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YouTube is removing the ability for creators to choose where ads show up or whether viewers can skip them pic.twitter.com/HXJgZw2ANO
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YouTube is removing the ability for creators to choose where ads show up or whether viewers can skip them 
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All the more reason to use adblockers or ReVanced
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Imagine not using Invidious
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Paying for YouTube is somehow more degenerate feeling than paying for porn.
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I refuse to pay $14 for premium. If it was like $7 I would pay for it. Even charging $2 a month they would make way more from that person than they do with someone who watches ads.
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"i refuse to pay at a price point that the company sets, if the stupid r-slurs at google charged $2 instead and lost a ton of money per customer then i would totally pay"
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they probably make more money with nonskippable ads so whatever youtube gotta make money i guess
BUT WHY???the bots are gonna mess it up with ads in the middle of a sentence. also creators could insert ads at an exciting paet so it keeps the viewers engaged
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I might be outing myself as a chud, but I'm using Rumble more and more
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I want to like Rumble too but it's filled with right wing r-slurs. Not typical right wingers but the conspiratorial r-slurred type. That, plus, it's going to need to start making money at some point so their move to a YouTube-style monetization is inevitable.
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What's there to watch on rumble?
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You can watch Rumble's top livestreamer, alcoholic r-slurred pedophiile-defender Nick Rekieta on the Rekieta Law channel!
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If only it wasn't Canadian.
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The money a vid makes if you admaxx it is pretty good if it gets popular though
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I dislike youtubers so if they don't like this I support it.
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I said frick it and just subbed to YouTube premium about 2 years ago. Was better than dealing with any of these headaches and ever changing unblockable shit
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It's genuinely amazing to me the amount of people who don't use Adblock or stuff like Newpipe or Revanced. I thought it was just a boomer and little kid thing, but nah. It seems the average person either puts up with ads or just cucks and buys Premium.
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Is there any way to put an adblocker on a TV app? I watch YouTube on my TV all the time and I still have to deal with ads on there :/
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we use YouTube at work and it always blows my mind when people fire up a video and we have to wait 5 seconds to skip some r-slurred ad. these are allegedly tech savvy people too
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i have legitimately made ppl pissy for saying i refuse to deal with yt ads and then offering to set up an adblocker for them on their device. some have said theyd rather pay for it, some said they want their hekkin favorite yters to make money off their ad views, and some said the ads are sometimes interesting and they dont want to get rid of all of them
idk i think its fkn annoying when your friend is like 'you gotta see this video' and then youre both standing there in silence watching 30 seconds of dawn dish soap poured on ducklings waiting for the vid to start
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fricking kill them all, what are you waiting for? holy shit
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What's funny is YouTubers will say that even $1 of donations makes more than a lifetime of ads. So people I know are just using adblockers and donating directly.
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ikr, its apathy disguised as support lmao
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I kinda get why tech companies make the decisions they do. The average internet user isn't as savvy as they were 2 decades ago when it was still mostly tech literate/semi-literate people and social media wasn't really a thing yet. But now, you can treat a lot of them like their chattel. They'll barely resist while you keep ruining their user experience and force them to pay for previously free features.
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My immediate thoughts are that this is a soft censorship move. For creators that disparage products and services that are deemed too influential, or are customers of google.
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I don't care because I don't watch
ads anyways
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Sucks since I use Roku a lot, I should get to setting up one of those piholes
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If you can find a download app on your tvs app store you can install smart tube plus through an APK or whatever it's called.
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YouTube is borderline unwatchable on smart TVs with two 15 second unstoppable ads every 5 minutes. Piholes are gonna be pretty much mandatory for watching anywhere other than a browser
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A trick I've learned is to click the info button and click "Do not show me this ad again" and it'll skip all ads. I do that whenever an ad is unskippable. Every couple weeks it'll stop you from doing that as it turns off ad personalization, so next time an ad plays just click the info button and click "Turn on ad personalization" and you can start skipping them again.
