YouTube's War on Ad Blockers
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Lambourne
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One of my PCs got hit with the latest wave of anti-adblock, although it only really happens in private windows (in Edge with ublock installed). Get a bunch of pre-roll ads that don't actually play but do delay watching what I actually want to watch. It's also the only one with Windows 10 Home on it, all my other boxes (with Win10 LTSC or Windows 7) are much less affected.
It's just a HTPC that I do nothing with except watch streaming content so nothing stopping me from installing a different OS if it keeps it up.
It's just a HTPC that I do nothing with except watch streaming content so nothing stopping me from installing a different OS if it keeps it up.
moonarchia
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Brave Browser still ad free. Just never use the browser for anything else, and never log in to your account from it,
TBT-TheBigToe
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I don't understand how a service that streams content to me can decide what software I run on my end that only effects my end. How the fuck is no one suing them over this? We should sue youtube over this, I'll chip in a couple hundred canadian, 43cents us, dollars for the cause!
Can we start a gopfundme to sue youtube? Can youtube even be sued over this? Seems like you can try an sue anyone over just about anything these days.
Terms of Service
www.youtube.com
I can't find anything about not running adblockers in the terms of service but I'm a stoner retard so whatever.
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Void
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I'm not a lawyer, but I'd imagine it falls under the "if you don't like their terms, don't use their product" thought. Unless they become some sort of government defined "town square" or "essential utility" I don't think it matters what they allow or disallow. I get that things can be murky in terms of what businesses can dictate (restaurants, for example), but unless we somehow prove they are racist or transphobic or some bullshit, no one is going to make YT change what they demand.
And honestly, that's how it should be. Let the free market dictate how much bullshit we'll put up with. Sure it seems like YouTube is the behemoth none of us can do without, but eventually if we all get fed up other platforms WILL rise to fill that need. Now, how those new platforms will pay for themselves is not clear, but if we're fine with supporting a new platform with a little fee, YT would probably ask why you won't just pay for YT premium if you don't want ads.
And honestly, that's how it should be. Let the free market dictate how much bullshit we'll put up with. Sure it seems like YouTube is the behemoth none of us can do without, but eventually if we all get fed up other platforms WILL rise to fill that need. Now, how those new platforms will pay for themselves is not clear, but if we're fine with supporting a new platform with a little fee, YT would probably ask why you won't just pay for YT premium if you don't want ads.
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darkmiasma
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TBT-TheBigToe
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Isn’t it depressing how streaming service is going down the exact same route that cable went down?
Someone has got to throw a speedbump of off-ramp on this road soon, or invent a new technology for viewing media, because this sucks.
Someone has got to throw a speedbump of off-ramp on this road soon, or invent a new technology for viewing media, because this sucks.
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Burns
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A "hack" to get around ads on any video, with any browser, running any extensions by using Bing:
Copy the video address into the Bing search window, then scroll down to the fist video link:
That should open a second Bing window that will start playing the video directly w/o ads:
Copy the video address into the Bing search window, then scroll down to the fist video link:
That should open a second Bing window that will start playing the video directly w/o ads:
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Palum
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Control
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I've noticed that it doesn't seem to affect embeds, which is probably what's happening here. We could all just liven up the video thread with whatever we want to watch lol.
Burns
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I tested the Bing trick on an unmodified Chrome browser for a few minutes, but on my normal browser (Vivaldi) I've had UBock Origins running for so long that I'm not sure I know what embeds are, in this context. The only thing I see are various channels doing the "This Video is supported by VPN_Tank_warfair_game and here is a 1min spiel of me reading the text they sent me."
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I just mean videos embedded in a webpage. I assume Bing is embedding the video similarly to how you would post one on a forum, and I've never had Youtube complain about that. It makes sense though, since people will stop embedding them if they break for everyone. Someone could probably make a script that generates a page with the embed code any time you click a youtube link.
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