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UltraMagnus0001 ,

I feel its slowing down Smarttube too, because I have to wait a few seconds for the video to start now. I don’t know if it’s a bug

CatTrickery ,

I’ve noticed the same. Particularly tonight.

zbyte64 ,
@zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don’t always click on a YouTube ad, but when I do it’s a UI failure because it’s an accidental click. How much do you want to bet this crackdown is a distraction from the fact their ad system doesn’t perform as well as advertised?

MonkeMischief ,

Or it’s just straight up hostile UI. They started camouflaging ads to blend in really well with random search results now! Infuriating.

zbyte64 ,
@zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Speaking of which… Don’t you just love how changing the volume on your phone causes the audio indicator to overlap the button that let’s you skip ads?

MonkeMischief ,

Ok now that you point it out that’s gotta be intentional lol.

Behold, the wonders of the modern world! …which we must constantly fight and remain suspicious of as they attempt to manipulate or screw us at every turn.

😬

A_Random_Idiot ,

I really wish government would just come in already and shatter google into a million pieces with the anti-monopoly hammer already.

Google is far worse than AT&T ever was when it was shattered into the baby bells.

Just gotta learn from AT&T to not let them re-congeal back together like somekind of fucked up liquid metal terminator 20+ years down the line.

postmateDumbass ,

50% of congress wants to know how the computer mouse stays alive without food.

rabiddolphin ,
@rabiddolphin@lemmy.world avatar

They pretend to be ignorant but they’re really looking the other way because they’re lobbied for meager sums like $10,000

postmateDumbass ,

Our best and brightest?

Zummy ,

I am for sure one of the smaller number of people doing this, but I watch YouTube on my TV using the TV app. As a result I always had to watch ads. I wish I could avoid them. I suppose a could watch from an alternative and then AirPlay it to my TV, but that’s about it.

SpookySnek ,

I bought a chromecast with google TV specifically for this purpose, with it you can download “SmartTube” and watch youtube completely ad-free

Miaou ,

Changing your router DNS to something that blocks ads (or a pihole at home) and you’ll never have to watch ads ever again, YouTube or elsewhere

lorkano ,

This doesn’t work for many types of ads

ylph ,

YouTube video ads can’t be blocked with just DNS blocking unfortunately, they are served from the same hosts as YouTube videos.

SendMePhotos ,

Does a network pihole block YouTube ads?

verysoft , (edited )

Not anymore, it used to. Pihole can only block ads that are served from known ad servers. But with the way ads are served on YT, it can't block them without also blocking the entire video.

My pi hole currently blocks around 10% of all the requests made on my network. So its still worthwhile for cutting down on some ads and tracking.

Guajojo ,

Of course this is possible but this involves more than just pihole. I’m running this with a combo of adaway + mikrotik router with port based NATing.

People downvoting you are like the angrycry meme about the low to high IQ gauge.

roofuskit ,

If you had an android device you’d be allowed to install an alternative YouTube app.

cuntonabike ,

Just install smart tube

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Same but with my PS5. But I don’t think there’s any way of getting an ad block on there

ChunkMcHorkle , (edited )
@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world avatar

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Suavevillain ,
@Suavevillain@lemmy.world avatar

I will download videos then. I refuse to not use an adblocker on the modern internet.

muh_entitlement ,

Pirate everything, it’s the only way to show greedy corporations the content should be free.

quackers ,

Free wouldnt work either. nobody would make any content. its just that they excessively exploit everything to grab every last penny.

muh_entitlement , (edited )

This is why privacy PIRACY is justified. The only way is not to pay!

Edit: 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Bayz0r ,

Did you mix up your buzzwords?

eskimofry ,

Privacy and Piracy go hand in hand, don’t you think?

Fedegenerate ,

Free wouldnt work either. nobody would make any content.

Except it was free, and people did make content.

eskimofry ,

It’s hilarious watching all the corporate apologists claiming stuff didn’t exist before corporations came in and stole all the credit for work they didn’t do in the first place.

