|
This thing was from 8 years ago. Maybe in our cyberpunk future with all the VR and AI advancements, we'll have outlaws who can go around without seeing ANY ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDPn7MGxPjs
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2023 21:23
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 20:19 |
|
|
hbag posted:i think blocking yourself from seeing any kind of brand logo like they're a cognitohazard or something is pretty silly Spoken like a true corpo cop
|
|
#
¿
Oct 18, 2023 21:28
|
|
|
Nelson Mandingo posted:Came here for advice to get around on chrome. Sad to see someone legitimately defending ads for some reason. Replace Chrome with Firefox like anyone smart did years ago. Would you rather use the web browser from a non-profit or a literal ad company? "Ad blockers are not allowed on Chrome" is going to be next, mark my words.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 03:55
|
|
|
emSparkly posted:Product placement is the type of advert that always seems to have affected me the most. I scoff at commercials with dumb jingles and slogans, but when I see someone buy a Pepsi in a movie I sometimes catch myself going "Man I could go for a Pepsi now that I think about it" That's the one bad mark against Get Out, I could suspend my disbelief until everyone was using Windows Phones and searching with Bing
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 04:47
|
|
|
buglord posted:Even though I’m a YT Premium user, I feel like my time is coming where suddenly $14 isn’t enough to prevent ads and this will be the ad lite tier or something. Why would you pay $14 for that... especially before this ad-blocker-blocker poo poo?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 07:50
|
|
|
Also, stupid question but is there a way to make a YouTube channel vile enough that no advertiser wants ads on it, but not so vile that it violates TOS? edit: Maybe if your whole channel was devoted to talking poo poo about the last ad that ran on it?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 08:10
|
|
|
Khanstant posted:Just punch the loving monkey pay your dues I'm punching the monkey right now
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 08:22
|
|
|
I don't condone violence but didn't YouTube very recently piss off people enough to get their office shot up?
|
|
#
¿
Oct 19, 2023 12:00
|
|
|
Zybourne Clock posted:Let's not dunk on the gormless ad-watcher too hard. His low standards are what keeps YouTube afloat, after all. Yeah it's like the fools who whale my F2P games, I mean sure keep paying up so I can keep rocking it free. dervival posted:McDonald's advertiser execs should follow Lowtax's example!!! To be fair that "MCDONALDS!" patent was actually from Sony  I'm the tiny whole pickle in a gigantic meat patty.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2023 01:40
|
|
|
Vegetable posted:lol if you don’t think falun gong is the way Assaulted by Epoch Times ads on the internet, and Shen Yun billboards in real life, that is a true sicko cult.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2023 21:25
|
|
|
thetan_guy42 posted:Wtf there's 21 year old goons I was a 21 year old goon... like 21 years ago
|
|
#
¿
Oct 22, 2023 09:14
|
|
|
I was trying out this Windows app and it seems to be working as well: https://github.com/omega-gg/MotionBox Just turns YouTube (and like 10 other sites) into an ad-less desktop player. Kinda like NewPipe but Windows instead of Android.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 23, 2023 08:10
|
|
|
emSparkly posted:I can't get past that look that every qt app has What, the UI on MotionBox? Yeah it is kinda hideous, and it seems to not have a Dark Mode which is the greater sin. If you have an alternative I'm all ears.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 23, 2023 08:25
|
|
|
zhar posted:if you want to force update all lists on same screen purge all caches and update. I wonder why the devs don't give a toggle to let that auto-update, given the situation. Ah well, seems to keep working after I double-update uBlock and AdNauseum. You folks only told me about AdNauseum a week ago and it says I've already blown $915 of marketing budgets.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 28, 2023 13:23
|
|
|
Darth Brooks posted:Just the three strikes and your out notification. I'm using Adblock plus on Firefox and it's been working until now. People still use AdBlock Plus? I wasn't sure it exists still. Try uninstalling it and switching to uBlock Origin to see if that gets past it. I've been fine with that.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 2, 2023 23:16
|
|
|
Yeah, I was down for the last 2 hours and updating uBlock/AdNauseum wasn't fixing it, and then when I saw these posts, I checked that https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/ and it said "Yes" so I updated again and we're back in business.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 10, 2023 01:31
