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Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
- dylan604 3y agoThis is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.
- wedernoch 3y agoYouTube already does exatly this for me. If uBlock origin is active it loads the base site, but all video tiles are just grey squares and the video titles below are just grey bars.
- nabakin 3y agoScreenshot?
- wedernoch 3y agoNot at home. If I remember I post one tomorrow. It's only on my Desktop. I have zero adds on mobile. Looks like they are trying a few different versions
- remotefonts 3y agoEnable remote fonts loading in uBlock for YouTube and your problem will be solved, I suspect...
- Phelinofist 3y agoI had that a few weeks ago, but that was fixed by a uBlock update (I think)
- kaelinl 3y agoThis, in turn, will spawn user scripts which work around the detection. Any client-side solution will be an arms race between Google and user script/adblock devs. The only real way to prevent it is to withhold the video stream from the CDN until the client has streamed the full ad and/or bake it into the video stream. My impression is that Twitch does this for its live streams (although not VODs).
- serf 3y agoyeah. given that in-stream ads still have blocking/ignoring methods I think that if this arms race keeps going that ultimately the data (video, whatever) is going to be stuffed behind some hard authentication barrier of some sort -- and then traditional piracy methods will take over like single-user-rebroadcast/etc.
- losteric 3y agoI look forward to my browser-based TiVo, buffering videos to ship over ads just like in the 00s... TV started as advertising channels, it's not surprising YouTube converges towards the cesspool of cable TV.
- Aurornis 3y agoThe number of people who will do all the things necessary to play in that arms race gets smaller and smaller with each extra difficulty. In the end, if the only way to block the ads is to have a setup so complicated that only 1 in 10,000 people would be able and willing to maintain it, that’s basically perfect. The people who will spend hours and hours perfecting and maintaining their ad blocking setup were never going to buy premium anyway and they’re negligible drains on resources.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAnother option is to require Chrome for playback outside of authenticated apps, and lock Chrome down. TBH baking it into the video stream is probably the easiest path. The whole video doesn't have to be re-encoded if the ad is spliced in. This is a "soft lockdown" since the ad can theoretically be manually skipped by the user, but its probably good enough.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoBanning google accounts or blocking ips from all google services is the nuclear option.
- zarzavat 3y agoReminder to everyone to back up your Google account, and perhaps have separate accounts for email and regular usage (better yet transition away from gmail).
- LispSporks22 3y ago> and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected They intend to "go nuclear" and do that via their "Web Integrity API" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit... Also previously discussed a few times here on HN.
- madeofpalk 3y agoThey don't even need that. They can just to server-side ad insertion into the HLS feed.
- OJFord 3y agoThey don't even need that. They can just not play video without a cookie. Fakeable of course, but it's not DOM element removal, it's not how current blockers (have had to) work.
- Kuinox 3y agoAn up to date ublock should bypass the new YouTube ad thing.
- brucethemoose2 3y agouBlock is very much https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ I know there are other implementations that support the same filters, but it still feels like a big lynchpin in the escalating adblocker war.
- brendoelfrendo 3y agoI guess the good news is that uBlock Origin is open source, so if the main addon stops being supported, it's possible for someone else to implement a new addon where they left off (indeed, uBlock Origin is this to the original uBlock).
- Nullabillity 3y agoOrigin is maintained by the original µBlock author.
- m4jor 3y agoIf you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.
- thriftwy 3y agoIf you have a VPN with Russian location, you will get absolutely no ads at all. 24 February 2022 virtually gave the whole country YouTube Premium.
- sneak 3y agoPaying the ad company is not a good way to get to a place where there are fewer ads.
- gruez 3y ago"a place where there are fewer ads" requires some alternate form of monetization. If "paying for it" isn't acceptable to you, what's left?
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoWe had the "old" internet and we had ads... a text banner here and there, and then an image or maybe a gif banner on the other side. Noone really cared, sites got ad views, users got content. Then ads moved to flash (security issues), popups, popups when you close the first popup, video was added, with sounds, two banners became 20, fixed location floating divs were added, and in the case of youtube, a 3 minute video of something contains 3 minutes of ads. So yeah... they had a chance, went way overboard, and now they complain that people block ads.
