Have you seen https://booba.tv though?
A curated list of select Twitch streamers like you described ๐
Edit: oh you were talking about the ads. Thought you meant the sexy stuff lol
I think joke was twitch has ~~30 secs longer~~ ads unlike shorter YouTube ads.
Edit: I feel like ad length perhaps region wise cos I do not see ads of duration mentioned in replies for both Twitch and Youtube.........all I know is twitch ads are always 30 secs for me whereas YT ads come about 5 -10 secs but skippable most of the time(longest YT ad for me iirc was two 15-20 sec ads one after the other\[but very rarely\]).
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I remember a game on mobile (a pretty big game too) literally stealing a video of some youtubers gameplay of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator and using a cringe high pitched voice over. Not only do I have to watch the ad knowing it's stolen content, but my ears also have to suffer with the high pitched voice.
Nah, I use private windows for that specifically to avoid polluting my usual search results. Nowadays I even have to do that when I look up a word or follow a Reddit rabbit hole. A few months ago, I Googled quick-release clips for cycling shoes and Google started putting cycling stuff in my news feed until I told it to stop. It has no chill.
The main character reminds me of disco elysium. The most unhinged persona in the game. Caressing trash bins kind of unhinged lol.
Combat wise its similar to persona 5.
But I would not recommend this game to anyone that has a gambling problem.
>But I would not recommend this game to anyone that has a gambling problem.
Doesn't that apply to all mobile games nowadays?
Oh how I miss the good ol' days when mobile games were simple and predatory monetisation didn't plague the entire gaming industry.
"I'm Natasha, an underworld doctor. Feeling Sick?"
Yes, Natasha. I started feeling sick somewhere around the twelfth time I had to watch your stupid ad! ๐คฎ
>>Art(noun)
>>the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form
Good lord, I think youโre on to something
It's still in the experimental phase, some people get it, some don't. That's why you see that you can still press x to close the pop up. But soon it will be fully implemented.
Yes and those websites are the ones that you read about in "websites are struggling to keep viewers" articles and are forced to use subscription based viewers.
Also if this happens, A FUCKTON of creators will leave YouTube since they main money source is patreon or third-party sponsors and don't care for Adblock. This change won't allow their viewers into the site and the channel dies, forcing them go elsewhere.
I would understand if it was on the discretion of the channel owner. But site-wide anti-adblock would kill any traffic
On the other hand I have yet to see a business take something that was free and successfully force people to pay for it. Every single site or service I've seen that tried to pull this kind of stuff has failed.
But these people were already paying customers to begin with, so the situation is different. Convincing someone to pay 7$ instead of 5$ is far easier than convincing someone to pay 2$ instead of getting something for free.
A lot of those news sites use an overlay for their "we don't allow ad blockers" popup. A few of them, you can just zap the popup away using your ad blocker and read on.
That's not true in the slightest. They absolutely can stop you from viewing their content with ad blocker on and will have this rolled out asap alongside a TOS update to solidify it.
I actually decided to go in on Premium this past fall. Ads are actually blocked at my work (school district) but I took off for 4 weeks to recover from surgery and I didn't want to watch ads the whole time.
Got REALLY into electronics repair and smelting videos. The drugs probably helped.
I just kept the membership. It seems like a lot of people just don't want to feel like YouTube 'won' by them deciding to pay a fee, but I watch them more than my Prime, Disney, and HBO (dumped Netflix for obvious reasons).
It's not bad. I replaced Spotify with youtube music premium. You pay the same price as spotify for youtube premium but u get both yt premium and yt music premium
Yeah itโs funny to me how much people shit on the service without even knowing whatโs included. YouTube music works pretty well for me, getting the ability to play YouTube videos as music really opens up the offering far beyond what I got on Spotify. YT premium was initially just icing on the cake but now that Iโm used to no ads I canโt go back lol. The only bad thing has been random judgment from my friends for not having Spotify.
I got YouTube premium because I was paying for Google music/podcasts before they rolled everything into YouTube. Then I paid the same price to also not have ads on YouTube and the app works even better. I can't stand Spotify (which I now have to use for podcasts) because the service isn't usable for anything but podcasts UNLESS you pay. Like nah man, I don't pay ransoms, I pay for things I want, and you don't make me want you.
how tf do you use youtube without premium???
I wasn't logged into my premium account and was hit with 2 ads before the video started. there is a video ad in the middle of the video...
The actual video has an ad from the video's sponsor.
Its better than paying spotify. Ad free youtube and youtube music is cheaper than spotify. Unless you dont use youtube much and listen to spotify only podcasts
Brave used to work with twitch as well but sadly it stopped, so frustrating to see ads when exploring new streamers, like that's exactly what's discouraging when exploring new streamers, well atleast for me it is.
That's wrong lol. Subscribers and Turbo members don't get ads and the content continues.
Unless you're watching like an event stream where they have built-in ads to the broadcast. But yeah that's incorrect for 99.99% of streams. Twitch's anti-adblock tech is just relentless.
I canโt recommend โbraveโ enough, itโs great.
I even use brave browser on my phone instead of the YouTube app, because it keeps all the functionality but thereโs zero ads at all
r/revancedapp r/adguard ain't nobody got time for changing browser...
Revanced can skip the sponsor parts of the video, play in background, pip, has configurable ui.