|
|
|
pencilhands posted:i just gave up and got youtube premium I take back anything nice I said about you. You piece of poo poo.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 10, 2023 06:56
|
|
|
Milo and POTUS posted:You said nice things about PencilHands? They're from like Worcester so I was trying to be marginally nice, out of pity. ded posted:firefox + ublock + dont be logged in = i've still never seen these ads or ad gripes I do the first two, and I know not being logged in seals the deal, but logging out of YT logs me out of Gmail and Google Voice, which is not so good. Incognito messes up my whole organizational system with 5000 open tabs. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Nov 10, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Nov 10, 2023 08:13
|
|
|
How does YouTube react to something like PiHole? Has anyone tried? I also tried using the free public DNS for Ad Guard, but it was letting YouTube ads through if I turned off my browser ad blockers.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 11, 2023 03:18
|
|
|
Jedit posted:Is there a way to get round that? Clear out your custom filters in AdBlock pertaining to YouTube, if you have any. That's where manually hidden elements go.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2023 10:58
|
|
|
Lpzie posted:The ads are fine. I get to keep up with the social discourse. And if it's a repeat I mute the sound and meditate a little bit. It's been mostly beneficial for me. Is it cool to say "Ad Cuck"?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 14, 2023 20:25
|
|
|
Internet Old One posted:A cuck is at least gratified on their own terms. Lpzie posted:I'm gratified when I see a new novel ad. Welp, Ad Cuck it is then. I guess they're fine when you don't have any intelligence left to insult.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 15, 2023 00:44
|
|
|
Why after all this time does uBlock and AdNauseum not have some kind of an option to enable auto-updating the caches when YouTube does?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2023 00:56
|
|
|
Nettle Soup posted:They don't want to crash github. I mean like an option to check on your own end, every 15 minutes or so. Counting from the second you enable it, so everyone isn't doing a request at the same moment in time.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2023 02:03
|
|
|
its all nice on rice posted:Should I get Firefox or Opera? Which is better on mobile? Firefox. You can import your bookmarks/passwords, and it will proceed to sync them between your phone and your PC, and you can also see tabs you have open on PC and quickly bring them up on mobile. Specifically for YouTube on Android though, you want NewPipe SponsorBlock which blocks all ads and skips all filler segments.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 19, 2023 04:37
|
|
|
Just switch to Firefox; it's not like you're being asked to install Linux, it's 99% the same as Chrome but not run by shitheads. On launch it imports your bookmarks/passwords and can sync them to a free account like Google does. The Windows and Android versions are both OK and are able the handle me having 999+ open tabs like God intended.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 20:28
|
|
|
Klyith posted:As a dedicated Firefox fan, I will say this: firefox's password management kinda sucks and you should get a password manager. Bitwarden is good and free, 1password is even better but has a subscription, and keepass is free and good if you are enough of a nerd. I've never had an issue except for occasionally when Firefox won't know to autofill something. But it is quick to get into the list of stored passwords in those occasions. My friend kept telling me to use LastPass up until they were hacked. GABA ghoul posted:There is already a public youtube and it's called rutube and it's really great. It's the best Stupid question but can that PeerTube thing keep scaling? It already runs better for me than YouTube does but I'm wondering how the network can keep adding more and more content.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 22, 2023 22:25
|
|
|
They changed something last night to make the message appear when I'm running uBlock and AdNauesum at the same time. Turning off AdNauseum and leaving uBlock enabled fixes it, and turning AdNauseum back on breaks it.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 25, 2023 21:46
|
|
|
AutismVaccine posted:I dont think you are supposed to run those together iirc Yeah I know it whines about it, but even though AdNauseam claims to use the same database as uBlock it misses ads that uBlock catches.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 26, 2023 00:07
|
|
|
