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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!!!! I haven't seen an ad in years and now I have to sit here for 3:18 through an ad for a FUCKING RAIN JACKET!! I will never buy one of these things just for making me sit through this. And holy shit, learn your market people.

Wait, there's more, got another two minute ad for a fucking murder fantasy pistol holster so you can quick draw on a tactically ascertained threat...

Then the videos are freezing and not loading for shit. Do I need to use a VPN to watch anything now?

[-] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

They must be doing a limited or selective rollout again to test the new methods on only some accounts. Because I'm not getting any ads breaking through uBlock Origin. I've tested with phone and laptop on multiple videos and it's still working as it always has for me.

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

Google won't stop the psychological warfare until everybody is that guy from Black Mirror sitting in a cell surrounded by screens with unblockable ads

[-] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

God dammit. I just got a raspberry pi to deal with this in the home. The so called future sucks.

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

I will stop watching youtube if i cant block ads

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 15 points 4 months ago

I mean I've always been baffled that this wasn't already how it works. It seemed to me if they wanted to make them hard to block this was the obvious answer

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[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

I know I'm encroaching on very dangerous bootlicker terrain here, but it's obvious that a service like YouTube, that lets you upload and watch as many videos as you want and let's users monetize their videos to such a degree that a non-insignificant number of people can live off of it, needs to make money somehow. If you want to see what a service that doesn't have ads look like, look at Vimeo, where creators pay out of the ass to upload any videos at all. And unlike most services YouTube does actually give you an option to opt out of ads. YouTube Premium might be too expensive, but 55% of that does actually go to the video creators. I'll take that a million times over shit like Facebook or tiktok that doesn't give you that option at all.

Use ad blockers, pirate all media, steal shit from the supermarket, it's all cool and correct to do so, but to pretend like this is some new extra greedy move is just ridiculous.

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[-] sgtlion@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

It's an endless arms race, not an infallible solution. There'll be another addon to block server side infected ads too.

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Anyone who's using adblock plus and getting the YT message, I found a temporary workaround. Basically open it in an extra tab (not active/current tab) and let it sit for approximately the duration of two advertisements (50s) then switch to that tab. 5/5 success rate so far.