I still haven't seen a youtube ad in years... ho hum..
Meh. My ad blocking strategy on my phone and desktop still works fine. I use Morphe (formerly Revanced), uBlock Origin on Firefox and AdGuard on my android phone.
No ads. No problem.
Updating Firefox suddenly fixed this for me. I then later just had my entire google account banned and I had to create a new account. They even attempted to IP ban me as well. Said I was banned until 2036 or something like that.
So you lost access to gmail as well?
what is the reason for the ban?
Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it's apps?
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If it's a ban from the whole google echo-system that is fucked up. I sadly still have a lot of important stuff linked to my google account.
Freetube. Sorted.
I'm only going to click these Articles when my adblocker actually stops working, its basically clickbait until then.
Ok Google, free us from our sins. Clense our souls, show us the way to green grass
Gonna use this thread to shout out https://github.com/YTLitePlus/YTLitePlus There are more than enough options for android users out there, this one is for iOS though. Tried it out this weekend on my jailbroken iPhone 6. If i read it correctly it should also be installable without a jailbreak but not that easily. Its super cool and nowadays it feels so weird that you got the option to do such shocking things like disabling shorts or reorder the tabs, its really fun.
Sounds like updating firefox and/or ublock will get past most of it.
Personally? I am not as opposed to google making life harder for people who want to run an adblocker, considering that is the site's revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data). But I actually pay for youtube premium and have been having to refresh every video between clicking and watching it and that is just fucking stupid.
Although, it also means that shorts no longer autoplay. So when I actually want to watch a short that a channel I like put up, I only see THAT short rather than however many others before I click away.
considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data)
I actually pay for youtube premium
pick one
Sorry, are you saying you want youtube to be a private site that is subscription only?
Because, if you think this is a gotcha, you probably won't have a good time. And the site itself would die as creators would have no market to really target.
Fine with me. Youtube needs some decent competition.
I assume you are a hardcore "The God of Capitalism Will Provide" person but... that isn't how it works.
Youtube is an insanely expensive service to operate. That is why basically every other attempt failed miserably. Google is able to offset the cost due to their datacenter requirements as well as being able to sell those targeted ads. Even for google it is highly suspected to be a loss leader.
It is like people forgot that microsoft/azure tried to make their own twitch... and it failed horribly even though it had definitively better tech.
Apparently there is a way around it as I've been watching YouTube all day and haven't encountered a single ad.
YouTube has been shadowbanning ad blocker users, where you comments appear to post but actually haven't, for a while now.
I think the issue is with the EasyPrivacy list blocking the heartbeat signals that tell YouTube you are actually someone interacting with the page and not a bot.
Brave doesn't seem to have this issue as they whitelist those scripts but it has other issues so I recommend keeping it as a YouTube only browser.
they vibe coded it
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