- m4jor 3y agodont forget popunders! the sneakiest of the sneaky.
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- lancesells 3y agoVinegar extension for Safari has so far worked for me.
- _huayra_ 3y agoMaybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :( After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this! In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one has good enough willpower / mental health to not use youtube as a coping device, suggestions are really amazing. I've seen so many great conference talks and other videos that have O(100) views that I would have never heard about otherwise. Ads, however, still think I'm gonna overpay for aliexpress drop-shipped items, or that I need to make a basic purchase into a way of life (e.g. that cooler company that now is somehow a lifestyle brand).
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoPihole won’t fix YouTube, it’s good for mobile apps but less reliable than ublock origin - using both is best.
- nickthegreek 3y agoI believe this is what you are looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873749 But I also recommend purchasing YouTube Premium if you watch a decent amount. I find it to be a great value.
- giggyhack 3y agoAlso, YT Premium is free with Google Fi phones and other things
- up_o 3y agois it? I've had fi for years and never noticed. I also don't watch much yt so it's not something I'm apt to notice I suppose.
- knappe 3y agoI was curious about this and it is true only if you have an unlimited plus plan. https://support.google.com/fi/answer/12999259?hl=en https://support.google.com/fi/answer/12999259?hl=en
- Deprogrammer9 3y agoPi-hole FTW https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ H4CK 7H3 P14N37
- notnmeyer 3y agowait, pi-hole can block youtube ads? i thought they were served from the same domain as youtube-the-app making it impossible to do at pi-hole. admittedly been a bit since i looked into it.
- bl4kers 3y agoThat's correct
- lukeify 3y agoI will never understand why people continue to spam PiHole as a solution to blocking the ads of services that stream their ads from the same domain (as YouTube does). Presumably people that _actually run_ PiHole instances (like myself) will know this, which makes me wonder what demographic is making this appear as a valid suggestion.
- Nas808 3y agoPi-Hole (or any other DNS filters) don't block this one.
- paulmd 3y agoIt’s funny to look back on all the people who were doing the “see, the world didn’t fall apart just because apple had to allow sideloading” over the last month. Like the law didn’t even come into effect yet and google is already flexing their monopoly power / browser monoculture, but people think that just because the internet didn’t explosively destruct overnight that everything is gonna be just fine. See also, the “well, if they start abusing it, we can pass a new law to handle that!”. Yeah ok that’ll be great in 10 years, but what about now? Manifest v3, the chrome Secure Enclave/remote attestation of ad delivery, and other measures are going to be coming down the pipe at an accelerated rate, and there's absolutely nothing to put the brakes on them anymore, because we now have a browser monoculture run by the world's largest adtech oligopoly. But people got their emotional victory over apple users and the app-review process. Next stage: Youtube requires chrome, install it or get out. And I better see some remote attestation on that request, if you want FREE video. Why wouldn't they, when chrome/chromium control like 95% of every web request that's not iOS? Now we get to do it again with RCS, where it's an "open" system that's chock-full of proprietary google extensions that google refuses to license or interoperate on. But everyone will nod along at how bad imessage is, and deliver us right into google's own proprietary system. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for-mercy-in-messaging-war/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...
- idonotknowwhy 3y agoWe'll end up with a Firefox add on to bypass this. And failing that, a piratebay of YouTube videos
- paulmd 3y agoThe entirety of HDCP exists to prevent this. That has literally been the driving factor in Secure Enclave adoption since day 1 too (along with bitlocker, but, video DRM has always been the other big one). There will always be vulnerabilities and improper implementations and workarounds, but, the entire point of secure enclave is for someone at netflix or your employer's HQ to be comfortable knowing they have a toehold in your machine that can't be broken via Remote Attestation, and that there is no way for you to get the keys out of it when it's acting as a HSM. You can always disable it/etc, or use another browser (like firefox) that doesn't provide a secure enclave. But then, google won't serve you video, just like netflix reduces the stream quality for people who don't have the hardware DRM set up right. Since 95% of the world is already using chrome anyway (other than ios), this is a pretty low-risk move.