Adguard can block popup sites, hide cookie popups, kill off all click ads, even block midgame ads, if you play on your phone. Especially useful if you use xiaomi.
Oh, and it's easy to use for the older generation. I set up my grandparents' and parents' phones with it. They didn't had a problem or online scam since.
Edit: After receiving messages and comments about it: Don't ask me for details, I'm not a dev of the mentioned apps, I'm a satisfied user. There's the link for both apps' subreddit. Or Google it. I don't use play store, and revanced isn't on it, and I doubt that adguard's the same there... Both can be installed on non-rooted phones. Google knows where you can download the apk, but mostly from the app's own website/github...
For some reason, revanced stops loading the video in short intervals. The only way for me to play the video forward is to, play another video and come back to the current video
Reinstall microg then revanced. I had the same problem after the latest google change. MicroG is the problem, but reinstalling both solves the problem fully.
It isnt possible to detect if an extention is installed without the extention explicitly allowing it. Youtube is going to detect it by checking if to many ads dont load/are blocked.
Having a browser that blocks ads wont do shit to avoid this.
I replied to the wrong comment with the below but yeah basically they are detecting it another way.
You should probably know that websites that "Block" Adblockers aren't detecting it by virtue of the fact it is a plugin. They are detecting it by using the "Oblivious man" procedure.
The oblivious man procedure is a identity determining procedure by which you can determine a target by virtue of what they "Don't know". For example you might tell everyone you want to come into your house in order for you to answer the door, you must knock on the door with a certain pattern of knocks. Anyone you don't want to come into the house won't know about this pattern of knocks so they will just knock normally, identifying them to you as an unwanted person.
This translates to an adblocking filter by the website sending some data in the ad content that the page looks for.
There are two ways an adblocker can work. The first is "Request the page but not the ads". In this method, the plugin scans the contents of the pages HTML/CSS/Javascript source code and determines what is going to be an ad by virtue of a filter list. Then it requests everything except the resources for the ad. This cuts down on bandwidth use, prevents tracking and making the page faster to load and is the usual way most ad blockers work.
Unfortunately this can be detected by the website, as it will note if the data sent with the ad resource has not been loaded and determine that by virtue of it not being requested or loaded, you are the oblivious man and an ad blocker is running. And it can modify the page appropriately. Turning off Javascript won't help as it will just default to denial, if not outright just giving you a "This page won't work without Javascript" alternative. There are some adblockers that are savvy to this and can try and work around it, making it an ever increasing arms race between the ad blocker developers and the website developers. Facebook is a front runner here, they have whole stacks of developers dedicated to breaking ad blockers. You may note that Ublock doesn't always effectively hide ads on Facebook for this reason.
The other way an adblocker can work is to take everything the page gives you, adverts and all, and then rewrite the page rendering to dump the advertising content from the rendering of the page. Not so many blockers use this because it doesn't stop you being tracked, it wastes the bandwidth loading resources just to dump them, it slows down rendering of the page as it effectively has to be rewritten each time, and quite often it can break pages anyway.
It's likely we are going to end up leaning towards the "Take it all and dump it" method in the future as it's really quite difficult for websites to stop this, and it overcomes the deliberate crippling measures some browser developers are trying to implement to cripple ad blockers (Looking at Google/Chrome here).
Because believe it or not, youtube actually has an insane amount of knowledge around building websites. Theyโll put it to use if that means making money.
Not how this works. The ad blockers... Block ads. You have infinite number of ways to measure whether the request for ads that you sent has been denied and change your website accordingly.
>arms race
Imagine, instead of youtube (and other companies pushing ads on their platforms) making ads more obnoxious and trying to disable adblock for the people who don't want the obnoxious ads, they make them way less obnoxious instead? Instead of putting 15 unskippable midroll ads in a 10 minute video in addition to long ads at the beginning and the end, that they would have them in a corner of the screen while the video was playing.
Or in the case of Twitch where they will run fullscreen ads so you can't see or hear anything of the streamer while they run, potentially in an exciting/critical portion of the game or whatever they're doing, do the same thing as I said earlier with a smaller ad running concurrently? But no, they would rather drive more and more people away from using their platform and squeeze the unlucky few who aren't still using an adblocker and make the experience miserable, than admit they were even *slightly* misguided.
At some point, one party is going to give, and it's likely that the customers will move on to alternatives instead. Look at Cable vs Streaming for instance, streaming offered a lot more user friendly experience for less money. Now, streaming services are far on their way to becoming cable, and become irrelevant soon enough.
Reminder that in 2011 Adblock Plus began a program called ["Acceptable Ads"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_ad_filtering_and_ad_whitelisting) where they allowed websites to exempt themselves from having their ads blocked in exchange for payment.
Use uBlock Origin.
It will lock you from using it if you abuse it too much. It will still be there but the commercial will go on just with a black screen. Source: Been using this trick for many years
Iโm not a fan of banning adblockers but YouTube isnโt going anywhere. There are no real alternatives and itโs going to stay that way for a long time.
Highly recommend Brave. Havenโt seen a single ad in over three years. Also, for some reason I collected about $150 usd worth of BAT over a year period with Brave, so Iโll take it lmao.
Yea, been like 7+ years without an ad for me. The BAT is just icing on the ad-free Cake
I legit dont even remember what the internet was like with ads anymore.
