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If adblockers stop working on Youtube I will just stop using Youtube altogether. Whenever I run into Youtube on any device that doesn't have an adblocker holy poo poo it's so bad I'll rather just not watch the video.
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I know myself and know that I don't need to make any principled decision to not use it, because the moment I click on a video and it gets me some bullshit that is not the video, I'm gonna be like eh whatever and close the tab. I'm probably not the only one.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:49
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Yeah they're doing a lot of this. Some people get a popup that can be closed. Others get a popup that can be closed but only after a set time. Some get one that can't be closed I think. Yet others get banned.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:58
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Tarkus posted:No, don't you get it? I'd rather endure ads to the point of attrition or have some Rube Goldberg-esque device/software to block the ads because Youtube was free in 2006 and it should be free 17 years later. No don't talk about the other paid streaming services I have where I spend an hour going through menus and then finally settle on watching Youtube instead. What are you? A paid Google shill I bet! Good luck talking with Mr.Google's cock in your mouth!!!
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Oct 17, 2023 16:26
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Just as a side note, Google makes $60 billion in profit a year. They are in the top three most profitable companies in the world. YouTube is a component of this as an ad and data collection platform that works just fine despite ad blockers. There's no problem they need to solve. There's no, oh, we have to figure out some way to make money. It's just greed. Making $60 billion is not enough. There is no enough.
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Oct 19, 2023 20:22
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I don't know if YouTube specifically loses money because Google doesn't release those numbers, but Google as a whole is mostly made up of free services that probably lose money and the whole thing makes more money than anyone should have anyway.
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Oct 19, 2023 20:41
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Yeah. Seems like everything they do would lose money. I'm sure Google Drive loses money. Gmail loses money, there's no way it doesn't. They've just figured out how to make enormous money out of these free services regardless.
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Oct 19, 2023 20:53
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The General posted:No shade thrown at those who do use them. Just explaining why I don't. I use the service enough that paying would be justified if I personally paid for it (Have in the past, likely will in the future). At times you might have to fiddle with something when Youtube or whatever pulls a fuckery like this, but even if you don't care to, you see like 95% fewer ads.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:00
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But what fight? Like you install it once and then it's there and you never touch it. I'm pretty sure I installed it for my mom like five years ago and she has probably forgotten it exists and it still blocks the ads just fine.
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Oct 19, 2023 23:10
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TACD posted:If you still have an account on the bad bird site, check out your list of "interests". This is the list of topics used to "personalize your experience across X, including the ads you see." Mine does have some stuff I'm interested in, but it has way, way more poo poo that I am absolutely not interested in, have never engaged with, or have literally never heard of. Some of them are hilariously vague ("animals", "food", "water", "weather") and overall it just gives me the impression that ~the algorithm~ is completely unable to filter signal from noise and advertisers should probably be mad about getting scammed into thinking Big Tech can deliver these hyper-personalised targeted impressions.
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Oct 20, 2023 21:31
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Yeah I've been wondering when the EU notices that. They made a big deal about Microsoft abusing their position in the OS market to push IE, and it wasn't nearly as flagrant as it is now. One of the most annoying ways they do this is they made Windows deliberately disregard its own default browser setting and just made it open Edge for any links directly from the OS.
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Oct 27, 2023 02:27
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Milo and POTUS posted:It may just be a chrome thing which lmfao
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Nov 10, 2023 10:28
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steinrokkan posted:I'm occasionally (like once a day) getting a window that says "Please stop using Adblock, it's not allowed!!!!!" but you can close it and continue watching the video, lol.
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Nov 10, 2023 10:49
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I think the only reason Google has not yet simply blocked adblockers on Chrome is that they look at that IE graph and go hmm. I think even if most people don't use adblockers there's a risk that "Chrome is really bad, don't use it, just download Firefox" becomes a cultural idea that spreads from the adblocky slightly techy people to the rest like it did with IE.
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Nov 12, 2023 13:02
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And I'm still saying why the hell would you not have one that works for all of the internet except YouTube? I really don't see how you can bear with an ad-filled internet but on the other hand it's good that someone's looking at the ads so they're still convinced it's worthwhile, and I don't have to.
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Nov 14, 2023 17:54
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LividLiquid posted:I didn't even blink when they did that. I just nodded along, all "yes, yes. We're all going to die quite soon." Also I now have to use two types of adblockers, one which blocks the requests, and another which allows them but then kills the ads. Whenever one stops working the other will work. Elukka fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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Nov 15, 2023 02:38
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Fun fact you can take the video id from the url of a short and paste it in the place of a video id in a normal video's url and then you get it in regular video format. I like how shorts are just a worse UI but TikTok is popular so YouTube wants to be like TikTok.