- paulmd 3y agoNote that the ublock origin creator has specifically recommended you don’t do custom filters like this because it can mess up elements that the other filtersets are keying on, and it’s not guaranteed to be stable over time. So something like this can actually result in you seeing ads, if it becomes stale. Which it will because YouTube is changing this up every day, practically. The best defense is to purge caches and update filter sets every day. edit: from another comment: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991 https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991
- Alifatisk 3y agoDirect link https://files.enderman.ch/scripts/yt-antiadblocker.txt https://files.enderman.ch/scripts/yt-antiadblocker.txt
- woudsma 3y agoBrave browser works quite well to block YouTube ads, I’ve used it for a couple of years now and it blocks ads from most sites pretty good.
- silenced_trope 3y agoBrave is what I'm using, but I must have gotten put into the A/B group since I now see the blocker. Changing the shield setting to "aggressive" hasn't beaten the block. But I've heard from others that they use Brave with "standard" settings and still don't see the block. That makes me think they aren't in the A/B group and NOT that Brave has found a way to adequately block it.
- w0ts0n 3y agoTeam are heads down working on beating this.
- throwawaymaroon 3y ago[dead]
- johnnyanmac 3y agoAnd the chase begins. I pay for premium so this won't affect me, but it's always interesting seeing the efforts even a trillion dollar company has to go through to fight against a relative few very determined "hackers" underground.
- somsak2 3y agoIt's not really a relative few, most estimates place ad blocking usage among web users between 25-45%. Since YT is somewhere around 10% of overall Google revenue, you're looking at up to a 5% increase in total revenue just based off of this, with basically ~all of that flowing into profit since there's not much cost. Pretty huge. https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/ https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/
- MBCook 3y agoAs more people block ads, revenue falls. So companies stick on more ads to make up for it. That annoys more people, so they learn how to add block (or ask their friends for help). It’s a vicious cycle and it’s part of why the ads are just getting worse. We’ve only found three income models for web content: 1. Cover it with ads 2. Sell it/paywall 3. Patronage pays for it That’s basically it. People don’t want to see ads. And don’t want to pay. I won’t view ads plus I won’t pay equals almost everything goes.
- meatjuice 3y agoAnti-Anti-Anti-Anti-Adblocker is to come.
- throwaway092323 3y agoRadar-detector-detector-detectors are thing
- aftbit 3y agoWhat about using yt-dlp to watch videos?
- BD103 3y agoDownloading the videos is always an option, but I’ve found it’s too much of a hassle when browsing content. It works really well when you’re planning on going offline, though!
- ThrustVectoring 3y agoI haven't set it up yet, but youtube channels have RSS feeds so programmatically feeding a list of channels into a watch-later folder should be straightforward.
- jowea 3y agoOr NewPipe? Is Google coming after those too soon?
- 0___0 3y agohttps://nitter.net/endermanch/status/1713129854818742684 https://nitter.net/endermanch/status/1713129854818742684
- lemoncookiechip 3y agoGorhill (uBO's developer) is in the comment section urging people to not use these types of unverified fixes: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991 https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991
- alexlur 3y agoFor people who don’t want to open Twitter: > These filters have been obsolete since a long time, no content blockers is using these. They are just being spread by non-official sources since at least last June
- electrondood 3y agoAppreciate ya.
- solardev 3y agoElon should hire this person. Way more usable and informative than Twitter.
- cyral 3y agoThe official/default list doesn’t block these though, so we are not supposed to make use of the user defined filters for now?
- mmebane 3y agoThe authors of the default filter lists definitely try and block these - the biggest problems seem to be YouTube changing things faster than the default filter lists normally auto-update, or other filters/extensions conflicting. Ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_09_2023/ https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
- joquarky 3y agoGreetings, Professor Falken.
