It's unironically over.

i am sure everyone on here isnt a complete retard and backed up whatever they cared about years ago... right?

>>105652526 (OP)
still works on my end. i do not fear the end of youtube.

Why do companies always spiral down into shitting up their service in response to piracy (for lack of a better word)?

>>105652526 (OP)
The endgame is having a program that will watch the whole video, record it, and edit out the ads before ploping it out as an mp4, or shitting it out into your mpv playlist. I will not watch your ads.

works on my machine.

>>105652690
like a tivo for youtube.
gentlemen, we have made a full circle back to where we started

Like how they "accidentally" slowed down Firefox users on YouTube

>>105652657
Because their collective self-enslavement to their own passions of greed and pride ignites a burning hatred for themselves and all of their fellow men, that they yearn desperately for their own deaths and the destruction of all around them, and so strive to realize it as efficiently and extensively as possible.

>>105652526 (OP)
only the offical youtube website and apps do this. use literally anything else

what's even the point of youtube in 2025?

>AI videos
>more AI videos
>additional AI videos
>vloggers
>people telling you what to think because look at muh subscriber count
>watching other people play video games
>movie trailer slop
>modern "music videos"
>tech product "reviews"

>>105652753
How do i watch youtube without being on youtube?

95% of the issues y'all encounter with youtube don't exist here in the real world

>>105652762
well that's worth googling since a lot of alternative websites or apps exist

>>105652761
i learn a lot from youtube when i don't want to wade through documentation. diy/mechanic videos are also good. the community is still filled with people who just want to share their projects rather than shill BetterHelp.com

>>105652526 (OP)
I'd rather watch nothing than ads.

>>105652793
fair point anon, I may have been too critical.
those are some good use cases.

>>105652761
i like using it for tutorial and letting some ambient sounds run in the background otherwise i dont get it either. 2015 i was subbed to like 400 channel now i dont even have a google account anymore

>>105652761
vtubers worth their salt stream there

>>105652960
>vtubers worth their salt stream there
>vtubers
>worth anything
yeah sure like who? the autistic femcel high pitch barely verbal neet you like?

>>105652973
no, the ones who can hold 6 hour karaoke streams

>>105652996
>6 hour karaoke streams
She retired anon, get over it.

>>105652762
Watch it from Bing Videos?

>>105652538
Yes and no. Last year, YouTube banned my account and I've yet to fully restore the backup pipeline, so essentially I might miss whatever i want to save from the last 12 months. Gruesome but i just don't have the time

>>105652526 (OP)
Read a book.

>>105652526 (OP)
there's nothing worthwile on youtube left, anyway.

>>105653002
she didn't but I won't mention my oshi on /g/ of all places

>>105652526 (OP)
>Downgrade battery in the Pixel 6a due to fire concerns, terrible call quality / modem, refuse to kill of Pixel phones even though they are trash
>Cause the $1,000 Pixelbook issues with software that results in frequent restarts and keys no longer working
>Kill software for users who are unknowingly beta testers, recreate the same thing later and wonder why nobody uses it, forced to integrate the same product into your more popular service, but is inferior
>Trick people into giving their DNA to you and then sell it to another company
>Censor and delete users for holding the wrong views
>Randomly lock people out of their accounts indefinitely / delete their accounts
> Trains Gemini / Bard to erase white identity and support globalist agendas
>And worse yet that is left unmentioned.
It's over every other day with Poogle.

>>105652777
So you have no answer and are talking out your ass like the retarded zoomer you are? Gotcha

>>105652526 (OP)
>youtube serve me more ads for blocking ads
>i don't see them
bravo

>>105653252
i went from 6 million something blocked ads a couple of months ago to 8.7 million blocked, never seen the count increase this quickly before. google's servers will keep pushing you adverts continuously while you are visiting the site if they keep getting blocked. example in screenshot: this video i had queued up to play (and forgot about): over 2k ads pushed and blocked just on one video. google's programmers are genuine morons.

