YouTube is testing a series of new unskippable 30-second ads that will appear far more often for viewers.
      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 months

        “Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly”

    • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
      9 months

      I’ve been meaning to check out this “nature” thing, or whatever it’s called. It’s basically like, just lakes and woods and the sky and all kinda weird shit like that. Supposed to be pretty cool I guess, idk

      • Gork@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9 months

        I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9 months

    I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.

      • katze@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        9 months

        Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.

        • Scavenger8294@feddit.orgEnglish
          9 months

          It’s all about doing it in moderation and choosing carefully what we waste our time on. I would rather “waste” time reading a stupid book than go on Instagram or TikTok, where my mind gets trapped in a circle of emotions and algorithms.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9 months

    Ublock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.

    Edit: Mispelling, fuck autocorrection

    • Odelay42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.

  • sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9 months

    Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads:

    uBlock Origin + Firefox

    NewPipe on Android

    Libretube on Android

    uYou+ on iOS

    FreeTube on *NIX and Windows

    yt-dlp + mpv

    YouTube Revanced

    Invidious self hosting

    Piped self hosting

    And finally, last and definitely least

    YouTube Premium

    Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.

    • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 months

      I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.

        • buttnugget@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
          9 months

          Correct. If they ever roll out ads on premium, I’m not sure what we’ll do. Maybe figure out a new platform or a new way to watch.

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9 months

        Absolutely. And they update pretty quickly when YouTube breaks something.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9 months

      I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it’s Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they’re pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.

      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 months

        I would disagree, you’re still directly communicating with YouTube servers without a proxy in-between. Invidious or Piped are the proxies you need, they let you blend in with the other users of their services making data-collection on YouTube’s part difficult.

        We need to make feeding the algorithm as difficult as possible.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Ive been blocking youtube ads for like a year now. But when it was like one or two minutes every 10-20 I didn’t mind watching on an app that didn’t have ad block. It got worse and I got fed up.

      • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Not the previous commenter but on mobile, a good few years ago I didnt block ads i didnt mind something skippable or a short interruption but they were just that very short and not in the way. I started going out of my way to block ads when they abused it

    • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      I’m around long enough to have seen them, before blockers were a thing.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9 months

    Ive been using adblockers, piped and other tools for so long that i dont even remember what the last time was when i saw a youtube ad.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9 months

      Same… And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I’ll just stop watching YouTube

    • chinchillas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      Hard to do if you watch directly from your TV using some dongle and don’t know or can’t modify your router to block ads.

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
        9 months

        SmartTube is on AndroidTV

        Kodi can be installed through the play store, you can transfer files over smb and ftp and move the apk using it.

        You’re welcome.

        Excuses:

        I use a Roku or Roku TV

        Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.

        I use AppleTV

        Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.

        FTP? SMB? Apk? What are these, words?!

        These terms can be searched for and learned about.

        Why not just use Kodi?

        You’re ahead of the game, find a plugin pack and enjoy

  • atlien51@lemm.eeEnglish
    9 months

    WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET

    • amorangi@lemmy.nzEnglish
      9 months

      By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they’ve achieved that they can do what they like. Don’t feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        9 months

        Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          9 months

          And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.

      • Anas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?

      • atlien51@lemm.eeEnglish
        9 months

        I never felt bad abt that for a second. Like the thought never crossed my kind XD FUCK YOUTUBE!

    • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
      9 months

      Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          9 months

          It was fun to thumb my nose at Google while it lasted I guess, maybe if they were less amoral then I’d be less belligerent toward them.

        • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
          9 months

          Sure, a service that manages an infinitely smaller amount of content and complexity. It is a situational tool, hardly a YouTube killer… the banner presented on the homepage professes that it’s expensive to run and please donate.

          • Glog78@digitalcourage.social
            9 months

            @ChaoticEntropy

            https://fediverse.party/en/peertube/ << before you complain understand the technology behind. Everyone can basically provide a instance and it’s decentral. As more people participate / as more instances are provide as better for all and as cheaper. If you really want to step away from services like youtube and want to have it sustainable (aka not depending on business) than it’s your best choice. If you just want someone else to have the saying and replace one company with another good luck.

    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 months

      OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.

      • atlien51@lemm.eeEnglish
        9 months

        You’re right :)

        I meant idk something like Oddysse (but a website with actual moderation)

        • ewenak@jlai.lu
          English
          9 months

          Do you know of PeerTube? It’s not mainstream at all either, but it seems more known to me.

          It’s also in the fediverse, and isn’t accused of the same moderation issues (though idk if PeerTube is really better than Odyssee at moderation, I suppose it’s just a difference in policy).

          Edit: I read a bit about it, and I can see I was wrong about Odyssee being less known than PeerTube. It’s strange, I never heard of it, but anyway. Odyssee also includes some crypto bullshit, so yeah…

    • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
      9 months

      People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT’s video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?

      Why couldn’t Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT’s viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power…

      A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        9 months

        I believe the main cost is in hosting all the videos. A lot of them are probably junk that were never meant to see the light of day. I certainly use it as an extra backup for many of my videos with no context and random UUID titles.

        For everything else, a potential solution is to have everyone come in with their own videos hosted elsewhere and the platform just integrated with a bunch of APIs for fetching and serving those videos. For small time creators, the cost should be fairly low to none since a lot of platforms allow you to store a small number of files for free.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9 months

      It’s a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.

      • atlien51@lemm.eeEnglish
        9 months

        Yes but not everything needs to make a profit, just not make a loss. Also it could be community supported with donations and stuff:)

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9 months

          YouTube was operating at a loss under Google for years. The only reason it is able to exist is because a massive entity like Google was able to absorb that without folding, and keep providing a free service until it becomes profitable (is it even yet? I’m not sure).

          I mean fuck Google, and yes a big enough non-profit (or even government) could do it (probably better), but unfortunately that’s not the world we live in right now.

  • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creatorEnglish
    9 months

    AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      9 months

      It will continue until it overshoots TV and they’re all 3x more ad than vid.