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purpleflurp said:
It's that, bras, and maternity stuff. Idk if it's because youtube caught on from my voice in my painting videos or if my browsing history triggered something, but for the past 3-4 months the ads have gotten hyper-targeted.
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It could be your Google searches instead. I get nonstop Grainer ads because I google search machined parts on my work computer more than anything else.
 
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Kulee Baba said:
Wouldn't all the content we (Kiwifarms) care about not be ad friendly anyway? You know Retards being Retards?

McDonalds and Disney aren't going to want their ads in the middle of a Jim Sterling video about Jim getting his asshole filled with sloppy dicks while screaming that Capitalism has failed us.
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Just personally, I mainly use YouTube to listen to music. Most of my Playlists are recommendationcore and dungeon synth and shit that isn't on Spotify or sometimes not even on bandcamp or SoundCloud or seeker. If ytdlp goes away, I won't be able to archive some of this stuff. I've been able to find some very rare music by just trawling YouTube reccs, so now I gotta scramble to backup all my music to something local like navidrome before it's too late
 
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Comes to show how much of a scam ESG scores really are. It's a system made to blackmail companies into censoring their websites going against the interest of the general public. YouTube has paid the price. Instead of trying to make amends with the public by abandoning this ESG narrative, they instead go further into to by trying to get people to pay for YouTube premium by making the interface unbearable. Nobody is convinced to buy YouTube premium after the betrayal towards it's users by chasing that ESG scores. It's their own fault and they cannot shift opinions of the general public no more.
 
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I'd like to take batches of hundreds of YouTube channels I have bookmarked, and search for them on other platforms.

That should be one of the main functions of Grayjay, which is only available (natively) on Android.
 
Blamo2000 said:
Not to mention it's worth noting that the channel itself was active for two years, then vanished. That's not how people work. Who the hell just leaves a 2+ Mil subscriber channel where your videos get more than 1 mil views average just like that.
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Cursory glance shows she's still posting a few times a week on Tiktok as an ad shill, but she's averaging >1m views a vid on there. My guess is there may be two reasons for her switching:
  1. The CPM over there's a bit better compared to what she'd be getting for her videos.
  2. She's been doing a bunch of paid adverts for "content." Since Tiktok viewers are generally just brainlessly scrolling, it's easier to blatantly shill products because the viewers are gonna be too lazy to complain.
The randomly popping up in subscriptions does seem sus as hell though. Would be interesting to see if daddy was a higher up/investor with google, or if her family just has enough money to buy an existing channel. You see that shit happen a lot with meme pages on Instagram and Xitter.
whatever I feel like said:
It could be your Google searches instead. I get nonstop Grainer ads because I google search machined parts on my work computer more than anything else.
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That and maybe tracking from the adsense/analytic scripts on websites. The latter would make sense given I'll turn off my adblocker for the few independent sites I actually enjoy.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Sounds like something "Kengle" would do.
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It was a fun saga to follow, but as usual there was no resolution. It popped up, then fell off from the radar. I am sure they will or are already making first party AI channels, that is the next step. Imagine, the parasocial relationship of a 'tuber with the advertisement friendliness of something that you as the company are generating. lol

purpleflurp said:
Cursory glance shows she's still posting a few times a week on Tiktok as an ad shill, but she's averaging >1m views a vid on there. My guess is there may be two reasons for her switching:
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Yup, the tiktok is still active.
 
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all the renegade INVIDIOUS servers all over the place, not even the Bard AI is able to find them all...

prepare for another layoff wave, my dear Googlers.
 
Gutts said:
sponsorblock can already detect sponsorships inside videos to skip if it's the same youtube ads it's trivial pajeets eternally behind the arms race lmao
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Sponsorblock doesn't automatically detect sponsor segments. Anyone with the extension can open a video, select a timestamp, and designate it a sponsor or merch segment to be sent off to the creators. Once vetted, it's pushed out to all Sponsorblock users, and the extension now knows to mark and skip that part of the video. This is why Sponsorblock hasn't been effectively killed; it's just a community-run list of videos and timestamps that the extension is told to skip.
 