XTornado ,

My worry with all this is that they might say fuck it and put DRM for all YouTube videos which would block attempts to download the videos. Not make it impossible as seen with streaming services but not as trivial as now…

Croquette ,

Time to quit YouTube then

DoctorRoxxo ,

Heck yeah let’s all go to break.com

Croquette ,

Didn’t know this was still a thing haha. It brings me back

Abnorc ,

I already subscribed to someone on Floatplane. If it gets much worse on YouTube, it might be time to switch fully.

eskimofry ,

The day they go 100% paywalled, is the day their dominance ends. They will never do this because, contrary to the corporate dickriders in this thread they rely on bait and switch tactics to draw the crowd in the first place.

XTornado ,

I didn’t say anything about paywalled.

rabiddolphin ,
@rabiddolphin@lemmy.world avatar

Google’s plan is to DRM the web

gila ,

Well the good news is Widevine is very expensive, and doesn’t work. It’s not as simple as right click / save target as, but Widevine decryption is why you can torrent any of the shows/movies on those streaming services.

Everytime someone requests a video on those services, the service pays a fee to Widevine. $0.50 USD per request for the first 30k requests/month. How much you think Google is willing to pay someone for you to watch cat videos for free?

wolo ,

Google owns Widevine, they would be paying a fee to themselves

gila ,

You’re right. But then it’s also their cost incurred. Their decryption keys to revoke on exploited devices, and their engineers to try and come up with a software patch for their hardware-level CDM. It’s costly was my point.

weirdo_from_space ,

It would be really cool to be able to download YouTube videos withour the sponsorship segments, I wonder if there is a way to do his already?

JigglySackles ,

Like the ads surrounding the video and breaking the video up or the spots in the video where the creator hawks their latest wares?

fruitycoder ,

I swore I’ve seen a FOSS project that did that. An ad segment detector basically

Euphoma ,

yt-dlp has a command-line option to download videos while using sponsor block.


<span style="color:#323232;">yt-dlp https://youtube... --sponsorblock-remove all
</span>
marx2k ,

If I see one more PCBWay ad…

KuraiWolfGaming ,

On android, I use Seal. Its basically a frontend for yt-dlp and has a sponsor block feature.

Duamerthrax ,

Honestly, I’m ok with at least giving channel ad reads a shot. Those aren’t based on my watch history/search history and the channel owner actually gets a good cut. Almost nobody can make a living with google ads.

tias ,

I don’t have an ad blocker, I just have the standard strict tracking protection enabled in Firefox. What’s more, I pay for YouTube Premium. But still they add a five-second delay every time I visit a web page. It’s infuriating.

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

Might as well just stop paying for premium then if they’re going to ding you anyway.

muh_entitlement ,

Why pay when you can watch it for free without ads through piped video! Pirate everything, live for free!!

fatalError ,

If I were to guess, non-android smart tv. There are very few options if any for these TVs. Since I got my TCL google tv I just put smarttube on it and that was it, no more ads and cast still works. But can’t do that with parents’ old chromecast or lg TVs

tias , (edited )

If anyone is curious about the reason, my primary motivation for having Premium is that I don’t want my kids to see more ads than necessary, and they’re on YouTube on their phones, on the Chromecast (connected to a dumb projector) and on the computer.

The YouTube app has a lot to offer them that they won’t get in other apps and I can’t realistically force them to use other alternatives everywhere. Especially since I have shared custody and they’ll be using YouTube at their mom’s place as well.

KillingTimeItself ,

there is no way the 5 second sleep before loading isnt anti competitive, because last i heard, unless they changed it, it only checks for the firefox user agent.

Actually insane that someone would willingly implement that.

Mango ,

YouTube speed has been shit ever since they stopped actually buffering.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

And this is why we use Newpipe

muh_entitlement ,

Time and time again we can only conclude: Piracy is justified!

