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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Well I guess I'll be mozying over to Rumble now.

20 minutes later

Turns out Jews are aliens directing the Democratic Party and Hollywood to sacrifice babies for adrenochrome. Why is the lamestream media not talking about this???

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago (7 children)

right wing: "JEWS ARE EVIL"

Also, right wing: "Jews in Israel are fighting a rightious war against evil Gazans"

🤨

[–] grue 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don't give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get 'raptured.'

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"I hate you, but I hate these guys even more. Nice job"

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[–] tdawg 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God I was looking for peertube apps and rumble was advertised in the app store. Boy did I have a surprise when I scrolled through the most subscribed list

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, don't do that. The most popular content on YouTube isn't bad in the same way it is on Rumble/Odyssey, but in general, it's filled with clickbait/rage bait and is generally pretty awful. It's going to be especially awful on Rumble and Odyssey because it's a refuge for people who didn't like YouTube's policies, so it's going to largely be conspiracy theorists and far right nonsense.

That said, there's some good on every platform. On Rumble, I like Glenn Greenwald, who is a right of center independent journalist who lives in Brazil (also gay, but that's irrelevant). On Odyssey, I like Mental Outlaw (covers hacks, leaks, and privacy related news) and Naomi Brockwell (privacy advocacy). I don't have an account at either, largely because those platforms are full of trash, I just sub through Grayjay so I don't see that nonsense.

I wish a credible alternative existed, but for now, I'll hedge a bit with other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (12 children)

i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists-->uBlock filters-->uncheck the "ublock filters - quickfixes" box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, I use ublock origin and have never had issues on YT.

[–] mesamunefire 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They do random testing. I've received one of these a couple of times with unlock as well. Google/yt has not fully committed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I hope they don't commit. But if they do, I guess that'll be the end of YT for me...

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn't screencap it but today on YT I was given a modal that said I was using an adblocker (ublock) and I have three more videos before they require premium. I changed VPN locations and stopped getting the message.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane. It's like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It’s not that bizarre. They don’t have to serve you the content without showing you the ads that make the platform profitable. The freedom goes both ways. I use an ad blocker too, but I don’t think that YouTube is really doing anything wrong here. (Other than possibly ruining their own platform, but that’s their problem that they’re making for themselves.)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they weren't a monopoly, I'd agree, they can do whatever they want.

But since they are a monopoly, its a de facto the equivalent of a town square, and they are policing people's speech, and broadcasting annoying public announcements that nobody wants to hear.

[–] Robin 38 points 1 month ago

A privately owned platform cannot serve the public good. There will always be conflicts of interest. A proper public square should be funded by a competent government (but those are rare) or decentralized.

[–] CosmoNova 15 points 1 month ago

I hate the way they‘re doing it and how they push their silly premium subscription in my face whenever I open the app to look something up quick. Adblock all the way. But you‘re right. They have to make money somehow. They‘re a corporation after all. It‘s naive to think they will ever give up.

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[–] NOT_RICK 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m imagining a future where you’re not allowed to mute broadcast commercials

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fifteen Million Merits - Black Mirror - 2011

[–] grue 14 points 1 month ago

Please drink verification can.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I kinda miss when places would host their own videos instead of relying on youtube, but that's the problem of a centralized internet, the majority of people won't want to leave yt/ig/fb/tiktok/twitter/reddit in order to watch or read whatever you posted.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Also self-hosted video often has really shitty players.

[–] piecat 12 points 1 month ago

And the reddit hug of death issue..

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Let’s help grow Peertube, then.

[–] Korkki 12 points 1 month ago

Centralisation and large scale has it's benefits. There were also many problems with everybody hosting their stuff by themselves. Enshittification is results of private companies having to go profit first (and google being google of course), not so much because they are the only game in town. Being the monopoly merely enables the shitting on users for profit. I see youtube and many google services more like internet's utilities that are privately owned and that is causing problems, not that they have gotten so big.

[–] mlg 54 points 1 month ago

aggressively refreshes ublock patch list

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (16 children)

If you're on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

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[–] Frellwit 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From the uBO subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2024_08_16_ubo/m31kbkw/

There was just an update to Quick fixes. Please test if it works for you.

  1. Click Here to update the list.
  2. If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
  3. Close all previously opened YT tabs and try in a new one.

Just a reminder: Please always treat disabling lists as a last resort/temporary solution type of thing. Without that list, you won't be receiving important filter updates and will likely encounter ads after a while. So don't keep it disabled forever - verify that it's still necessary (daily?).

[–] Frost752 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] qaz 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again

[–] serenissi 23 points 1 month ago

ad blocker detector blocker in filter list go brrr

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I just got the same warning on FF with uBlock. Both Freetube and NewPipe seem to be fine though. I guess Freetube it is until uBlock is patched.

Edit: Also, glad I'm not the only human watching Grossi's videos today lol.

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[–] NutWrench 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Looks like google needs more broken up!

[–] rottingleaf 26 points 1 month ago (9 children)

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

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[–] Jackhammer_Joe 19 points 1 month ago

Eat shit, Youtube!

[–] homesweethomeMrL 16 points 1 month ago (9 children)

What's the Fediverse YouTube? ooof. that's a tough nut.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (22 children)

No one understands the astronomical bandwidth, CPU/GPU intensive calcs, and data storage necessities required to do anything close to what YouTube currently does.

There is no way under this warm sun that a fediverse version of YouTube will ever be feasible, unless someone like literally yourself is willing to pay extraordinary high amounts of money for all the required infrastructure and daily maintenance to run it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Peertube, but it's really not nearly the replacement lemmy or mastodon are.

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[–] mudmaniac 16 points 1 month ago

Grayjay by futo just released a desktop app.

[–] MrOxiMoron 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Just replace the watch?v= with embed/

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