I hate ads.

That's it. That's all I wanted to say. Just loathe them with a burning passion. More than i do anything else in my day to day life. I feel an urge to scream it into the world every single day just how much i despise ads and whoever invented them.

I hate ads.

I can't escape them. I feel like i'm trapped in a sick psychological torture experiment. Can't even go outside for a walk without seeing them everywhere. This is not how human beings should live.

I hate ads.

Do the people who make ads not feel any shame for what they are doing? Stop trying to sell me your shit, i don't want it! I don't want to give you my money, stop trying to take it away from me!

I hate ads.

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    It's going to only get worse and YouTube is experimenting with server side ads that can't be blocked because they are directly injected into the videos from the server side. As in put in as part of the video and the timing will be random. There's pretty much no way to counter it. If you tried to use a downloader program the video would probably download with the ads in it.

    So basically, if there's anything on YouTube you have saved to a playlist and want to watch in the future without ads.... Download it now.

    Look up YouTube dlp for PC downloading.
    https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

    If you have android there is the app Newpipe
    https://newpipe.net/

    • USSR Enjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      +1 yt-dlp is workhorse

      The threat of server-side ads, as you mentioned, is concerning. I haven't looked into the proposed implementations, but it seems like the nature of HLS still leaves the door open for workarounds. It seems like yt encoding chunks on the fly with both content and ads so you wouldn't be able to filter chunks would be too much of a burden, and doing so statically would be too restrictive.

      ... Or maybe they'll just abandon open standards and they'll just do widevine 2.0 🤮

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      That sucks to hear. The day I can't block ads on youtube will be the day I stop using it. It is just not worth the psychological damage of having that garbage blasted at me.

    • bumpusoot [any]
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      5 months ago

      It definitely wouldn't be impossible to counter, but it would be difficult. I don't really doubt that effective ad-blocking to server-side injections would appear sooner or later.

      • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        From what I understand they did this on some other platform year ago and still there no real work around. Twitch maybe? Idk. The developer of sponsor block straight up said there is nothing they can do about them and the various anti-ad communities on Reddit are pretty much confirming that there's no way to block them. They MAY figure something out eventually but this is going to really mess things up for a while.