Technology

Been an avid Youtube viewer since the very beginning. Now, I'm paying for the site and using a bunch of extensions just to get a worse experience than I was getting on youtube 5 - 10 years ago. After seeing all of my favorite content become unprofitable and die off, I am so ready to jump ship. I think in the immediate future, Patreon and Nebula are providing the alternative that will get creators paid reliably.

Fuck em. I'll just stop watching if it comes down to it. Hell, even without an alternative.

Maybe one day all of the mega corporations on the internet will finally drive me from the internet itself and I'll finally do something useful with my time.

Until that day...

cool. don't need YouTube and the constant "OMG you won't believe what happens next" crap littered in the feed

I like New pipe. Hopefully doesn't affect it.

Nah, it's going to be bypassed soon.

I miss the good old days on YouTube.

Can't wait, i should quit YouTube anyways

Ublock Origin users: purge cache and update. A fix has been deployed.

They were able to build a business and be profitable for over a decade but now all of the sudden ad block is destroying YouTube? 🤔

We need an AdBlock for adblockers now. Hopefully this will get bypassed.

I remember when there were no ads. Ugh.

The ads make Youtube unwatchable so if necessary I'll figure out how to sideload Piped onto the house TV, or, failing that, just plug my laptop in and watch shit through Piped.

There used to be a trick where you can skip ads in youtube app by pretending to report it. i’ve used that to skip the 2x30s unskippable ads over the years, but that was patched recently.

So instead of occasionally watching ads while scrolling through comments, I’ve now opt to watch youtube in browser with UblockOrigin. And good luck to google for playing catch-22 with adblockers.

Shame that I used to have youtube in my adblock whitelist

Not just that. I have always turned of history and analytics since 2020. I use you tube to check news about happening events in my region(politics and stuff), so I can open the video on invidious or newpipe. But yesterday, as I opened you tube, it threw me this message... So, now I feel better, but seems, they have never stopped tracking what I search and watch, even when I opted to keep it off. Also maybe it is due to new feature where we can see the full video in hover mode, without clicking it to watch. But whatever, I wanted to let lemmy people to know that something like this happened yesterday to me.

They can absolutely go fuck themselves. I've already weened myself off of nearly every social media, stopped paying for YT premium because they keep doing bullshit I don't like. I'm so ready for an alternative.

Lol, I've seen that but still just use the adblocker and it plays as normal.

I think it's meant to scare non tech savvy people. I don't see how they can stop us using adblockers....

I guess, like everything youtube will be replaced with other things

Haha! Forced ads = no watchie-watchie. I have played this game with YouTube before, and the adblockers always win.