Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

[Hellblazer]

Sort of related, I've also started seeing pop ups on websites, asking me to pay to stop seeing personalised ads.

I'm seeing this more and more when browsing news websites.

Britfag, so have the 'do not ask me if I want to accept cookies' addon enabled in edge browser, but it unfortunately doesn't make a difference. Other than confusing the browser and causing it to crash out.


This one is from one of Rupert Murdoch's bottom of the barrel tabloids. The stories on there are mainly crappy 'stories' from reddit and twitter, and they've started using AI now to write a lot of them....so no big loss. I just won't bother in future.

edit: more context

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

>VS Code

There's nothing wrong with VS Code.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

Honestly, I'm surprised google hasn't banned ad blocks in their browser at this point.

It's just a shame the FTC hasn't cracked down on Google. Please god, let them get an audit and make it public, it would be so funny.

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

It is if it's unskippable or not that is causing the outrage.

Nigga it was obvious it's a bug and now it turned out to be a bug.

 

[Hellblazer]

It's just a shame the FTC hasn't cracked down on Google. Please god, let them get an audit and make it public, it would be so funny.

Tinfoil hat time: They're too useful to the various governments of the world, really. Much easier to spy on your citizens and pump out propoganda to the masses, especially when you've got algorithms that can deliver user targeted disinformation.

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

youTube now can show you 60-minute unskippable ads

revanced extended, my friend, it's a godsend

 

[0x0010]

FYI if you use YouTube a lot and have a Spotify subscription instead of a YouTube music subscription, you're a retard.

FYI if you pay for music at all, you're a retard.

 

[snort beg snort]

FYI if you pay for music at all, you're a retard.

I pay for ad-free YouTube and the music app subscription is a bonus.

Edit: yeah I can afford convenience you fucking poors

 

[Troonos]

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everyday she grows more vindicated

My beautiful goddess.

How I wish she succeeded.

 

[AnOminous]

FYI if you use YouTube a lot and have a Spotify subscription instead of a YouTube music subscription, you're a retard.

If you pay for either of them you're a retard.

I pay for ad-free YouTube and the music app subscription is a bonus.

Congratulations, you're part of why the Internet is shit.

 

[used_a_throwaway]

FYI if you pay for music at all, you're a retard.

Paying fo music is alright. Paid subscription for access to music is retarded

 

[Haramburger]

Following the Kali Yuga, a 1,000 year-long unskippable ad for luxury TTRPG dice and frozen meal delivery service, this turn of the Samsara wheel wouldn't spin without help from our multiversal sponsors and movanic devas like you

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

FYI if you use YouTube a lot and have a Spotify subscription instead of a YouTube music subscription, you're a retard.

Yes, Spotify is not a great value unless you listen to podcasts nonstop.

YouTube premium gets you zero ad and YouTube music.

I recommend it to everyone. I unsubbed from Amazon music and other & consolidated them under my Google master.

 

[412-L]

Blocking ads will only entice more blockery and more clever ways to do it from the adblocker's side. YouTube is fighting a war against adblockers, but said war is more of a guerrilla war that YouTube is fighting with conventional tactics. I.E. they are fighting like the US fought Vietnam, and its going to fail for the same reasons.

And much like the US had to “destroy a town in order to save it,” Google is now destroying YouTube to save YouTube.

 

[keke]

They literally shot themselves in the foot with a (confusing and unrelated) bot answer, and yet no one will care. Crazy world we live in.

On PC, I've had no issues with either Brave or other browsers with Ublock. That said, for Android, there's plenty of answers, depending on your tastes:
- Plenty of "Revanced" modded versions of that are functional, even if based on an slightly older APK.
- FOSS apps like New Pipe.
- Invidious instances and apps that use it as source.
- I believe some apps like AdAway are able to block ads on YT through VPN too? Not sure.

I think you get the idea, you literally only see ads if you want to. So many options and alternatives.

The easiest method is just to copy the link into Duck Duck Go and use their player. I know people have mixed feelings about them now but normies or mobile users, that’s what I recommend. Or use a VPN to another country so the ads are wasted on you. Again just a normie guide.

 

[Hylic]

For Macfags, yt-dlp from Homebrew is the way to go. "brew upgrade yt-dlp" is the powerword. I've never had a problem updating yt-dlp since I turned gay started using a Mac a couple of years ago.

 

[Dysnomia]

Yes, Spotify is not a great value unless you listen to podcasts nonstop.

YouTube premium gets you zero ad and YouTube music.

I recommend it to everyone. I unsubbed from Amazon music and other & consolidated them under my Google master.

I've never understood the need for music aps when I can usually find the song on regular old Youtube anyway. plus I listen to the radio a lot and that's always been free.

 

[pippy]

I could spend 5 minutes figuring out how to install Revanced on my phone and get ad/sponsor block for free forever, or I could give Google like $150 a year for no ads and get the Raid Shadow Legends sponsors still.
Wow what should I do guys?? I found out last week that people will listen to music off of YouTube and keep their phone unlocked and listen to 3+ ads per song. Absolute subhuman behavior
Always use an adblock and sponsor block on browser and use revanced on mobile. Anyone who shills cheap Chinese scam games so they can make 0.003 cents off of you watching for a full minute isn't worth your time

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

And for downloading YouTube videos, at least on mobile, yt1s usually works there are lots of other domains too like https://ytb.rip/en7/

Spoiler: Not sure if they work, but

here are a few more - https://www.mediamister.com/free-youtube-video-downloader

https://y2mate.nu/en-6yjH/

https://www.socialplug.io/free-tools/youtube-video-downloader

https://yt1d.com/en125/

https://zeemo.ai/tools/youtube-video-downloader

https://y2meta.tube/en/

There's also cobalt.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

The thing that pisses me off is how Google is basically restricting everything behind the age-verification block, making it difficult to do research on lolcows like Nick Bate or Daniel Larson, or even watch medical and surgical videos. What is taking so long for Invidious and NewPipe to get around it? What other frontends have circumvented this and how?

That's the only real downside to not logging in. You can't watch vids that they've deemed "adult". But then I look at it this way. I'm not missing much if I skip those.