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[–] LemmyLurker 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The cat and Mouse games between blockers and anti-blockers begins.

I've been using adblocker on YouTube for years, but tried to turn it off yesterday as an experiment. Multiple, 40 sec to 60 sec ads on the first video. I knew it was bad, but that still surprised me.

How does anybody live with that level of annoyance?

I can recommend newpipe for android, as an ad free YouTube viewer.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

How does anybody live with that level of annoyance?

Being poor that you can't buy Google Premium and too uneducated to use an ad blocker makes it that people think there's no other way and just accept it.

The same way they accept ads in free TV.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

I always notice how horrible ads are when watching twitch, where ublock doesn't work sometimes

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Multiple, 40 sec to 60 sec ads on the first video. I knew it was bad, but that still surprised me

More people using adblocks, more ads for people who don't. It's simple business logic. Google is the largest advertising and analytics company. I'm sure they've got adblocks factored in for maximum profits.

Poor them though, I'll probably never not use adblocks. lol

[–] riley@social.audiovalentine.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@darylsun I'm just going to go back to having a cronjob that downloads all my favourite YouTube channels to my jellyfin server. No ads, no deleted videos.

[–] darylsun 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, that's an idea... I wish I could write scripts myself.

[–] noodlejetski 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

some good resources listed over here: https://calckey.social/notes/9el0v5d2do

I've been using Piped and LibreTube for quite a while (and Invidious and Newpipe before that for an even longer while) and they're great.

[–] darylsun 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Piped and LibreTube were slow for me when I tried them recently, but that's probably because I'm using the main instance. Which instances do you recommend?

[–] noodlejetski 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I haven't been watching that many videos recently, so the slowdowns haven't been really affecting me much, but when piped.video doesn't load anything at times, I temporarily switch to il.ax, only because the name's short and easy to remember (:

[–] darylsun 3 points 2 years ago

I see. Thanks for the recommendation!