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

[Red flaming panda]

For what it's worth, there's a surprisingly good chance Congress could actually step in

>Congress doing anything useful
Lol
Lmao

 

[Pargon]

>Congress doing anything useful
Lol
Lmao

Yeah, Congress has sat by and watched big tech grasp more and more of the Internet for 15 years. They’re not stepping in to do shit about ads.

 

[BatterHomes&Gardens]

SmartTube is still working for me on my GoogleTV.

 

[LifeAlert]

What I don't understand is why ads are so valuable. I have never seen a YouTube ad for a product or a service I would give any amount of money to. Who is buying what these scummy companies are selling on YouTube and are they really buying enough to justify selling the ads with such fervor? Seriously, has anybody here purchased something from a YouTube, banner, or pop-up ad? Is it boomers?

For the advertisers it probably has to do with views and traffic rather than actually selling product. For the platforms like YouTube hosting the ads it's so that people cave and pay for the premium services to remove them, then move the goalpost to add even more fees once they've got their suckers. Even if all the suckers paid for YouTube Premium they wouldn't stop there. Amazon already demonstrated that last year when they introduced an "ad-free" plan on top of your existing Prime Video subscription. So now instead of paying to watch the movies or shows on their service, you get to pay to watch them with ads then pay extra to remove them. This is the future that's in store for us without adblockers. Fuck ads and fuck premium plans.

 

[ATI Escapee]

The more you clench a handful of sand, the more grains of sand you will lose.

I just wanna compliment your analogy- I like that.

And yeah I dont really see how YT going to war like this is going to do anything but increase people finding out about ad blocking strategies and/or getting so fed up they stop using YT. I already didnt have ads for years at this point but what has made me taper off my YT viewing massively over the last 6 or so months if not longer is that the ui just sucks... I get so much shit to wade through to get a nugget of what I am actually looking for, and it stopped being a mostly passive activity allowing an info/documentary video to play in the background while I play vidya or whatever. It takes almost too much effort to enjoy YT in my downtime now. So why would I want to do that when I am done working for the day? I just started downloading librivox audiobooks and watching weird documentaries on the internet archive instead. The Archive has gotten more money from me than YT ever will. I will donate occasionally because I appreciate it so much lol.

 

[part timer]

I already watch the ads it's only fair that YouTube get compensated for providing us all with so much free entertainment.

Ads can honestly be a form of entertainment all on their own, people don’t know what they’re missing

 

[The Cunting Death]

Already happening. Microshit has been rising on the stock market not just because of the AI boom but because fucking Bing is now a valid competitor to Google search.

It probably helps that Bing gives away amazon giftcards if you search for long enough.

 

[${Sandy}]

I exclusively use brave browser and thus far none of googles attempts to block ads have affected me at all.

I am constantly streaming any massive videos I can find, ad free, so youtube loses money. Been listening to an audio book series, its a 60 hour hour long video.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

You WILL watch our nigger/interracial consoomerist propaganda, and you WILL be happy. Fucking kikes. Iudea Delenda Est.

 

[NewHousewife]

Newpipe still isn't working, but brave mobile plays YouTube without ads just fine.

 

[WULULULULU]

If Brave can no longer block ads anymore on Youtube, I will simply stop. I have other programs to fiddle around with so why fiddle with Youtube for the 42069th time? I urge everyone to do the same.

 

[Rob Wolchek]

No need to panic everybody, we all know the true power of autism, trust the plan.

 

[Post Reply]

I already watch the ads it's only fair that YouTube get compensated for providing us all with so much free entertainment.

Watching YouTube would be much worse without the advertisements. YouTube ads are safe and effective.

 

[Runescape Sperg]

I keep forgetting how terrible youtube ads are until I play a video on youtube mobile in the background while doing dishes or whatever. Constant interruptions by the most annoying shit possible. Any product advertised in a youtube ad is guaranteed to never get my money. Fuck youtube and fuck their advertisers

 

[Battlefield42]

Finally time to drop YouTube.

 

[Post Reply]

Newpipe still isn't working, but brave mobile plays YouTube without ads just fine.

Freetube has an Android app now too if you need a backup. It fails over to the Invidious backend so it still works.

 

[UCantCCPMe]

Gee Google, for a company that's all about progressivism, your ad business sure is problematic. I say no and even safeguard my no with an adblock and you still want to ad rape me. Guess consent goes out the window when money is involved. Must have been Liz Dong Ching Chong that taught you that one. He knows how to ignore consent.

 

[Troonos]

Nuke Silicon Valley. TCD.

 

[Tanner Glass]

What I don't understand is why ads are so valuable. I have never seen a YouTube ad for a product or a service I would give any amount of money to. Who is buying what these scummy companies are selling on YouTube and are they really buying enough to justify selling the ads with such fervor? Seriously, has anybody here purchased something from a YouTube, banner, or pop-up ad? Is it boomers?

Ads are huge and inform a lot of people's buying decisions.

They are also extremely cost effective per person and that cost is baked into the advertising price. For example, if you spend $10 to show your ad to 1,000 people and even one of them makes a purchase (on a product you have $30 margin on) - it has already paid for itself. You don't need a huge segment of people to buy a product, just a small percentage.

The main thing here is that Youtube has to fight this tooth and nail because AdBlocking on the website leads advertisers to the next logical step - advertising direct with the content creator (which you see already in small pockets). If a CC puts the ad direct into the video, it cannot be blocked but because it's being sold to the CC directly - YT isn't getting a cut of it. They allow it in small segments but they absolutely do not want it to become the "new normal".

 

['Ole Dente]

Amazon already demonstrated that last year when they introduced an "ad-free" plan on top of your existing Prime Video subscription. So now instead of paying to watch the movies or shows on their service, you get to pay to watch them with ads then pay extra to remove them. This is the future that's in store for us without adblockers. Fuck ads and fuck premium plans.

Prime Video should be the primary example of how retarded it gets. You pay a fee to have access to the service and the relatively small amount of content they have. Then you have to pay an additional fee for separate blocks of content: AMC, Starz, Paramount+, MGM+, HBO, the list goes on and on. If you want the totality of choice that essentially Netflix provides, you’re looking at $100 a month with ads, which is exactly what cable television was and if you choose to pay for ad-free services because you’re sick of hearing about fucking Burt’s Bees Chapstick, it’s only applicable to 2/8ths of what you watch since it’s only applicable to Amazon related shows.

VOD services were great in their time because they provided the product without the downsides of cable television. I like to think it’s largely the reason people opted to watch YouTube as well, but the more these cocksuckers have tried to mold this into old television the more people are going to walk away from it.