>>105652555
i will be free once and for all

>>105652761
if you have hobbies it's incredible. I am always consuming music and jazz stuff, I basically got to a semi-professional level just through youtube videos

>>105652555
>i do not fear the end of youtube.
the only people that fear the end of youtube are the permanently unemployed that calls creating "content" for youtube a "career" or "job", and advertisers. those are the only people that will be shitting bricks and getting worried. nobody else will care that much.

>>105652526 (OP)
We need a new kind of adblocker that just replaces the ad with a black rectangle. Censorship based adblockers cannot be detected.

>>105653403
much easier to just filter them as they arrive instead of wasting time with graphical mods

>>105653481
websites can detect when the DOM is not how it should be.

Have in mind the internet is like the zone in fortnite, its getting smaller by the day and no matter if you've been backing up stuff on HDD/SSDs you will live in an era of stagnation now.

I for one I been planning this since 2014 and I have about 4tb of stuff in lowres to fit as much as I can but I don't think its enough, even if its documentaries,movies and series.

>>105652526 (OP)
Ublock still works and if it stops then
- update your filters and clear your cache
- use 3rd party clients, like freetube, pipepipe or revanced
- download videos with yt-dlp
- get some free stealer logs, get into paypig's account and get content from there
- slash your local jeets with a machete

>>105653541
it's only getting smaller for normies. those of us with different tastes still have freedom to do as we please. i think if you're stuck in the walled gardens of facebook/google/twitter/tiktok human centipede regurgitating each other's shit then the world would look incredibly small.

>>105653614

The spanish football league though a single lawsuit involving less than a 100 people watching a match on a someones livestream has had a sentence allowing them to shutdown Cloudfare whenever there is a big football match coming.

I'm not the only euro country out there fucked I think Italy had also its own football league ask google to poison their DNS over piracy laws.

What I've meant is wether you like or not facebook/google/twitter/tiktok will be the only the only internet left.

It used to be free internet like a year ago now everybody has the surcharge for a VPN network, even service businesses on the internet who rely on cloudfare need to pay for a VPN to keep working, in consultancy its fucking hilarious cause the services stay up with VPNs but the costumers are way too fucking stupid to either know or use them so its loses all around.

>>105652762
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net or yewtu.be
FreeTube
PipePipe (or NewPipe)
yt-dlp + your favorite video player (mpv, vlc, whatever)

>>105653365
>google's programmers are genuine morons.
bro no stop that's racist

>>105653550
Or just stop using Youtube. There's other sites that people can upload to. No reason to give Google money if they make this such a pain in the ass.

>>105653365
technically this includes trackers/analytics and stuff too, not just ads

>>105653854
yeah true but it's still a lot of shit to try and push to one browser sitting on idle.

I will stop watching YouTube before I watch YouTube with ads. YouTube with ads is absolutely insufferable, and I have no idea how normies tolerate it.

>>105653804
>I'm not the only euro country out there fucked I think Italy had also its own football league ask google to poison their DNS over piracy laws.
the world of dns is under serious threat by these litigious corporations. i fear it will get to a point where we will need to create a pirate DNS network that won't remove records.

>>105653865
oh 100%

>>105653874
>8 minute video
>3 30 second ads in the video
jesus fuck.

>>105653917
explain? I know what Dns is. Are you talking about Google or whoever refusing to serve a website like 4chan?

>>105653938
he means the DNS deletes records for unapproved(antisemitic) sites, so they won't resolve without know the IP. it's a very, very weak form of censorship.

>>105652526 (OP)
>do nothing
>ublock still just works
What are you retards doing. Have you tried not doing anything?

>>105653998
never heard of a/b tests huh?

>>105654020
Not my problem.

>>105653998
ublock only works if you're signed in.

Just use a Russian VPN, Google doesn't show ads there.

