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  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 254 points 2 months ago (52 children)

The other day I visited youtube without any add-ons and concluded I'd rather do anything else than use youtube under those conditions.

[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 156 points 2 months ago (3 children)

legit, if youtube ever beats ublock origin, i'll just stop watching youtube

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Its an all out assault on half your senses without an adblocker. Literal torture.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The entire web is like that without an ad blocker these days.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I miss those cheeky gif banners from the 2000s

[–] fasterthancat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

[With hindsight] The commercial use of the internet should never have been allowed.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I want the internet to be a network of digital libraries...communication, public events and sharing space...personal pages...services...the commercial motive starts from there and eventually consumes the rest :/

[–] fasterthancat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I reckon without the rule changes in 1993-94 allowing commercial use that the internet would have turned into a significantly more useful utility with higher quality innovation than the advert laden train wreck that we have now.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, apparently it wasn't as gradual as I thought, there was a determining moment in 93-94 with Netscape and HTTPS that made secure transactions possible for e-commerce.

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For this to happen, everyone using the internet should know HTML or there has to be a easy to use, MS Word-like web designer. And there should also be easy to use, free web hosting providers (neocities exists).

Owning a website as a non-techie should be normalized and be portrayed as "cool"

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey, neocities is pretty good, I think I'll try to use chatgpt to get some boilerplate site running and then keep adding to it :)

These sites make me happy https://melonking.net/melon?z=%2Funiverse%2F 😂

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yt-dlp download script + text file with fav channel urls + jellyfin.

No bullshit, saves bandwidth.

Also look into invidious.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

Also look into invidious.

And peertube, some content creators also post there, e.g., The Linux Experiment.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They were serving videos with ads spliced in, basically DAI in podcasting industry. I’m not sure how that experiment went, but if that’s how they’d serve the videos, downloaders will have ads embedded as well.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yt-dlp supports sponsorblock, i am not worried.

I also dont even need tools for this as my usual style of watching is with my fingers on the arrow keys to skip back and forth

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 points 2 months ago

I actually don’t know if/how the ad block people worked around it or if YouTube pulled back. The problem with DAI on podcast and in stream ads is that the ads aren’t always 1:05~1:35, the ad could be longer or shorter, then the next ad won’t necessarily start at the same time, and most definitely won’t end at the same time. So sponsor block won’t know precisely where the ads are, thereby making it much harder for a crowd sourced solution to accurately skip embedded ads. Hopefully they figured out a way, but as mentioned earlier, I don’t know what happened to that experiment.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Put it on a VHS, then use one of those VCRs that removes the ads for you.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

YouTube had beaten ublock origin for a while so I resolved to using invidious.

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