Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

von Hapasbourg said:
sort of a cracked/spoofed version of Youtube premium with higher quality videos and no ads. You need to log in with a gmail account for it though
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I can give my +1 for revanced. You need to update it every once in a while but it's a very nice application.
 
UERISIMILITUDO said:
There are laws about this kind of thing. Remember Elsagate? That shit didn't happen decades ago, because the company that broadcast it would've been held responsible.

The only real innovation of Google and its ilk is skirting government regulations.
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Um, sir, do you not remember the multibillion-dollar fine that Google got for violating COPA or any of the countless legal challenges Google has faced, including the threat of a breakup?
 
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It's almost certainly down to people using ad-blockers that are not working properly on YouTube, so they're just blocking the skip button but not the ad itself. As YouTube regularly tinker with their code to try and circumvent ad-blocking, this can definitely happen.

If you look at one of the photos provided by a Reddit user that's in the Android Authority article, for example, you can see this in the bottom-left corner: -

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YouTube does not allow unskippable ads longer than 15 seconds on mobile and 60 seconds on PC or TVs. There's no way they would allow ads that are an hour or more in length that are unskippable, cos nobody is sitting through one of those to watch a 10 minute video.

I would suggest using Firefox and uBlock Origin if you're on PC, as you will very rarely have problems with that when properly configured, and the team behind uBO typically respond very quickly when YouTube change their code.
 
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FATTESTCUNT 2.0 said:
It's almost certainly down to people using ad-blockers that are not working properly on YouTube, so they're just blocking the skip button but not the ad itself. As YouTube regularly tinker with their code to try and circumvent ad-blocking, this can definitely happen.

If you look at one of the photos provided by a Reddit user that's in the Android Authority article, for example, you can see this in the bottom-left corner: -

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YouTube does not allow unskippable ads longer than 15 seconds on mobile and 60 seconds on PC or TVs. There's no way they would allow ads that are an hour or more in length that are unskippable, cos nobody is sitting through one of those to watch a 10 minute video.
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Exactly, this is a rage bait headline to get clicks. Google makes a ton of dumb decisions, but this isn't one of them. The only way I could see this working is if someone slept with their TV on, but why would they place 1-hour unskippable ads on PC, where it is sure not to work? This is most likely a glitch, not a serious feature.
 
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chiropractic gynecologist said:
i think the biggest pain in the ass about these hour long "ads" is that some of them aren't even advertisements. they're straight up video essays and the like taking up the ad space. why youtube allows for such a thing to occur who the fuck knows. greed is a terrible thing
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It's not greed it's just stupidity. If they were greedy they'd keep more revenue for themselves, never let people join the partner program (I'm sure it's no worth that much these days), and take half of all chats. What they are doing is running scared. This will make people try other platforms and get angry at Youtube. They are turning Youtube into QVC.

All the other platforms pretty much suck, but this will get more people using them when they're shocked it's been an hour since they sat on the toilet to watch a funny video and this insane move by Youtube has wasted their time.
 
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I should watch a 60 minute ad so a retard who reacts to other people's content but gets 100x the views can afford a mcmansion?
 
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The thing that pisses me off is how Google is basically restricting everything behind the age-verification block, making it difficult to do research on lolcows like Nick Bate or Daniel Larson, or even watch medical and surgical videos. What is taking so long for Invidious and NewPipe to get around it? What other frontends have circumvented this and how?
 
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Hepativore said:
The thing that pisses me off is how Google is basically restricting everything behind the age-verification block, making it difficult to do research on lolcows like Nick Bate or Daniel Larson, or even watch medical and surgical videos. What is taking so long for Invidious and NewPipe to get around it? What other frontends have circumvented this and how?
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There is no workaround any more. They have closed the exploit that was being used by all of the frontends. You now need to provide cookies/authorization from an account that is age-verified to receive the video from the server. That is it, there is no unfucking this pig.
 
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inatrixfart said:
also, is there a way to adblock Spotify?
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Get a Spotify lifetime membership. You can find those on most websites where you buy video game cheats. Picked it up when buying a menu to protect against other hackers in GTA.
Sergeant Major Buzzkill said:
Anything to ”support” creators who stupidly decide to have their eggs in one basket and let YT be their PRIMARY source of income.
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Most Youtubers can't make it on other platforms aside from streaming. Every youtuber movie flops. The difference between youtube and other sources of media is that they at least have some standards. Emphasis on SOME.
If a youtuber tried to go on the radio they'd be fired immediately. As a matter of fact I've actually been listening to the radio more than youtube lately because a conservative news talk show is more entertaining than a 6 hour video essay on why icarly speedrunning is connected to gay sex. Not to mention my car's radio doesnt drain my car's battery the same way youtube drains my $900 phone's battery.
Agent Abe Caprine said:
Hour long ads are actually not a new feature. It used to be possible to have entire movies as ads. That happened with the Lego Movie one time.
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Shitty youtube ads have been a thing since ads in general. Here's one from 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNoQHjPulXg
 
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The next step will be to stream the video and the ad in the same stream, so you can't block the ad without blocking the video. Enjoy Youtube sponsored by the home shopping network and QVC.

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Neal Mohan, current CEO of Youtube, was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He was born in the United States on 1973 July 14 before moving to India with his family in 1985. In 1992, he moved back to the U.S. and attended Stanford University. He majored in electrical engineering and graduated in 1996. Mohan started working at Accenture, before joining a startup called NetGravity. He swiftly became a prominent figure within the company.
 
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The next step will be to stream the video and the ad in the same stream, so you can't block the ad without blocking the video. Enjoy Youtube sponsored by the home shopping network and QVC.

Does anyone else smell like curry in here or is it just me?

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Neal Mohan, current CEO of Youtube, was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He spent most of his childhood growing up in the United States before moving to India with his family in 1985. In 1992, he moved back to the U.S. and attended Stanford University. He majored in electrical engineering and graduated in 1996. Mohan started working at Accenture, before joining a startup called NetGravity. He swiftly became a prominent figure within the company.
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This was attempted, I remember it breaking SponsorBlock as they use hardcoded timestamps and the injection method of the ads caused the timestamps to be shifted by the duration of the ads, obviously.
It also did fuck all, as within a day~ uBlock had fixed it (at least on my end, only one of my accounts was being A/B tested) but then it simply went away quietly.
 
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What's hilarious is people actually try to defend Youtube in their war on adblockers lol. Won't someone think of the piece of shit billionaires??? I genuinely question the intelligence of anyone paying for premium, it's so frivolous that it could be a standardized symptom of autism. You might as well be using your money to wipe your ass.
 
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