Google is a trillion dollar business($1.5 trillion to be exact). They aren’t hurting for anything.
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Ublock Origin + Privacy Badger + https Everywhere is my default. I never see ads.
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Yet the killed the G Suite - unlimited storage plan (a paid service) when they switched to google workspace… perhaps the future is not as bright as the past for Alphabet…
i did some looking into brave last year and it doesn’t rock like you think it does. i don’t have anything left from the research but i chose not to use it based on advice from a couple of people and that research due to some messed up crap they did. i’d advise a close look into it, well actually i’d advise to not use it but have nothing to base that on now except memories.
or you write a script that does it like i did, then just paste the url in there. i was in the process of writing a script that got the url and did all of it automatically but got sidetracked again. oh, yeah, then you gotta run it through davinci resolve to take the video out, but that’s free too.
Yeah YT literally wont let me watch the video now with my two adblockers enabled
a year ago youtube started showing me 2min ads every 5mins during a live sporting event, so i started playing long ad-supported videos on it when i wasnt around and then it stopped showing me ads during the live streams.
youtube-dl and the like were great for a while but they severely rate limit them now, its much faster to just cap the window and record the video. could even encode it with good settings by the time that dl would finish.
also id bet restarting the computer isnt doing anything, its probably some kind of cookies or site preferences clearing when you exit the browser?
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Weird intersection of rights and entitlement. When ToS says no as blockers and you dont want to watch ads or think their business model is wonky the solution should be to just not use their service.
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I use firefox as my browser and I downloaded ad blocker plus a long time ago no ads for me. They did try to block me but then I used a private browser and no problems. Ad blocker plus did an update to get around the current issue.
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On the American radio program Marketplace (a business and economy focused show that airs on NPR stations) the host often reminds listeners… if you aren’t paying for a product, the product is you (which is to say they’re either scraping your data to sell to advertisers or selling your eyeballs to advertisers).
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I had a problem with my house internet and ever since I just plugged out of youtube, the ads…grind my gears and remove any pleasure from watching videos there, I guess a new platform need to pop up to replace youtube, something like youtube when it was fresh and new and a small boy in the internet world, then it got bigger and greeder and it is what we know today.
Then don’t use FB, don’t use Google and don’t use YT. You want to take the beneficious part of them to you but giving nothing? Don’t use it.
That depends on you. If you want more streaming services then you pay for it or see ads. Nobody is putting a gun on you to make use of any of those services.
This reminds me when Whastapp was 0,89 a year. Everybody put the hands on the head… Whattttt pay for thatttt?..
But at that time, the SMS was at 0,10 or more EACH… And nobody caresses about that. But hei, they want us to pay less than a dollar for a year, lets cry. The servers doesn’t cost nothing, the software doesn’t cost nothing, the developers work by love to the art…
Come on …
But on our own works all want to earn more, the neighbour work is shit.
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Not Facebook or Google pop up ads in the middle of the content like YT and they all make money on ads, that’s the point.
Obviously there are many expenses running IT like these but they aren’t loosing money, they are just having more profits while declining the quality of the services they provide making people angy, we were used to a standard quality where we used to see one ad in the beguining of one video every 10 videos, now is in the beguining and several in the middle of the content, I had a time I was waisting more time with ads than with content.
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One time YT wanted me to watch almost 10 ads in a row to continue watching a 1 minute video. I uninstalled the YT app. I will never use the app again.
if that were the problem we are talking about you would have the correct solution. but the problem isn’t the ad blockers, the ads get paid per click and not per view anyway, the problem is that using the browser instead of the app robs them of all the data they mine with the app. why else do you think everyone says “get the app” or offers promotions and freebies when using the app and not just ordering it on the phone? it’s not that they get any revenue from the ads being there (see above) but all the extra crap they don’t get when you don’t use the app that’s the problem.
for some reason the popups stopped on me for youtube and it still shows me videos. not sure what the issue is unless it’s still a test.
edit: i should not have said that last part. just got the popup and it had a timer until i could close it. maybe it will go for me too. but good riddance, and it isn’t just because i’m a cheap bastard. it’s the principal of the thing. piss on 'em.
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If you want to fully stay away from Facebook and Google surveillance you’re going to have to work a lot harder than that. Even their ads on other sites have third-party trackers installed.
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Yes, you are right on that.
My response was more referring to the fact of “'I want to see YT and not see ads” or “I want to benefit from something giving nothing”.
It is like the pubs that don’t charge on girls or give them some consumition “free”. But later that girls are protesting because they are used as a claim for mens. You know how the game is, you choose to play it or not.
And I am in no way defending that, but are they rules and if we want to play on their field we have to get fucked.
This is like here in UE that the internet providers companys want that content providers pay for the infraestructures (one more time). And I think, the IP are charging users for the service, are charging also the content providers for the service/connection… And then they want to charge again for the infraestructure of the Internet provider…
Bah excuse me, I am divagating and those are things that doesn’t take us to any solution, because we are sheeps in wolfs land.
who would watch adds on youtube…i’ve been blocking that for over a decade.
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I clicked on 1 video and watched about 1 minute of it. This is how many things were blocked.
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While we are on the subject of youtube. Does anyone know why when using a firestick the youtube screen shrinks?
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That’s the point!
I had also been blocking ads on YouTube for a very long time – then it all changed.
They are coming for you…
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