Did YouTube finally kill adblocking apps like SmartTube? - Tons of unusual 403 / forbidden errors

[Galeocerdo]

Holy fuck I was wondering why trying to pay my bills my browser was throwing me a 403 error across a few sites anytime my bank would challenge the purchase.
This is fucking retarded.

 

[grimacefetishist]

They are becoming desperate caged animals as the economy continues to erode. The economic culture, policies, and systems that facilitated these enormous tech monopolies to begin with is waning. Nothing lasts forever.

Maybe it's time to say Pikachus Goodbye

 

[The_Red_Man]

Late but wife updated smart tube and it's fixed for now

 

[Gorton Colu]

These “right to repair” faggots are like evangelical Christians with how fanatic and preachy they are.

Your love of the Balldo's wife has clearly slowed your mind.

 

[The_Red_Man]

Is the quality noticeably better than Spotify? I've been thinking about switching. I currently use Spotify for streaming on my commute, but I'm becoming less and less satisfied with their service.

Yes. Tidal just merged their highest quality streaming down to their normal price and it's noticable. I think it's still considered "lossy", but if you have a good set of headphones or monitors, you can tell the difference in quality.

There's plenty of nerds that have written articles and I think Tidal carries as the best quality for streaming, maybe just before going full autism and playing FLAC files on a DAP.

 

[Grand Omega]

YT is hostile, censorious, and has habitually removed valuable metrics that lets me gauge the reception and quality of its content. YT's MO has been limiting and exploiting its userbase, and that's all they deserve in return.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

These “right to repair” faggots are like evangelical Christians with how fanatic and preachy they are.

And the worst part is: They act like Apple/Samsung/whatever somehow owe them anything.

And here we see thoroughly conditioned niggercattle defending its overlords without any incentive to do so

 

[Glowie]

This isn't feature worthy.

You are feature worthy.

You didn't elaborate on your point, so I'll counter that statement, GoogleTube is hell bent to milk out of their property which is operating at loss, ad blockers triggered people like Linkara and Mundane Matt, both of whom stream and get pissy about it .
That's first reason for third party clients

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Second GoogleTube wants your data and will this to third parties, recommended videos, news, your exact location and biometrics. Ad companies spy on you especially on Google

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Lastly fucks who insert 3+ ads by the uploader or YouTube themselves. Shit is annoying and people want a ad free experience without useless YouTube Golden pass. It's that simple.

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You deserve your feature, these three points are for others to think over and to shame you.

I was there since YouTube's Inception, happenings, beaches and glorious furfag troll war which introduced me to cows Kobidobidog, Felinoid among other furfag accounts which remain breached to to this day.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe like Kobidobidog literally begging for god for help when his comments started to disappear. Ex-furry Felinoid trying to make a living by making "trolling with logic" videos ended up homeless and lolcow himself.
Hacking, doxin' and trolling without fear of Google tranny. Those moments, like five star system are gone like tears in rain.

It's time for me to go

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Meanwhile all of us Brave users have been totally unaffected by all this this entire time. Even on mobile I never got ads.

 

[Factual OST Aficionado]

This isn't feature worthy.

Die.

 

[FailurePersonifiedV2]

That's a Gupta for you.
Give up any goodwill you have left to make a few more dollars.
Are we sure he's not just a retarded first-run AI?

Maybe? But i mean just look at him, that’s not AI, that’s blood.
Comes in 2023, replaces the whamen and wrecks shit even worse.


“Hello… here are some ads. Thank you, come again.”

 

[Google.com]

This Google guy sounds like a dick.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Meanwhile all of us Brave users have been totally unaffected by all this this entire time. Even on mobile I never got ads.

Pretty much the only time I've had any issues with Brave was during a period when the flag to disable hardware media keys was broken. Aside from that, Brave is pretty much the only browser that seems even halfway functional which is... pretty fucking sad.

 

[440088]

Agreed. The advertising doesn't have to be sophisticated (necessarily). They just need repetition.

Plus if you're a Fortune 500 and you parrot the orthodoxy through your advertising, you get rewarded with access to the money spigot.

Modern advertising is about controlling what people think, as much as it is about selling a product.

By the way, you called it a couple of months ago, when you said YouTube would crack down on adblockers. I'm glad I got a head start on my content downloading.

This should definitely be a wake up call for everyone to download whatever YouTube content they consider valuable.

Yep. Advertising today is like weird subconscious monopoly building. They want you to associate words.
Like if I say soda you think coke
it’s creepy.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

You want to be able to repair something?

Go for it! Buy that massive chunk of a laptop that you can replace everything in.

Instead these faggots go out and purchase a laptop that’s literally the opposite, and then whine and complain endlessly that the engineers designing it prioritized a thin design over being able to take out the battery yourself.