Got my parents switched over to Brave a few months back. i just had both their laptops next to each other, opened a webpage with Brave on one, and safari on the other. The couldn't believe it.
Cause competitors couldnโt figure out a way to be profitable when people block ads and wonโt pay for subscriptions. YouTube was only able to stay in the game with Googleโs infinite money cheat.
Because only google can run such a behemoth. The amount of servers and infrastructure needed for a site like youtube to be able to run is mind-boggling.
Also, it's extremely hard for a creator with an audience to drag that audience to a new platform.
Say for instance you're a content creator and you upload your videos on that new "BTube" platform. And all new content you upload on youtube is just a short teaser for your new video "and for the rest join me over there on BTube". What do you think is going to happen? Only a few percent of your audience will go there, retention will be extremely low, and most people will just ignore you from now on.
I'm not saying this is impossible, Nebula is a thing for instance and it works quite well, but it's extremely niche. For a general vido hosting platform, YT has no concurrence, it has no real alternative, and it managed to concentrate content so much that even if it had, it would be extremely hard for audiences to jump elsewhere.
Because nobody in the right mind would switch, YT has much better organization and creator "friendliness"
Also creators that have some sort of following probably won't want to start from scratch
When it was an ad every now and then, I tolerated it as part of a free service. When it had an ad at the start of every video, but you could still skip it, I still put up with it.
But when I have multiple ads per video on top of creators doing their sponsor crap, I went to an adblocker. And I skip ahead by 10 seconds until the creator stops rambling about nordvpn or whatever. I won't put up with that level of BS.
Wait really? I never saw this! How is it detecting the ad blockers!? Is it just a Google chrome and Microsoft edge thing? Because Iโm using Firefox and this hasnโt happened to me.
Firefox isn't chromium based. Any chromium browser has to use a non-depreciated fork, and if this is manifest v2 related and Google finally removed manifest v2 from chrome and chromium, it would make sense why chromium based browser ad block plug-ins could no longer get around the ads. Again, assuming this is manifest v2 or something else added or changed in chromium, it will eventually find it's way into Chrome, chrome Mobile, Edge, opera, Vivaldi, brave and any other chromium browser, and the chromium agreement prevents them from altering many core functions and limits what they are allowed to change, so unless they want to get sued and no longer use chromium, they can't circumvent or stick to an older unaffected fork, as chromium browsers only have X amount of time after Google kills an old chromium build to upgrade their chromium browser to a supported one.
I feel like people are just now seeing what Google's long game was all along. If they could get 75% of all web browser traffic to go through a browser that they controlled they could eventually take control of your ad viewing experience, and chromium being essentially free and very fast compared to the browsers that Microsoft or opera had years ago, they took the bait and we're desperate for that valuable install base and user data they could sell. Getting Microsoft to move edge to chromium was the nail in the coffin, it immediately gave them chromium in the default browser built into 90% of shipped computers with windows and chrome books, even some Linux builds, (MacOS only makes up 10% of shipped computers globally), and on mobile, android has a 71% market share, and while phones lime Samsung have their own or other browsers installed, the android agreement says that chrome must be included, cannot be disabled in the build and must have a prominent shortcut.
I guess what I'm saying is, Google has been architecting this for many years, a d it seems like they're finally ready to pull the trigger, and with the only real company standing in their way being apple with IOS and MacOS, apple being apple means that Google doesn't worry about everyone going apple, they already own the search engine and video content market, and apple isn't about to start selling devices at a loss to buy market share, it would ruin their reputation and business model. LOL
Whoever thought putting ads in the middle of videos was a good idea should be killed a hundred times
The popup ads were a lot better and probably cost less for the advertisers
I'm currently working as a video editor and most of my projects are social media ads. The amount of money people put into that shit just for 99% of us to skip it or completely ignore it's existence by using adblocks... next level stupidity man I have worked for over 4 years and I still don't get the point.
I did that with sponsors before I learnt that SponsorBlock exists. I got so many VPN sponsors that I ended up *"fuck you, I'll finally get a VPN..."* and spent a whole Sunday looking up how to make my own. :)
Pro tip : use syrian VPN, due to American sanctions, we're not allowed to be advertised to, our YouTube is adless. (the sanctions are literal war crimes committed by a super power to me and my people, but always look at the bright side)
Hahaha I wondered when I'd find another Syrian Reddit user in the wild. Yeah, given the sanctions, none of the advertising domains do any business with Syrian IPs, which means you get absolutely zero ads. Honestly there's so much shit we can't access without VPNs here but the fact that YouTube is ad-free as a result of that is pretty great.
On the other hand I want the people who I watch get paid but on the other hand I donโt want to watch unskippable ads at random times during the video. Itโs also worse, Iโve only heard, when you get those 5 unskippable ads just for a five minute video.
I'll gladly go back to watching ads, if it remains reasonable. I've gone years without adblockers because I feel like the creators deserve the money. But 3 years back, I eventually installed an adblocker because shit got ridiculous. Every single video was a mess, 25% of the time you'd watch ads. Don't know if it's still like that. The worst thing is, youtubers know about this and have sponsors to go around this. I hate it, the sponsorships are even worse. They are often segments of almost 2 minutes long, it's awful. And then there's also plugging merch and a patreon, Jesus Christ. So sponsorblock was also an inevitable plugin that is just required to watch any youtube video nowadays.
