People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
  • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Combine that with the 83% price increase in Australia!

    YouTube can eat shit, they’re screwing over even those of us willing to pay, Smarttube here I come!

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing. The fact that they A) clamped down on AdBlockers and B) increased Premium rates is a major disappointment.

      Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.

      Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.

      • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I wouldn’t give Google $32.99/m for YouTube, no matter how slowly they increased the price, that’s utterly ridiculous.

        I’ve used Curiosity Stream and Nebula before, would happily go back.

  • InternetTubes@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I had uBlock Origin and I didn’t mind paying for YouTube Premium. When I will mind paying for YouTube Premium will be when all of my feed is full of reactionary populist channels, not to avoid paying part of the income that pays some of the people making a career out of streaming on the platform I’ve been avoiding even watching ads on.

    It will be a losing battle for the people not trying to look for alternatives - in the end, Google has control of the backend, they can eventually decide to incorporate ads directly into the streams that are served to people protocol wise and they can decide to forego giving users any warning of when an ad will play and when they will try to force the video into forced reproduction.

    That the streams are served in a way where the browser can discern when it should play the ads is more of a courtesy from a legacy architecture that came from a Google that wasn’t intent on cracking down on people adblocking, and people may have to revert back to using more specific and resource intensive YouTube adblockers that try to guess when a commercial break is starting and ending directly from the video stream like old school VCRs did: https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,-2869,00.html

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      These days I imagine a database of ads can be built up. Every time a new ad appears, it could well be in the database within a day. Then within 5 or 10 frames, the ad could be detected and the database would know exactly how long to skip forward.

  • what@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I tried to watch the Thursday night football recap yesterday and accidentally opened YouTube instead of smarttube. I was shocked. I watched a minute of ads to start and one minute in I had another minute of ads. YouTube was basically unwatchable.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Are there any yt 3rd party that support chromecasting?

      That is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the official app.

  • Jailbrick3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    installing better adblockers

    or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For every tech company with an r&d team fighting this stuff, there’s a plethora of programming wizards whose sole purpose in life is to defeat them.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.

    YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.

      • Meltrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.