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Youtube's War on Adblock Got Worse (youtu.be)
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[-] lulztard@reddthat.com 60 points 4 days ago

Somehow I'm completely sleeping on that entire issue. I've been running JS-blockers, ad-blockers and privacy-protectors for so long, the ad spam went entirely by me. Every now and then I'm testing something on my add-on free, unmodified Edge just to see if it's my addons or the site is actually broken, and I'm shocked at how sites actually look compared to my experience. I wouldn't know how anyone is able to rawdog the internet.

[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

intentionally pushing enshitifaction because theyve stopped innovating.

Just forces customers away and increases operational costs

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Once server side ad blocking makes its way into mainstream, ad blocking I think will get interesting. Closer to the old ad blockers for cable television.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't worry, we'll always be able to detect ads and block them. It's by nature of an ad to be detectable. I highly doubt YT will manage to add ads into the content, not the into the video part, but inside the content, like some Youtuber do already for their sponsoring and even then we have sponsor block.

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

How did they work for cable TV?

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

What do you mean by server side?

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Heres a better article on the technology: https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-server-side-ad-insertion.html

It basically makes ad blockers as we use them not work by injecting the ads into the video itself. It will also make things like sponsor block/ublock origin/etc... not work. They are testing the waters as of now.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

So you don’t mean ad blocking you mean ad serving.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yes

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

the fuck?

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 5 points 3 days ago

Its been doing that for years for me, even as a day 1 premium subscriber.

I have to manually select 1080p every single video

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Damn. Looks like I'll have to update Ublock again.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

That's exactly why they fucked with the extension update mechanism in Manifest v3. Thankfully Firefox exists and will continue to support MV2.

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Revanced is the answer

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

Or Grayjay.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Needs android tv version

[-] ConfuzzedCat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Please enlighten me, what is grayjay? Or just a link to a website

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's an android app that allows you to follow content creators across several platforms and enjoy their content. Platforms includes the like of patreon, youtube, nebula, peertube, soundcloud...

Its tagline is: "Follow Creators not Platforms". You can only get it from their Website: https://grayjay.app/ made by https://futo.org

[-] ConfuzzedCat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

ah okay, thanks for the enlightenment

[-] JohnnyH842@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'd love any suggestions on what to use for mobile (Chrome on iOS) and YouTube via an app on my TV

[-] quixotic120@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

my tv, laptop, and phone continue to play ad free. good thing googles fighting this war on what’s probably under 10% of their user base though

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

Ive gotten blocked outright. No videos play whatsoever. Ive seen a few posts on reddit of people complaining theyre having the same issue. Not sure what or why? Seems to be account specific.

[-] small44@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Been using freetube since the war began. They cab't even benefits from my data

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

It was going on for quite some time already, It's just getting worse now. also Invidious instances are totally blocked now and youtube has broke all the work around from Invidious team.

we are losing this war guys D:

[-] Baaahb@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For the moment. You might say we are.losing the battle. Wouldn't come close to saying we are losing the war though.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Truth

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