My senior neighbor watches YouTube a ton and uses it to listen to music on his laptop. His old laptop recently died and I helped him order a new one and put FireFox with the whole works of adguard, ublock origin, sponsorblock, etc. on it for him and its changed his life! He loves not seeing these dumb ads now!
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I wonder if this will affect Revanced users.
If the adds were bareable it would be different, but no.
On the plus side this should really help with my youtube addiction
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Yeah screw that, I'll just not use YouTube.
It wouldn't be as bad if their website wasn't such a spammy f*ing mess with ads. Let's go back to the days when advertisements were just banner ads and the odd video sponsor segment.
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I'm sorry for youtube-addicted. On my part, I use it, maybe, twice per year, so I couldn't care less.
Me using youtube daily, to learn things (I enjoy engineering and educational content) I also use it to sleep with the help of ASMR
Ads during ASMR is going to ruin it, good thing ReVanced exists
I guess ASMR (whatever it is) can be found elsewhere as well or dowloaded for offline use?
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Is the account banned or the IP? FYI, I don't really login to use YouTube. I mostly use RSS to subscribe to a channel.
or maybe they'll use browser fingerprinting and other hints to try and suss out who the 'bad' users are
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I think it's going to be a war between google and the developers of ad blockers (kind of like twitch and how they are fighting ad blockers too). And isn't chrome removing ad blockers in their extension manifest v3?
I guess if the worst happens, google could require everyone to have an account with a valid phone number to view videos and ban anyone using an ad blocker. But then there will be plugins made to mute ads automatically. There will always be a way around it.
I think manifest v3 was put on an indefinite hold. But I could be wrong about that.
If you just watch videos and don't comment or upload, what's the point of a YouTube account?
Just subscribe to channels using RSS
what's RSS? and I use an account because subscription