You dumb faggot, it's not because they're small. It's stuff like boobytrapped fuses that brick whatever they're attached to, fixtures designed deliberately to break when accessed, or Apple implementing hardware DRM that prevents you replacing a broken component with the exact same component from another device. Needing tweezers is not the issue.

 

[ChromaQuack]

Voted "won't watch" on the poll but the option I really wanted was "I will use alternate frontends/directly rip videos".

Also set up AdNauseam, it's not enough to (try, google is everywhere) block or skip ads, you have to actually damage these fucks, even if it's a death by ten million cuts, add to the pile.

It's stuff like boobytrapped fuses that brick whatever they're attached to

Been out of the loop with hardware for a while, but it's funny to see this shit still show up considering it was (and still is for collectors) an issue with old arcade cabinet boards, SEGA in particular loved these contraptions.

 

[DickMain]

The industrial revolution and it's consequences. It's hard to believe that a mere 200 years ago, advertising was nearly unheard of and, where it was heard of, deeply shameful.

It can't be understated just how recently it became a field of 'study' (for lack of a better word). Maybe I'm talking out my ass here but I want to say somewhere in the first half of the 1900's is when they really started to distill that industry down to a science. Sure you have vintage advertising campaigns for products like Coke earlier that century, but it's not until we hit the 'Mad Men' kind of era that it starts to become the kind of shit we see today.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Maybe I'm just naive, but I just find this baffling. I get that this is the case, but I will never understand why. Maybe back when I was growing up and had a cable plan you'd have toys and shit that kids would ask about, or maybe some home goods product the parents thought would be handy (or some chinesium garbage grandma would spring for), but I just fail to see who on earth is making the 'modern' internet advertising strategy profitable when you can pluck any Joe off the street and have him tell you it's all garbage. Who the fuck is buying all this shit

The main thing isn't that it's "intrusive" advertising (It is, I get it, but..) - it's valuable because it's targeted advertising.

When you were growing up - the most an advertiser really knew about you was that you were likely a child watching childen's programming. And then advertisers would run ads "for kids" during those blocks and that's as close as they could manage.

Now? Your computer and everything on it are spying on you. You don't just "watch" a Youtube video (or at least most normal people don't) - google knows who you are. They know what you were searching for before you came to the video, they're reading all of your advertising cookies, they know every video you've ever watched, they have access to your gmail, your gdrive, whatever else - it's a much more complete window into you as a person

You aren't just "a maybe kid watching a kid's show" you are "<Gender>, <Exact Age>, <Near Exact Location>, <List of Hobbies and Interest>, <Shopping for X items>, <part of X, Y, Z communites>, <Strongly Likes X games>, <Political Alignment>, <mostly everything else>"

Intrusive ads are garbage - but intrusive effective, specific, and targeted ads are extremely valuable.

 

[AnOminous]

The more you clench a handful of sand, the more grains of sand you will lose. YouTube's budget is in the billions and if I recall from one of my classmates, they would only earn an extra 32 million dollars from disabling all forms of adblockers.

And the generally highly net savvy people who are angry enough about these ads to respond by dropping JewTube entirely and would instantly advise all their more boomery acquaintances of any alternatives and even eagerly install them on their systems? Wouldn't these highly motivated people cost them way more than that would get them?

 

[DickMain]

The main thing isn't that it's "intrusive" advertising (It is, I get it, but..) - it's valuable because it's targeted advertising.

When you were growing up - the most an advertiser really knew about you was that you were likely a child watching childen's programming. And then advertisers would run ads "for kids" during those blocks and that's as close as they could manage.

Now? Your computer and everything on it are spying on you. You don't just "watch" a Youtube video (or at least most normal people don't) - google knows who you are. They know what you were searching for before you came to the video, they're reading all of your advertising cookies, they know every video you've ever watched, they have access to your gmail, your gdrive, whatever else - it's a much more complete window into you as a person

You aren't just "a maybe kid watching a kid's show" you are "<Gender>, <Exact Age>, <Near Exact Location>, <List of Hobbies and Interest>, <Shopping for X items>, <part of X, Y, Z communites>, <Strongly Likes X games>, <Political Alignment>, <mostly everything else>"

Intrusive ads are garbage - but intrusive effective, specific, and targeted ads are extremely valuable.

I'll be honest, the adblockers I run don't tend to buckle very often, and when they do the good people working on them usually have things straightened out before long, and maybe owing to that I honestly feel like the ads I tend to see don't feel targeted. At times they feel quite random. The only time I get bombarded with them myself is on the TV's yt app (which over the years has gotten bad to the point where I can't even have the thing on in the background without having to reach for the mute button on the remote every two minutes). I count myself lucky for not having to encounter many banner ads or the sort on my computer or phone. Knock on wood and all. I think about the closest I've received to a personalized ad was a deodorant one because, shockingly, I use it.