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Even the FBI recommends you use an adblocker, for your personal safety. Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-fbi-now-recommends-using-an-ad-blocker-heres-why
If this has the same effect as reddit/lemmy… wow peer tube is about to get so good
People who choose not to watch ads are far more likely to not spend money based on ads. I know that when I see the same crappy ads over and over, yeah, I remember the name of the product, and I remind myself every time never to buy it. I’m more likely to buy from that seller if I don’t see their ads.
Yeah. I’m completely allergic to ads. If this goes through I’m simply not going to use YT anymore.
I operate this way too. There must be literally dozens of us.
In all seriousness, I do find it somewhat surprising that some of these companies think saturating everything with ads is a good idea. As a simple matter of brand recognition, I get that the power of suggestion is a helluva drug. But all that stuff does eventually glom together in my head as general advertising nonsense – as a result I see companies that advertise less / not at all and rely on a quality product and word of mouth as a better buy.
The ads make Youtube unwatchable so if necessary I’ll figure out how to sideload Piped onto the house TV, or, failing that, just plug my laptop in and watch shit through Piped.
If you have an Android TV, I highly recommend SmartTube. You do need to sideload the APK. But once you do that, it’s smooth sailing. It has no ads + SponsorBlock. It just.doesn’t support LG’s OS or Roku.
Adblock is one of the greatest human inventions of all time.
Remember when YouTube was just a video of a guy at the zoo? Pepperidge farm remembers…
- TV : SmartTube
- Mobile : NewPipe / LibreTube
- Desktop : Piped / YouTube with a bunch of browser extensions
This my YouTube Premium
Until earlier this year I just watched the ads because in some small way it supports creators and I could deal with it. Then they increased the number of ads per watch-time to egregious levels.
I certainly wasn’t going to reward a company for making the existing service worse by subscribing. Started using the apps people mention immediately and also setup pihole to block more ads.
Im honestly considering getting a flip phone at this point it’s kind of ridiculous.
Start downloading and archiving videos you like. Especially educational content, share it with others, keep the information free and accessible for all.
I’m with the group that refuses to ever watch YT ads, but I guess it does help reduce bandwidth if they kick everyone off that’s using an adblocker.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “allowlisted”. Did someone forget “whitelisted” is a thing, or is that term finally cancelled?
Whitelist and blacklist were indeed cancelled despite having no racial origin.
There are cultural traditions of using colors as symbols, many of which are harmless – red for anger, blue for sadness, green for envy. Whitelist and blacklist come from the very long-standing theme of using white to represent good and black to represent evil.
Regardless of how you feel about the origin of those themes, it makes sense to start moving away from them now. Whether intentional or not, they can be harmful and aren’t really necessary.
You are predictably behind the curve
YouTube has also started showing me a blank “home” screen since I turned off my watch and search activity history on privacy settings.
Joke’s on them, all I want is to see my subscriptions anyway
Recommendations just mean every month I have to spend a week telling it not to recommend channel or not interested
I wish there was a plugin to auto - not recommend channel based on video view counts or video length
That’s did news. Perhaps after mastodon grow massive thanks to Elon, and Lemmy grow thanks to reddit, we see peertube get his time to shine thanks to Google… #fuckupyourcompanyFAST
I’d love to see PeerTube grow just like these platforms, but I think it’s a lot more complicated to get people to use it than mastodon/lemmy.
Twitter/Reddit weren’t used as a major income source like YouTube and Instagram (I am saying this based on famous people in my country, I don’t know how it goes on other places), and so are easier to replace. The people posting and discussing topics don’t do that for the money, they do because they like it.
YT and its monetization system made possible for people to make a living from the content they produce, and many wouldn’t like or simply couldn’t sacrifice this income source just to go to a more ethical and private platform like PeerTube.
Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to
34 bytes.
Text is fine but you can’t really expect the Fediverse to serve heavy media at a large scale
Maybe one day all of the mega corporations on the internet will finally drive me from the internet itself and I’ll finally do something useful with my time.
Until that day…
Like play video games
BATTLEPASS MICROTRANSACTIONS DLC DLC DLC FOMO ROTATING DAILIES ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PTW
…I think I’ll go with indie games.
I didnt say anything abouth that, i meant in general, i myself play 90% retro games and the other 10% low spec games that thend to be indie since i only have a potato device and am poor. Dont know were that came from, although I agree with the fact that modern AAA gaming sucks but this felt agressive, so chill out m8.
I was making joke, not disagree with you. This is not Reddit.
