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

[Pee Cola]

I see a lot of you guys in this thread are saying that you'll stop using YouTube altogether if they successfully break the Ad Blockers. But I wonder, what would you guys use instead?

I'm currently strip mining YT for enjoyable content with yt-dlp to watch later, however if Google is successful in their question to find a final solution to the ABQ, I'll probably use Internet Archive instead. It's janky af and the search interface blows, but at least you can download videos for offline playback.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Pajeet says number must go up, so number must go up.

These people are not suffering financially

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?

 

[New & Improved Username]

Yay, got home from work, smart Tube is working on my TV again.

 

[Symalsa]

If YouTube finally kills the third-party adblocking applications, will you stop watching or will you be a fucking scab and pay for YouTube premium?

I will never pay for Youtube. Pic related

 

[cybertoaster]

Susan's gone, some pajeet runs YT now.

Another one, what are the odds? totally not nepotism sars...

 

[Random Internet Person]

This isn't feature worthy.

I feel like featured is going be replacing stickers as the source of the next stupid KF infighting.

I haven't used YouTube in over 4 years. Happy to once again say fuck YouTube and fuck Google.

What have you been using instead?

I was hoping Smart Tube would defeat them. If not, I'll open on Brave and cast to tv if that still works.

It’s kind of hard to tackle a monopoly without legal help.

 

[Kola]

Are we sure he's not just a retarded first-run AI?

AI is completely unironically smarter than indians.

 

[Procrastinhater]

Some autist will figure out how it works and how to get around it soon enough.
If not I'll go back to what I do when I'm stuck without ad block, mute it and fuck with my phone for however long it takes for the ad.
I also just ffwd through sponsorshit thats embedded in the videos.

 

[FlipTopBox]

I was wondering why NewPipe stopped working yesterday. This has been something that I've seen coming for a while now. Not that it was hard to predict since both Reddit and Twitter have killed third party clients for their platforms. It was only a matter of time. If the current frontends stop working I'll just keeping jumping to other ones until YouTube totally kills third party apps by charging up the ass for API access. I try to follow as many of my YouTube subs as I can on alt platforms like Odysse and Rumble, but a majority just don't/won't bother mirroring their videos there. If YouTube really does go all the way with this I'll probably just stop using their site altogether.

Weirdly though, GrayJay still works just fine for me.

 

[Gog & Magog]

I recently found out there are a few countries that don’t have YouTube ads. I set my VPN to Albania and haven’t gotten an ad since.

wtf I love albanians now?

 

[Null]

Normies brag about getting this sub, and then try to say it's worth it because of the music. Bug people.

I was a subscriber for music for so long I was grandfathered in from Google Music -> YouTube Red -> YouTube Premium -> YouTube Music. I cancelled it and switched to Tidal. Way better sound quality and I'm not paying money to Google.

wtf I love albanians now?

 

[Baguette Child]

I cancelled it and switched to Tidal.

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.

 

[Null]

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.

I've never used Spotify because I don't suck dick for cock.

 

[(((Obar Lazcano Kamz)))]

This isn't feature worthy.

Quick shit up the featured thread fast

 

[Hitlerswag420]

I pay for netflix and I have no problem paying for stuff that I use. YouTube is extremely overly political and they see it as a form of activism to censor and silence opposing viewpoints. They have no issue pulling the rug under from various creators' careers not because it is hurting Youtube's revenue but because it goes against the beliefs of privileged 1% California faggots. who hilariously claim that they are fighting against people with societal privilege. Therefore as a form of activism I will never give them a penny and will always find loopholes in their adblock programs.

 

[Heed Not]

Or would you guys just pick up a new hobby like cooking?

Pretty much. Or rather, spend more time on my existing hobbies that my lazy ass neglects.

 

[440088]

It's the canary in the coalmines. Let me remind you that this is what they are aiming for with their ads:
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I always recommend people to save whatever videos they like or find useful somewhere because I guaran-fucking-tee you that if they were able to pull out two pliers from your computer, stick them in your eyelids and force them to watch their ad, they would. Never underestimate what these people will do for a buck.

And it’s never enough. Never. There is no end to it. Regular cable is so fucking unwatchable now because it is 90 percent ads. I was traveling recently and flipped on the tv in the hotel (haven’t watched cable in years) and it was like 10 mins of content and 35 mins of ads. I wish I was being dramatic. But it was that awful. My friend PAYS for AmazonTV or whatever their streaming service is and they have ads while also making you pay for their service.

I hate advertising companies so much. I wish I had the right words but it’s just pollution. It’s absolute pollution on everything. Can’t even fucking enjoy content without it just being so goddam polluted.

Is this the era of streaming where it becomes like cable TV? I hope not.

Once you notice it. It’s everywhere. Advertisements. On your media. In your towns. Road sides. I don’t want to live in a future where I have to pay 9.99 a month to be able to look at the sky without my skynet chip blasting McDonald’s commercials into eye lids.

I mean for fuck sake I can’t even pump my gas anymore without a little tv blaring commercials at me from the pump.

Sorry for the rant but I hate this shit so much.

 

[Tiny Chinaman]

Its to bad the faggots at Runble are incapable of competing in any meaningful way.

 

[XANA]

I don't think GrayJay uses YouTube's API, so it theoretically should be safe from the adblocking attempts now, if you watch YT videos on mobile. I haven't noticed any more errors than normal over the last few hours-days.

 

[Peristaltic Pump]

I was a subscriber for music for so long I was grandfathered in from Google Music -> YouTube Red -> YouTube Premium -> YouTube Music. I cancelled it and switched to Tidal. Way better sound quality and I'm not paying money to Google.

Hey, now that you’re here, how would you rank youtube’s competitors in general? Based on interface, features, streaming, uptime & reliability, allowed content & moderation, and available content?