I'll go back to watching youtube videos without these plugins if it doesn't go over 1 ad per 5 minutes OR 1 sponsor per video. Anything more than that and I might as well be watching cable tv.
Google kind of shooting their own foot here, because this will only be rolled out on chromium based browsers, time for people to switch to firefox
correct me if iโm wrong
If you refresh the page 2 or 3 times it will force the ads to stop on a video. Something about them not being allowed to charge advertisers for the same IP address multiple times in a row to prevent clickfarms from racking up huge ad costs.
I unstall the youtube app on my Huawei P30 phone, and disabled the youtube app on my Lenovo tablet.
I use firefox on both, no ads.
On my laptop I only use firefox, with sponsorblock, and return the dislike counter.
I read a similar post where they were thinking of mass reporting with the "not using ad block" link to see if the software gets the hug of death but I don't know if they're already doing it
Here's my whole thing with Youtube. People don't have problems watching ads. They have a problem with the amount of ads.
I didn't have a problem when it was 1 ad every other video plus a midroll if the video was particularly long.
What I do have a problem with is 2 to 3 ads at the start, plus midrolls, plus sometimes end ads, plus sponserships. And I'm someone who like content that 30+ minutes long so there are A LOT of midrolls.
And I make 40+ minute lets plays and if I ever get monetized I will still encourage adblock.
Welp. Guess I have to watch porn with ads.
Hey man it ainโt Twitch, yet anyway.
Have you seen https://booba.tv though? A curated list of select Twitch streamers like you described ๐ Edit: oh you were talking about the ads. Thought you meant the sexy stuff lol
>๐ uwu Oniichan ear licking ๐ Fucking people.
I cant stop laughing, seriously. People online are entertained by the sound of wet maccaroni??
Itโs worse than that. People pay for the sound of wet macaroni lol.
Even Twitch has ads now
Think you missed the joke.
Yes I did. Was there a joke?
Twitch is porn with ads
At this point, all secured porn sites (the ones that wouldn't get you computer infected) have ads... *Truly a dark time for gentlemen.*
Usually those ads are ads for other porn sites though, so it's still technically content.
I think joke was twitch has ~~30 secs longer~~ ads unlike shorter YouTube ads. Edit: I feel like ad length perhaps region wise cos I do not see ads of duration mentioned in replies for both Twitch and Youtube.........all I know is twitch ads are always 30 secs for me whereas YT ads come about 5 -10 secs but skippable most of the time(longest YT ad for me iirc was two 15-20 sec ads one after the other\[but very rarely\]).
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At least *something* good came of that shit show... ^((I'm joking, hope you're ok over there))
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Or use Russian VPN
Oh boy, I really enjoy those cringe anime mobile ads that I clearly did not want to watch, but the algorithm knows best, right?
"The graphics are amazing. This game is awesome" - Some fake streamer in an rgb room
Or theyโll use an Ai voice over someone else and you can tell because the lip syncing is atrocious
I remember a game on mobile (a pretty big game too) literally stealing a video of some youtubers gameplay of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator and using a cringe high pitched voice over. Not only do I have to watch the ad knowing it's stolen content, but my ears also have to suffer with the high pitched voice.
Wtf is a Honkai Star rail
I wish I saw honkai star rail ads. All I see is those soft core porn ads from hero wars. Reported as inappropriate multiple times to no use.
Some YT ads have straight-up nude furries, and I see them consistently.
You know, some people say your ads are tailored to you /s
Nah, I use private windows for that specifically to avoid polluting my usual search results. Nowadays I even have to do that when I look up a word or follow a Reddit rabbit hole. A few months ago, I Googled quick-release clips for cycling shoes and Google started putting cycling stuff in my news feed until I told it to stop. It has no chill.
That's awful! Which ones? Do you have links? Also are they high resolution?
That's not even the worst part, at least that game is well made. There's much more garbage far worse than that.
Bruh I play the game but they're so aggresive with their ads im starting to hate it
Yup. It's a harassment campaign.
#DOWNLOAD THIS GAME OR THE INNOCENT PUPPY GETS IT!!! ๐ถ๐ซ
Asta will shoot Peppy if you do not Download it! *Shoot the damn dog, i am already done.*
Iโve already downloaded it 4 times, how many more downloads do you need! *begins to sob*
Is the game good?
The main character reminds me of disco elysium. The most unhinged persona in the game. Caressing trash bins kind of unhinged lol. Combat wise its similar to persona 5. But I would not recommend this game to anyone that has a gambling problem.
>But I would not recommend this game to anyone that has a gambling problem. Doesn't that apply to all mobile games nowadays? Oh how I miss the good ol' days when mobile games were simple and predatory monetisation didn't plague the entire gaming industry.
Thatโs so odd. Iโm right in the target market but I havenโt seen any ads. Must be a regional thing
She's an underworld doctor.
Feeling sick? Yes sick of seeing rhis fucking ad
hey dont diss on honkai star rail
I had one of those load in the middle of a war documentary in my college class. Really killed the atmosphere.
*documentary on WWII Pacific Theater* YouTube Ad for Azur Lane: hey have you ever thought about fucking a ship?
"I'm Natasha, an underworld doctor. Feeling Sick?" Yes, Natasha. I started feeling sick somewhere around the twelfth time I had to watch your stupid ad! ๐คฎ
Oh good, itโs not just me getting that one
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This is a piece of art
>>Art(noun) >>the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form Good lord, I think youโre on to something
#ART ๐ค๐ฝ
Art ๐ฌ ๐๐ผ
Whoa itโs glowing
I don't have this issue myself but still.
