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what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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if they outright forced us to stop day one there'd be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we're like lambs to a slaughter

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be a bit sad if YT becomes unwatchable without blocking ads

YT has been unwatchable without blocking ads for years now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disabled all extensions while trying to fight against that pop-up and I realized YouTube is almost unwatchable even with adblocker if you don't have sponsor block. How someone can sit thru the ads and sponsored sections just blows my mind. As if sitting on youtube watching videos isn't already waste of your time enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you can just skip over the sponsors manually, I did it for ages before discovering SponsorBlock. Nowhere near as bad as unskippable ads.

Plus there are the occasional Youtubers that will actually do entertaining sponsor reads, whereas YouTube ads are always unbearable. Haven't seen one on my own devices in... Well, I think I was running adblockers before the creation of YouTube. Pour one out for "The Proxomitron", ancient ancestor of today's adblockers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The only Youtuber I know who shills his sponsors in really funny, creative ways is Jay Foreman - and specifically in the Map Men videos he does with his pal Mark Cooper Jones. He puts actual time and effort to make the fucking plugs amusing to watch (and I suspect he also sells his own talents as a comedian at the same time).

I watch his plugs. I'll never buy anything from the motherfucking advertisers who pay him but I sure watch him.

[–] Molecular0079 2 points 1 year ago

CriticalRole's Sam Riegel also does amazingly hilarious ad reads that have me bowled over laughing most of the time.

There's definitely ways to make ads more bearable without forcing them on users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Jay Foreman

Map Men

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Aww God I can't stand that stupid Piped bot... Here's another one who shills his open source project I'm sick to the backteeth hearing about.

Hey Piped bot: if I had wanted to replace my YouTube links with yours, I'd have done it myself. Enough with the autolinks already...