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Nov 20, 2023 01:03
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It's incredible how much they're just loving with their users. Are they unaware they're simply making their website bad, slow and unpredictable? I guess this is the usual Google attitude: "gently caress you, we're Google, you'll use our service anyway."
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Nov 20, 2023 18:42
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doctorfrog posted:a) this is everyone (gently caress you, you need to buy gas/eggs/milk anyway) doctorfrog posted:for YouTube specifically: the alternative is doing something else. Nothing on YouTube is worth enduring a single ad for.*
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Nov 20, 2023 19:30
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Chrs posted:I’m still conditioned to assume that clicking any ad online will give my computer malware
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Dec 13, 2023 02:07
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Incidentally I recently learned that if you're actually paying for something on YouTube, the quality is crippled and you're restricted to 480p or something ("SD") on PC. You have to watch through a device like unspecified "selected smart TVs" for HD. Similarly, Netflix just lies about resolution, you're getting 720p on a browser, regardless of specifically paying for 1080p or 4k. This limitation is not mentioned when you pay. You must go through their app or a different device to unlock full resolution. So paying for content specifically gets you worse quality over free content, or piracy.
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Dec 24, 2023 03:46
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PhazonLink posted:arent graphic p numbers largely placebo on smaller screens/devices ? like 700 is fine until you get a "real" screen?
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Dec 24, 2023 04:24
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Yeah you could drop all the nonsense and the DRM and people would just pay for it because it's the most convenient option in that case.
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Dec 24, 2023 04:44
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Philthy posted:This is only if your monitor doesn't support HDCP for copy protection, which is supposed to prevent screen capture apps from recording and letting you distribute it. It'll bump it down to 480p if it doesn't. Amazon will do this also when you rent movies. This is the kind of absurd nonsense I mean. You can pirate it anyway if you want to. It only hurts the paying customer. And that customer is paying because they want to go to netflix dot com, click the show and watch it - it makes no difference if someone can record it and put it on a torrent site because that customer won't go there because they specifically don't want to jump through hoops to watch the drat thing. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, I'm not arguing with you, it's just so dumb!!
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Dec 24, 2023 08:37
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It also doesn't recognize user input, so if you're scanning around looking for something, skipping the video around, it gives that message too.
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Feb 27, 2024 18:21
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Yeah I've seen some gnarly cases where it cites something to a source that's saying the opposite of what it thinks it's saying. Misinformation machine.
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Mar 16, 2024 13:40
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Charles Ford posted:YouTube actually turns on DRM if you watch the "YouTube Movies" content. Supposedly yt-dlp will still download the file for you, but you need a mystery tool to decrypt it (I genuinely don't know, I have never looked into it beyond being curious about the DRM as I knew they had it sometimes).
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Apr 17, 2024 05:22
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Man I love my computer being compromised on a hardware level with dumb nonsense to guarantee I can't hit print screen while watching a thing. Meanwhile you can just pirate the shows and skip all of the nonsense. It's incredibly stupid. People love convenience. They will pay for the Netflix subscription because it's easy. They could have no DRM at all and it wouldn't make a difference. In fact I also love convenience which is why I can't be arsed to pirate stuff but I also don't want to pay for streaming services due to all the nonsense so I don't watch stuff anymore.
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Apr 17, 2024 18:18
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Zero VGS posted:Public trackers like that will sometimes generate nastygrams from your ISP (if you're on some popular new thing, the studio will know about the torrent and make the ISP snitch, as an IT person I had to send a company-wide email asking employees not to loving torrent Avengers Endgame on our office wifi), but those warnings are basically toilet paper until you get like 6, then they might shitcan your account. It takes some effort to pull that off. They've been known to send people emails for torrenting professional porn which is funny if it's a kid doing it and their mom gets an email from Xfinity about Anal Destroyers XVII. Then there's private trackers for all kinds of things, but they're all very strict Don't Talk About Fight Club etc, etc to keep studio agents from infiltrating. Duck and Cover posted:So god drat stupid because those agents know drat well what the private trackers are. It's all just Elukka fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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Duck and Cover posted:Yeah they don't get raided not through the super duper secret club but through not being Piratebay/supernova. So the whole shhhhh IT'S A SECRET climbing of the tracker exclusivity pyramid has always been
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