Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

you FORCE me to watch an Ad
its Boston Tea Party time

I believe in the adblocker community and even willing to let go some of my dollars to prevent this from happening

Fuck ads
Fuck Google
 
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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 itself is written by a pajeet

James done did it said:
Youtube and all social media with over a billion active users should be nationalized
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How would you feel if your tax money is spent on storing Chris chan content?

Forgotten Beast said:
I guess most folks working at YouTube are too young, too retarded or most probably too Indian to remember the lessons learned from the Ad War's arms race from late web 1.0 / early web 2.0's days. Good luck fighting that battle again, Rasheed.
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Its Indians on both sides. sponsorblock and dearrow was developed by one ajay ramachandran
 
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AmpleApricots said:
My time to shine.

I have an mpeg and it is so ancient that my browser doesn't truly recognize it as a video. I tried to "repackage" it losslessly in an mkv but ffmpeg failed, and I did not try to reconvert. If it plays for you, good. Dear janny, I did not insert it into the post as media but left it as an attachment to the post on purpose because of that.
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That video is a lot older than YouTube
 
pyrogon said:
Why is YouTube making the experience of every user worse just to get back at the 3 percent of people who are autistic enough to even know how to block ads?
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They aren't targeting the 3% of adblock users. This is just another segment of the general decrease of quality of Youtube that's happening because Youtube is a unprofitable company in the position of a monopoly (Rumble and Odessy or whatever they're called don't even compete with them). So Youtube will decrease the quality of their service, save money by doing so and squeeze you for everything they can to make money. You won't be switching to their competitors. You know that, I know that, everyone knows that.
Youtube will become slower, it will get more ads, it will become more selective and strict with what can be posted on it, it will simply become a lot worse in order to both become profitable.
 
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Whiskey said:
Shame like putting on reviewers like mandaloregaming. Hopefully archives stay up because I'm not download 40 odd hours of video. Why must the future be so lame and gay? Least piracy is eternal
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For the record, I took a gander at downloading Mandalore's channel. In all, it was roughly about 60 gigs or so at 1080p. Not bad, all told. Could be worse, but at scale, it could be an issue.
 
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I haven't read all comments, I have searched the thread though, and I'm sure I'm tempting fate with this.

Does anyone else using Linux have no issues with ads?

I'm honestly not sure what is going on, and this isn't a 'nur nur I don't get ads thing', I need to figure it out because my friend (mentioned below) HATES ads, if they were a violent person I expect that they wouldn't have a working computer monitor by now.

I use 4 different browsers, I have adnauseam on all of them.

I have a friend that uses W7, uses the same browser as one of the 4 I use, also put adnauseam on it, changed all the extension settings to be the same, BUT gets ads, lots and lots of ads.

We'll be going over all the browser settings later, just in case it's something in there.

I just tried W7 virtualbox that I run, again no ads.

I have possibly what could be viewed as a setup for the paranoid, but I don't think it's anything extreme, just a few firewall programs, neither of them are running as anything but 'stock' (so to speak).

What I'm wondering (friend thinks no) is if the firewalls could be preventing it. One of them (not sure about the other one) has no inbound traffic.

Other than that, I have no idea.
 
Operating system will make very little difference in your exposure to ads, as they are 99% being delivered through your web browser, which are usually pretty much identical across operating systems, give or take available updates etc. (Unless using Win 11, then it's baked into the start menu)
Your browser will be blocking the majority, based on your extensions. Adnauseam is just uBlock origin with the added benefit of sending fake engagement metrics to the ads, which could potentially incur costs to the advertiser.
Firefox and Brave browsers have built in anti-tracker/anti-ad functions, but uBlock recommends disabling Brave 'shields' because it can interfere with their adblocking. Other browsers like Waterfox/Librewolf etc disable a lot of Javascript out of the box which makes them immune to a big chunk of ad delivery bullshit while breaking some websites etc.

Honestly it just sounds like your friend is retarded and has fucked up "firefox + ublock".
 
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I've noticed that YouTube isn't the only thing getting worse, SponsorBlock has just been failing to block segments from videos which really sucks because it feels like a requirement for me to be able to handle watching content on YouTube. What's weird is the fact that this wasn't an issue till about 3 months ago, maybe it's something that's changed on YouTube end or the developer of the plugin is using some hack to get it to properly work.
 
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annex said:
I've noticed that YouTube isn't the only thing getting worse, SponsorBlock has just been failing to block segments from videos which really sucks because it feels like a requirement for me to be able to handle watching content on YouTube. What's weird is the fact that this wasn't an issue till about 3 months ago, maybe it's something that's changed on YouTube end or the developer of the plugin is using some hack to get it to properly work.
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Is it failing to block/skip a segment that is visibly there, or are you catching a video early before any segments have been submitted? If you have a blank timeline bar, it means there are no submitted segments, or they failed to load. If they failed to load you can open the panel from the player and reload, or just refresh the page.
Submit some timestamps for sponsorshit yourself if it has none.
 
fineiamusingarealemail said:
Its Indians on both sides. sponsorblock and dearrow was developed by one ajay ramachandran
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Google, youtube and microsoft are ran by indians now. It's our pajeetware vs their pajeetware.

autosarcophagy said:
the only good thing about this would be that YouTube becomes so bad that it forces people to look for something else.
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The best outcome would be someone making a decent alternative to youtube, and youtube stays around for the nigger cattle to stop them migrating and shitting up good websites.
 
Civillian 18 said:
Is it failing to block/skip a segment that is visibly there,
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Yes, most videos I watch already have the segments already submitted, it will just randomly decided to just not skip and I'll be forced to tap my arrow key a couple times, it isn't a network issue since it's actively retrieving the data so it's quite clearly an issue with the extension itself.
 
Brabbit Narp said:
Question. Are these external hard drives as seen here any good?
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The reviews on them say they are, but Amazon reviews are notoriously suspect, and I am suspicious of other sites that echo positive sentiments on these products for similar reasons. If not, are there any recommendations here for mass archival? I've been stepping up archiving stuff on my end, but there's still so much out there that I need to get on offline archival. I am fortunate that I have not suffered a critical drive failure in my life, but I am paranoid that any drives list here or elsewhere might kick the bucket unexpectedly. I always strive for to have at least one backup of anything I have, but other than these reviews, what do you Kiwis think of them? I'd like to have at least something that I can reliably backup to without *too* much worry for it kicking the bucket. It's inevitable, but having peace of mind is nice.

Been looking into the NAS stuff as well, but I don't have any experience with that sort of stuff, and I don't know where to start as far as Linux related compatibilities are concerned.
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If you're serious about archiving offline, you need a 3-2-1 backup solution.

3 copies of what you want to preserve on
2 different media (e.g. one on a NAS, one on an external hard drive) with
1 of these offsite (i.e. some physical distance between the different backup locations to protect from a catastrophic failure at one site)

If you do this, you won't have to worry about hardware failing as there is always another copy somewhere. This also protects you from yourself fat fingering the delete key.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
My time to shine.

I have an mpeg and it is so ancient that my browser doesn't truly recognize it as a video. I tried to "repackage" it losslessly in an mkv but ffmpeg failed, and I did not try to reconvert. If it plays for you, good. Dear janny, I did not insert it into the post as media but left it as an attachment to the post on purpose because of that.
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Re-encoded but still good:
 
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