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  • YouTube sure hates ad blockers.

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 00:47:26 2023
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 14 20:40:30 2023
    I wouldn't mind ads so much but

    - ads are so manipulative
    - two ads suck
    - unskippable ads forcing you to watch two
    - 15s unskippable ads
    - they hid the yellow marks that showed how many ads there are
    - they add ads to unmonitized videos, stealing 100% of the profits and
    screwing over small creators more
    - trying to sneak in ad videos in recommendations to disguise them
    - they intentionally made it way harder to select "stop seeing this ad"
    - skipping past a ad trigger makes it activate, making skimming videos infuriating
    - sometimes, when rewinding past an ad spot you just activated, it will
    hit you with more ads which is especially annoying for times where
    you're trying to get back into the flow of a video
    - the popup box ads are very hard to close sometimes
    - the download button becomes a "stop ads" button on mobile which is
    just an ad for YouTube red, basically taunting you
    - there is a PERMANENT ad banner (at least on mobile) that is always
    above the video title and is a one click to the company website
    - on iPhone, there's the extra app store popup for mobile games, which
    is very easy to accidentally hit and oops you're in the app store
    - some of them are LOUD and throw you off
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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 10:04:42 2023
    Am 15.10.2023 um 00:47:26 Uhr schrieb Ant:

    Subject: YouTube sure hates ad blockers.

    Use invidious.
    yewtu.be or invidious.nerdvpn.de

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sun Oct 15 21:46:12 2023
    Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
    Am 15.10.2023 um 00:47:26 Uhr schrieb Ant:

    Subject: YouTube sure hates ad blockers.

    Use invidious.
    yewtu.be or invidious.nerdvpn.de

    Do they let me use my YouTube accounts? If so, then is it safe?
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Mon Oct 30 14:10:50 2023
    In message <ugffue$4355$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 14 Oct 2023 20:40:30, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> writes
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    - they intentionally made it way harder to select "stop seeing this ad"
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    I didn't know about that feature at all: can you explain where it is?
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Mon Oct 30 09:52:06 2023
    On 10/30/23 09:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    In message <ugffue$4355$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 14 Oct 2023 20:40:30, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> writes
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    - they intentionally made it way harder to select "stop seeing this ad"
    []
    I didn't know about that feature at all: can you explain where it is?

    It's a mobile feature, there's an i button next to the ad timer that
    used to just pop up a thing that let you select if an ad was irrelevant, inappropriate, or repetitive. It also instantly skipped the ad. Now, it
    pops up an external "ad center" that takes upwards of 10 seconds to
    actually stop seeing the ad, making it not really worth it.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Mon Oct 30 18:37:41 2023
    In message <uhofum$g5hc$1@dont-email.me> at Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:52:06, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> writes
    On 10/30/23 09:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    In message <ugffue$4355$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 14 Oct 2023
    20:40:30, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> writes
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    - they intentionally made it way harder to select "stop seeing this ad"
    []
    I didn't know about that feature at all: can you explain where it is?

    It's a mobile feature, there's an i button next to the ad timer that

    Ah. I'm watching on PC, so that explains why I didn't know about it.

    used to just pop up a thing that let you select if an ad was
    irrelevant, inappropriate, or repetitive. It also instantly skipped the
    ad. Now, it pops up an external "ad center" that takes upwards of 10
    seconds to actually stop seeing the ad, making it not really worth it.

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