There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
anthony ,
@anthony@lemmy.cif.su avatar

Sadly they killed Piped, and a lot Discord Bots in the Process…

TheOSINTguy ,

Free tube still works, android app is kinda buggy though.

WhyJiffie ,

Piped should be able to work if they implement invidious’s workaround. Unfortunately devs don’t seem to be active anymore :/

SirMaple__ ,

What features aren’t working in Piped?

I have a selfhosted Piped instance and use it daily without issue in Firefox and LibreTube on Android.

anthony ,
@anthony@lemmy.cif.su avatar

A lot of instances have been getting these “Sign in to confirm your not a not” messages, if to many people use them at the same time. It works after a while again, but only being able to watch Videos sometimes, when the right stars align properly, is to unreliable for most user, me included.

Desistance ,
@Desistance@lemmy.world avatar

Good.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators

What always got me about accounts like Mr. Beast is how they never made the jump to a direct subscription service for their content. Some of the more popular Patreon accounts rarely if ever bubble up to the top of the YouTube algorithm. Yet they are clearly popular enough to bring in millions as independent artists. Meanwhile, the folks that dominate the YouTube charts are inevitably the ones that the algorithm force-feeds you in every “Recommended” feed.

It’s almost as though YouTube needs quality content providers more than the quality providers need the ads. Almost as though the real beneficiaries of the YouTube ad-supported model are generating endless largely unappealing filler content.

cybersandwich ,

Floatplane is Linus’ smartest decision he’s made. It’s going to be needed.

lemann ,

Platforms like Floatplane, Nebula, Patreon etc make it so easy to support creators outside of YouTube, while also giving creators a larger share of income compared to Adsense.

There’s YouTube Premium… but I don’t think I’m alone in not wanting to give Google a single cent of my hard earned cash

simonced ,

I already have Pixel phones, they can already spy on me. No f’ing way I pay to remove enshitification. Also, they’ll increase the price regularly anyway. If they want ppl to pay, they could just paywall the whole thing, well see who’s left after that lol.

Ilovethebomb ,

I’ve actually looked at these platforms as someone who has taken YouTube semi seriously in the past, and there are two major issues with them.

The first is, they don’t allow just anyone to upload video, you must already be an established creator. Second, there is no free access for viewers, meaning someone isn’t likely to share a link to your video with friends.

YouTube really does have a monopoly.

desertdruid ,

Linus

Let’s hope he doesn’t have access to any critical email account related to that service.

Bakersfield ,

I’m out of the loop. What’s that referencing?

cybersandwich ,

Linus got phished out of his twitter account recently.

Respect where it’s due. He owned it and was transparent so everyone can learn. Apparently he was at a pool party and just about to throw the burgers on the grill when he got an email that said his account was logged into from Turkey or Russia or someplace.

He panicked a bit, because of the last time his YouTube account was hacked he felt like acting quickly was the only thing that help it not be worse. I think he clicked the link in the email and “logged in” and boom. Got em.

Caught him at the right time and place and it all aligned to burn him.

Bakersfield ,

That sucks. Thanks for the info.

Did he end up getting his account back?

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Torvalds?

cybersandwich ,

Sebatianalds

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Van Pelt.

01189998819991197253 ,
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

No. Of LTT

jj4211 ,

I used to just watch YouTube at default, taking the ads as they felt like.

Now, no thanks. If I have to watch as many ads for as long as they mandate, I’ll just watch other things.

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

I’m getting Playback failed from time to time on reVanced. Maybe after 5mins of every 3rd video. I just go to my watch history, open the video again and it continues. Mildly annoying, but good trade-off for not having ads.

Zarxrax ,

I have not encountered any issues in revanced. Maybe check and make sure it’s updated?

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

Updated yesterday. Maybe it is something connected with me running Adguard Home as my private DNS.

