My senior neighbor watches YouTube a ton and uses it to listen to music on his laptop. His old laptop recently died and I helped him order a new one and put FireFox with the whole works of adguard, ublock origin, sponsorblock, etc. on it for him and its changed his life! He loves not seeing these dumb ads now!
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I'm worried the sucsess Netflix has had forcing people to stop password sharing is emboldening companies to perform policies such as this :(
I wonder if this would affect ReVanced. YouTube and google suck so bad. Also I hope people discover ReVanced because of this regardless lol but I still hope its not affected
It's not just that they fight ad blockers now. I used to use an auto skipper for the ads, since I am technically okay with being served the ads (dedicated browser, deletion of cookies) and I consider 20 seconds before a video bearable.
They changed the skip button now so that my skipper stopped working. Guess what, now I'm using a blocker instead since I cannot be bothered to constantly click on the fricking screen to prevent 30 min ads from playing.
I'm sorry for youtube-addicted. On my part, I use it, maybe, twice per year, so I couldn't care less.
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I pray we get a Youtube competitor too, because Google has no incentive to change. We've needed one a while.
Depending on what you're watching, https://nebula.tv/ might be a very good alternative for thought-provoking content.
I'm kicking all my bad habits, Twitter, Reddit and probably now YouTube.
I did sign up for a year of nebula about two weeks ago so it's going to be a soft landing.
If YouTube starts banning people for blocking ads, it'll finally be the push I need to move to PeerTube.
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If you just watch videos and don't comment or upload, what's the point of a YouTube account?
Just subscribe to channels using RSS
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