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j4k3 ,
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I use a whitelist firewall. It is like a lock on my front door. I don’t use an adblocker. I manually add only websites I wish to visit. Extorting me for only visiting websites I trust and wish to visit is criminal. I am the reason Ad Blocks are a thing. They are the lazy person’s mostly effective whitelist firewall.

All ads are are serving you another website you didn’t ask to visit and with unknown bad actors that are not effectively vetted. Ads are like a house party in your home where one of your guests opens a window in your bathroom and let’s a dozen random people into your home without your knowledge. The person that let them in sneaks around the hidden guests while trying to prevent you from noticing. It is criminal behavior. This is privateering, aka pirates that have a legal charter from a criminal government.

Akinzekeel ,

Well, if you visit Youtube to watch a video, it will serve both the video and the ads from the same website. Ads are not necessarily being loaded from another website. If they were, we could just DNS-block YouTube ads, and they would be gone in your entire home network, for instance.

dependencyinjection ,

Im using Yattee on iOS with no issue. From the damn App Store, don’t think they’re cracking down very well.

adam_b ,

That’s because they’re targeting Desktop users only, I think and I hate to say it, we’ll inevitably face 3 choices in the future

A. Watch YT with all it’s ads B. Quit using YT C. Pay for premium

All these awesome privacy frontends that we use will be killed, just like Libreddit & Teddit, and ads on YT will be unbearable, long, repetitive, that even non techies will start thinking of ways to avoid them…

The only effective solution I see, is that content creators have the balls to selfhost their content using Peertube, or migrate to Rumble or odysee…

Many content creators like LTT straight out refused to offer another way to view their content, there is no reason why anyone wouldn’t want to Sync their content to other platform, unless they care that much about that ad revenue, which shows they support this business model

sorry about the grammar, slept for 2 hours…

jimothy ,

It’s all about how many people these platforms have to convince them to stop using youtube I guess…

null ,

Libreddit was killed? How am I still using it?

adam_b ,

From their Github

⚠️Why do I get TOO MANY REQUESTS errors? ⚠️ As of July 12th, 2023, Libreddit is currently not operational as Reddit’s API changes, that were designed to kill third-party apps and content scrapers who don’t pay large fees, went into effect. Read the full announcement here. One of the project maintainers is working towards keeping this project alive to some extent:

Some instances might still be operational, but limited…

I deleted my Reddit accounts, once Infinity stopped working, and I open reddit links in Tor ( same with Tiktok and others ), they’re not gonna have it their way

null ,

Hmm, well my personal instance works fine and has for months, no limitations that I’ve encountered. Guess I’m just lucky

adam_b ,

Yea you’re, I tried some instances they work for a while and then they give that message : too many requests

what happened to Reddit is just disgusting, they broke the law and they’re roaming free…

null ,

I wonder if it impacts public instances because it’s rate-limiting the requests, where it’s just me on my private instance so it’s not hitting the limit.

If so then it’s pretty easy to spin one up in docker and get around the issue.

Of course leaving reddit entirely is always better.

Also I’m not tuned in – what laws did they break?

adam_b ,

Maybe, but I don’t wanna try anymore, you could patch Infinity with Revanced patches and keep using it too, but I dont wanna do that either…

Of course leaving reddit entirely is always better.

Yeah, I gave up…

what laws did they break?

I think it’s called CCPA ( a US data law ), Reddit violated that law, when they restored users’ content, im guessing this law guarantees the right to be erased… ( US data laws sound good on paper, but they never work in reality 😂 )

Also they can’t just go to their terms of service and change stuff based on the situation, they even tried to stretch the meaning of some clauses in their TOS just so they can cover it up, it’s all in r/announcements, just scroll back to June 2023

JoeBigelow ,
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LTT is happy to let you pay for their mediocre content plus mediocre extra behind the scenes special boi crap on Floatplane

adam_b ,

They charge for FP ??! So these people on the podcast are paying to comment ! I didn’t know that…

hmmm, that’s fine I’m not against content creators creating ways to monetize, I’m against supporting the ad business model and gaslighting people into believing “it’s working”…

As for the content quality, I only watch LTT to see what crazy ideas and experiments they come up with, I never learned anything tho, because they don’t show you how they did it, Linus just says we’re going to build a server, and boom, it’s already done… ( they do it off camera ), I mean like details, installing the distro, and how to navigate it… Etc ( his team does it for him )

Karyoplasma ,

You are looking for niche content. The last place to search for that would be a big YT channel since their videos are tailored for the general audience. I don’t know what you expected lol

adam_b ,

Well, don’t you think skipping major steps ( mind you ) renders the entire process irreproducible, or prone to error and failure ?

I don’t know what you expected lol

a Blog post would be appreciated, say : hey we skipped this ( very technical and confusing ) step, here’s the boring blog, enjoy…

I’m just saying, their content is mostly entertaining, not educational, that’s how I find it personally.

squirrelwithnut ,

I’ve already switched to Freetube on my PC, and New.piped on my phone.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

After beginning to roll out a healthy nudge to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to the platform’s ad-free Premium offering, YouTube is now forcing users’ hands.

As users continue to trawl the depths of YouTube, they will now be greeted with a pop-up warning them to disable their ad blocker saying “video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.” This notification began popping up for users across the platform earlier this month, but it was as simple as shrugging it off by closing out the message.

Shortly thereafter, YouTube forced users to acknowledge the message but still allowed them to exit out of it after a brief timer elapsed.

YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton told The Verge Tuesday that using an ad blocker is actually against the platform’s terms of service.

He also told the outlet that “ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube.”

Around the same time, the company reported its third straight quarterly decline in ad revenue, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The original article contains 320 words, the summary contains 183 words. Saved 43%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

NigelFrobisher ,

Looks like YouTube is the next tower to fall.

Staiden ,

If they really stop people from watching it will just force people to straight up pirate their content.

They won’t ever win this battle.

Gabu ,

Youtube fell a long time ago. It’s in ruins as we speak.

superfes ,

I don’t understand why YouTube doesn’t just put the video ads in-stream, just seems stupid for stupid’s sake at this point.

Abnorc ,

Maybe this is some weird way of testing the waters. If they just solved the problem outright, users who wouldn’t put up with ads would just leave. This way they can see how many users will just tolerate the change without really committing.

superfes ,

That certainly seems like a possibility >_>

Gotta bleed them pennies dry.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Just stop using YouTube?

If content providers notice their viewership going down they’ll surely raise a stink to YouTube once it starts to affect their income.

gregorum ,

Using AdGuard on macOS and iOS. Works fine

Veneroso ,

Adblock detector blocker ftw!

LittleTransPunk ,
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uBlock Element zapper has been working for me just fine

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