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If you have a touchbar based Macbook Pro, for some reason the video scroll in the touchbar isn't disabled for Youtube ads, so you can just immediately flick it all the way to the end. That's the only useful thing about those touchbars!
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We have two amazon TVs, which as of the last week have received a firmware update. Now when we turn them on, they automatically want to play the ad for whatever lovely Prime series or movie is on their banner. I think it's possible to disable, I'll be fiddling with it tomorrow. Confirmed what was going on here. But yeah, Google decided to completely change the framework of skipping YouTube ads and now it works even worse on TVs than ever. It's partially by design and partially from incompetence, but frankly I couldn't tell you which is the bigger driver.
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Denim Dude posted:What OS does your TV use? Thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can finangle this tomorrow too.
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Dec 5, 2023 10:24
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I'm going to buy a commercial display panel and go and live in the woods
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The Grimace posted:Thanks for the tip, I'll see if I can finangle this tomorrow too. Another tip is to install the firetv remote app to your phone. Not as snappy as the remote but the qwerty keyboard on your phone for search more than makes up for that not just in smart tube but system wide. Just remember to kill it when you are done because it seems to be a bit of a battery hog.
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Khanstant posted:My roommates have been watching TV in living lately and everytime I catch a glimpse it's on ads. Last night saw one that was an ad, but around it was a graphical wrapper of another ad, with a another section that was delivering trivia as an advertisement for a third thing. Thats nightmare fuel mate.
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Dec 6, 2023 20:09
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Klyith posted:Here's the list: Should be on every page
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I'm not using Firefox for all the things I have logged into all the time like email, social media, etc. (all sectioned away in their own container tabs) and then using Librewolf for regular browsing and it works pretty well. As a bonus you can close one browser window and have it remember your tabs without having to close everything. Both are are to view YouTube without ads and Librewolf also blocks Xitter embeds out of the box which is nice.
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Dec 7, 2023 18:27
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Khanstant posted:My roommates have been watching TV in living lately and everytime I catch a glimpse it's on ads. Last night saw one that was an ad, but around it was a graphical wrapper of another ad, with a another section that was delivering trivia as an advertisement for a third thing. 
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Dec 7, 2023 19:35
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Guessing some more fuckery is going on as SmartTube's been worse tonight than it has since any of this started. *spams 'Check for Update' option*
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Dec 8, 2023 03:20
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Marble Racing still works for me, and without any ad interruption. Good thing, too. The Savage Speeders are poised to take it this year and there's only one event left.
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I got a weird burger lottery ad on the upper right corner that looked like it was affiliated with McDonald's. 250€ worth of free burgers offer only valid for 1 hour. I clicked on it because what the hell and it was an extremely suspicious landing page, like it didn't even explain what it was, just a picture of a lot of burgers and "Congratulations, please input your name and email". Further inspection showed that site had nothing to do with McDonald's or any other fast food chain and the "service" was based in either UK or Estonia so lol, OK. I reported the ad to Google and like 10 seconds after receiving confirmation I got another email saying they couldn't investigate the ad because the link wasn't valid. What the gently caress? Did that happen to anyone else?
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Dec 8, 2023 17:49
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i want to know more about this burger lottery
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**link removed** Their main page looks even sketchier than that burger poo poo, like click on any of these buttons and now you're getting a thousand popups and redirects type of page. I copypasted that link into the report and google immediately was like  no can do. Maybe I'm dumb?? But this is not normal right?Solefald Edit: Removed the URL to the possible scam site to reduce risk Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Dec 8, 2023 18:08
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Grab Im Moor posted:**Link Removed** I'd say it was par for the course with online advertising. Now, why the gently caress are you posting a link to the site of the most obvious scammer I've seen in a long while? Solefald edit: Edited quote to remove URL Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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Jedit posted:I'd say it was par for the course with online advertising. Now, why the gently caress are you posting a link to the site of the most obvious scammer I've seen in a long while? Free burgers
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Dec 8, 2023 18:30
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Grab Im Moor posted:Did that happen to anyone else? lol
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Dec 8, 2023 18:56
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Hey friends. Please don't post links to obvious scam/spam sites??????????? 
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Dec 8, 2023 19:34
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They found our weakness: Cheap burgers.
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Solefald posted:Hey friends. Please don't post links to obvious scam/spam sites??????????? you're not the boss of me, I'm gonna win that ipod one of these days! 
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Dec 8, 2023 20:03
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owning the scammers by posting the scams 
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Solefald posted:Hey friends. Please don't post links to obvious scam/spam sites??????????? Thanks for the edit, I was on the app and forgot to remove it myself.
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Dec 8, 2023 21:11
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Americans would have a burger lottery.
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Animal-Mother posted:Americans would have a burger lottery. You should see what happens when a new Chic-Fil-A opens.
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Animal-Mother posted:Americans would have a burger lottery. The so-called burger lottery was in euros
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I hadn’t posted about it because I didn’t want to jinx it but I was in the “already had Firefox / uBlock origin, didn’t do anything special and never saw a warning” camp. Was. 💀
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Every time I get a warning message I press the "but I'm not using an ad blocker" report button and leave a radical PG13 message to the corpo netwatch
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Dec 9, 2023 13:41
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Lol, Youtube has turned off the starting page if you open it in a private tab. You just get a message to turn on cookies and activate some settings to get it back and you have to do that every time you open it
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Finally got an advert!!  It was a Disney banner ad on my Home Screen, advertising festive movies... like Die Hard. That makes Die Hard an OFFICIAL XMAS MOVIE.... it always was to me.  edit: Running Firefox + uBlock Origin. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Still not getting ad-shamed here - I run Firefox with uBlock Origin on a MacBook Air 2022, an IBM Power9 running the v115 LTS, and a Windows 11 machine.  The ads on the iPhone app are atrocious and seem to be getting worse all the time; we resorted to piggybacking on a friend who pays for YouTube for the TV app, and have probably made a mess of his recommendations, but he hasn’t complained.My memories of Google not being a venal, undirected piece of poo poo get dimmer all the time.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Finally got an advert!! Interesting, running the same+noscript+privacybadger+sponsorblock, my stuff just breaks and plays nothing or gets the youtube subscribe message once every week. But i have never seen an ad, like for forever
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Dec 10, 2023 19:06
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Scrolling is now impossible on youtube videos for me, but tbh I don't think that's bad considering how poo poo the recommended videos are
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AutismVaccine posted:But i have never seen an ad, like for forever 
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Marble Racing still works for me, and without any ad interruption. Just gonna quote this for no reason
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marble racing is fun and all but it’s no league of pigs
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Some folks at YouTube played Cyberpunk, saw the TV station that's 95% ads and decided that was something to aspire to.
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I just pay for YouTube Premium since I watch it more than any other streaming platform, and I like that the creators of the videos I watch get paid extra out of my subscription fee. I also use SponsorBlock, which is a user-contributed database of timestamps that will automatically skip the in-video sponsor segments. The stats say I've saved about 48 hours of time just from skipped segments.
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First of May posted:I just pay for YouTube Premium since I watch it more than any other streaming platform, and I like that the creators of the videos I watch get paid extra out of my subscription fee. Time isn't all you can save when you choose NordVPN. Protect your security and save money with the number 1 VPN provider, NordVPN.
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