- eek2121 3y agoNote: for me,disabling Firefox 'enhanced' protection and updating uBlock Origin filters fixes the issue. An initial packet examination showed little changed. I hope others will weigh in, however.
- Liquix 3y agoThey are A/B testing various anti-adblock strategies. You might be in the control group
- macinjosh 3y agoI homelab a huggin instance to scrape my favorite channels for new videos and then send them to a ytdl like program. Then it dumps them in Jellyfin. No ads, and no rabbit holes :)
- hotnfresh 3y agoHow are you organizing them in Jellyfin? Some popular ones have tvdb entries so it’s easy to just treat them as tv shows, but the rest are a problem. I tried the somewhat-neglected Youtube library-type plugin for it a while back, and don’t remember exactly what was wrong, but recall finding it worse than nothing.
- macinjosh 3y agoI don’t, I just put them in their own library and then watch and delete as they come in, kinda like a news feed
- ThrustVectoring 3y agowhy is this necessary when youtube channels have RSS feeds?
- numpad0 3y agoWhat is the cost for Google to serve YouTube data to users, is it $0.01/hour/DAU, or is it median 2-3x Premium subscription per user? If it's latter, how will this ever work out? And, with inevitable encation spreading across Web, what is its long-term replacement? Is it App market dystopia, or some sort of Metaverse system, or could it be fragmented regional Webs? We have been seeing more Gitea repository in Chinese, leaked Russian footage in Telegram, European developer anecdotes from Mastodon, etc.
- dotnet00 3y agoI think we're just heading for (hopefully) a return to fragmentation of content. YouTube's dominance was largely from them pouring Google Ad money into the platform such that content creators made decent money while users didn't have to suffer as many ads as other platforms. But over the years creators have become less dependent on Google ad money, instead relying more on sponsorships, paid subscriptions ala Patreon and superchat style systems for live streams. Leaving the audience as the only leverage YouTube has. Now on top of that Google is creating incentives for people to look for alternatives. If it's already reasonable for people to self host alternate frontends like Invidious, it's only a matter of time till a gradual shift and fragmentation starts to occur. I think Google would've had a much easier time of forcing people to not use adblock if they hadn't spent the past decade burning good will with the way they treat content creators.
- briHass 3y agoThis is my hope as well. If the majority of a content-creator's revenue comes from in-video sponsor segments, what difference does it make where the video is uploaded. Most podcasts follow this model, with the exception of ones that have a lucrative exclusive arrangement with a particular service, like Joe Rogan's on Spotify. This already happened with many of the right-wing creators that were banned from YT some time back. Many of these creators upload to multiple 'alt-tech' sites (e.g. Rumble), and rely on sponsors or direct support, which isn't locked to YT.
- stephc_int13 3y agoThis is really heavy handed and I don't think this will work as they hope. I tend to spend too much time watching YT anyway. This will help saving some time to do useful work or gaming instead.
- flakes 3y agoThis 100%. Once the client becomes too hostile, I'll just stop using the service. I've been clear of Reddit since Apollo shut down, and if ad blocks stop working on youtube, I'll just find something else to do. Apart from just Ads, I use the "Block Element" feature of uBlock to cut down on a lot of other visual noise within sites. For youtube I block the giant rows of "related" video suggestions (which I guess you could consider as ads), and youtube shorts from showing up in my subscription feed.
- neoneye2 3y agoIf one were to make the ideal alternative to YouTube. What should the specs be like?
- madeofpalk 3y agoHost video, give money to people who upload videos. These are both incredibly difficult, and why Youtube and Twitch have basically zero competition.
- somsak2 3y agoTurns out, that's exactly what YT Premium and Twitch Turbo do.