The Grimace posted:I was recommended uBlock like five months ago and aside from one small hiccup, it has worked perfectly ever since. Are you like the last person on the planet to hear about uBlock? Good for you anyway. YouTube was constantly loving with their ad blocker message so that you'd have to keep refreshing the uBlock filters, but yeah the last 4 months or so they seem to have completely given up on the arms race. I think they realized some people will stop at nothing... I even hacked my boyfriend's smart TV to block the YouTube ads, and pooled in with my friends to build a sweet Plex server. Strike back against enshittification! To all of you who acquiesced and paid Google for premium, rot in hell.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 23, 2024 15:58
|
|
|
Saalkin posted:More deets please. You have to put your LG TV into "dev mode" so that you can sideload a modified YouTube APK. The catch is you have to refresh the dev mode once every 1000 hours, but there's also a script that can automate that from the TV itself. I think there was a thread title somewhere that joked "can't wait to have to jailbreak my TV" but we're kinda there already. https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/wzs6hg/adfree_youtube_webos_app/ And of course, for Android phones, you should install "NewPipe SponsorBlock", which skips all YouTube ads, blocks YouTube from doing tracking or algorithms on you, skips sponsored sections, and lets you play videos and music in the background, negating the need for YT premium: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Feb 23, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Feb 23, 2024 16:13
|
|
|
Khanstant posted:I don't get the super bowl ad watching thing. It's a pithy joke that got out of hand and turned into a capitalist celebration with the weirdest outreach to non-foot all fans. "Hey you don't like football well then at least come watch commercials lol. Oh wow y'all really did it. Okay. Well, see em tomorrow and forever too!" I got away with not watching any, nor the superbowl, then my English class wanted me to go back and watch some and write about it. Holy poo poo were the ads vile. There was an online-gambling ad with Carl Weathers. "Oh, we got his family's blessing!". Yeah I think he might have felt a little differently if he knew that was gonna be the last thing he'd ever loving do.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 25, 2024 17:19
|
|
|
Xun posted:Dumb question about the Plex server thing, is it only for local connections or can I connect to it anywhere? It looks like it's just a server you set up at home and can connect to using LAN but I see people talking about setting one up to share with friends It can be set up so any friends who want to watch movies on it can stream it from anywhere. If the viewer is firewalled and can't connect directly, Plex themselves will bounce it off one of their servers as a relay. To administrate it remotely we just use TeamViewer. The Plex app will run on pretty much anything and is even built into older smart TVs. I would have considered the open source variants, but a couple of us already had lifetime Plex passes, and it's nice that older streaming appliances have native apps. You can also set up Sonarr/Radarr on the server along with a request management thing like Ombi. The end result is a user types in a request on a website, then the server nabs it from Usenet and makes it available in seconds. I don't get why they need like 5 separate apps for all that but that's how it is. There's a Plex thread if you wanna ask more technical questions on it. Saalkin posted:Having a buddy with a plex server kicks rear end Yeah my friends and I pooled together to build a server and host it in the basement of the only one of us with fiber internet.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2024 20:45
|
|
|
The Grimace posted:It feels like a cold war arms race with both sides continually trying to outmaneuver the other. Funniest outcome would be that AI is ultimately turned into a tool to utterly obliterate all ads on all apps, block serving ads, blur out product placements, cut out all sponsors like SponsorBlock but without any crowdsourced intervention, advertising companies like Google fold and we get Dot Com Bubble 2.0 The only surviving advertisements are the clips Adam Sandler movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pHY_5psG5w
|
|
#
¿
Apr 1, 2024 22:53
|
|
|
goatface posted:I know torrents still exist, but it really feels like a technology of the past. Like you're getting stuff off Kazaa or something. No one tell them about Usenet lol
|
|
#
¿
Apr 18, 2024 17:17
|
|
|
Microplastics posted:I recently discovered magnetdl.com which, last I checked, didn't even need a VPN to get to 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.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 00:26
|
|
|
