People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
  • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Combine that with the 83% price increase in Australia!

    YouTube can eat shit, they’re screwing over even those of us willing to pay, Smarttube here I come!

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing. The fact that they A) clamped down on AdBlockers and B) increased Premium rates is a major disappointment.

      Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.

      Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.

      • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I wouldn’t give Google $32.99/m for YouTube, no matter how slowly they increased the price, that’s utterly ridiculous.

        I’ve used Curiosity Stream and Nebula before, would happily go back.

        • CohortCzort@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          Unfortunately nebula has started blacklisting creators they dont agree with, just cancelled my 2 year sub to them because they deleted second thoughts channels. Who was the sole reason I paid for that sub.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            0·
            11 months ago

            Unfortunately nebula has started blacklisting creators they dont agree with

            Elaborate. Why were they banned? If it was kiddie creepers or nazi shit or “not fascists but #1 with fascists” shit like heated-gamer-moment I don’t blame them for that.

        • Nath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I’ve been a YouTube premium subscriber since before it existed. Last night I installed ReVanced.

          It is not better than the default experience with premium. But it is pretty close. I’m using a patched version of the YouTube client, after all. The default client is not 🇦🇺$17/month better by a long shot.

          I am still undecided on whether to wear the price increase. I have until March to decide.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I’ve heard others say that many people are uninstalling ad blockers.

    I guess its just how you interpret the data

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    For every tech company with an r&d team fighting this stuff, there’s a plethora of programming wizards whose sole purpose in life is to defeat them.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    It’s an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.

    YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    The worst-case endgame is, you can send the videos, but they’ll never reach my eyeballs. Send those frames to /dev/null and store the video stream where I can watch it as often as I like.

      • Meltrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Are there any yt 3rd party that support chromecasting?

      That is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the official app.

  • what@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I tried to watch the Thursday night football recap yesterday and accidentally opened YouTube instead of smarttube. I was shocked. I watched a minute of ads to start and one minute in I had another minute of ads. YouTube was basically unwatchable.

  • Jailbrick3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    installing better adblockers

    or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here

  • vamp07@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    I pay for YouTube premium, but it’s a lot of money given they have $0 production cost.