- epgui 3y agoHere’s a crazy idea… I don’t want to give any money to Google, but I would happily pay double the amount in taxes to get public infrastructure of comparable quality.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoPeer to peer social network for indexing, querying and sharing torrents, using personal computers/phones/rented seed services to seed files, with a distributed indexing algorithm that branches out from contacts to their contacts to some depth in a recursive fashion, and a distributed search that queries your contacts as well as special index nodes that are well connected in the larger social network. Then we'd have things like PeerTube built on top of this distributed social network, which would handle fetching video thumbnails, metadata, etc and presenting it in a YouTube style interface.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoI think the only "happy ending for everyone" if Google is going to ban ad-blockers for YouTube is if they make the ads less annoying. What makes YouTube's ads annoying: - the number of them 2 ads at the start is way too much. 1 max. Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled. - the ads they choose to show Google showing me the same few very annoying (to me) ads and gives me no option to avoid those specific ads. I have done the unthinkable and given up on YouTube as a daily site I visit. Now I will only visit it if I have to - e.g. someone link to it. Yes, I hate those specific ads that much.
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- barbazoo 3y agoI don't know, or just pay for content you're consuming and the infrastructure to serve that content.
- thangalin 3y agoFeel free to pilfer: ! 2023-10-14 https://www.youtube.com youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true) ! 2023-10-13 https://www.youtube.com www.youtube.com##.opened www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope > .ytd-popup-container.style-scope ||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p ##.ytp-endscreen-content youtube.com##.ytp-scroll-min.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-shadow-top youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-overlay youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element ! 2021-06-10 https://www.statista.com statista.com##.vertical-align-content.default.otCenterRounded instagram.com##.RnEpo instagram.com##body:style(overflow: auto !important) ! 2023-07-08 https://www.roadandtrack.com www.roadandtrack.com##journey-modal-meter This might not be the "correct" solution, but it works for me. Has Gorhill (uBO's developer) provided a better solution? If so, would someone mind posting the full and complete set of steps?
- gruez 3y ago>Has Gorhill (uBO's developer) provided a better solution? If so, would someone mind posting the full and complete set of steps? https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
- buildsjets 3y agoI am reminded of the "Trace Buster Buster Buster" scene from the otherwise forgettable 1998 movie "The Big Hit." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg When a MF tryin to block your ad with an adblocker, this will block the MF'n adblocker that's blocking yo...... ads.
- kennyadam 3y agoPlease pay for YouTube Premium if you can afford it and watch a lot of videos. It's not cheap to stream and store the insane amounts of data they handle and I think it's a genuinely fair price. If everyone just constantly tries to circumvent YouTube's evolving adblock-detection methods, at some point YouTube is going to do something drastic. There's no way of knowing what they might resort to, but usually efforts to thwart the pirates end up hurting the legitimate paying customers instead. There aren't many online platforms/services that I think provide enough value to justify their own existence, nevermind sending them money on a monthly basis. YouTube Premium though is most certainly one of the exceptions. Not even touching on the uploading and live streaming aspects, just the fact that you can stream full HD content 24/7 to multiple devices, embed the videos on other websites and it works perfectly with essentially zero down time is incredible. Paying like $10 a month to avoid any advertising at all PLUS access to their music streaming service... subscribing is such a no-brainer to me.
- Freebytes 3y agoMaking someone watch 5 to 8 advertisements to see a 2 minute video is already drastic.
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- jamiequint 3y agoSo pay if you hate it so much. Do you think people make the content for free?
- russh 3y agoYes, yes most do.
- syntaxing 3y agoIs there something that caches the videos I watch with YouTube-dl or something? I watch maybe 100 unique videos throughout the year.
- notmysql_ 3y agoThat’s a cool idea
- spullara 3y agoThey have an ad free subscription. You should probably do that instead of leeching.
- ed_mercer 3y agoLeeching implies that there is party that is being inflicted damage. Alphabet makes $60B profit a year.
- somsak2 3y agoThe party that is being inflicted damage are the creators who don't make any money from producing content for you.
- infamia 3y agoYouTube pays most creators zero, treats them like serfs, and allows people to steal any money they might make if some rando says that the channel is allegedly using their song with little recourse and no interaction with humans. Creators live in fear of a strike against their account, that's wrong. I don't have too much sympathy for Google. Google only cares about advertisers and don't give a crap about creators. I'd rather (and do) pay creators directly.
