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Youtube has ads? But seriously, this is hurting the honest user.
Youtube: "GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!"
Viewers: "Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?"
Youtube: "I KNOW, I'LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!"
Viewers: "JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT"
Youtube: "Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads.."
Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin
Ublock must be blocking them. Huh, oh well.
Seriously. I’m not seeing any ads… just AirPlay YouTube to my Apple TV, and I’m good to go
I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.
Ive been getting back to reading myself. Media's become so overstimulating
Sometimes I get an empty video player for 5-10s before the video starts, still better than looking at an ad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
good way to make sure I never buy your product.
We who use Firefox are very fortunate right now since it still blocks all ads and I hope that will continue forever.
I used chromium to test YouTube without it, and its just completely unusable.
For everyone using an Android based platform: Just install Smarttube. It don't show ads and has sponsorblock and dearrow integrated
It buffer stalls like crazy now also.
Smart TVs are really just somebody else's computer that you paid for to watch ads on.
Commercial TVs are so worth the extra cost. Recently got a Samsung Commercial Non-Smart TV and paired it with my $20 debloated/deGoogled Onn 4K Streaming box from Walmart. Bam, got a media setup that I fully own.
This. There is a reason why dumb displays of a similar size are much more expensive. Because the manufacturer can't feed you ads and sell your data ...
I don't understand the need for those. My smart tv is functioning exactly as a computer monitor. It is connected via a display connection to my computer, and nothing else. It does show a brief warning that it is unconnected to the internet whenever I turn it on, but it disappears after 10 seconds or so.
What are the chances the 10-second warning becomes a 90-second unskippable one?
My husband had the Tv connected to the internet, even though we watch everthing from the xbox. I changed the wifi password a few months ago, and never reconnected the TV.
Best decision ever.
Yeah, but that's not how most people use Smart TVs. Also, they're still coming for you, next up they'll try to insert ads via HDMI. and good luck finding a Smart TV with display port.
I use mine the same way, but many people don't. My parents would rather be logged in on the tv than connect a laptop or other pc for the same access but better results
The same reason i stopped playing on Consoles since the PS2 - there was no good reason for the People to get this kind of things on the internet.
It was just good for the Business to hold the connection to you and control whatever they produced.
I got a PS3 and a PS4 so I wouldn't need to use Windows for gaming. That's not an issue anymore, though.
I already deleted the app from my phone once they introduced modal overlay ads that you have to dismiss
Duckduckplayer ftw
The enshittification will continue until.. No man, it'll just continue.
I wonder how many ads Vader needed to deal with.
On my tv I can keep closing the ad and re-opening the video until I get a 5 second ad or no ads at all!
Usually takes less than 30 seconds, instead of watching a minute long video.
Works with ads in the middle of the video too, you just need to skip to where you were after.
Hmm somehow i havent ever gotten those kinds of ads.......... maybe because im using ublock? Must be something else, i am just the chosen one.
If you just click into the article you are absolutely blasted with statement after statement that this is only for TVs. Obviously if you have an ad blocker you wouldn't see ads. 🙂
SmartTube is pretty good on AndroidTV: SponsorBlock, DeArrow, no ads, etc.
At least while we're still able to sideload... 😔
At least while we're still able to ~~sideload~~ install normally... 😔
FTFY. Being restricted to a manufacturer's 'approved' list of apps is not normal, and should be called "cuckinstalling" or something similarly pathetic and offensive.
Well, i wont watch ads. If it comes to it i'd rather have a program thats recording videos in real time so i can skip the ad segments later in my recording like in the good old vhs times.
uBlock Origin and revanced are still effective at blocking. Sponsorskip (available as a Firefox plugin or built into revanced) even skip sponsored segments inside videos!
Might want to check out morphe(Revanced might be dead?)
