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THE BOOT SLURPING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AD BLOCKERS ARE DISABLED (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bigboopballs@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can't with these dweebs.

Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.

fuck google for doing this.

Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.

so-true why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using "welfare queen" language. how did you know?

They don't pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.

I'm not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.

nerd

YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.

Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.

Anyway, it's your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The main trick with an adblocker is that it would have to be either on our tv or between the tv and our router since we have one tv and that's the central entertainment source. I tried setting up a pihole with my old RP2+ only to find out that I need port forwarding(I think) turned on and our provider has their routers locked down in some ways and that's one of them.

I did install Playlet, and get rid of Youetube. Playlet is a Invidious front end for Roku so that is helpful. But we also have Google Dislays that he uses and those are locked out so nothing I can do. I wanna get rid of all the Google stuff tbh.

But yeah, Hulu's cheapest package has ads, and Prime has always had it but like it's ads for the rest of their shit, which is also plastered all over their UI anyway. Like we get it Amazon, you guys have 8-10 shows that I absolutely need to watch...

And I'm trying not to shield my kid completely but also don't really want him to realize how shit the world is so soon. He's gone from not understanding the effects of ads to going "Ugh, ads..." now and he's calling stuff click-bait so maybe a parenting win in a consumerist hellscape?

I have a 6 TB hard drive plugged into my computer that acts as our media server and am slowly adding stuff to it so hopefully we can get rid of streaming services and cut back a bit more on ads.