I have a tab open that just loads a different ad every time I refresh. Apparently they've also started showing you a popup telling you that Youtube does not allow adblocking, telling you to either allow ads or buy YT Premium. Haven't seen that one myself, just started getting pre-video ads.
Seeing an ad on my desktop computer felt like someone just invaded my personal space or dipped their nuts in my drink while making eye contact, like I'm used to the browsing experience on phones sucking ass but I haven't had to deal with ads on PC in over a decade, it literally feels alien :what-the-hell:
im hearin about it but these bastards ain't get thru my ublock yet. uncritical support to the block designers in their struggle against imperialist advertizers
I will stare at a blank wall before I watch youtube with fucking ads
I quit twitch completely the day they broke adblocking
Whenever adblocking stops working on my phone I literally turn my phone away from me and lower the volume when I get YT ads
Not watching that shit
It still technically works on Twitch, but you need TTVLOL and it just blocks the video, it still interrupts. When it does that you can switch to Alternate Player and it resumes the stream. Bullshit of course, but I need my Just Chatting slop.
i support ublock and their stochastic piracy actions against google :fidel-salute:
Upload 1 minute of static to youtube for every ad they serve you against your will.
Ublock origin hasn't served me any ads yet.
That's what I'm using as well. It seems both ads and the pop-up are popping up randomly for different users. Maybe something something A/B testing
I’ve noticed that google has ratcheted up their advertising lately. On Apple TV the first thumbnail is now an ad and in gmail there are ads throughout the inbox instead of only at the top.
There are ads in Gmail now? That's horrendous.
I still use my Gmail account because I can't be bothered to set up an account somewhere that doesn't suck, but I check my mail through a dedicated mail program, never the site. Google might read all of my mail, but they will not advertise to me.
You can easily disable gmail ads, I didn't even know they existed https://support.google.com/mail/thread/53671600/how-to-remove-the-ads-in-gmail?hl=en
That link isn’t working for me. You can disable ads in gmail completely? I’ve only been able to turn off “ad personalization”
The answer in the link is
The ads only appear when you use the tabbed Inbox interface, and only in Promotions and Social tabs. To stop seeing ads, either switch to a different Inbox view or disable those tabs.
If that doesn't work, it might be some other personalization setting.
If I go to my gmail settings on the web, I see a bunch of settings that say "Turn on smart features and personalization in Gmail, Chat, and Meet to.... (enable a disabled feature)"
I don't think my fragile mind will be able to handle it, if they figure out how to neutralize adblockers.
I'm not afraid to pull the plug, fuck them. I was a grown ass man when the internet started, I think I remember how to live without it.
only slightly related, but here's a great way to stick your thumb in Google's eye
https://adnauseam.io/
AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.
whoa this seems like a really cool project.
Currently not experiencing this issue. I'm running Ublock Origin on the Linux version of Firefox. Wondering what other people are experiencing with their browser/adblocker/OS setup?
:sweat: i have youtube premiun because getting adblockers working on tvs and phones is a pain (and you get a music streaming service out of it).
I have a goddamn vendetta against YouTube Premium and I have held off on paying for it despite watching YouTube for several hours a day every day. It was a shit service with no value until Youtube threw millions of dollars at making their non-Premium service worse. Specifically, everything integrating with the built-in video/audio player on iOS and Android was the norm. That stopped when YouTube made their player stop the video when you locked the phone. So many services suddenly decided it was fine to break user space behavior and fuck with all of my routines which involved muscle memory with my phone.
Kodi-based player connected to TV + an app that you can "share" to on your phone that sends the link to Kodi.
I remember that I followed a tutorial once on how to watch YT in VLC. Gotta be a script that does it auto
Theres a python script called youtube-dl that got shut down a while ago but is still fairly accessible since its just code. Itll download videos from basically any streaming website.
If you have youtube-dl and mpv installed you can just slap
mpv <URL>and it just werx.it won't work for me anymore and it doesn't appear to be updated
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id;