>>105653998
shill trying to get dumb sheeps to remove ublock xD

>>105654102
.ru
lol.

>>105654114
If you can read Russian use .ru, I sure can't lol.

>>105653853
>Or just stop using Youtube.
This is just giving up, a.k.a. what kikes and their brown golems want you to do (either pay shekhels or stay isolated). Youtube has almost full (and unfair) monopoly over online video content and a few chuds claiming to boycott it wont change that. Thats why so much efford is dedicated to stop jeets from pushing ads on us.
>There's other sites that people can upload to
Literally noone, apart from people who want to purposely upload something that is banned on youtube, uses those. Thats why they are used so often by schizos and fosscad guys.
> No reason to give Google money if they make this such a pain in the ass.
I literally listed a few solutions on how to watch ad-free videos without giving kikes a single penny.

>>105653550
I've tried freetube once then it was rate limited or something then it didn't work at all
ublock just works and if it doesn't the purge and update as you say fixes any problem

>>105652526 (OP)
I'm always surprised when a company goes this hog on stopping adblockers. It has to be some C level shitbag said they should look into that and now the jeet team is do or die on it.

>>105652657
>Why do companies always spiral down into shitting up their service in response to piracy (for lack of a better word)?
Because investors demand more money be extracted from the service than the last quarter, every quarter, in perpetuity.

>>105652657
I think if you're failing to get enough of your customers to pay that you can turn a profit, blaming pirates is a useful cope. It lets you pretend the reason you're failing is that there's some sort of silent majority out there that would pay you all the money you're missing if only you could break their piracy methods.

>>105652799
Deliberately not paying for premium in the hopes that the ads would reduce my addiction to youtube has seen mixed success. Mostly resulted in increasing my average stress levels from truly absurd ad densities in content. However I am starting to get much more selective about the content I consume and close youtube way more frequently than I used to so the friction is causing some progress. Not that it has been an enjoyable process.

>>105652526 (OP)
>every two weeks
>youtube is over
>nothing ever happens

>>105652526 (OP)
I just want the internet to go back to 2007.

>>105652526 (OP)
Skill issue
Adblock works perfectly for me

>>105654949
Too bad.

>Actually touched the fantasy novel backlog and no urge to watch niggerslop in sight
Thanks YouTube

>>105652657
NUMBER-MUST-GO-UP
THOSE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING.. FOR FREE?!
HOW DARE THEY!!

>>105654949
>>105655167
Me the change that you wanna see XD

>>105655498
BE*!!!!11

>>105652761
there's lots of really good videos for shit like learning to play instruments, cooking, DIY stuff around the house, and learning how to do shit in general
i use it all the time and think it's indispensable

>>105653614
people always forget, of 1995 to 2010.
Internet for most people was Geocities, Gaia Online, Hotel Habbo, Myspace and TMZ

>>105652526 (OP)

>>105653365
have you heard of AdNauseam, it will fill their analytics with bogus as their trackers are blocked, giving them a taste of their own medicine. This probably isn't good if you're being super secure and private but I couldn't care less, I wish there were more tools which took a direct offensive approach to ads

>>105652761
I use YouTube mostly for
- USA Police videos
- North Korea propaganda songs ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHKoQO6iHI )
- Programming videos: Casey and Johnathan blowjob. I am joking. But stuff more like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo
- Live events like game awards
-2k HDR walking videos (I am too poor to travel) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLo1wqDITjQ
- random stuff people post here and there

>>105652526 (OP)
I really don’t mind website ads but the whole watch a 60 second commercial for a 2 minute YouTube video is insane. You can’t even pump gas in this country without seeing a freaking ad.

>>105656713
i'm going to start filling the speakers with some kind of expanding foam

>>105652761
JP vtubers

>>105657106
But i dont understand moonspeak

>>105652538
>>105652526 (OP)
It shouldn't even have to be a thing.
All this mess thanks to cloudfaggots and paypigs.