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jump through the hoops for me, goy
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It's annoying but Pi's are expensive and out of stock mostly last I checked
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I unironically refuse to buy smart TVs because of this. If I can't mod the software I can't skip ads, if I can't skip ads the fricking thing better come at a hefty discount
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There are android smart TVs on the market, I guess you can root at least some of them.
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I've used to think like you, but it's actually not that bad (compared to the alternatives) and pretty tinker-friendly. I better in every aspect than iOS or whatever proprietary crapware most smart TVs will throw at you. It has power management down better than linux afaik. With termux, you have a shell that can compile arbitrary software portable enough to run on arm, including most D programs, dlangui only the old 32 bit ARM chips thoughbeit.
Prooting into a real linux distro for ARM is also possible. If the phone supports HDMI over usb-c, you can have a portable desktop that is quite ok if you are accustomed to old hardware. Flagship samsung devices from 2020 have more RAM than my main laptop.
If you don't use the open source android AOSP instead of the bloated vendor ROMs, the battery manager will respect you when you request not getting your apps killed
The OS kinda sucks due to the security model. I think if you root your device, you can just use the linux system directly, but I haven't tried that yet. Especially file access is around 10x slower due to some android autism. Keep in mind that some apps like banks will lock you out if they detect root(
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Having one GUI framework for the whole OS is actually a plus to me, even if you have to use kotlin for it. Since D has good templates, I want to try asrd:jni to try to port my personal programs to be used/ activated via an app.
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No, don't reply like this, please do another wall of unhinged rant please.
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Nuke datacenters NOW
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adblock and newpipe made us too boujee
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On Roku TVs, do piholes work for peapeepee, hulu, and other streaming services with ads? Ublock works fine on my computer, but it would be nice to just click on the app on the TV instead of plugging in the HDMI to my computer.
Edit: lol at how the filter messed with the NBC streaming service name I mentioned.
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Can't speak for peapeepee (lol), but Hulu used to make you wait out the ad time with a blank screen and the timer counting down until your show comes back on. It was far better than the obnoxious ads coming on that were far louder than the shows
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I did not know that people used TVs like computers. I thought that everyone ignored those shitty in tv apps and just hooked them up to a computer as a monitor like I do. It makes the most sense, seems to be no benefit the other way
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I haven't seen an ad in years because I pay for YouTube because I'm not
Edit: lol lots of poors seething below. Imagine not being able to afford $12/mo
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I'm not poor, I just really hate big tech globohomo corpos
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It's $14 now actually. I'd rather spend that $14 on higher paypig status.
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Even actual rich people have principles
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By this logic you should also give money to swindlers and beggars if you're not
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They're called taxes
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I don't wanna watch ads
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That's pathetic lol. Why would you give money to google when you can just download ublock for free, which blocks ads on all sites, not just youtube?
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If you want to cast yt from your phone to a tv you'd get ads
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Brave browser on iOS blocks ads on youtube. I just checked and you can also cast from there.
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Ah, I was casting from the yt app
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iPhones and iPads
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Can't do that on apple tv
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Yeah but you are a
for not just using adblock
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Can't do that with my Apple TV
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Just say you poor and go
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so you're paying a monthly subscription to achieve what you could with this
how much do you pay to strap foam to all the sharp corners?
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Apple TV is way better than that and it's not even close
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This, genuinely. It's so cheap
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Yep. Look at all the poors seething in the responses
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That makes no sense. Does YouTube want the experience to be as shit as possible?
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MBAstrags ruin every good thing eventually
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They don't have a single competitor, so they can do whatever they want
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they want to be able to make guarantees to their advertisers probably
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Yes, lol. Even with Rumble and Kick getting big, they know they're still the biggest platform in town and it's not even close. Anyone who wants to be e-famous for their videos is going to want to be on youtube no matter how hard youtube abuses them. Youtube knows this and will wring every penny out of this situation for as long as the platform exists.
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Why do you expect Youtube to just give you a product for free? Either watch the ad or pay the subscription free, buddy.
