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Tell HN: YouTube fixed the dot after domain ad bypass
Last week there was a post [1] that showed how to play YouTube without ads. I didn't want to upvote it because well, the more popular it got the more chances YouTube will figure it out and fix it. Now they fixed it.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435
- kaidon 6y agoThis is why we cannot have nice things!!
- redis_mlc 6y agoWow, quick fix ... must have affected ad revenue or something important.
- villgax 6y agoEven a few people using that would have lead to a flurry of error reporting happening automatically
- ta17711771 6y agoEh, probably not. NewPipe doesn't.
- rvz 6y agoI guess this is because there are Google employees that look at this site and have seen this issue reported here and on social media. Chances were that one Google employee passed this issue on and the YouTube team was working on a fix. Unsurprising response here.
- dmitriid 6y agoThere are Google employees here. And the only reason this was fixed is because it directly affects ad revenue. Nothing else is fixed as quickly or at all.
- vb6sp6 6y agoThere was a lawsuit awhile back with Android, something about hyperlinking phone numbers or something, that required updates to devices. People were shocked at how fast updates were deployed to remove the offending feature since updates were regularly delayed for months on end.
- thro1 6y agoIt shall be on HN last page, downvoted out of reach of noobs ;)
- TheChaplain 6y agoI had the displeasure to experiencing YouTube without adblocking a few days ago and oh dear... 30 more years to retirement, and I'm already looking forward to a small house on the edge of the Canadian wilderness.
- mavsman 6y agoHopefully the price of a house there would dip your timeframe to something below 30 years. But yes, my wife watches "normal" YouTube and I don't get it. It makes me itch to even see video recommendations on the right side of the screen.
- mellosouls 6y agoGreat to see Google able to fix things this quickly after being raised on HN - hopefully this new urgency will now be brought to bear on legitimate apps being cancelled with no recourse and the various other pain points featured here on a regular basis, which they've been strangely unresponsive on...
- orastor 6y agoTo be fair this was raised on reddit and that post became so popular The Verge made an article about it.
- villgax 6y agoThere should be a section for such stuff
- rafamvc 6y agoLike [Ask HN] but [Google Support]? Often HN becomes a Google Support fallback.
- chrisan 6y ago1 costs them lost ad revenue the other... who knows. I would not expect to see any changes with the latter
- villgax 6y agoI used that domain & a few things worth mentioning are below- * Pressing T for theatre mode only made the black space wide, the video stayed where it was on the screen * Videos would pause if you went from regular view to full-screen with F key * Ads won't show up but a dialog to group/skip ads would appear without any timer on it or ad being displayed
- ta17711771 6y agoIt's the same domain.
- villgax 6y agoJust wished I had a newpipe android app experience on Safari/Desktop as well
- renewiltord 6y agoGuys, this one is easy. You can get ad-free access if you just pay for it through YouTube Premium.
- batrat 6y agoGuys I have one easier: You can get a Ferrari if you just pay for it.
- p4bl0 6y agoWell, I've had ad-free access to YouTube for free since virtually forever using μBlock Origin.
- Crash0v3rid3 6y agoCreators aren't getting paid if you use adblock.
- p4bl0 6y agoI spend almost 30€ per month via Tipeee (an equivalent of Patreon in France). Creators whose work I value are getting more from me than from the ads that would otherwise track, profile, and brainwash me. Also, many content creators are getting paid more from partnership and product placement than from the shitty ads that YouTube and advertisers allow them to place on their videos except when they decide not to because well, that 20 minutes original content video is using a 1.5 seconds excerpt of some random movie which is the "intellectual property" of Big Corp for a joke, for example.
- bzb3 6y agoI'm crying so hard.
- asjw 6y agoNot my problem though I never asked them to produce the content in the first place I don't want to give my money or my attention to YouTube and Google ads, simple as that
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- person_of_color 6y agoDarn. YouTube ads are seriously scammy nowadays.
- dna_polymerase 6y agoDo they know about the trick using the embed URL to bypass age restrictions?
- ryankrage77 6y agoDoesn't affect ad revenue, so don't expect a fix anytime soon.
- RandomBacon 6y agoDang, can you delete this please? The first rule of fight club... I'm over 18, but I use this because I don't want to log in.
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- habosa 6y agoGoogler here, but speaking as a consumer YouTube Premium + YouTube Music is a great deal. Ad-free videos and a music app that's basically identical to Spotify as far as I can tell. Hacks like this one are really fun but we all know that YT needs to get paid somehow. The creators deserve the money and unlike many sites everyone on HN knows the infra cost to run it is monstrous. I'm sure I sound like the biggest shill ever right now so I anticipate downvotes but I was just shocked at how many people here are mad at Google for fixing a bug to protect ad revenue. Wouldn't your company do it too?
- shwoopdiwoop 6y agoPlease, for the love of whichever god you believe in, stop asking me to buy your premium service Every Single Time I open the app. No means no. Such a bad experience.
- anon9001 6y agoYou're just using the wrong app. You wanted Vanced instead: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-youtube-vanced-edition-t3758757 https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-yout...
- ta17711771 6y agoNewPipe's better.
- izacus 6y agoI don't think you have any entitlement to whine if you refuse to pay the asking price for a service. Any other service would show you the door.
- anon9001 6y ago> we all know that YT needs to get paid somehow Nope. I don't have any interest at all in YT getting paid. In fact, I think the internet might be a better place if YT is less successful.
- stormdennis 6y agoYes I noticed that this was fixed last night. I tried to watch a 12 min clip of Germany vs Brazil from the 2014 world cup, an ad break approx every 2 mins. Insane.
- tartoran 6y agoNo content in the world would make me accept such toxic experience, rather not watch if that became a common experience. So far my blockers do their job, but I imagine one day they won’t and I’d probably go back to paper book reading instead.
- izacus 6y agoOr you could pay a few bucks for the storage, hosting and content creation costs so they won't have to use ads to do it. The option is a few clicks away.
- _wldu 6y agoThey need a bug bounty like program (but non security related) to report these sorts of things. This could have cost them a lot of money.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe cost of this was near zero. The people who discovered and publicized it did so on a tech-savvy forum so the majority of users were blocking ads anyway. This discovery was more of a novelty than anything else.