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helpImTrappedOnline ,

Maybe if they cleared out the scams and served more than 3 ads on repete, I wouldn’t feel the need to block them. Yes, no one likes ads, but I get its to pay for the content I’m watching for free.

Bishma , (edited )
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~~My local invidious instance is borked too. Not sure if its related and I don’t have time to investigate now. ~~ Guess I need something else for background noise.

Edit: Took enough time to get a fresh image and its working again. Looks like I hadn’t updated since September.

downpunxx OP ,

Just got hit with this for the first time, and at first I was like what the fuck is this happening here, I'm running Firefox latest, and UBlock origin latest, never seen this before. Happening for every video, two injected video ads before the video, seem skippable, but i'm not clicking on them. Hope UBlock catches up to this quick, this sucks.

ShunkW ,

Mine are getting trapped by pihole. They take 10 seconds to time out and just show a banner ad that won’t automatically go away without hitting the skip button. It’s really frustrating since I liked letting videos auto play as I fall asleep.

downpunxx OP ,

at least it's not currently spawning an actual video advertisement, so, small blessings, the two injected ads stay static for 10 seconds a piece (makes sense), and if you don't click skip, the first tiers to the second then tiers to the video (was thinking of going pihole but you just confirmed it won't make a difference, if they start injecting autoplay video ads, then it'll be back on my todo list)

ShunkW ,

There’s a comment in this thread with a ubo custom filter that’s working for me.

downpunxx OP ,

yup, just tried that too, and after a reboot, it's working for me too

urheber ,

fucking YouTube, am i right?

no seriously, havent used it in months, and weirdly dont Miss it. i used to watch YouTube the whole day.

ModernRisk ,
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May I ask what do you use for content instead of YouTube? A lot of certain people I follow are on YouTube and music that I listen to are often only on YouTube these days. Not even Spotify has the niche songs (mainly Arabic and Japanese songs).

urheber ,

well, i would never even think of using it for music (except downloading what i cant find) same with spotify (i hate streaming). I just watched regular videos, which I just suddenly don’t do anymore, I started binging TV shows instead, -no ads .

I just couldn’t bare the ads, they’re that bad. and when I think of stuff that makes me mad, I can’t do anything associated with it, I.e. watch YouTube -know there will be ads (or not, because i have an adblocker) the mere thought that there WOULD be ads is so annoying to me, that I cannot stand watching YouTube.

but yeah back to the point, TV shows, and books, especially books have been my replacement, and I must say, they are much better.

fjordbasa ,

What do you mean by “regular videos”?

TheGrandNagus ,

Not music videos.

DevCat ,
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Yet another reason I’m glad I use youtube-dl.

empireOfLove2 ,

If they’re truly server-side injected, then they would also appear permanently in any downloaded copy because the servere would be telling the client what pieces are available-including the ad pieces.

mp3 ,
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At least I can trim those away if needed.

aedelred ,
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At least if still downloads them you can edit them out if it’s something you want to save.

zcd ,

Fuck youtube

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