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Youtube's War on Adblock Got Worse
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I noticed that YouTube began setting my videos to the lowest resolution, when set to Auto, since a day or two ago.
I installed an extension to force the resolution I want, and it took maybe 10 seconds to grab.
Like hell am I allowing ads.
I'm on premium and my videos load like shit too when forced to high resolution with the plugin.
and before anyone says anything, I get family YouTube for $3 a month. switch your VPN to turkey, login in incognito, buy it. I had to go this route to keep even more shitty ads playing on my kids switch. my home is already layered with pihole adblocking and ublock on every computer. $3 is fine by me.
I don't care about "tracking", you need to decide if that's something you really even need to worry about. you need to set your expectations of what you are "protecting". privacy is a very grey area, if you think the government is tracking or looking for you, you've got larger issues. for most people, blocking 99% of ads is perfectly acceptable. use disposable accounts if you want for other things. use bitwarden or another password manager and MFA. you'll never be 100% "private" unless you buy a cabin in the woods and disappear.
What annoys me about YT premium is that if I'm at my friend's house and they own premium but I don't then any videos I add to the queue on their TV will have ads.
the fuck?
Conversely, if they added something to my TV's queue it wouldn't have ads. I get it, but it's a very annoying thing to deal with.
Its been doing that for years for me, even as a day 1 premium subscriber.
I have to manually select 1080p every single video