chapotraphouse

Google won't stop the psychological warfare until everybody is that guy from Black Mirror sitting in a cell surrounded by screens with unblockable ads

God dammit. I just got a raspberry pi to deal with this in the home. The so called future sucks.

I will stop watching youtube if i cant block ads

I mean I've always been baffled that this wasn't already how it works. It seemed to me if they wanted to make them hard to block this was the obvious answer

I know I'm encroaching on very dangerous bootlicker terrain here, but it's obvious that a service like YouTube, that lets you upload and watch as many videos as you want and let's users monetize their videos to such a degree that a non-insignificant number of people can live off of it, needs to make money somehow. If you want to see what a service that doesn't have ads look like, look at Vimeo, where creators pay out of the ass to upload any videos at all. And unlike most services YouTube does actually give you an option to opt out of ads. YouTube Premium might be too expensive, but 55% of that does actually go to the video creators. I'll take that a million times over shit like Facebook or tiktok that doesn't give you that option at all.

Use ad blockers, pirate all media, steal shit from the supermarket, it's all cool and correct to do so, but to pretend like this is some new extra greedy move is just ridiculous.

It's an endless arms race, not an infallible solution. There'll be another addon to block server side infected ads too.

Anyone who's using adblock plus and getting the YT message, I found a temporary workaround. Basically open it in an extra tab (not active/current tab) and let it sit for approximately the duration of two advertisements (50s) then switch to that tab. 5/5 success rate so far.

This will destroy hextube