uBlock origin and sponsor block work great on YouTube. Auto skips in video ads by the creator
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I disagree about using memes that promote a maga chud.
Hate it all you want as long as you keep using it. That's the goal.
I think this meme is talking about ad inserts and not YT...
Why would ads interrupt your video? I would just watch it locally where it was edited and finished.
You guys are seeing ads?
It's wild that shit like this gets so many upvotes, I would have assumed the average lemmy user would be a bit more technologically inclined.
I either dont see ads or dont see the video. I wasted too much time of my life either watching or hearing ads.
If i ever remember a jingle or some bs, i imediately boycott the brand. Die in hell coca cola.
Same, honestly its best to treat any adverts that cross your field of vision as a personal attack and act accordingly.
Hell yes brother/sister.
I sometimes consider taking an ad out of video platform just to break up the monotony of the ads playing over and over again.
Doesn't matter, the worm is in your brain, and you know or are reminded the product exists. That's all they're aiming for.
Also, a lot of people think they're immune to advertising. No one is. The only protection is never seeing them.
On the very rare occasion I choose to watch some media with an ad I can't skip, I mute the volume and put my hand over my eyes, so I can just see a corner of the screen and know when it's over.
Correct, you won't remember the time you got interrupted by an ad. You will however remember the name brand compared to no brand when you see them, and are already conditioned to associate brand with quality and worth.
Or even if you do remember the brand and decide you'll never buy it, the product category is in your brain. Don't buy Milwaulke and instead save money on a Ryobi? Same company.
But with Hello Fresh you get meals delivered direct to your door!
But if everyone did, in fact, agree on this, ads would be detrimental to every company's survival and they'd stop making them. I guess even though people hate ads interrupting their media consumption, they still work.
The average consumer doesn't know that AdBlocker exist.
I wonder what "average" means under the new federally controlled "bell curves".
I have never once bought something from a youtube ad but I have decided not to buy something because I saw it in a youtube ad.
You know what really grinds my gears?
Airplanes with those banners that they tow...at the fucking beach.
Im out here in the sun trying to relax and enjoy the day when this loud ass fucking single engine prop plane has to fly low and slow right across the beach to tell me about some personal injury lawyer or some used car dealership
Absolutely guarantees I will not patronize their business.
I am disgusted its even allowed, it's a complete waste of everything involved.
Someone doesn't have skip sponsor Firefox plugin
I generally go anti-brand. Not Tide but something soap like not connected to the Tide company. Apply this logic to all "brands". Brands have become too big, too meaningless and too expensive for really no added value except a "comfortably superior feeling".
This is precisely why I will never ever, everfuckingever get/buy/use Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Their fucking ads are everywhere, and they're always "oh we're so quriky, lulzzor emu so random" millenial fucking cringe humor.
Had to put up with ads this past week since the over decade old AIO I was using in my PC apparently had most of the liquid evaporate out (when I fully removed it I sloshed it around and it sounded like there was maybe a tablespoon of liquid in it 😳) so I had kept it off until I got a new cooler yesterday. The one that pissed me off the most was the political ad claiming 1776AB will hurt small businesses. I look up the bill, and one of the first fucking lines of it says that small businesses under a certain number of employees are EXEMPT FROM THE CHANGES. Always look who's paying for the ads: A bunch of fucking big corporate bitches trying to swindle you.
This story does not compute over here. Why do you have to put up with ADS when your cooler breaks?
Watching shit on TV instead of through a browser with an adblocker.
CEO: Got it. More ads in products.
CEOs use ads because ads work. You might hate them, but they work.
But you HAVE heard of me
If I see an ad I won't buy it
...any tricks to block youtube ads on a work computer that absolutely can't have anything installed on it?
Youtube and music.youtube are a good source of music at work, so far the best I got it to to skip forward then back until ads stop. Works, but requires active input.
Download the music at home with yt-dlp, put it on USB and bring the USB to work.
It's easiest to bring your own player or RaspberryPi and listen locally.
But if you absolutely insist on streaming to your work PC you can always run a VM in your browser: https://dev.to/dchif/run-a-virtual-machine-in-your-browser-2kjk
Can't connect any private devices.
VM... maybe? I'm not familiar with this at all - if there's any potential for data compromise, it'll be a no-go. The comps we're using need to be HIPAA compliant, and I'm guessing this is not, but if there's potential here, it's worth exploring.
I'll do some homework on how these work, and if it looks good to my monkey brain, I'll bounce it off IT (who works very closely with legal - they DO NOT fuck around with HIPAA). If I get the official green light from them, this might be the winner.
I don't know anything about HIPAA so don't take anything I say as advice. But I very much doubt your IT department would be ok with you running a VM, and if they were, it would be far better to use real VM Software, rather than using your browser. Using your browser would be more of a "they're not going to find out" thing.
Which brings us back to my more serious suggestion of bringing your own device. I'm fairly certain your IT department would be more ok with you bringing an audio player (that you're not connecting to the internal network) than using the "you can run anything a browser" loophole.
But if, as you mentioned, shit gets stolen that isn't really an option either. Maybe use Headphones / Earphones with your phone and keep them on your person at all times?
Yeah they don't give a damn if we bring our own devices, so long as we don't plug it into the computers. I'd guess you're right about IT's response to the VM, but I'd kind of intrigued at the same time, so I might dig a bit and ask them anyway. Worse case, they say no - no biggie.
This is definitely not a fly under the radar kind of situation though - getting caught in a HIPAA violation is a guaranteed loss of job and license, probably a gigantic fine, and... possibly prison time? High stakes for an ad blocker lol. Anything techy outside of our normal work responsibilities (like a VM) would need to start with getting approval in writing.
...more realistically, I think my best option is going to be a small bluetooth speaker and one of those thin cable locks to secure it to my work station. I don't want any wearables since I'd need to take those into patient rooms, which would look unprofessional at best; and become biohazardous at worst. I can have some soft tunes on while I chart, but otherwise forget it's there when I'm doing more hands-on care.
A RaspberryPi is your solution and not some modern iPod alternative? Really?
In a work environment that won’t allow installation of browser extensions you think a device as connected as a RaspberryPi won’t raise eyebrows.
I swear the shit people say on here makes me believe half of you have never had a real job.
Eh, I never did specify beyond installation, so no biggie. You're correct though, we're not allowed to plug any personal devices to hospital computers.
The solution I usually see is people will bring those portable Bluetooth speakers and pair them with their phone... I was one of those people until my speaker was stolen Q_Q
...so, I'm a little hesitant to dive into that again. Maybe I just need a little cable combo lock or something. I'm sure I could find something reasonably secure to run it through on our work stations. Or just try my luck again... I've only ever seen the one disappear from our work area, it just happened to be mine, so I'm a bit gun shy now.
I listed the Pi as an example because it's what I have been using for the past 10 years. Nobody ever complained about the little black box on my desk.
But none of that matters because the Pi was meant as an example, I don't get why you're so worked up about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry, no idea how to fix that, short of spending money. But if you ever end up considering doing that, I'd like to suggest buying music rather than paying for a subscription like YouTube premium or Spotify etc.
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you're network is, but it'd be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I've got 3 raspberry pi's I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they're searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that's an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It's annoying they're so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn't say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
Oh, definitely no sneaking. Or connection of personal devices of any kind. The comps in question need to be HIPAA compliant, so I'm limited to the tools that are built into Windows 11, and Edge/Chrome.
Or, using a setup that's totally separate from it, like a Bluetooth speaker paired with a phone. ...but my last speaker wandered away from my workstation, so I'd prefer to just use the hardware that's already there.