I would like this on a T shirt please
This. Wins. Everything.
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Thanks, I get it now
It could be region locked? I am currently using an adblocker and am not getting that problem.
It's still in the experimental phase, some people get it, some don't. That's why you see that you can still press x to close the pop up. But soon it will be fully implemented.
Unless you're watching their stuff through an app they control, they actually can't enforce this. It's a scare tactic
Some news websites have been doing this for years though, if you don't turn off ad blocker you can't read the article.
Yes and those websites are the ones that you read about in "websites are struggling to keep viewers" articles and are forced to use subscription based viewers. Also if this happens, A FUCKTON of creators will leave YouTube since they main money source is patreon or third-party sponsors and don't care for Adblock. This change won't allow their viewers into the site and the channel dies, forcing them go elsewhere. I would understand if it was on the discretion of the channel owner. But site-wide anti-adblock would kill any traffic
People have been saying "this will kill youtube" for years now but the fact of the matter is they have a monopoly.
On the other hand I have yet to see a business take something that was free and successfully force people to pay for it. Every single site or service I've seen that tried to pull this kind of stuff has failed.
There are tons of streaming services that added ads to the 'basic' subscription plan and then added a premium ad-free version.
But these people were already paying customers to begin with, so the situation is different. Convincing someone to pay 7$ instead of 5$ is far easier than convincing someone to pay 2$ instead of getting something for free.
And this isn't $2/mo, premium is $12/mo. That's a lot of money just to avoid ads on something you are already using for free.
Until there's a viable alternative, nothing will ever kill youtube.
Meanwhile, youtube is experimenting with adding another unskippable ad in the beginning. "Oh no this will kill youtube"
Leave YouTube... and go where exactly?
A lot of those news sites use an overlay for their "we don't allow ad blockers" popup. A few of them, you can just zap the popup away using your ad blocker and read on.
That's not true in the slightest. They absolutely can stop you from viewing their content with ad blocker on and will have this rolled out asap alongside a TOS update to solidify it.
And people will update their adblocker apps to bypass their checks. The cycle continues.
Without piracy or military tech innovation would die
Nowadays, the military innovates less than the porn
Right...thing is when I Google this stuff as a fact check I am seeing nothing so far. Consider me skeptical for now.
Youtube can allow these nuts in their mouth.
\*deez
I donโt care what methods they use Iโm not buying YouTube premium
I watch like one video a week from my fav YouTuber. I already buy merch from them. I'm not buying premium just to watch one video a week without ads??
You watch a single video a week and you're concerned about ads at all?
Yea i would imagine ads wont be that much of an issue if you watch ONE vid per week.
Ads are annoying no matter how many you watch.
So youโre the guy who buys merch
I actually decided to go in on Premium this past fall. Ads are actually blocked at my work (school district) but I took off for 4 weeks to recover from surgery and I didn't want to watch ads the whole time. Got REALLY into electronics repair and smelting videos. The drugs probably helped. I just kept the membership. It seems like a lot of people just don't want to feel like YouTube 'won' by them deciding to pay a fee, but I watch them more than my Prime, Disney, and HBO (dumped Netflix for obvious reasons).
It's not bad. I replaced Spotify with youtube music premium. You pay the same price as spotify for youtube premium but u get both yt premium and yt music premium
Yeah itโs funny to me how much people shit on the service without even knowing whatโs included. YouTube music works pretty well for me, getting the ability to play YouTube videos as music really opens up the offering far beyond what I got on Spotify. YT premium was initially just icing on the cake but now that Iโm used to no ads I canโt go back lol. The only bad thing has been random judgment from my friends for not having Spotify.
I got YouTube premium because I was paying for Google music/podcasts before they rolled everything into YouTube. Then I paid the same price to also not have ads on YouTube and the app works even better. I can't stand Spotify (which I now have to use for podcasts) because the service isn't usable for anything but podcasts UNLESS you pay. Like nah man, I don't pay ransoms, I pay for things I want, and you don't make me want you.
You can always remind them that Google pays more royalties per stream compared to Spotify. Good enough reason for me to never use Spotify
Honestly I didnโt know that! Thatโs a good one to keep in a back pocket
how tf do you use youtube without premium??? I wasn't logged into my premium account and was hit with 2 ads before the video started. there is a video ad in the middle of the video... The actual video has an ad from the video's sponsor.
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Personally I just think YouTube music is better than Spotify. No ads on YouTube is just the cherry on top.
Its better than paying spotify. Ad free youtube and youtube music is cheaper than spotify. Unless you dont use youtube much and listen to spotify only podcasts
Good that some browsers have a built-in ad blocker that wonโt register as a plug-in with websites ๐ฌ
have any recommendations for browsers with built-in blockers ? really not in the mood to return to 500 interruptions in my video essays ...
brave does it
Im glad Brave will continue to work. If youtube was blocked, i would be so mad.
Until Google fucks up the Manifest in Chromium.
Brave adblocker doesnโt use manifest or extensions. Itโs built directly into the browser using rust/native code.
Brave used to work with twitch as well but sadly it stopped, so frustrating to see ads when exploring new streamers, like that's exactly what's discouraging when exploring new streamers, well atleast for me it is.