Fun fact about Comcast. For years their Docsis 2.0 cable modems could be JTAG flashed to give free internet, by reprogramming them to the spoof the MAC address of someone else with an active account. Xfinity was falsely accusing and maybe even prosecuting thousands of people of downloading all kinds of illegal poo poo that other people did. Xfinity quietly patched it up with Docsis 3.0 apparently, but kept it hush-hush and never went after the hackers, so they wouldn't get exposed to all the legal retaliation. Very cool.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 00:52
|
|
|
Duck and Cover posted:So god drat stupid because those agents know drat well what the private trackers are. It's all just Yeah I'm sure they could infiltrate most private trackers too, they probably just figure anyone using those are savvy enough to either ignore or fight the validity of the citations, whereas public tracker users are loving stupid enough to say "I'm so sorry!! don't put me in jail!" For on-topic, it seems very similar to Google. I think they're not wasting time nagging people who keep updating the ad blockers because they realize we'll stop at nothing. And they'll probably keep abusing the pushovers with increasingly more ads and nags. That's why I have such disdain for goons who admit they pay for premium. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Apr 19, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 01:04
|
|
.
|
Elukka posted:There are also some other risks depending on where you are. In Finland and I think elsewhere in Europe, maybe sometimes the US too, there's a whole extortion business where will send you letters going "you've been pirating, send us 800€ or we sue". Yeah, in the US that's usually the BSA run by Adobe and Microsoft, they are shakedown thugs who target piracy of software, not movies/music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Alliance They only go after other corporations. They tried to pick a fight with my startup and I told them to kiss my rear end. Goons were aghast, like "that's a company of almost entirely lawyers, don't gently caress with them" but I had my poo poo together with every PC that I gave to users fully inventoried including all installed software and keys. Adobe was auditing us for poo poo we paid for and I showed them the receipts, and they were like "that's not sufficient proof" and I'm like "gently caress you it is" and they're like "nuh uh". We got them to gently caress off but our lawyer and I probably used up half the billable hours ending their nuisance as the figure they were trying to extort us for. edit: They even literally tried to audit our Adobe CC accounts, I'm like you stupid assholes, you can see they're subscriptions, they would cease working if we weren't current on them. It was really stupid like the BSA lawyers handed us off to an overseas support thing to audit us with, to save themselves money I guess but aggravate us more. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 19, 2024 |
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 03:37
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 10, 2024 20:19 |
|
|
Elukka posted:This probably depends greatly on where you live. I'm not an expert on how this works, but I would imagine copyright extortion companies can't trivially monitor what goes on in private trackers? If it takes some effort to get access they're not going to care because it's about making money and if someone has to put manual effort into it that cuts into the profit. Though by the same token, you're also probably safe by just using a VPN. It's like, when cops were busting us gays, they wouldn't focus on setting up elaborate prostitution stings if they could just catch people in public restrooms and parks. If there's more than enough reckless people to keep you busy and you can catch them dead to rights, why bother with the paranoid ones? Kestral posted:There really is a meaningful difference in the quality and quantity of what’s available on the private trackers versus the public, especially if you’re looking for anything that wasn’t released in the last few years. TorrentLeech is relatively easy to get in to, and it’s what TPB or Demonoid was like back in the day, but more so. The person upthread who mentioned seedboxes as the way to go is right: for like $5/month you’re set as well as a VPN, and you can trivially climb into the private trackers. I switched into that method last year, and it’s pretty sweet. The vast majority of everything on torrents are posted on Usenet first, which is the same ~$5/month and people set up their Plex servers where all their friends can just type the names of things and the Plex server will fetch the best copy from Usenet automatically. So it's funny to see the goon questioning why things haven't advanced beyond Torrents... bro the most cutting edge goon methods use loving 1979 tech.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2024 05:58
|
|