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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Worse than using YouTube without an ad blocker?

[–] [email protected] 107 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's the funny thing about this threat. It implies that using YouTube the regular way is "optimal" viewing. It's fucking shit without adblock.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Even without ads it's shit without sponsorblock for me. Not even for the sponsor spots, but the absolutely annoying copy paste of please like, subscribe, hit the notification icon, blah blah blah blah blah.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

That's shit, but it's still usable as I can shortcut my way around it. The ads are hot liquid swamp ass that make it unusable. I see ad, I circumvent or close tab.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sponsor Block????

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

It's optimal to them. You just don't understand Youtube's perspective of it yet. And then it's unoptimal for them when you watch with the adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

How to quit YT in a week?

  1. disable adblocking
  2. Suffer watching ads
  3. Get bored, because you no longer feel like watching adTube
  4. Switch to something else
[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is absolutely zero possibility that they can find a way to make my experience on YouTube worse than my experience on YouTube without uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a way to look at, but i'l personally still be using Peertube. instead of 3rd party YouTube apps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some of those alternative “YouTube” apps are not limited to YouTube as a backend/source of content. I don’t recall if it’s freetube, new pipe or both that allow using Peertube and YouTube from the same app, which helps bridge the gap in content / ease the transition from an end user perspective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Newpipe supports Youtube, Peertube, media.ccc.de, Soundcloud and Bandcamp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Interesting. Thanks, I'll definitely be checking it out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The fact that my children know the Liberty Mutual jingle from watching YouTube at school says no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

yo what can you even do about this