YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers, frustrating users

[toooooot]

Im with yah folks but as much YouTube as I watch I’m willing to pay, that $15/month crap was bs. Thankfully YouTube premium lite is now a thing for 8 bucks, never used the music, downloads or other non just videos anyways.

Pretty much all the other online streaming content providers is expensive hot garbage. 8 bucks a month I can’t argue with, can’t even get a Chipotle burrito for that.

the thing is, a lot of people have spotify, they do not want to pay for something they already have.
3-5 no ads is ideal for millions of people. And I know, tens of millions simply do not care enough to look for new way to black improved ads. Hey frustrated user, 5 bucks and you do not have to see a single ad again.
8 is almost a price of music service subscription, subscription that people already have.
No ads service is what Youtube really needs.

 

[Tyr Antilles]

On my phone the youtube ads cannot be stoped so I stoped watching youtube. When ads cannot be stoped it will always be like that. I am better off reading a book.

 

[Bubbajim]

On my phone the youtube ads cannot be stoped so I stoped watching youtube. When ads cannot be stoped it will always be like that. I am better off reading a book.

Download the app 'Cleantube' - it's basically a replicate of the YouTube app but cuts out ads. Plus you can lock your phone while playback continues. It's missing one or two minor features of the main app, but for the benefits it's well worth it.

 

[DerekC85]

And when view counts drop, they'll realize the mistake.

 

[mickyrebok]

Ads will be the downfall of all streaming services. You can't intentionally make your product worse and then expect people to pay to return it to what it already was. Greed kills.

 

[Angga B]

Ashyully, I may just chill and suck their ads, but really, 3 x 40secs long ads in a 10 minutes video? Sometime it even a very long ads if it sensed the my phone leave my hand.

The way they do ads is as if they aren't the master of user behavior. Infact they are being deliberately, malicely, intended to annoy so people give up and pay their subscription.

 

[jeremyc9]

On my phone the youtube ads cannot be stoped so I stoped watching youtube. When ads cannot be stoped it will always be like that. I am better off reading a book.

I use the Brave browser to watch YouTube when on my phone. No ad block needed, and everything works as it normally should.

 

[jeremyc9]

I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in many years, and it will stay that way. Twitch got to the point that I had to find a way to block their ads as well. It wasn't as easy, but mission accomplished.

 

[Angelmoon]

I'll stop using an adblock when
1. They actually screen ads to avoid ones with flashing lights. Ads are not epilepsy friendly and I've reported so many they won't do anything about
2. Have no way to click to go to anything so no one can use it to redirect us to malware. Let us look it up ourselves not have it so we can easily accidentally be redirected
3. Keep it more reasonable. I have seen a 5 minute video with ads every 30 seconds and the ads ran for 2-3 minutes. This is why I stopped bc the site felt more ads than content
4. Let us choose what kinds of ads we see. I'm tired of the horror ads that usually trigger epilepsy and crypto scams. I'm tired of sexual ads when I'm asexual.

As long as ads are an accessibility issue and computer safety issue I am keeping my adblocker.

I should not have to pay to live. Accessibility should just be a thing.

 

[maxxcool7421]

Still 100% FREE to download the video and watch it offline, or as a mp4/mkv using a stream ripper... sooooo FU still google

 

[TrueFalcon]

I'm using Firefox Nightly 138.0a1 with uBlock and DuckDuckGo Privacy essentials. I've also gone into Firefox settings/privacy/advanced and cranked everything up to maximum. It says 'these settings may break some sites'. That's only happened on one aviation site even after I turned off uBlock and the Duck. I just don't go to that site.
One trick I discovered is to always right-click and open every vid in a new window. It loads paused. Then I click full screen and it plays normally. Very occasionally an ad will load unseen and immediately say 'skip ad'. Clicking full screen works as if the ad wire invisible.

 

[spam joe]

My girlfriend and I watched a 3-hour concert on YouTube the other night, at first there was a short ad for maybe every 4 songs, but the further we watched I guess the algorithm recognized we weren't going to stop watching and started doing a very long ad every single song, even cutting in the middle of songs. This completely ruined our experience and if YouTube thinks I'm ever giving them a cent, they're wrong. I deleted my YouTube account and uninstalled the app... done with them. They've done nothing but create ill will and I think they're just being very greedy.

 

[Brickwizard]

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but for the last year I have been using https://freetubeapp.io/

 

[Jon Heil]

They are desperate like the Only Fans fools

 

[dielectric]

Download the app 'Cleantube' - it's basically a replicate of the YouTube app but cuts out ads. Plus you can lock your phone while playback continues. It's missing one or two minor features of the main app, but for the benefits it's well worth it.

Newpipe is similar

 

[m4a4]

One trick I discovered is to always right-click and open every vid in a new window. It loads paused. Then I click full screen and it plays normally.

I have my FF setup so ALL new tabs prevent media from playing until I click in the window. I'm pretty sure it's a FF config option, and can recommend (especially if you open a bunch of Youtube tabs to queue up).

 

[TrueFalcon]

I have my FF setup so ALL new tabs prevent media from playing until I click in the window. I'm pretty sure it's a FF config option, and can recommend (especially if you open a bunch of Youtube tabs to queue up).

When I Ctrl-click to open vids in new tabs queued up, they always open paused. It would be a real nuisance to have 32 tabs all playing at once. I have 48 windows open with one of them containing 121 bluegrass vids. When the window opens, none play until I click it. I just clicked this one; it's one of my favorites. I play mandolin too.

 

[DanteSmith]

I don't have an ad-blocker, yet that damn thing still pops up on the screen asking me to turn it off.

 

[Athlonite69]

I don't have an ad-blocker, yet that damn thing still pops up on the screen asking me to turn it off.

which browser are you using
Some browsers come with one built in so you don't need to install an adblocking extension.

 

[yazooo]

Must be one of the few YT Premium users, considering the included music streaming I find it a fair price for what you get.

 

[Dustyn]

Facinating!
YouTube has ads?
Not with Adguard Desktop for Windows.

 

[disinfect8280]

Still 100% FREE to download the video and watch it offline, or as a mp4/mkv using a stream ripper... sooooo FU still google

It's a good way to get around content restricted videos without a google account as well. I deleted my account and will never create another one, whether it is a throwaway created through VPN or not.

 

[disinfect8280]

"Google says ad revenue is key to keeping YouTube afloat"

C'mon boys we can do it! We're almost there! Get everyone you know to use Brave Browser or some other one with uBo. If you have an Android phone, you can use Grayjay to watch videos without ads and still locally subsribe and create your own custom feeds, watch later lists, etc.

 

[Underdog]

I hate ads. In all my 70+ years I have never purchased something as a result of seeing an ad on TV or on the internet. Ads are a total waste of my time. At the very least I react by consciously avoiding buying that particular product.
I only rarely use Youtube, usually to find a solution to a repair problem. There is an awful lot of really poor vids that waste several minutes of the clip showing me how to open a box to remove its contents. And all too often the fat presenter in the baseball cap has to fiddle with the camera to keep it trained on the action, etc. When its good, its very good, and incredibly useful but I have to ask......................
How do you people manage to watch video content on a smartphone? Phone in one hand and magnifying glass in the other? I just don't get it.

 

[MaestroIT]

What? Keeping Youtube afloat?
Somebody might think YouTube/Google/Alphabet is about to declare bankruptcy, when they are earning like bazillion bucks/day!!!