part of this is that most creators either don't know or don't have the means to package their content in an easily consumable way so they flounder and die in '0 view hell' even though they're exactly what you're looking for

>>105552079
disney plus is already showing ads in its basic plan
was kinda shocked when I visited a friend and his kids started watching a show, only for ads to play
told me that its been like this for a while
meanwhile, netflix is blocking devices that arent in the same wlan as your main tv

>>105544272 (OP)
YouTube is dying
Nobody cares about it anymore. Alphabet is slowly stagnating into insolvency.

>>105546005
>or look away
That's the next step and that's what scares me about AR and VR technology. Right now even if ads become unblockable, we can still just turn our attention to something else for a minute, but if VR/AR becomes the dominant form of computers, eye-tracking will mean you can't even do that anymore.

>>105546800
Agreed. Of course taste is subjective, but given the sheer amount of videos and creators on the platform it comes across a bit narrow-minded or elitist for people to say "there's *nothing* there for me".

>>105546943
The "ripping people off" argument doesn't make much sense in the context of educational content. The facts remain the same, and having more people share the facts can only be a good thing. Not only does it give people more access to it, but also increases the variety of presentation, and increases the likelihood that people with more to say on the subject might add to it.

>>105547620
I barely do it now. If the ads become unbearable then another competitor platform will appear. You won’t make me watch your goyslop.

>>105553037
this kind of stuff is free on tv, government websites and your local library

>>105566172
You stopped watching TV, because you replaced it with Youtube. But what will be your Youtube replacement?

>>105572214
>YouTube is dying
> Nobody cares about it anymore. Alphabet is slowly stagnating into insolvency.
cut back on the weed and take your meds schizo

On ungoogled chromium
saw one ad yesterday before I updated ublock
haven't seen shit since.
getting lots of "are you experiencing interruptions" which I guess is them throttling me, but my speed is already piss poor to youtube so they can throttle away, assholes

>>105573060
Bitchute

>>105547482
you will just become a culturally isolated weirdo hermit who can't watch the same things everyone else is watching

>>105573499
This is the first time I checked out Bitch Ute. Why are they trying to appeal to weebs? Or is this personalized for me? If yes, this is not very privacy respecting.

>>105544272 (OP)
I will not watch the ad.
I will stare at a black screen instead.

>>105573600
This is a threat? I already don’t watch shittok and instagoy and whatever other trash the normals watch, what’s one more site?
>>105573707
This too

>>105573600
That's already what we have. Even within the same giga platform, everyone is consooming different content streams. Two IG/youtube/X users could experience two completely different "realities" based on what they watch and read every single day. They even shuffle comments around so that comments it thinks you'll agree with are on top while ones it thinks you won't like are buried. That way users feel at ease, thinking the world agrees with them. Except it's feeding different and often conflicting realities to different users.

>>105544272 (OP)
>>105568090

>>105544367
I watch significantly less twitch since they kept fucking with the adblock. Means I also toss less pennies at the platform and do better things with my time, so it's not really a loss.

>>105544272 (OP)
>>105544367
At this point I have no other alternative than to just give up on YT as well

>>105573659
Most normies are ok with anime and manga. (Bluehair Crylords and Internet Evangelist Christcucks are not normies.) They wouldn't really care about the bitchute mascot. A weeb would absolutely hate it cause it's that western "japanese cartoon" look (as in a white guy in Wyoming drew that)
also damn that captcha

>>105572190
>netflix is blocking devices that arent in the same wlan as your main tv
Do they at least whitelist your phone if you tie your number to your account? Also what happens to everyone without a TV?

i stopped using youtube when they started requiring you to turn your watch history on to see anything on the front page

>>105544272 (OP)

only thing that sometimes happens is a slight delay in the video starting, but once it does, there's no buffering issues

>>105556586
>promotes miscegenation
>denounces adblocks
is this guy just a total faggot?

>>105544483
I like music videos

>>105545641

>>105556666
You didn't watch Blade Runner 2049?

>>105544367
>>105553335
>Then I won't watch YT.
>Youtube is vastly overestimating how much people care about that shit website now
The vast majority of people who use YouTube don't use an adblocker.

>>105556586
Someone post the picture of him using a web browser that has adblock in it.

>>105578731
I kneel, genuinely

brave shield stopped working again

i bet jewtube is using AI to update their anti-adblock live

>>105544272 (OP)
Totally wrong. Google will be broken up long before that happens and without google milking advertisers youtube is completely unsustainable

>>105574763
yeah my fyp is 100% trans goonbait

>>105566739
started happening on chromium on linux too
I'm assuming that will happen to everyone except windows chrome users as they are already making money on their data