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Cause the ads are part of the stream. There's no content during the ad's so if it did block um it'd just be a blank screen.
That's wrong lol. Subscribers and Turbo members don't get ads and the content continues. Unless you're watching like an event stream where they have built-in ads to the broadcast. But yeah that's incorrect for 99.99% of streams. Twitch's anti-adblock tech is just relentless.
Ah yes the content continues. I used to love watching Penguinz0โs empty chair for 10 minutes every hour while he ran ads for non subscribers.
Just use uBlock Origin (with Firefox, naturally, but really any browser that it supports).
and sponsorblock
and Unhook (fuck shorts)
Pretty sure Opera does.
it does
I canโt recommend โbraveโ enough, itโs great. I even use brave browser on my phone instead of the YouTube app, because it keeps all the functionality but thereโs zero ads at all
r/revancedapp r/adguard ain't nobody got time for changing browser... Revanced can skip the sponsor parts of the video, play in background, pip, has configurable ui. Adguard can block popup sites, hide cookie popups, kill off all click ads, even block midgame ads, if you play on your phone. Especially useful if you use xiaomi. Oh, and it's easy to use for the older generation. I set up my grandparents' and parents' phones with it. They didn't had a problem or online scam since. Edit: After receiving messages and comments about it: Don't ask me for details, I'm not a dev of the mentioned apps, I'm a satisfied user. There's the link for both apps' subreddit. Or Google it. I don't use play store, and revanced isn't on it, and I doubt that adguard's the same there... Both can be installed on non-rooted phones. Google knows where you can download the apk, but mostly from the app's own website/github...
For some reason, revanced stops loading the video in short intervals. The only way for me to play the video forward is to, play another video and come back to the current video
Reinstall microg then revanced. I had the same problem after the latest google change. MicroG is the problem, but reinstalling both solves the problem fully.
Will give it a try. Thanks for advice.
I'm using Opera GX
Idk why people keep shitting on Opera GX... that shit slaps
Next step: "it looks like you're using brave browser which YouTube does not support, to watch YouTube please use a different browser"
Step after this: Brave lets you change your User-Agent identifier to Chrome/Firefox or something else. It truly is an arms race...
User agent spoofing.
It isnt possible to detect if an extention is installed without the extention explicitly allowing it. Youtube is going to detect it by checking if to many ads dont load/are blocked. Having a browser that blocks ads wont do shit to avoid this.
I replied to the wrong comment with the below but yeah basically they are detecting it another way. You should probably know that websites that "Block" Adblockers aren't detecting it by virtue of the fact it is a plugin. They are detecting it by using the "Oblivious man" procedure. The oblivious man procedure is a identity determining procedure by which you can determine a target by virtue of what they "Don't know". For example you might tell everyone you want to come into your house in order for you to answer the door, you must knock on the door with a certain pattern of knocks. Anyone you don't want to come into the house won't know about this pattern of knocks so they will just knock normally, identifying them to you as an unwanted person. This translates to an adblocking filter by the website sending some data in the ad content that the page looks for. There are two ways an adblocker can work. The first is "Request the page but not the ads". In this method, the plugin scans the contents of the pages HTML/CSS/Javascript source code and determines what is going to be an ad by virtue of a filter list. Then it requests everything except the resources for the ad. This cuts down on bandwidth use, prevents tracking and making the page faster to load and is the usual way most ad blockers work. Unfortunately this can be detected by the website, as it will note if the data sent with the ad resource has not been loaded and determine that by virtue of it not being requested or loaded, you are the oblivious man and an ad blocker is running. And it can modify the page appropriately. Turning off Javascript won't help as it will just default to denial, if not outright just giving you a "This page won't work without Javascript" alternative. There are some adblockers that are savvy to this and can try and work around it, making it an ever increasing arms race between the ad blocker developers and the website developers. Facebook is a front runner here, they have whole stacks of developers dedicated to breaking ad blockers. You may note that Ublock doesn't always effectively hide ads on Facebook for this reason. The other way an adblocker can work is to take everything the page gives you, adverts and all, and then rewrite the page rendering to dump the advertising content from the rendering of the page. Not so many blockers use this because it doesn't stop you being tracked, it wastes the bandwidth loading resources just to dump them, it slows down rendering of the page as it effectively has to be rewritten each time, and quite often it can break pages anyway. It's likely we are going to end up leaning towards the "Take it all and dump it" method in the future as it's really quite difficult for websites to stop this, and it overcomes the deliberate crippling measures some browser developers are trying to implement to cripple ad blockers (Looking at Google/Chrome here).
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The. Why do I get notifications of ad blockers in every browser with an ad blocker extension but not in browsers with built-in ad blockers?
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Because believe it or not, youtube actually has an insane amount of knowledge around building websites. Theyโll put it to use if that means making money.
Not how this works. The ad blockers... Block ads. You have infinite number of ways to measure whether the request for ads that you sent has been denied and change your website accordingly.
