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

submitted 2 years ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On windows, Firefox + uBlock Origin. On Mac and iOS, Safari + Adguard.

[–] cuckmaster69@lemmy.billiam.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

why not firefox + ublock on mac? safari's so obnoxious to use

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 14 points 2 years ago (21 children)

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

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[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Hah. Eat shit and die youtube.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah you heard them - Firefox.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Lmao

Cry more, google

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years 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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[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Streisand effect

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