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Not for $14 lol.
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But I don't wanna
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Yes. The brief period where youtube was good (07-08) was also where it made the least money.
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They don't have real competition and want to become as profitable as possible. That's difficult to do. Ergo, becoming cable TV.
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More like profitable at all lol
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I think there's a real chance for a competitor to emerge now. There's so much content they've banned now it could be viable if it all went onto one site.
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Rumble is gaining ground, being Canadian is going to screw them over though.
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Competitors do exist. Nobody uses them.
Plus, nobody else has the infrastructure for youtube's amount of videos or preexisting content base to draw in users.
You'd need a company like Apply or smth to spend billions + years on this to have a replacement.
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Let me imagine that Gun Jesus could start his own YouTube.
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Obviously yes because they want ppl to pay for YT Red. Which still sounds like a porn service, what a terrible brand name lol
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it only sounds like a porn service if yer brain has been turned to mush by porn services
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Fair point
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welcome to the fricking internet, motherlover!
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they renamed it to youtube premium
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That's a little better. At least they didn't call it "YouTube+" like all the other johnny-come-lately's
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At least they did something right. I'm still not paying for it though
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My wife's cousin pats for it and you can add like 7+ people.
Its nice to not pay
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That's actually a pretty decent deal. I wonder if they're eventually going to clamp down on that like Netflix did with password sharing.
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Netflix finally got me once I watched something on my TV. I'm genuinely curious how they handle people with more than one house or with a family member who travels a lot.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Just vague IP checks. Think the device has to consistently show up on the same wifi as the main account holder.
They used to give you the benefit of the doubt but I feel like they're probably gonna crack down on it.
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They give you a temp code but make it difficult and will disable them or they won't work. My sis was telling me last week. We went a while without getting caught. She was actually traveling in Las Vegas and things were fine until she went home. I think about my friend's parents who legit have 2 homes and travel back and forth. I wonder if they'd get flagged. I only watched one show on my TV and haven't used Netflix since, so it's not a matter of streaming at the same time at two different places, but even so one person could be traveling while another is at home and they could stream at the same time. Just kinda curious how they treat edge cases.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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If they did then it's back to pihole blocking for me
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I've paid for it for a while, it's worth it
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Just use ublock r-slur
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Only question I have regarding this
How is the quality of the music streaming? As good as Apple Music? Or as bad as Prime?
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neighbor just get adblock, it's free
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Could just use an adblocker
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There are lots of app benefits. Background music on phone is pretty handy. I really don't mind the people. Who's content I watch and who maintain the service I use getting paid directly.
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I will use increasingly complex and time consuming methods to watch youtube if it means they don't get my money
I would go so far as to pay someone to host youtubes, like how Plex servers do it, before i paid youtube
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I understand why people like it, but I'm morally opposed to giving youtube money.
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I would pay money to financially harm Youtube
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Agreed.
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I think it neat to pay for services I use regularly instead of being the product or wasting my valuable time circumventing ads.
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Neighbor, you're still the product. You think youtube doesn't harvest data from paypigs?
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iToddlers lmao
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They shouldn't have been buttholes to me when I was making videos as a teen.
I use Brave and don't see any ads with no effort.
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lol what happened when u were a teen
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Agreed. People who cry about YouTube ads but use YouTube all the time are peak poors.
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Ngmi.
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Why
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YT premium removes ads, you can download videos, and you get ad free youtube music. its a pretty good deal for people who use it often
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do people just not understand how to install ublock origin
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On android for the YouTube app?
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Heck, even ReVanced is pretty easy to use these days, even works with NewPipe for easy video downloading.
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Zero ads ever and a far superior mobile app with background play without dealing with janky 3rd party apps. The music recommendation is pretty decent too.
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I'll stick with YouTube ReVanced with it's ability to watch videos at 2.25 speed and old style quality picker.
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YouTube Red doesnt exist anymore, its just YouTube Premium now.
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Still sounds like porn
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lol I thought it was porn when I first heard it, too
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