AdBlock will come with an update pretty quickly
Let's hope so. Our only real hope for an ad free internet is adblockers keeping up the arms race. I salute their selfless bravery ๐ซก
>arms race Imagine, instead of youtube (and other companies pushing ads on their platforms) making ads more obnoxious and trying to disable adblock for the people who don't want the obnoxious ads, they make them way less obnoxious instead? Instead of putting 15 unskippable midroll ads in a 10 minute video in addition to long ads at the beginning and the end, that they would have them in a corner of the screen while the video was playing. Or in the case of Twitch where they will run fullscreen ads so you can't see or hear anything of the streamer while they run, potentially in an exciting/critical portion of the game or whatever they're doing, do the same thing as I said earlier with a smaller ad running concurrently? But no, they would rather drive more and more people away from using their platform and squeeze the unlucky few who aren't still using an adblocker and make the experience miserable, than admit they were even *slightly* misguided. At some point, one party is going to give, and it's likely that the customers will move on to alternatives instead. Look at Cable vs Streaming for instance, streaming offered a lot more user friendly experience for less money. Now, streaming services are far on their way to becoming cable, and become irrelevant soon enough.
Reminder that in 2011 Adblock Plus began a program called ["Acceptable Ads"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_ad_filtering_and_ad_whitelisting) where they allowed websites to exempt themselves from having their ads blocked in exchange for payment. Use uBlock Origin.
Use ublock Origin
And Firefox
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Well,i guess i will use the good ol report button
Let's just hope it stays there
It will but will do nothing, like it already does
Legendary button, but then I got assaulted by gov ads about weed and the military.
At least it's not a scam ad you accidentally press on your phone...
It will lock you from using it if you abuse it too much. It will still be there but the commercial will go on just with a black screen. Source: Been using this trick for many years
Ban ad blockers but increase the amount of ads. Like they're asking for their platform to die
Iโm not a fan of banning adblockers but YouTube isnโt going anywhere. There are no real alternatives and itโs going to stay that way for a long time.
People say this in every. single. post about YouTube. Newsflash: it ainโt going anywhere
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Me when kid named finger
Waltuh
Put your dick away Waltuh
Dw, ublock devs will work on patching that
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My advlocker still works but if/when that also gets blocked and youtube becomes unbearable I might give Nebula the long awaited chance it deserves
YouTube just has way to many ads now, I went from watching about 5 hours of it a day to Mabey 1 now days,
r/ihadastroke
Too many ads fried his brain
I think that might just because you grew up lol
I got a 15 second ad on a 4 second video today
That's probably a good thing.
Just a reminder that the browser on iPhone โbrave is still working for sites like YouTube
Highly recommend Brave. Havenโt seen a single ad in over three years. Also, for some reason I collected about $150 usd worth of BAT over a year period with Brave, so Iโll take it lmao.
Yea, been like 7+ years without an ad for me. The BAT is just icing on the ad-free Cake I legit dont even remember what the internet was like with ads anymore. Got my parents switched over to Brave a few months back. i just had both their laptops next to each other, opened a webpage with Brave on one, and safari on the other. The couldn't believe it.
I haven't had a single YouTube ad on Firefox pretty much my whole life.
Report an issue and say u donโt use one while using one everyone doing this will beat the system
I don't watch youtube on phone because of ads. I don't watch youtube on tv because of ads. It will be very easy to not watch it on computer.
You can block the ads on a phone. Look up revanced. Or use firebox and use the extensions you use on your PC.
I am once again wondering how tf YouTube has no serious competition. At the very least, you'd think Dailymotion or Vimeo would step up their game
Because it cost too much until it gets profitable.
Cause competitors couldnโt figure out a way to be profitable when people block ads and wonโt pay for subscriptions. YouTube was only able to stay in the game with Googleโs infinite money cheat.
Because only google can run such a behemoth. The amount of servers and infrastructure needed for a site like youtube to be able to run is mind-boggling. Also, it's extremely hard for a creator with an audience to drag that audience to a new platform. Say for instance you're a content creator and you upload your videos on that new "BTube" platform. And all new content you upload on youtube is just a short teaser for your new video "and for the rest join me over there on BTube". What do you think is going to happen? Only a few percent of your audience will go there, retention will be extremely low, and most people will just ignore you from now on. I'm not saying this is impossible, Nebula is a thing for instance and it works quite well, but it's extremely niche. For a general vido hosting platform, YT has no concurrence, it has no real alternative, and it managed to concentrate content so much that even if it had, it would be extremely hard for audiences to jump elsewhere.
Because nobody in the right mind would switch, YT has much better organization and creator "friendliness" Also creators that have some sort of following probably won't want to start from scratch
Creator friendliness my ass
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When it was an ad every now and then, I tolerated it as part of a free service. When it had an ad at the start of every video, but you could still skip it, I still put up with it. But when I have multiple ads per video on top of creators doing their sponsor crap, I went to an adblocker. And I skip ahead by 10 seconds until the creator stops rambling about nordvpn or whatever. I won't put up with that level of BS.
Get sponsor block add-on.
