Technology

Don't care, still better than the ads.

I'll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it'll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.

I was paying for a whole family (premium). But I will not pay and send money to a fascist state. We've cancelled all our us based services.

Having to wait with a black screen before the video starts is completely acceptable to me.
Having to watch Ads is not.

Seems like its already happening.

Nebula's getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

Oh no! You are going to make your platform work like ass? And you expect us to do mental gymnastics in such a way that instead of blaming you (you know the one that has control over the platform) we blame uBlock? The same uBlock that has made using your platform bearable for many years, to the point that I will sit in silence with the screen off instead of watch with ads?

I think even if you make us wait a min before playing the video most would take that over an ad.

Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.

meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.

They will never be happy with how much money they squeeze out of it. When people are watching videos that are 99% ads and the content is limited to two alternating pixels they will still find a way to further optimize their profit-taking. Nothing is ever good enough for the hyper-capitalist; product managers are a disease.

Thanks uBO team I don't even know yt is trying anything

Only thing I'm getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I'il take that over an ad that long any day.

"Might"... it's introducing an artificial delay when loading videos.

Stop feeding me dog shit AI videos about a condom delivery boy who has to deliver some to a hotel only to find his girlfriend cheating on him and maybe I’ll stop blocking ads you fuck sticks

I pay for YouTube premium so that I can leave the app and listen to videos. I still get ads even though I’m paying. I don’t think there’s a single surefire way to avoid them.

Please support peertube sites - here's a list of instances to find something matching your interests: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

That explains the "are you experiencing interruptions" message I keep getting these days, though I kinda expected this.

Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.

If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.

That’s great! I spend too much time on yt, it’ll break me of my addiction and I’ll do something else besides passive consumption.

If it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download the video or whole playlist and watch it later. Do I care that it's putting additional strain on YouTube's servers? Indeed, I'm devastated and overtaken with guilt 😂 These are tears of regret, I swear 😂

If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.

they also slow down videos if I use Firefox.

YouTube can eat my ass.

YouTube might just go fuck itself!

USE PORNHUB, Start uploading your content there.

They've been doing this for close to 20 years. Ever since shortly after google bought them.

"Might"? They're already doing it.

YouTube in Firefox with Ublock Origin is getting throttled down to 1500kbps. I can't watch anything above 720p on my desktop anymore (with gigabit internet).

YouTube ReVanced on mobile and SmartTube Next on the TV still thankfully work without issues.

And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em