MrSoup , (edited )

They successfully broke almost every Piped instance.

drmoose ,

I find the whole thing so ugly even as a youtube plus subscriber. How much possibly you could gain here? isn’t youtube already profitable and being run by one of the world’s richest corporations? just let people watch and educate themselves and whatnot.

legendaryhero ,

Very noice

cabron_offsets ,

What’s YouTube?

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

The sickos “haha yes” meme

x00z ,
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

They kept trying to ruin my experience so I’ve switched to Invidious and Odysee.

Invidious only for the content creators that don’t crosspost to Odysee yet.

timewarp ,
@timewarp@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like users are trying to end up in the find out phase.

YouTube… “We provide these APIs and make our apps and privacy policies more accessible than most, but we still can’t give everything away for free.”

Users… “Haha scum of the earth we think we’re beating you and that you have no way to stop us from circumventing your ads without paying.”

billiam0202 ,

My dude, white knighting a company that had almost $60 billion in profit in 2022 and $73 billion profit in 2023 isn’t a good look.

Source.

timewarp ,
@timewarp@lemmy.world avatar

My dude… There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about, but you pick the weakest argument and then say I’m white knighting them. YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit… you’ve been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?

billiam0202 ,

There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about

But you’re not. You’ve made several comments on this post criticizing the people who 1. want control over their own devices and 2. are sick of ads being forced into every aspect of their lives.

you pick the weakest argument

And I happen to think that a company throwing such an entitled fit over money, when they are making an immoral amount of profit that is increasing YoY, is super relevant when discussing the profitability of one of their services.

YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit

Pretty sure I didn’t say they did.

you’ve been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?

People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.

timewarp ,
@timewarp@lemmy.world avatar

But you’re not. You’ve made several comments on this post criticizing the people who 1. want control over their own devices and 2. are sick of ads being forced into every aspect of their lives.

They have control over their devices. You’re not making sense and can’t even articulate how they don’t have control. If they want even more control, they can install GrapheneOS or a plethora of third party ROMs that removes all Google services. Apple users can’t even do that. No one is making them use YouTube either. Google allows third party apps that blocks ads. It isn’t like a… “Ha, Google you’re idiots we are smarter than you cause you are too stupid to block ads.” Seriously, what kind of dumb person takes this attitude?

And I happen to think that a company throwing such an entitled fit over money, when they are making an immoral amount of profit that is increasing YoY, is super relevant when discussing the profitability of one of their services.

Dumb users are the ones throwing an entitled fit. Why is making profit immoral? If you want to say, “I’m anti-capitalist and don’t think the world should be about money…” then just say that. It is a much stronger argument and one that should be discussed more, but singling out Google is dumb. In terms of ethics, they are still way better than most companies, including Apple & Microsoft… In what realitydoes it make sense to attack the more ethical companies before going after the least ethical?

YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit

Read your previous comment.

People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.

Not always. If I go to a coffee shop and they give me a free one out of convenience… I don’t go back and demand they keep giving them to me for free cause they did it once.

LainTrain ,

Please rewrite this to make sense and we’ll get back to you in 3-5 working days.

MonkderVierte ,

Meh, paywalling some videos behind Google+ (or whatever the current iteration is) would’ve been the honest option. But they chose ads and tracking for everything (makes more money), i can understand why people circumvent them.

timewarp ,
@timewarp@lemmy.world avatar

I can understand why people circumvent them too. I can’t understand why they’d claim… “Hey Google, you suck at blocking ads. You can’t stop us from doing it.”

Seriously, fuck people that do this. Google knows people use third party apps that block ads. They might as well say… we’re not happy not having ads. We want Google to block it entirely so we can be even more pissed off.

LainTrain ,

My brother in Christ you really think we’re using APIs?

Please consult the image:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/416bf304-cc66-471e-b049-e39beb08e3eb.webp

airportline ,
@airportline@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m begging google to just bring back YouTube Premium Lite and expand it

Brkdncr ,

lol no they arent.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •