Asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told IGN that it was a "small experiment."
"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said via email. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
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https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/13cfdbi/apparently_ad_blockers_are_not_allowed_on_youtube/?sort=controversial <- This is where it was originally first posted (1k Updoots and 1k cumments)
poster note: I tried adding all the 'its over' to capture the diversity that this decision will affect and was met with this
i do not feel bad at all
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Youtube is absolutely unwatchable with ads
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They're going to lose to tick tock at this point. No wonder they want it to be banned
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Its pretty terrible, up to thirty seconds of ads every two minutes its ridiculous. I use newpipe which is a little less annoying
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I have vague recollection (maybe trauma) of watching YouTube on my phone during election season and every political ad was unskippable
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Im actually a so always get political ads from states i was in last week
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I keep getting the most extreme wingcuck ads. It's probably from following links on rDrama.
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Me too. And literally all those ads were funded by Sam Bankman-Fried, so I have a special reason to hate him.
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Also the new UI...
Jesus!
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I kind of like ambient mode tbh, but I'm also semi-r-slurred so make of that what you will
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maybe YouTube would turn a profit if they fired their whole UIX team. they do nothing but make the site shitter every 5 or so years
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UX teams are full of foids.
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That's how Google works. Frick up the UI, ignore requests to unfrick it
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YouTube got away with 2 ads wayyy too easily
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There are short videos on yt
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I love Idris Elba raping my ears with that illegible accent of his
"WIT' BOO-KEN' DAHT CAHM..."
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bought premium after vanced stopped working, simply stop being poor
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Revanced
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It's so nice, it even automatically skips sponsored parts of videos
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It absorbed the functionality of sponsorblock which had been a PC extension for a long time
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For anyone with an LG TV (WebOS) you can also get ad free YouTube with sponsorblock
Only downside is you can't change video speed
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Imagine giving money to youtubers
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dude that's krazy
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Literally just use newpipe
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Literally just use an adblock
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Literally just stop watching videos. If you didn’t see it live it was not Gods will.
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Vanced stopped working like a week ago tho?
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Vanced ytmusic still works btw
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ReVanced works fine
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Ban i have a link?
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ReVanced apk
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Keep yourself safe cute twink jew
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King r-slur
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Well it looks like I'll be done watching YouTube.
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Final nail in the coffin
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I don't particularly care about Youtube, I just watch it because I have time to kill.
I'll only miss RedLetterMedia but the /tv/irgins will probably rip it and upload it somewhere else so I'll be fine.
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I've seen a couple RLM videos and there's one fat, balding nerd with the most obnoxious laugh who makes the videos completely unwatchable.
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Indeed
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they shit on capeshit while also liking capeshit, it’s strange but I have seen some videos and they’re alright, can be funny and poke fun. the fat bald guy is annoying though I couldn’t watch ones with him either
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mike stoklasa
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Lmao
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If you used an ad-blocker then you no longer using their service makes no difference to Google.
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In fact, it'll save them money because of reduced bandwidth costs.
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If they want me to watch ads they will have to send the goostapo to my house and pry my eyelids open.
Yes I realize they could afford to pay the salaries for a small tactical military unit to do just that.
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That's not true. Ad impressions matter to them but having their platform be the platform for user-created content matters more. They want creators to come to their platform, which is driven by high watch counts. They would prefer it if you watched the ads, but they are also happy that you're driving up view counts on the platform.
They know that there's a small percentage of refuseniks that simply will not watch ads under any circumstances whatsoever so they'll always give those guys an out. It may be technical and a bit fiddly but it'll exist, because they would rather have the views than not have the views.
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All my favourite content creators aren't on youtube anyway
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uBlock Origin bros…
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Or Odysee
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I haven't had any problems.
I also use pfsense DNS block (forgot what it's called), which is probably doing the heavy lifting.
Disabling 'fingerprinting' and that canvas nonsense also helps.
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not using adnauseam in current year
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I pay. It works on all my devices without any bullshit, including Rokus and work laptop. YouTube Music will let me download music for offline listening at work where there's no signal
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Carp is so hot
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literally who???
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Idk some tumblr proana gore blog enjoyer
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Were they not hemorrhaging enough users to tiktok already?
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Which one will pick?
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first option of course
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What a landslide
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Youtibe is way too far along the enshittification process to prioritise user experience. TikTok has already started down this path, too, but they have a lot of catching up to do.
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Alphabet Inc Class A bros...... we are so fricking back.
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Bitchute gods this is our time
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Dailymotion comeback
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Where my Vimeo chads at?
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I miss vidme
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we all do
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laughs in yt-dlp
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Based based based
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i have shell scripts set up on my HTPC to download new videos from channels i follow every night at 2am
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submit this
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Same. It's just way too convenient to watch stuff on the HTPC. YouTube UI/UX is dogshit.
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Gib scripts please senpai
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It's pretty easy. I have a separate subfolder for each channel. In that folder I have a script, download.sh, set up like so:
#!/bin/bash
yt-dlp --dateafter now-7days --playlist-end 10 --download-archive '/pathtofolder/dunkey/downloaded.txt' -o '/pathtofolder/dunkey/%(title)s.%(ext)s' -- 'https://youtube.com/user/videogamedunkey/videos'
You can mess with the parameters but I have it set up like that. You feed it the channel's videos URL, it looks at the 10 most recent videos (restricted to the last seven days), and if the video isn't recorded in downloaded.txt it downloads it and records it in downloaded.txt.
Then in the base folder I have another script download.sh set up like:
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
. /pathtofolder/dunkey/download.sh
. /pathtofolder/3blue1brown/download.sh
It simply calls each download.sh script in sequence. Then in crontab for su I add the entry:
0 2 * * * /pathtofolder/download.sh > /pathtofolder/log.txt
Every morning at 2am this calls the parent download.sh script and stores the output in log.txt.
yt-dlp also requires ffmpeg installed to combine the downloaded video and audio files. yt-dlp also needs to be updated somewhat frequently because Google always changes the way videos work to mess with them.
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You get that streaming involves downloading, right?
People who "stream" just download without control
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theyll shut that down too
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Then I record the screen with OBS and skip the ads manually.
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It's so jover
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