- spullara 3y agoThat doesn't matter in this context. They are objectively hurting the creators that made the content.
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- saghm 3y agoI'm disappointed the term "anti-anti-adblocker" isn't instead "adblocker blocker blocker". If we're going to use repetitive negatives, we might as well lean into it.
- bombcar 3y agoI the anti- prefix is against something, but that thing itself could be blocked, so you have an adblocker, and YouTube deploys anti-adblockers, and then you retaliate with anti-adblocker blockers, and they retaliate with anti-anti-adblocker blockers and so on as infinitem.
- grecy 3y agoI'll bust your trace buster buster.
- avg_dev 3y agoI’m curious why I haven’t seen any ads or warnings to disable my ad blocker on YT yet. I do watch a lot of videos. I guess they are likely rolling it out and I will get it eventually.
- steelframe 3y agoLots of people here who seem to think that the only viable options are to pay what they view is an exorbitant subscription fee, watch ads, or block ads. There is, of course, a third option. Nobody is forcing you to watch YouTube. You can just not do that.
- lacrimacida 3y agoIm thankful in a way since it makes it much easier for me to consume less and less and spend more of my time offline.
- parrellel 3y agoTime to archive what you like and drop for curiosity stream I guess. Bah, I'm not sitting through 6 ads on a 15 minute video review.
- cjmcqueen 3y agoI like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?
- lacrimacida 3y agoHow much from youtube premium goes to creators?
- rand0mx1 3y agoWhy do you care? You are using Google's platform, just pay them.
- MBCook 3y agoMore than the $0 ad blocking gives them? There are anecdotes from creators in this thread explaining they get a lot more from premium than from ads. I hate ads. I like supporting creators. And I like paying for services I use. YouTube premium is absolutely worth it. The number of people I know with very good salaries who refuse to pay a small amount a month for something they use constantly (this or other examples) never ceases to amaze me.
- lacrimacida 3y agoHow much is it going to creators though? If the number is reasonable I’ll sign up for youtube premium now. I doubt it though. And ads for creators don’t do much, especially small channels I follow on youtube. At this point I prefer to support the creators directly through patreon or other ways than google, who doesn’t care about either users, content makers nor anybody else except their own bottom line.
- t-writescode 3y agoAccording to this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BC3uI18oLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BC3uI18oLU , there is a 55% revenue share with creators. So, about half of that money goes to maintaining and improving YouTube and the rest goes to the content creators themselves.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThe real adblocker is people uploading their videos to s3 (or s3 compatible) in the first place :-) Youtube was revolutionary when it came out but now it doesn’t offer much other than discoverablity. Since you need to work hard to be discovered anyway you can do that via X (etc.) Just need some people to make the tools so average jo can do it.
- Invictus0 3y agoJust get an FTP account and mount it locally with curlftpfs...
- quickthrower2 3y agoYes yes! I am hinting that someone needs to make the dropbox of a less shitified youtube!
- xtrohnx 3y agoI've had the same ad-blocker for ages, and I wasn't receiving any of the YT anti-ad block popups until today. Interestingly, today was when I switched my default search engine in Chrome from Google to Kagi. I have to wonder if there is some kind of evaluation of what Google-y things you use for whether the ad-block popup occurs or not.
- lacrimacida 3y agoSomeone I know had this coming up in youtube today as well. I previously recommended them adblockers, now I recommended invidio.us
- Plasmoid 3y agoGabe Newell said it best. Piracy is a service problem. Ad blockers are a response to terrible ads.
- MBCook 3y agoThey already offer a service for people who don’t like ads. It’s called YouTube premium. And it works perfectly. “I want better service but don’t want to pay” is not a customer you’re going to make a lot of money chasing.
- mistercheph 3y agoGoogle is scared, and desperate to fund it's ML products. This is not an isolated incident, they will continue to burn goodwill across their entire product lineup (Gmail, Maps, Search, Drive) in an effort to liquidate as much as possible to fund an ML war chest.