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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] MaeBorowski@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I do too. Like, exactly - I use LibRedirect to make sure I never end up at youtube but only an invidious instance, and I run ublock origin religiously everywhere (even though it's thankfully not needed on invidious).

But I really do fear for invidious's future. Like right now it's totally borked because of more youtube fucking around with them. I'm sure they will get it working again soon, but there are only 3 public instances now, they're doing it just because they're cool, but it's not easy to constantly be fighting against youtube's changes, they have to pay for servers and don't get enough in donations to make up for it, so I couldn't blame those last 3 for burning out at some point, like ggtyler did. And that's even if youtube doesn't finally do something that breaks invidious for good, like how pipe is now completely broken. Sorry if I'm dooming a bit, but it does sometimes look pretty bleak.