It has? 🤔
or at least they try to :P
Firefox nightly working lime a charm. I would rather download any video I want to see than using the shitty native app.
Three one minute adds was enough for me.
A lot of people here hate brave but so far I’ve been able to block YouTube ads with brave with no issue whatsoever.
lol, good luck with that Google
I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that’s still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.
How would I go about doing the same?
I guess they made an account via VPN?
VPN to the country of your choice, then hit the sign up page for the service your interested in.
As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn’t validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn’t worth it for me.
Love how Lemmy downvotes anyone who pays for anything. Such a great place for discussion! Definitely no echo chamber here.
For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that’s just not worth it, given that YouTube isn’t the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.
Should we start legitimizing garbage?
If you consider YouTube as garbage, then it would be a no-brainer to just stop using it, instead of complaining about ads, right? And no, I couldn’t care less. I use YT maybe twice per year. It could go offline tomorros, as far as I am concerned.
Apparently everything in your world is black or white
Simple coherence.
Having a discussion about paying for things isn’t garbage. You’re just poor and salty.
Lol
Go back to your broken Linux and PeerTube lmao
Let the blocking war commence. Beligerents are referred to as Blockheads.
This will definetly be a shot in the foot for Google, the beginning of YouTube’s downfall
The downfall of YouTube is creators being paid more for their work?
They don’t. In fact they get demonitised more and more easily for completely bullshit reasons. The majority of youtubers get paid through Patreon and in video sponsorship rather than from youtube itself.
Yes, these companies work exactly like that
That is exactly how YouTube works: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en
Federation will be the only real option considering the massive storage and bandwidth requirements. Even then, once an instance starts to grow, they’ll have to come up with some type of monetization strategy.
Even a low population instance will likely need many terabytes of storage.
I don’t see how federation makes economic sense for video serving/hosting. To do it economicaly you need to have local data centers with peering agreements with local ISPs and good deals for transit. Only big data companies (Google) and huge or specialized self hosts(daily motion, Facebook), can really do it.
Reddit and Vimeo were stupid for hosting video on cloud services for that reason. Reddit wouldn’t have been in such an economic crunch if they weren’t burning money by serving video on the cloud.
I suspect in the long run it will be doable due to advancements in bandwidth, computing power, disk space and compression efficiency but it’s probably more than a decade away.
And even then it might be the case that it’s only viable to do 1080p while the big guns can do 8k at 120fps.
I hope PeerTube gets better
Please yes, it needs a lot of better.
Finally some fucking space for competitors
beginning
Only cloud hosting providers can provide hosting for themselves as cheaply as google. Microsoft and Amazon (except through prime video and twitch) have shown no interest in entering the fray. The downfall will only come through antitrust.
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Also in Europe.
Meanwhile here I am with a YouTube premium account that they don’t charge me for
Back when YouTube red/premium came out. I was big into vulnerability/pen testing, and I used several scripts and spoofing techniques to try to get it for free. I failed and failed and failed. But then after I had given up. I decided to just watch some YouTube videos, and realized it said I had premium. And then I checked on the YouTube app, I had premium there too.
Years and years have gone by. I still have YouTube red/premium for free. They have never charged me. And I even had support transfer the YouTube red/premium to a new email at one point. Not ONE question. It says active and a price. But, I’m never charged. And the card that is on file, isn’t even active anymore and hasn’t been for about 2 years.
My theory is, one or several of my attempts combined with each other to get it for free. Glitched their system somehow or straight up allowed me to have it for free. But in terms of what I did. Whatever I did, I did everything again recently for my boyfriend, all the failed methods, everything again like I did for me. In the same exact order. Same error messages, same failed connection messages, same everything I went through. Didn’t have hope for him, but. He goes on YouTube later that night, and has premium.
I’ll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube’s content and don’t even work.
See you next week!
Not so sugary tits today huh? More like sour.
I have not changed anything about my browsing habits and I spend like 12 hours a day on YT, haven’t yet seen this. Not very universal.
3 similar but different questions:
- Where do you use YouTube (phone, pc, etc)
- Where do you use YouTube (country, location)
- Where do you use YouTube (browser, app, etc)
My phone, my partner’s phone, home pc, my partner’s home pc, work pc, laptop, tv. Canada.
PC (ubuntu) and Android both w/ FF & uB. Have yet to see this in Canada.
But it does typically take Google a little while to remember that we’re part of the world…
Pc, usa, chrome
UK Firefox user here… All good
I just use the Vivaldi Browser and watch all my YouTube in browser. shrug
Ublock Origin on firefox still work for me no filter
Librewolf is one that might work for you
It’s pretty random whether you get the message or not. Some of my friends, including me, straight up cannot watch youtube on their website half of the time anymore, because it full blocks us. It’s not just an annoying message, videos actually just don’t play. But I only get it on some days. I think the message only pops up if you’ve been watching for more than like an hour straight. Then again, some of my friends have never seen the message. Who knows. Just more weird big tech server bullshit. Like how twitter’s api works 15% of the time (for me).
Been watching for 3h straight and still no pop or problem with videos but when time eventually come I’ll try to setup UBO filter or using 3rd party frontend
Purge cache and refresh does the trick if you have problems with the firefox+ublock combination. Or you have some other active extensions which prevents ublock from doing its thing.
I’m daily using uBlock Origin (with Firefox) on Windows, and ReVanced on Android, and have experienced zero indications that Google is at war with ad blockers. These two are fucking fantastic and highly recommended. I don’t expect it to last forever, but bravo to these devs and contributors.
Firefox with Adblocker Ultimate working fine for me as of last night. I’ll check again tonight.
They blocked me with that combo on my PC a week ago.
A bit unrelated, but do you know if there is a hardened firefox for linux (just like Mull for Android)?
I use a betterfox userscript for hardening Linux Firefox
Will look into it, thanks!
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LibreWolf is a hardened Firefox also available on Linux.
