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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Firefox with ublock / Libretube / Libretube with Sponsorblock / Newpipe / Piped website if not on mobile.

EDIT: I currently use Firefox with uBlock on desktop and Libretube with Sponsorblock (integrated) on android.

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[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Seriously just use invidious. Ad-free + doesn't hard consume your resources

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Somehow, I'm not even able to see ads on my system. I have firefox with ublock, sync on my three systems macOS, linux and windows. Not a single ad in years. I've tried to disable ublock, just to see the mess, and it still wont play ads. Lol. Anyway, I will stop watching youtube before watching ads. I always watch the sponsor thing tho.

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 14 points 1 year ago (21 children)

What prevents them from going in video adds? Technically difficult? Or what?

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They think they can do whatever they want but companies have been shown wrong time and time again.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Hah. Eat shit and die youtube.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Send email to your fav. Youtubers to start a channel on Odyssey. Hope we get a comparable alternative. Odyssey is pretty good. Load time is less and video quality is great. Just need content creators. Does anyone know if Odyssey pays its content creators?

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah you heard them - Firefox.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

How did YouTube become the monopoly it is?

Back then Google was "do no evil", and they had the infrastructure and the finances to support an endeavor like YouTube.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

For some reason, I'd never heard of vimeo until YouTube was already the default video powerhouse.

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[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Streisand effect

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Lmao

Cry more, google

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