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Do people seriously think there’s something wrong with doing that?

eskimofry ,

only corporate apologists.

rabiddolphin ,
@rabiddolphin@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0ad1ba4c-6a94-4455-a32d-14f9dc8441a9.jpeg

000 ,

Don’t worry, YouTube, I won’t be using your website anymore. But my yt-dl will be ripping max quality videos by the hundreds, just for shits and giggles.

muh_entitlement ,

Yarr harr, it’s the pirate life for us!

erranto , (edited )

Does it affect Invidious front-end as well?? I have been noticing that for a while now, but I thought maybe it is because the page doesn’t use native yt js code to track video download. the same videos would load battery smooth when accessed through YT.

notannpc ,

And still, I’m more likely to stop using YouTube than to stop using an ad blocker.

very_well_lost ,

That’s what they want. Get all the users they aren’t able to monetize off the platform to lower their costs.

danielbln ,

I mean, I like a good Google hate train as much as the next guy, but that’s kind of a legitimate thing to want.

Smokeydope ,
@Smokeydope@lemmy.world avatar

Follow the damn train, CJ!

bruhduh ,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Ooooooh my dawg th-3435425753

bruhduh ,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

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eskimofry ,

It’s YouTube’s fault for setting the wrong expectations when they benefited from wild growth and success by being free all these years. I dare they go 100% paywalled. I know they won’t. Otherwise they can’t double dip on both premium and advertiser money. Even if they manage to go 100% paywall, it’s inevitable that they will start introducing adverts to paying customers as well.

ARk ,

Then I’mma leech HARDER

InternetUser2012 ,

That’s a double edged sword though, lose viewers and you lose appeal to advertisers. Lose users and they’re going to go somewhere else. That somewhere else will eventually grow and be competition. The bigger it gets, the faster it will grow.

eskimofry ,

They used the “You” as in the people, during their growth years to build their platform. Now they are going against the people since they no longer need us.

muh_entitlement ,

Good news: you can have the best of both by watching everything for free through piped video!

Hamartiogonic ,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Way ahead of you. Recently got Nebula, which has dramatically reduced the amount of time I spend on YT. Besides, this way I can help also the people who make the videos. They don’t need to be so dependent on the whimsical and unpredictable nature of the algorithm and the ever changing landscape of what is or isn’t advertiser friendly on the platform.

If YT feels like further cranking up the enshittification dial, I say, bring it on. I’m ready to drop my watch time even lower than it currently is.

Somecall_metim ,

Oh no (continues to watch on freetube) anyway…

fne8w2ah OP ,

Revanced Extended ftw!

McDropout ,
@McDropout@lemmy.world avatar

What is freetube? (Sorry for the stupid question)

Patch ,

One of many different “third party frontends” for YouTube which, amongst other things, cut out ads and avoid performance throttling.

Personally I use one called NewPipe, and previously one called LibreTube. There are others too.

aliteral ,

Alternative front ends are a god send.

QuarterSwede ,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

One of the few uYou+ users on iOS.

Underwaterbob ,

Frankly, I’d stop using YouTube entirely before I’d start using it without an adblocker. At least there are no signs of it slowing down for me, yet.

trafficnab ,

I’d consider paying a few bucks a month, but not $10 or more

Get rid of shitty YouTube music and give me a tier that’s no ads only

nightwatch_admin ,

That is precisely why Premium Lite was killed off, it did exactly what you are looking for.

trafficnab ,

I don’t think that was ever available in my country

ILikeBoobies ,

That’s just leaving money on the table

Crafter72 ,
@Crafter72@lemmy.world avatar

Been using revanced, sometimes using Iceraven (ff fork) w/ ublock origin on phone, and using librewolf (another ff fork) also w/ ublock origin on desktop. So far never encountered slow down since November 2023.

Is this slow down only on select extension issue? Although when it first happend (late 2023) I was thrown up by sudden yt not loading on my librewolf but it only happend only on single day, afterward it gone.

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