Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[the rat]

YouTube acts like AdBlockers will make lose money and always put that ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube BS.

They will lose money either way. It's a miracle that Google still allows YouTube to continue on despite how much of a fucking money sink it is for them.

 

[Bremsspur]

War on drugs
War on terror
War on adblock

When will americans ever understand that you cannot win a war against the concept of freedom?

 

[Hantavirus]

Looking for proof, Reddit user Standard-Slip6572 has shared an image of a two-hour and 52-minute ad for a 49-minute video!

>Jeet tutorial
>Javascript
>VS Code
>Gemini
>Mac
>Too retarded to take a screenshot
>Redditor

Pottery.

 

[Paranoid]

Years ago, I remember not realizing my mom had Youtube on the TV and there was a fucking half hour long ad for a hair loss remedy. Everyone was already doing something else and I only noticed after wondering why the music stopped after 5 or so minutes. Thankfully it was skippable, but that shit apparently has only gotten worse.
Adblock bros stay winning.

We need to start contributing to these AdBlock lists, Ad blockers are nothing without their filter lists.

 

[Male Idiot]

Is this even intentional or just Jeet-code being, to be clearful saars, shit.

There is no reason anyone sane would add an hour long ad to a 5 minute song. Nobody will watch it.

 

[Paranoid]

After trying Brave i never turned back.

Man I love brave browser.

The lion keeps winning bros

Brave bros, we stay winning and we ain't stopping.

Brave will also go down, I don't agree with the woke shit Firefox has been doing, but it's not chromium based. Brave is chromium based. They survived manifest V3 with the rust ad blocker integrated into their browser, but what happens if Google makes changes to the chromium project that prevents brave from doing anything. We need to promote non chromium or later on independent browsers like ladybird (once it's ready)

 

[|o|]

I'm going to kill the next business man I see.

Kill Corpos. Behead Corpos. Roundhouse kick Corpos into the concrete. Slam dunk a Corpo baby into the trashcan.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Most ads on YT now is some Chinese anime porn game (against their TOS), a get rich quick scheme (against their TOS), or a straight up scam (against their TOS.)

Instagram has the same problem, with ads and sponsored posts (users paying to show their shit to non-followers).

I've nearly got got a couple times with clone websites until my common sense kicked in and I realised what I was being offered was too good to be true, and to Instagram's credit they actioned my reports of scams, but when I report the ads for handheld emulators that come pre-loaded with pirated ROMs they say it's not a violation of ToS; same deal when I report thots stealth-advertising their OnlyFans.

The sheer amount of ads on Instagram has made it borderline unusable in most aspects; almost a 50:50 split between posts and ads now.

 

[REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD]

I remember the first time I saw a LONG AD on YouTube, it was the WoW documentary in its entirety as an ad (it was skippable) but jeez that was 10 years ago

 

[Somewhat Spacey]

I’m honestly not surprised, I used to let YouTube play while I fell asleep and sometimes I’d wake up to these 20-30 min long ads for some weird ass metaphysical religious shit. There was a way to bypass some ads by marking them irrelevant to you but I’m not so sure if it still works.

 

[Kurphy C. Danish]

There were similar ads many years ago (closer to 12mins rather than 1 hour) about an apocalyptic Christian book which pushed me to use ad-blockers in the first place. It's funny how every time something like this happens, YouTube can't stop the big kid that won't listen to it, so it punishes its younger children who have been obedient the whole time.

 

[Retreaded Tire]

Fucking NBC put up an entire episode of The Hunting Party as an "ad." I've gotten it a few times. Maybe some of you have as well.

Thankfully, that one is skippable after about a minute, but this shit is getting ridiculous.

60 minutes is not an ad, it's a long infomercial.

They did this about a year ago too with Fat Nig's Infinite Playlist

 

[MrShekelstein36]

We already have that in the form of video sponsorships, and sponsorblock already fixes that.

Didn't know sponsorblock is a thing. That said, I see choosing to watch a youtuber shill some garbage product instead of skipping it as a bit different than youtube arbitrarily deciding to edit in an advertisement (like adding a beer where a lightsaber was).

 

[Civillian 18]

Didn't know sponsorblock is a thing. That said, I see choosing to watch a youtuber shill some garbage product instead of skipping it as a bit different than youtube arbitrarily deciding to edit in an advertisement (like adding a beer where a lightsaber was).

It is still an ad, and you lose brain cells by watching it. Content creator already got their bag by putting it in the video, so unless they actually put effort into making the sponsor segment interesting (very rare), skipping it does nothing except make your life better.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

It is still an ad, and you lose brain cells by watching it. Content creator already got their bag by putting it in the video, so unless they actually put effort into making the sponsor segment interesting (very rare), skipping it does nothing except make your life better.

That being said, I don't need a special extension to tell where the ad ends and where to skip to. Also, and this is pretty rare, I'm not against seeing a sponsorship ad if it's for something I might be interested in, but that's pretty rare. Most sponsorship ads are for phone games, e-cigs or """free""" to play games.

I also don't get the visceral disgust people have toward advertising as a concept.

 

[Flamin Park]

I remember that quote, it was something like "You can't sell toyotas when people are saying "nigger" in video's comments".

Dya know what I've never actually seen something like this affect the advertised product, it mostly just seems to be something shareholders believe unquestionably. Hell most McDonald's restaurants look like 90s Beirut once the sun goes down and it's never stopped them selling ever increasing industrial quantities of goyslop

I imagine the portion of people who will be a) offended by the comments saying nigger b) still go to the video c) notice who's advertising next to it and d) then boycott the product. And also e) they were going to buy it anyway

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Without adblock Youtube would be unusable.
I will never use that website with their current ad-policy unless I can block them all.

In Germany half the ads are actual grifts. Get rich quick schemes of some wannabe tech-bro standing in front of multiple supercars explaining how you too can earn 5000€ per week doing work online!

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Without adblock Youtube would be unusable.
I will never use that website with their current ad-policy unless I can block them all.

In Germany half the ads are actual grifts. Get rich quick schemes of some wannabe tech-bro standing in front of multiple supercars explaining how you too can earn 5000€ per week doing work online!

So I'm curious, lets say all the ads were for actual products and not scams like Coca-Cola or Apple Jack cereal, would you hate ads as much?

 

[MrShekelstein36]

It is still an ad, and you lose brain cells by watching it. Content creator already got their bag by putting it in the video, so unless they actually put effort into making the sponsor segment interesting (very rare), skipping it does nothing except make your life better.

Oh don't get me wrong, I skip sponsorships (with few exceptions). That said, it's still a big difference between watching one you can choose to skip, vs having youtube directly inject product sponsorships into a video that you can't skip.

 

[Civillian 18]

Time to start wearing Halloween masks at the store.

That being said, I don't need a special extension to tell where the ad ends and where to skip to. Also, and this is pretty rare, I'm not against seeing a sponsorship ad if it's for something I might be interested in, but that's pretty rare. Most sponsorship ads are for phone games, e-cigs or """free""" to play games.

I also don't get the visceral disgust people have toward advertising as a concept.

SponsorBlock skips the ad for you, no interaction required, or you can set default behaviour to be simply mute, do nothing and just mark etc. It also has a whitelist channel functionality so you can still view segments from creators that you would expect to not shill absolute trash.
Also that ad is retarded, but at least it is not a scam/porn game/gambling/etc that you get on even fresh Google accounts.