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Maybe dont put an ad every 5 minutes, that could lead people not to use adblocker. I wasn’t an adblock user but seeing how the web is today its impossible to surf it without one
Wtf. It’s obviously crashed because of how absolutely unusable and disgusting youtube has become. I used to use youtube for 3 4 hours a day, but in the last year it may have gotten to an average of 20mins. Because you have to sign in to your google account to watch a video, many of videos cant be viewed with a vpn (which is how very large population of the world use youtube) and the overall quality of content has dropped massively, specially with 3/10 videos and shorts being AI slops.
Revanced extended. ( remove ads, shorts etc. ) ( Be careful with other sources regarding malware. (although ultimately you should not blindly trust this source either))
“Our product sucks because you’re not giving us enough money” ok fam
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Don’t you hate it when you mistype a comma and your code to show ads suddenly issues a pull request, approves it, uploads itself to staging, goes through QA and then deploys to prod completely by accident? I know I do! /s
If you don’t make your metrics reliant on spyware, they won’t be affected by me blocking your spyware. But thats not a trick they teach at google university.
Hah!
I, and many others left using YouTube from the site once they banned adblockers. I used to watch an hour a day I’d guess.
I’m technical, so I bothered seeking out alternative clients that can bypass the ads (Freetube, Grayjay, etc), but i still watch less overall. And after speaking to less technical friends and family, they said that the unskippable ads just got too much. So they stopped using it except for essential vids like tutorials.
Too many ads = consumer go byebye now.
Ya fuckin’ milked the cow dry, idiots.
Youtube works for me with UBlock Origin on Firefox.
Youtube is still 100% usable with uBlock Origin… Even the “lite” version of uBO.
Its always a cat and mouse game. They say they blocked adblockers… but then that gets circumvented. But then they patch it, but that gets circumvented. If they spent a fraction of what they spend trying to stop adblockers and just show less ads… people wouldnt need to resort to adblockers!
Right, but through the entire debacle where Youtube supposedly stopped working with adblockers at all, I had absolutely zero interruptions. Firefox w/uBO (mobile and desktop), Chrome w/uBOL, and even YT Revanced.
I can see this. I will only try refreshing a video a couple of times before giving up and moving on, if I can’t watch it without ads. And lately, YouTube has been fighting with my adblocker so much, that I end up just turning it off altogether. Fuck ads.
Are you able to use yt-dlp or PipePipe?
I will be honest…I don’t know what those are. Lol!
The first one is a popular video downloader, typically used for YouTube. The second is an Android app that is very well made.
I can see where this is going. Next, ad blocking will be made even harder than it already is.
The internet is unusable without Adblockers. Youtube especially is a dumpster fire.
This is literal abusive language. “Look what you made me do”
Google whines about problems it caused -_-
Adblockers are the only reason people can still tolerate watching content on the ad-riddled shitscape.
