YouTube's anti-ad blocker campaign isn't a "small experiment" anymore
- Haidy
- XRq
- 31 Oct 2023
I mostly watch YouTube in incognito and its working fine there. The moment I turn off incognito, only then it asks me to turn off Ad blocker or give it muni.
Incognito is the way.
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- Coast
- 0TG
- 31 Oct 2023
I don't need an ad blocker because somehow I literally never get YouTube ads where I live, despite not having Premium. But if I'm about 200 km away from home I get ads in Turkish when I'm nowhere near Turkey at all.
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- Notaappleboy
- rAW
- 31 Oct 2023
How nice of Google
Very good company
They don't steal data, protect privacy
Help everyone
ALMOOOSST a non profitable organization
Such good corporations are only few in the world
Yet ......I am having hallucinations that the ooo's in Google name are increasing day by day
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- SShock
- AKk
- 31 Oct 2023
When they crack down on it to a point I'll have to find absurd workarounds, I'll just stop watching Youtube entirely. I don't mind ads if they are interesting or funny. Youtube ads have been nothing but absolute annoyance to a point they are downright infuriating to waste even a second of time on them. It's why I block them and it's why I don't use Youtube app and just watch them in browser with adblocker.
They are always for something totally irrelevant I don't care about, they are often for some local companies and services I don't care about and they are ALWAYS at 30-50% higher volume than video I'm watching. Nothing more infuriating than watching some calm tutorial and some stupid ad about some wellness nonsense starts screaming at me. Like, **** off Youtube. I just don't get it what they are trying to achieve. You can't get me to watch ads when they are the reason I hate Youtube's whole ads thing. And no, I'm not going to pay for it. They made it a monopoly with all the creators stuck on Youtube and now they want to ransom us with Youtube Premium or harass us with idiotic ads. NO.
And this will never work since they are injecting 3rd party whatever ads into content. It just can't work the same way as funny JayzTwoCents ad for iFixit for example. Or short plugs for LTT stuff in their videos like saying new Macbook will easily fit in their LTT backpack during the highlight overview for the new Apple event. These go by like whatever, they are integrated and often funny or cheeky. Youtube's ads are just dumb and annoying and the more I see them, the less I want to buy whatever they are advertising.
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- Anunu
- Q9x
- 31 Oct 2023
Remember youtube, you are relevant because of the creators. Once they switch to another platform, so will your audience. Then you can dig your couch for pennies
- A
- Anunu
- Q9x
- 31 Oct 2023
Vidlii and odysee arent looking so bad right now
- vrvly
- Ava
- 31 Oct 2023
Ad blocking is just too pricy, just makes me wonder what happens with all our data, if it got such high value, but we don't get anything in exchange for that data, but youtube and other companies do...
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- pl2rts
- J9W
- 31 Oct 2023
According to Lawton, using ad blockers violates the platform's terms of service. "Ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube", he said.
Sure sure!! Like when Youtube just removes ads from creators videos and wont care to give any reasons why they remove it. Just cause some users complain then the creators lose out on money a lot. Where as youtube constantly changes it's rules and dont allow creators to use a lot of words and talk in a lot of topics.
Anyway it's time to move to rumble and forget youtube exist. Forcing people to watch ads should be a crime
- 777cobalt
- IbG
- 31 Oct 2023
JohnSalamii, 31 Oct 2023firefox + ublock origin thank me laterB-but then you won't get to see oddly suggestive Temu ads anymore! And what are the people at Facebook gonna do if they can't promote their datamining program?! Think of the big businesses, jerk!
