• OFS_Razgriz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Yes. You can block ads by creating a special script, you can find the info on how to do that at the end of this GitHub ticket but I’ll paste it here too.

            1. Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)

            2. Under the My filters tab add twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad).

            3. Under the Settings tab, enable I am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears.

            4. Modify the value of userResourcesLocation from unset to the URL https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/raw/master/vaft/vaft-ublock-origin.js

            Then just disable and reenable uBlock to refresh it and you should be good to go.

      • LemmyKnow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think website developers and ad block developers will be in a continual back and forth. Websites trying to find ways to disable ad blockers and ad blockers trying to find ways around them so they could continue blocking ads.

    • HolyDriver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I use adblocker in Firefox mobile. Noticed YouTube keeps downgrading the quality on every video load even tho higher quality is set to auto

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    I use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube and I haven’t seen an ad in ages. When I do see an ad, it’s because I’m trying to browse on somebody else’s computer.

    SponsorBlock in particular is life changing. You don’t realize how much nonsense filler is in these videos. You can easily cut a 10 minute video from a mainstream YouTuber down to like 6 or 7 minutes worth of content if you skip intros, skip recaps, skip sponsorships and product plugs, and skip interaction reminders.

  • Aer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    201·
    2 years ago

    They really want to tv-ify web content huh? People left TV because they were sick of ads.

    I only have YouTube premium because I do not want a TV license and one is definitely cheaper than the other but the fuck man.

    • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Cable TV did not originally have ads. That was part of the reason that people started paying for it.

      What you are seeing is the natural cycle of content and greed.

    • wildeaboutoskar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Not just them either. Netflix has an ad based tier now and I wouldn’t be surprised if other platforms have them too as they realise there’s a limit to how much they can realistically charge people. It seems like we’ve circled back to the start of cable

      • hodgepodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah i am totally fine with being showed ads or paying for an ad free option. I got YouTube red when it came out and never looked back. Plus they gave us Cobra Kai, which was amazing. I do wish they also included a “we won’t sell your data” option in that premium though

  • dill@lemmy.oneEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    That’s wild. I would never sit through that. I’ve been a YouTube premium sub for years because it’s bundled with music. Never knew it was this bad

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      Careful, lots of people take issue with paying for a service these days. /s but only kinda

      YT premium has been by far the most worth it subscription for me. I spend a frankly unhealthy amount of YT, even have it running in the background while not watching actively, and I listen to YT music for hours every day. Really easy value sell for me.

      But somehow people expect YT to host and deliver literal exabytes of data for free.

      • deaconblue@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        These kind of unsolicited reports from users prove a really important point, and one that Spez and company would prefer to ignore. If you have good enough content people will pay for an ad-free experience.

  • Ash@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    They’re trying everything to get us to buy YT premium. At what point do they start becoming full-on commercials? Lol

      • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Aside from Peertube one I could think of is vimeo, dailymotion, dtube and twitch, then again in terms of content and servers available around the world nothing matching youtube, except maybe tiktok and twitch. There is pornhub which I think could be the best competitor for youtube barely any restrictions you can talk shit in fact some actually upload gaming videos and some random stuff aside from porn ofcourse they have a lot of servers around the world. The videos dont buffer that much. Who ever owns pornhub if they decide to have sfw alternative to it they could be best alternative to youtube.

        Edit: I think they dont have sfw because its hard to make money out of it similar to youtube which is operating at a loss. The only reason google still keeps youtube running is because its a white elephant.

  • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I was thinking what if we switched to a fediverse Youtube replacement, such as PeerTube. However, I don’t think this would work. For one, because there are no ads, there’s no money being made, and creators would have to be backed by donations. Not sure how much money that would bring in.

    Additionally, the difference between a “creator” on lemmy/subreddit (creating a community) vs a “creator” on youtube (uploads videos) is that I can be a creator without hosting an instance here. Looks like if I wanted to upload videos to PeerTube, I’d need to make my own instance or pay for one. Maybe if there was an option to select an instance just like here on lemmy, but videos take waaayy more disk space and processing to stream than text and a few images. Could be cool to host yourself though.

  • jennwiththesea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I finally got a Nebula subscription. A lot of my YouTube favorites are on there, and I’ve found a couple new ones to follow. I still wind up on YT for a few folks, but that number is dropping.

  • KooMSlayer69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    It’s even worse that they’re apparently going to crack down on adblockers too. Ik people will just make anti-adblock blockers but it’s still fuckin dumb. I swear yt wants to make itself worse than cable tv in terms of ads.

    • saucyloggins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      How does PeerTube handle storage? I’m trying to imagine trying to create a federated system version of Youtube and it seems very problematic. Storage and bandwidth.

      • Einar@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Quoting Wikipedia:

        Each PeerTube instance provides a website to browse and watch videos, and is by default independent from others in terms of appearance, features and rules.

        Several instances, with common rules (e.g. allowing for similar content, requiring registration) can form federations, where they follow one’s videos, even though each video is stored only by the instance that published it. Federations are independent from each other and asymmetrical: one instance can follow another to display their videos without them having to do the same. Instances’ administrators can each choose to mirror individual videos or whole friend instances, creating an incentive to build communities of shared bandwidth.

        Videos are made available via HTTP to download, but playback favors a peer-to-peer playback using HLS and WebTorrent. Users connected to the platform act as relay points that send pieces of video to other users, lessening the bandwidth of each to the server and thus allowing smaller hardware to operate at a lower cost.

        Wikipedia Source