YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."
  • BerührtGras@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I love how aggressive google is becoming. It drives more and more people into the arms of open source os and firefox

    • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yeah bring it on Google. I didn’t thought I could leave Reddit as there is so much content and I thought I always would fall for the sheer quantity of content that Reddit has. I am suprised by myself how easily I accepted Lemmy over Reddit even all these Month later. Maybe I could leave Youtube too and would be okay with another platform that does not provide so much content. And you know how I find out? Not by doing it on my own. But by getting a really good incentive to make this step. If youtube thinks I am gonna bend over and accept hours of ads in my life they are wrong. I will choose the alternative. As soon as they force me to disable adblock, I have all the reasons to pack my coach wagon and go west searching for another life. Maybe it will not be better, but I will certainly be free. And it will be exciting to be part of something new. Bring it on Google. Make me leave you!

  • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not the vibe here by the look of the comments but for me YT premium is worth it. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube and it’s nice watching it all ad free in HD on my TV without ads. I realize hosting, streaming, and producing that content isn’t free and I don’t mind supporting it.

    • Mkengine@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Does that include Sponsorblock? Otherwise you still see ads, just from the content creators and not from YouTube.

  • banazir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I remember what the internet was like before we had ad-blockers. I concur with others who have said turning the blocker off would make it even worse. There no fucking way I’m turning off ad-blocking under any conditions. I’d rather just stop using the internet altogether. I can not verbalize how much I hate ads. I stopped watching TV because of ads a long time ago. Never again.

    Oh man, I wish I could get a pair of AR-glasses with ad-blocking in real life. No more ads polluting the streets. That would be great.

    • somenonewho@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I remember the first time I saw ads on YouTube, I had just set up a new computer and wanted to test everything. So I opened Firefox and loaded a YouTube video. I got a preroll and wondered “wait ad’s, on YouTube?” Then I realized I had been using AdBlock for so long I never witnessed the transition from ad free YouTube to YouTube with ads.

      These days I use unlock origin, Sponsorblock and revanced. For now it still works but maybe I’ll leave YouTube soon :/

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Can’t possibly make it worse than shoving ads from hate groups. On my computer, I use Firefox with adblock, but on my phone and tablet I had been using the YouTube app until a few days ago. Google decided to show me a PragerU ad on mobile, so I decided to switch to Firefox mobile to watch YouTube. And the app either moved or removed the ‘don’t show this ad’ selection.

      • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        If you log in, know that Google knows you’re using MicroG amd has the capacity to ban your account.

        Not heard of any bans yet, but I’m probably close to ditching revanced soon because this is my primary email address and Google is getting more and more aggressive

        • Senseless@feddit.deEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I think what you have in mind is YouTube Vanced. ReVanced doesn’t use the MicroG Suite.

  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    They still don’t get it.

    “Might get worse without turning of my ad-blocker” still beats “is definitely worse without ad-blocker”.

    I’m taking my chances.