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I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I'm okay paying for it.
But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.
Experiencing bullets in your foot? Remove your kevlar and helmet.
*Laughs in ReVanced
I don't spend a lot of time on there, so some of the "new to me" stuff is probably fairly old.
But, I hopped on this weekend searching for videos on a specific topic and I was inundated with "Shorts". Brief clips that from what I gather contain no valuable information and which require you to be on crack or meth to keep up with? I dunno?
Then I noticed that an old account I used to watch way back in the day showed up on my subscriptions page, so I clicked in to look at that, and now they have accounts or videos that you have to pay to watch/subscribe to? Is this OnlyFans without the sex stuff now?
Then to top it off, the close captions are apparently 100% AI and every sentence displayed is something like "Gum potion trial and barrier for job put chin". Like I thought this stuff was supposed to be intelligent, it's basically right there in the name, or am I missing something?
I will gladly wait 1 minute of video loading before playing than watch 2 skippable ads that I need to click skip on.
Hell, I will go rampage and claim that I'll wait 5 minutes before video starts rather than watch a single 30s ad.
If adblock didn't work perfectly on YouTube, then I'd just entertain myself elsewhere.
I mean honestly that sounds kind of idiotic.
Is there anything in your life worth standing up for? Doesn't sound like it. Sounds like you have zero experience with principal.
I just download them shits and delete when I'm done. Ffmpeg and VLC do a better job than YouTube even wants to do
NewPipe also never has a startup buffer
It's funny, I found that switching tabs will immediately make it start playing the video. The idea of losing you entirely is too much, I guess
The interruptions supposedly caused by my adblock are tiny compared to the interruptions when I turn it off.
Yeah no shit. "Experiencing interuptions," nope I'm not actually thank you very much. Youtube has gone down enough in quality to where I would probably just dump it if they manage to hamfist the ads back in. The algo is straight up terrible at keeping me engaged. You watched one video about Y? Whole feed is now about Y for the next week. I find better videos browsing incognito sometimes.
On the other hand, you watched a bunch of videos of X consistently,but skipped the last 3 we recommended? You'll never see that topic again.
Me: Searches for a very specific video that I know exists because I have seen it within the last three months.
YouTube: Nope, sorry, just can't find it. Don't know where it went. I don't think that video ever actually existed. I'm not even gonna show you results that contain your search terms because of how stupid I think you are.
In my case, it was looking for a specific video of pulling a 4.2 liter Jeep engine out of a CJ7. YouTube responded with dozens of videos on CJ5's and Wranglers, and the 4.0 liter engine, but not the 4.2 CJ7, and not the video I was looking for, and unfortunately it's not the Jeepin with Cool Guy video.
Although, in one scroll, they did offer to show me the exact same video three different times.
Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.
Have you seen google photos ? The search function there is shockingly bad. Even when I know a photo exists of xyz, searching for xyz or words related to xyz finds either nothing at all, or unrelated images.
Their website is so laggy and slow I didn't realize it was intentional
I don't even get the "find out why" link. It's literally just a popup that says "experiencing interruptions?" with no explanation. Just there to taunt me
FWIW, the link doesn't answer the question. It just shows a chart of your ISP's reliably but doesn't say whether or not it's to blame.
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Actually, I don't even think they show the chart anymore. But regardless, you won't actually find out the reason why when you click the link.
The one I get, the words "experiencing problems?" is the link. But really, the only "problem" I experience is a momentary black screen as it loads the video without the ad.
All the link does is take you to the support page where it explains how to disable your ad blocker.
So much malicious code going on to piss us off and force compliance. And normies have no idea this is a thing.
Which, oh no i have to wait an extra 2 seconds of no ads, instead of waiting 15 seconds of ads that will continue playing unless i actively skip it
I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I'm avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.
I have ad blockers on my PC, use Smarttube on my Firestick, and ReVanced on my phone. And when someone sends me a youtube link in a group chat or something and I click it, it'll open the standard Youtube. 1/2 ads, 30+ seconds long, can't skip them.... I just don't even bother watching what you sent me.
Because you can't open youtube in vanced, if I want to do that I just open it in youtube, cancel and then open vacned and play it from history.
Weird? I literally just open the YouTube app and proceed as normal.
Try installing URLCheck (it's on F-Droid) and make it your default browser, then remove open-by-defaults from the YouTube app.
It should let you open in the ReVanced or better yet Morphe version of YouTube. If tapping the link doesn't open URLCheck, then "Share" the link and select URLCheck.
Simply disabling the Youtube app (since at least on my phone it can't be uninstalled) does the trick as well
It's what I did, yeah
Have you tried Grayjay?
Google: ~~Don’t~~ be evil
What interruptions, Youtube? Literally nothing changed other than the fact there aren't ads playing.
Ah yes, experience a <15 second loading buffer...
Or watch potentially multiple entire minute long, unskippable adverts.
Honestly part of me has considered paying for YouTube premium - but aside from not having to fight off ADs, I don't care about the other perks, and am more than happy to just give to the creators directly without Google getting a cut.
I'm using Firefox with Ublock Origin, and it's really funny that youtube videos open without any problems or delays, but still, the questions about interruptions appear. They failed to ruin my user experience, but still fucking hope they did.
Tip: if you use a chrome user agent, it won't have delays
I don't even do that and get no delays (Linux Mint, Firefox, ublock)
Maybe they excluded Linux or didn't roll out the thing to everyone
But it does happen to me on Winslop 11 and changing UA fixes it