And this is why we continue to use ad blockers. The entire internet is worse without them.
Something like less than 5% of users use adblockers - and yet that’s still too many for youtube. They just can’t have a 95% revenue stream, they have to ruin what little tech credibility they had left and ruin it for that tiny 5%. I hope this only encourages more robust ad blockers.
Right! Google acting like they are losing billions a month due to adblockers when in reality it’s like .2% of their total profits and they STILL foaming at the mouth.
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Exactly. Google is showing they are not innovators anymore. A good company would invent new that they would be focusing on. They’re putting so much attention here that it tells me they have nothing better to work on.
They’re going the Microsoft route. Google has been behind on all the latest tech innovations for a while. They were last to build a cloud, late building LLMs, what have they actually innovated in the last few years?
Ad blocker blockers 😑
Pioneeers in the field 🙃
My wife turned off her adblocker so she could watch some videos.
Within 20 minutes I heard tobacco ads, gambling ads, alcohol ads, and some ads that sounded like outright scams.
It’s a moral imperative to use an adblocker at this point.
Are tobacco ads legal where you live? Not sure I’ve ever even seen one in my life.
They don’t have to be legal. In Finland we are getting YouTube ads for a sports betting website. That’s illegal. (Only the nationally regulated gambling monopoly can do that, and even they have massive restrictions on what kind of advertising they can run.)
In the off chance that you can report the ad to YouTube (can’t do that on TV or Android), YouTube has nuked the ad. Doesn’t matter. The ad has been submitted via bazillion different advertiser accounts.
A semi global campagn on youtube was literally the “hot singles in your area” ad. Across multiple profiles and days. one was literally pedophile bait.
Gee youtube, Thanks for the dead mouse present. /s
lol, hilarious, reader mode it is then
Reader mode is a necessity at this point. I don’t even try to read articles without it anymore.
I think YouTube third party clients should get federation and there own content
The skip button was already too small, so of course they had to make it even smaller. YouTube’s usability on Android is already terrible enough, which is pretty spectacular considering YouTube and Android are made by the same company. The seek bar barely works. The video end screen hides the de-maximise button. Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at. Just to scratch the surface!
Nobody at Google has heard of the concept that controls at the edge of the screen are harder to aim accurately at.
Interestingly, that’s the exact opposite of how it works on non-touch interfaces. The edges are prime control areas for pointer-driven interfaces.
Slight challenge to optimise a UX for both.
Their while goal is to make the experience so terrible that you pay for YouTube Premium.
YouTube ReVanced, smarttube next, and I think peer tube though I haven’t used that one, all working wonderfully on android tablets, phones, and chromecast with google TV. Also, I am having 0 issue using Firefox and ublock/sponsor block on the computer.
I’m all about malicious compliance.
I let the ads run, after I’ve switched countries with my VPN. Best of luck trying to sell me something in Estonian, Finnish, Portuguese, Thai, etc.
Youtube has lost me as a user. I’m totally fed up with being force fed garbage ads all the time when I’m just trying to click on something informative. Forget it. I can get my info elsewhere and i do not need Youtube at all. One of the biggest joys of death is going to be never ever having to see another god damned “Liberty Mutual” or “Verizon” ad again in all eternity. That’s one thing I’m truly looking forward to!!!
Go out and make your own video storage and streaming service then.
With blackjack and hookers
Hmmm that sounds great to me! When can I get the hookers? I’m all for it!
On a related note, anybody else having problems with uBlock on Firefox today?
Ublock is different than ublock origin. They are not the same thing.
