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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Inclusion of yt music was the thing that kept me on the subscription

Same here. I was struggling to get the ad blockers to work consistently, so I said fuck it and canceled Spotify and subscribed to Youtube. FWIW YT music does a much better job of choosing random music that I like; Spotify just plays the same shit over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like YT music plays the same things over and over again, so good to know that switching to Spotify won't be any better.

[–] bokherif 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve tried every music streaming service out there with their premium subscriptions and they’re really not that different. After a month of usage they all loop the same songs over and over again. It seems YouTube also adopted this because it’s been recommending me the same things over and over and over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tidal has new music playlists straight from Tidal and they're genre specific, which is quite different from Spotify. They're in a set place within Tidal, so you don't have to search for the new playlists either.

The sad thing is that it appears a lot of people only like listening to music that they already know. Out of the people I know, I'm the only one that hates listening to the same songs over and over again. I wonder if that's why many people only seem to like music from their teenage/young adult days 🤔

[–] chiliedogg 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss GPM. YouTube music is full of community-made playlist that are actually YouTube video playlists, so you'll start one up and have all the music video intros, interrupts, and extra sound effects and shit that get thrown in.

I started a Disney playlist for my nephew in the car, and you could hear all the sound effects from the movie over the actual soundtrack.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen any of that. For me, Youtube music is almost exactly like Spotify experience-wise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think you can disable non-music videos from the settings, maybe you did that