>>105652690
>>105652704
What if they randomly insert ads at different timestamps on the video?

>>105652526 (OP)
I had this slow down bullshit yesterday but it was fixed today

>>105652690
It's time to start using AI to get rid of ads

all of you need to kys.

>>105652526 (OP)
its been over since the mid 2010s with companies moving into the space and it was always weird as fuck to see. There are other applications that remove ads and I'm sure some app dev will make a better one soon.

>>105653053
Consider not mentioning any of that worthless garbage on /g/ in the first place.

>>105652690
>edit out the ads before ploping it out as an mp4
nah thats incredibly inefficient. mpv can already block segments that it gets from sponsor block, its seamless. it would be better to just skip the ad segments as a viewer. youd only need to edit it out if you intend to distrubute the vid i guess

>>105657147
>What if they randomly insert ads at different timestamps on the video?
there will always be some logic to it you can reverse engineer. i dont think they will want to put an adblock right in the middle of a run on sentence for example. so that would be logic you could use to determine where they would be. based on the transcript, and the video length.

>>105657588
I'm sure it's no big deal to cut out any ads from a video

>>105657664
might be if its simple cut job, but if youre having to re-render hour long videos everytime it's going to be painful.

>>105652538
Downloaded close to 1000 videos a couple years ago because YouTube kept deleting shit I liked for no reason.
YouTube is NOT a place you want to keep your only copy of something.

>>105656693
>North Korea propaganda songs
Based and Juchepilled

Advertisers will not allow an ad free experience. If everyone paid for youtube premium or left for an ad free service (even if paid) adveerisers arent just going to be like "well I guess we are just goijg to stop making and showing ads now". They *have* to ads everywhere. If yohr attenti9n is draw somewhere (especially if away from somewhere else with ads) then that somewhere *has* to have ads. Ads follow where ever your attention

>>105658119
you should empathize more with advertisers though than the platforms shoving them in your face.
you could be an advertiser, if you had a business or project you wanted to grow. its just a tool. blame youtube for trying so hard to fuck you over just because you want to opt out of all advertising (and helping advertisers by extension, not wasting money shilling to an autist)

>>105652657
They run out of innovation but the number must keep going up.

It's like a dying animal thrashing around right before it dies.

>>105652538
>>105652526 (OP)
Will you share your backup? I am thinking of uploading to trackers eventually.

>>105656578
he's right and you should disable adblock when you want to support the author

>>105652526 (OP)
I dont have this problem

Adblocks will always work. Maybe not on chrome, but they will always work. 98% of normal people watch ads.
>iPhone users
>Android users who can't use advanced
>90% of windows users.
I see "IT" employees watch YouTube ads on there personal PC. I consider ads to be the stupid tax. It's goy programming that my family doesn't see because I use smarttube and vanced on everything.

>>105652761
You forgot about my imaginary friends

>>105659130
How many times did it break this year?

>>105659390
No idea works for me bro

>>105652657
because no matter how much money you're making right now, you could potentially be making more money. capitalism / liberalism = line go up, always

>>105653012
>YouTube banned my account
For what?

>>105652538
>Not watching youtube by locally spooling it with cron
NGMI

>>105654949
>go back to 2007.
I'm not installing macromedia flash just to watch videos.

>>105656713
>You can’t even pump gas in this country without seeing a freaking ad.
I'm thinking about buying one of those magnet fishing magnets so I can stick it on the speakers on those pumps to disable the sound permanently.

>servers collapsed
>"we're pretending to be retarded!"

>>105652526 (OP)
it hasnt even begun

>>105652657
This is how rent seeking businesses end, every time. When all of your innovation is "value extraction" you eventually become a mosquito sucking on a mummy.

>>105652526 (OP)
Doesn't affect me cause wife DEMANDS youtube premium for the tv app so I've to pay for it anyway

>>105652526 (OP)
I just download them all, so ads & other fuckery can suck my dick.