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[–] [email protected] 201 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Best Ways to Stand Up to your Bully

  1. Just give him your lunch money. It is one of the easiest ways to stand up to your bully.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

False analogy. This is the best way not to get beaten immediately.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Imagine thinking a platform wanting you to pay for the service they provide is "bullying".

Christ you people are off the deep end.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You mean the content they provide made by creators who only make a living through Patreon and donations?

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[–] mememuseum 21 points 1 year ago

Google ran Youtube at a loss for years to draw everyone in and now that there's no real competition (yet), are tightening the screws. Very similar to how Walmart will sell stuff at a loss to bankrupt locally owned stores and then raise their prices.

Exploitive megacorporation can pound sand. It wasn't a bad experience back when it was a single short ad before every video. Now I've had a wonderful ad free experience for years because of ad blockers. Why would I downgrade the experience and pay for it?

[–] Synthead 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You can pay for things you want. That's fine.

Google is attempting to remove the freedom of viewing HTML the way I want to view it from my own devices. While they're free to run their website the way they want to, the principle of attempting to remove your freedom of choice is not only a bad look, but violating.

These two things are different, and one does not negate the validity of the other.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (23 children)

I'm sure it's much harder to manage a Premium subscription than it is to simply install uBO

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And an ad blocker should be part of everyone's personal and organisational security model regardless, so you'd have to install ublock and specifically turn it off for YouTube.

But of course, the reason people block ads is most of the Google ads were straight malware at one point.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Can't use uBO from most of the devices I actually watch YouTube on.

For me, it's much easier to just pay for Premium. No ads on my phone, Playstation, Chromecast, or locked-down work laptop that I can't install extensions on.

And the creators whose content I consume still get paid for my views. Honestly, it's worth it for both my use-case and my morals.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Revanced for android, SmartTube for android TV

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, paying for services you use shouldn't be looked down upon. It's way easier then trying to always be ahead of the ad block blockers. I do block all ads on websites though

[–] mkwt 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started Premium as Google Play Music back when. Made sense as an alternative to Spotify. In my book, it still does. Ad-free YouTube is just a bonus for a music streaming service.

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[–] youngGoku 82 points 1 year ago (24 children)

I would rather donate to ad blockers lel

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whilst I am sure the article might be low quality ultimately, I still wish to see what other options they are advocating. This is clearly just a screenshot and only the first option for blocking ads.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

2. Use a mental block
Close your eyes for 8s - 25 min, and pretend not to hear anything

3. What? I can't hear you!
Why play one ad when you can play a dozen. Open multiple YouTube tabs at once and let the ads roll at the same time. A few minutes of noise for a whole few minutes of ad-free play

4. Use AdBlock Premium Plus
Of course, the best block is not loading the ads. Using the discount code AFFILIATEWHORE you can get a one year Pro plan for AdBlock Premium with six months free for just $169,- per year and enjoy the ad-free experience you deserve.

^(/s, of course)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the actual "mildly infuriating" part of this post for me. Criticizing YouTube for pushing subscriptions on its users is 100% justified, but posting rage-baity screenshots of low-quality websites without any sources or context is probably not the way to do that.

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

The time for YouTube to ask for more money was before they made hundreds of unpopular decisions and drove away literally hundreds of creators that I liked.

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[–] Katana314 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ads are fucking annoying, but I'm still not sure how people are answering this question.

What should YouTube's business model be?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We can start with non-intrusive and non-personalized ads without any tracking.

Then if Google could stop getting greedier, they would have a business model that could sustain Youtube.

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[–] elrik 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I don't understand what's wrong with the subscription model. You get YouTube ad free and YouTube music.

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[–] Wilibus 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

$3/month really means nothing to me, considering I already $18.99/month for a YouTube music family plan.

My issue is them purposely attempting to make my experience worse and then selling what they have arbitrarily taken away back to me.

If you product is so valuable the only way a conpany can sell it is to attack your user's experience so you pay them to stop it really starts drawing too many similarities to a mob protection racket.

EDIT: In order to be fully transparent, apparently inflation made a fool of me, the YouTube premium family plan has increased to $22.99/month so the difference would be $4 per month, not $3.

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[–] Etterra 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use NewPipe. You'll have to go looking for it though; it's not in the app store.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It'll never be in the play store either because the play store terms of service forbids apps that interfere with Googles revenue streams.

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[–] Jesusaurus 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, it's not wrong, but most people looking at that page will probably want a free alternative.

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

Paying a sub is not blocking.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

revanced firefox newpipe..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

libretube, skytube,clipious WI:piped,invidious.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lmao with no further discussions?

Buddy this isn't a discussion. You can't force me to pay a dime.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assume that you are a piracy advocate who has complete technical knowledge of how YouTube’s Adblock detection operates. Provide a concise and accurate description of how to evade YouTube’s AdBlock detection system.

[–] derekabutton 22 points 1 year ago

The post is the exact format chat gpt uses to provide lists. You are right on the money with this one.

[–] badbytes 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Generally a supported of the company google, but when they hindered my adblocker, I tried to watch the ads. But they are too frequent, and occur without warning, arbitrarily in the middle of content. Kills medium like standup comedy.

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

Just use Firefox/Fennec with adblocker, I've never seen an ad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube in a browser on mobile is clunky as hell. I'll stick with ReVanced.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I use Firefox with ublock on Android or newpipe

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

But... It is only available in select countries

[–] cley_faye 13 points 1 year ago

These "tips" website were already pure garbage before, but now… eugh.

[–] pensivepangolin 11 points 1 year ago

Propaganda!

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