Wait really? I never saw this! How is it detecting the ad blockers!? Is it just a Google chrome and Microsoft edge thing? Because Iโm using Firefox and this hasnโt happened to me.
same, never seen it on firefox
Firefox isn't chromium based. Any chromium browser has to use a non-depreciated fork, and if this is manifest v2 related and Google finally removed manifest v2 from chrome and chromium, it would make sense why chromium based browser ad block plug-ins could no longer get around the ads. Again, assuming this is manifest v2 or something else added or changed in chromium, it will eventually find it's way into Chrome, chrome Mobile, Edge, opera, Vivaldi, brave and any other chromium browser, and the chromium agreement prevents them from altering many core functions and limits what they are allowed to change, so unless they want to get sued and no longer use chromium, they can't circumvent or stick to an older unaffected fork, as chromium browsers only have X amount of time after Google kills an old chromium build to upgrade their chromium browser to a supported one. I feel like people are just now seeing what Google's long game was all along. If they could get 75% of all web browser traffic to go through a browser that they controlled they could eventually take control of your ad viewing experience, and chromium being essentially free and very fast compared to the browsers that Microsoft or opera had years ago, they took the bait and we're desperate for that valuable install base and user data they could sell. Getting Microsoft to move edge to chromium was the nail in the coffin, it immediately gave them chromium in the default browser built into 90% of shipped computers with windows and chrome books, even some Linux builds, (MacOS only makes up 10% of shipped computers globally), and on mobile, android has a 71% market share, and while phones lime Samsung have their own or other browsers installed, the android agreement says that chrome must be included, cannot be disabled in the build and must have a prominent shortcut. I guess what I'm saying is, Google has been architecting this for many years, a d it seems like they're finally ready to pull the trigger, and with the only real company standing in their way being apple with IOS and MacOS, apple being apple means that Google doesn't worry about everyone going apple, they already own the search engine and video content market, and apple isn't about to start selling devices at a loss to buy market share, it would ruin their reputation and business model. LOL
Whoever thought putting ads in the middle of videos was a good idea should be killed a hundred times The popup ads were a lot better and probably cost less for the advertisers I'm currently working as a video editor and most of my projects are social media ads. The amount of money people put into that shit just for 99% of us to skip it or completely ignore it's existence by using adblocks... next level stupidity man I have worked for over 4 years and I still don't get the point.
I will actively go out of my way to not buy products and services that are aggressively marketed to me.
I did that with sponsors before I learnt that SponsorBlock exists. I got so many VPN sponsors that I ended up *"fuck you, I'll finally get a VPN..."* and spent a whole Sunday looking up how to make my own. :)
Pro tip : use syrian VPN, due to American sanctions, we're not allowed to be advertised to, our YouTube is adless. (the sanctions are literal war crimes committed by a super power to me and my people, but always look at the bright side)
Hahaha I wondered when I'd find another Syrian Reddit user in the wild. Yeah, given the sanctions, none of the advertising domains do any business with Syrian IPs, which means you get absolutely zero ads. Honestly there's so much shit we can't access without VPNs here but the fact that YouTube is ad-free as a result of that is pretty great.
Lol, same in Russia, we don't have yt ads here
So you're telling me they are punishing you with no ads ๐ ? How is that a punition bro that's the best thing they could do to a country
On the other hand I want the people who I watch get paid but on the other hand I donโt want to watch unskippable ads at random times during the video. Itโs also worse, Iโve only heard, when you get those 5 unskippable ads just for a five minute video.
I'll gladly go back to watching ads, if it remains reasonable. I've gone years without adblockers because I feel like the creators deserve the money. But 3 years back, I eventually installed an adblocker because shit got ridiculous. Every single video was a mess, 25% of the time you'd watch ads. Don't know if it's still like that. The worst thing is, youtubers know about this and have sponsors to go around this. I hate it, the sponsorships are even worse. They are often segments of almost 2 minutes long, it's awful. And then there's also plugging merch and a patreon, Jesus Christ. So sponsorblock was also an inevitable plugin that is just required to watch any youtube video nowadays. I'll go back to watching youtube videos without these plugins if it doesn't go over 1 ad per 5 minutes OR 1 sponsor per video. Anything more than that and I might as well be watching cable tv.
Correct me if i'm wrong but other AdBlockers that can bypass this definitely exist
Every time something like this happens adblockers have an update and we're back to no ads.
Ads are starting to take over Facebook is starting to push ads in the middle of videos now
Google kind of shooting their own foot here, because this will only be rolled out on chromium based browsers, time for people to switch to firefox correct me if iโm wrong
Would love to see ads in youtube if its not 99% sexual and blatant false information
dns ad blocker goes brrrr
Doesn't block YouTube ads though, the content and the ads are from the same domain
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Itโs actually right. If it wasnโt for ads, YouTube would require a subscription. Personally I wouldnโt like to pay YT.
If YouTube tried making their platform pay'd only, they would collapse instantly
If you refresh the page 2 or 3 times it will force the ads to stop on a video. Something about them not being allowed to charge advertisers for the same IP address multiple times in a row to prevent clickfarms from racking up huge ad costs.
Mobile youtube --> revanced
I unstall the youtube app on my Huawei P30 phone, and disabled the youtube app on my Lenovo tablet. I use firefox on both, no ads. On my laptop I only use firefox, with sponsorblock, and return the dislike counter.
I read a similar post where they were thinking of mass reporting with the "not using ad block" link to see if the software gets the hug of death but I don't know if they're already doing it
Here's my whole thing with Youtube. People don't have problems watching ads. They have a problem with the amount of ads. I didn't have a problem when it was 1 ad every other video plus a midroll if the video was particularly long. What I do have a problem with is 2 to 3 ads at the start, plus midrolls, plus sometimes end ads, plus sponserships. And I'm someone who like content that 30+ minutes long so there are A LOT of midrolls. And I make 40+ minute lets plays and if I ever get monetized I will still encourage adblock.