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Tarkus posted:
It’s because the ads are intrusive. The audio isn’t normalized. They happen randomly. The amount of ads makes long videos unwatchable. And the big one, youtube/google already makes money soaking up personal information. It’s also about a 99% sure thing that sometime in the future “premium” will still have ads ala Amazon prime.
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Edmund Sparkler posted:Are there any interesting Mozilla based browsers out there besides Firefox that are worth using? I seem to remember those being around years ago. I used K-Meleon for awhile years ago and liked it. I'm shocked to see it's still around, although the updates seem infrequent. I use librefox
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Well, YouTube won. I wanted to watch youtube on my AppleTV without ads and google has made that pretty much impossible without their app which of course can't block ads. I decided to give in a pay for premium but then i saw that it had gotten more expensive and is now $18.99 which I'm not willing to pay. So, I went through the extra effort to setup ytdl-sub with my jellyfin server to just download new videos from my subscriptions a few times a day and it works so much better than actually using youtube. I suspect I'll stop using youtube soon when google somehow prevents video downloads through tools like yt-dl.
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BV posted:I don't understand why you would bother using an ad blocker instead of invidious I ran my own invidious instance for a while (only me using it) and it was a hassle to keep up with since every few days google would jank it and I’d have to update the back end. Ytsdl-sub with Jellyfin (works with Plex etc. as well) is my favorite solution so far. Just works. Quality is excellent. SponsorBlock baked in. Of course no ads. Google isn’t tracking me. There’s no “discovery” but I don’t care. It’s nice having copies of videos to do with as I please. I can watch on a flight or something without dealing with google pita.
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