I had the YouTube app on the Roku TV and with the constant trying to get me to sign up and putting ads in all over the place I deleted it yet again. They're getting extra pushy of late. Looks like I am going to have put up with the ads in The Red Green show, at least that's not trying to get my data with sign up bullshit
 
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Catspajamas7 said:
“I cuck out shekels because YouTube has gud muzic player!” - Null
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I cancelled my YouTube subscription more than half a year ago when they first started to block adblockers, you dumb faggot.

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purpleflurp said:
It's that, bras, and maternity stuff. Idk if it's because youtube caught on from my voice in my painting videos or if my browsing history triggered something, but for the past 3-4 months the ads have gotten hyper-targeted.
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That's why you physically disconnect your mic just in case and don't use yt on the phone. The devices have a "feature" (bug) that uses the names of the wifi connections in your areas to geolocate you (It's why you can't permanently turn that off and wifi turns on in apple I think). More likely than not it was reading your cookies or you typed in, or fingerprinted you via your IP, usage time, and your browser fonts + screen size + Javascript + Timezone offset etc.

Personally I run a dedicated 2 seperate VMs to browsing the net. One for everything bank/tax/gov related that's critical. One for all else. This doesn't include the kiwifarms sperg account.

Maybe someday they'll be a program to do random searches and stuff to obfuscate your browsing habits.
 
Youtube is one of the last major platforms I use these days. It's nice for niche music and I'm kicking myself for not keeping track of the stuff I've liked over the years. I've grown so used to ad-free bliss I don't think I could go back unless for the most dire of DIY repair problems.

I really think they underestimate the lengths people will go to avoid ads. I would rather download a video, scan it for ads, edit them out in software, and then watch the video before I let them shove shit to consoom into my face. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
 
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I maintain a massive archive of YouTube channels I enjoy. I've actually helped restore numerous channels that were banned or deleted over the past couple of years. I was the only one (as far as I am aware) who had a complete archive of Sargon of Akkad's channel before he deleted all his old videos for his generic conservative britbong grift. Programs like yt-dlp may seem intimidating to someone who hasn't used command line before, but just reading some tutorials will show you that they are actually quite easy to figure out. Now that I have my string of commands perfected, I literally just copy and paste them in along with the channel URL and start ripping entire channels at a time. Null's guide is a great starting point, but be sure to check the command list on the github page to see all the cool shit you do.

I'll post my command here now. This command does quite a few things. I won't go over all of them, but in a nutshell:

- Downloads the video to a specific path. yt-dlp by default will download to the path you have the executable in. This allows you to arrange things easily. At my peak I was running 4 instances at once ripping channels into 4 separate folders. Replace (Archive path) in the "*Archive path*/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" string to the folder path you want to download to.
- Downloads the videos in 480p and 30fps, drastically lowering the filesize. If you want to download in hight quality/fps, just tweak the [height<=480][fps=30] section (ie. [height<=1080][fps=60] to download everything in 1080p/60fps. For channels that have things like video game gameplay or high production quality stuff, I'll raise quality. If it's just some dude talking in front of a webcam, I'm fine with 480p. I always have things set up to download best audio quality however.
- Writes the video metadata (comments, description, thumbnails) into separate files, which you can later arrange into their own folders.

The command:

yt-dlp -o "(Archive path)/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" -f "bestvideo[height<=480][fps=30]+bestaudio/best" --write-info-json --embed-metadata --embed-chapters --write-comments --write-thumbnail --embed-thumbnail --write-subs --embed-subs -N 6 --no-part --download-archive archive.txt (channel url)
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Replace (Archive Path) as stated above, and (Channel URL) with the URL of the channel you want to download (you will need to run a seperate download operation for their main videos page, shorts page, and Live page).


I highly recommend creating a shortcut file to quickly navigate command prompt to the yt-dlp program. You can find out how to do this online.
 
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