Youtube is practically unwatchable without Adblock. Randomly interrupting videos, often after less than 5 minutes, for ads is ridiculous. Especially for monitized videos that already have a paid sponsor in the video!
I would buy youtube premium, but their price is ridiculous. For $19/month, I can get a whole streaming service.
More than the random timing, it’s the length of the ads that is absurd. Why are they allowing 2 hour long ads, or 30 minute ads that are just another show entirely? This is super common on kids YT.
I wouldn’t be so annoyed if it was limited to a 15 second ad at the beginning and end of a video.
If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.
If YouTube could “block adblockers”, certainly they would have done it long ago. They are simply trying to scare people. In the arms race between advertisers and client-side adblockers, the adblockers will always win.
Very true. If YouTube blocks me for having an ad blocker, I’m finding an alternative.
Why fuck up a good thing reddit-er-excuse me, YouTube?
So, they couldn’t, you are right. Until now. Google has developed a scheme that will legitimately work. It’s essentially drm for the internet in general. It’s already baked into chrome and just needs enabling in youtube.
Firefox refuses to support the drm system, but they will just block Firefox from the website eventually.
This is why they are doing these warnings now because they actually have a workable solution.
In that case, I look forward to downloading and torrent seeding my pirated youtube videos. DRM will not stop piracy. I will pirate the fuck out of youtube.
They could have made good money with a reasonable amount of ads but they are greedy and wanted huge and endless profits. They claim to need to make these changes to cover operating costs but they still post higher than expected profits every quarter. I stopped using google search, mail, calendar, and have grapheneOS on my phone. I used to be a google fanboy, but it is so bad now I can’t stand to open their page. Fuck the people that work at google that ruined one of the best ways to access all of human knowledge so they can afford another tesla.
So sure, for the big youtubers that’s probably workable. Probably not for the few thousand vidw youtubers you like tho
Hopefully this pushes mass adoption of Firefox and abandonment of Chrome.
It already happened and didn’t. And when they enforce it, it will be by blocking Firefox so I don’t see people moving then either, because you’re going from drmed forced ads Internet to no access Internet
Google is a huge backer of Firefox financially. Some say it’s to avoid getting sued for monopolistic practices, not just for being the default search engine. I’d be extremely surprised to hear they blocked the browser they fund.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox
They mostly want Mozilla to implement the same internet drm that Chrome has now. They aren’t going to allow non drmed browsers, what would the point of making all the drm be?
Betteridge’s law of headlines has rarely been more applicable than in this case: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
People using adblockers should have no problem leaving youtube.
No alt. front ends and use something like rumble or similar?
