4d ago

I'll show them

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Cough cough Sony patent
- And yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
  
  Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?
- I'm gonna patent a robot that uses Deepseek to identify forece-response ads on the telly, and it automatically responds to the ad in lieu of the human.
  Let the arms race commence. I've got all day.

Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.
- I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.
- I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?
  
  PiHole
  
  Haven't personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it's ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don't know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
- Doesn't seem to work on the PS5
  
  Can it run Firefox?
  
  That's what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.
- What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?
  
  Playlet for Roku and Clipious and/or SmartTube for android-TV based devices (fire tv)
  
  DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won't skip sponsored segments though, you'll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they've decided to shill.
  
  DNS/piblock
- DeArrow is really good too.
- Please do not use Sponserblock unless you support that creator in some other way; or you just don't care about them.
  
  I'm allergic to advertisement, I'd rather not watch a video at all than watching the ads in it. SponsorBlock for me is just an automation of what I would do anyway pressing forward 5-7 times to jump over this section. I will not buy this stuff anyway it's just a waste of my time. I go even so far that I don't mind paying for YouTube Premium because this removes the advertisement, but there is no way to pay for skipping sponsors automatically other than SponsorBlock.
  
  Please do not try to shame people for exercising their property rights (i.e. their right to control what their computer displays, or doesn't display).
  
  Creators don't get money for you watching their sponsorship, only if you click through and do something with it
  If you don't plan on interacting with the sponsorship we then blocking it just saves time
  
  The Tuber already got paid by the sponsor. And sponsors look at click trough and conversion rates not views. If I’m not going to buy what they are selling me I might as well skip the ad. I don’t need NordVPN or Squarespace or whatever shit they are trying to push on me.
  
  I legit hate this take. YT was started as a way for everyone to share videos with each other, not be a corporate pusher for those that want to 'go big'. The fact that YT even offered profit sharing is awful.
  Yeah, go ahead and support who you like. But don't sit there and be like "you're hurting them if you don't pay them and you don't want their bullshit ads". Get the fuck out of here with that shit. "creators" who "make a living" from YT are the reason YT is a cesspool of dogshit now. If you aren't on YT because of a genuine desire to simply share videos, without expecting monitary kickbacks to support your life, gtfo. The support should come naturally through other avenues.
  
  If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.
  
  If anything it should be the other way around since sponsor spots don't make money per person watching them.
  
  They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they're big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they've chosen to sell doesn't affect them financially.
  
  sponsorblock lets you unskip things so you can watch any sponsor you like. it also helps skip all sorts of non content, not just ads so it's useful either way. you can set it to auto skip, no skip, manual skip prompt, only marked for any type of content (intro, intermission, filler, sponsor etc) not using it is just stupid.
  with all that said, I don't think sponsorblock affects creators at all. I highly doubt sponsors look at how much specific sections of a video has been watched. they only care about how popular a creator is, who their audience is and what they say during the sponsored section.
  even if they decide whether to continue sponsoring based on how well the previous sponsored video did, the important metric would be the view count of the video, not how many people watched or skipped an ad section specifically.
  if that were important creators wouldn't split their sponsored sections in time codes they provide because they know it's an easy skip. more importantly regardless of the creators, the sponsors would simply ask not to do it as part of the agreement. (inb4 legal requirement: I'm not talking about disclosure; I'm talking time codes specifically)

Ad pauses until your eye tracking shows you are engaging with the Ad. (The future)
- Watch me fuck off from the platform at the speed of light - I am already halfway from going full "fuck it, let's pretend it's '99" and hanging out on phpbb forums and Neocities.
  
  If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?
- googly eyes on a stick.
- RESUME VIEWING
- Yeah. Unfortunately. This sounds far too likely.

in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
- Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
  
  You won't even know they're ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
  
  Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g
  
  Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
- 🏴‍☠️
- wait what this is real
  
  Wow is this a clip from Archie's Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I'd see that online.
- Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
- Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
  
  What kind of ads are in your car besides the radio?
  
  w...wait , really?

Drink the verification can
- That meme was prophetic.
- Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we're not far now...

Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi
I've got one thing to way to you
Ublock origin
- Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?
  
  Kath & Kim is one of Australia's finest cultural exports
  
  I would like to inform you that Canadian gays love 2 shows from Oz; "Kath and Kim", as well as "Please like me".
  Wentworth is a little extra, but it has it's camp moments.

I usually don't watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
- That's been my experience going to some of my friend's houses. It's despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.
  
  I swear I don't understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days...

Lol I've actually done this and muted it too
- On my smart tv i set up the custom picture settings profile with the black level set so the only thing visible is the ad timer counter. So when an ad comes on I just switch it to custom picture profile and mute it, then switch back to standard when its finished.

My goal is to never buy anything that they ad. I can't always avoid it, but i largely do.

Fifteen Million Merits

That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
- Why don't you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
  
  Maybe they’re archiving them for future viewing incase the video is pulled from YT.
  
  uBlock Origin on Firefox
- you know freetube/invidious/piped/materialious/tubo/grayjay exist right?
  
  When I've tried a couple of them, they were slower or felt unreliable. I'll give them a shot if my local tools stop working.

Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
- Damn even your genitals??

The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button

The only ads Ive watched in the past year were ads from flex seal and tim henson, and those were technically just videos.
If ads were like that I wouldnt mind them as much

Not for long..

Any adblocks x smart TV?
- SmartTube if it's an Android TV.
  Edit: Use the link in the reply below. I've had it installed for years, didn't realise it's changed 😁 Thanks, perfectly_boiled_pizza
  Download and install the APK through Downloader app or USB, only takes a few mins following instructions.
  Devs keep it very regularly up to date. SponsorBlock included. Many excellent additional features making it way better at being YouTube than the YouTube app could ever be.
  
  That's not the official site. It has an old version (July 2024) and the file might contain malware. You can safely download the latest version from GitHub and find their updated guide there.
  If you don't want to use Github, you can use the site they have linked to which is https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
- If you need it on tizen os (Samsung TV's) there is tizentube
  I now moved to android tv (modified), but tizentube made my Samsung tv at least bearable.
- Don’t connect the TV to the internet. Buy a Shield or AppleTV.

Press M for mute. Most adds' sound design is awful.

When was January Jones a nineties office worker?
- That is Kath Knight and I will not stand to see her disrespected
  Truly a great Australian icon
  
  I was a bit surprised to see Kath in a meme so came straight to the comments...
- That's Kath Day-Knight you uncultured swine.

Robert Rankin’s “Armageddon” trilogy has something like this, where Actively Viewing pays you rehousing credits, so the main character has developed away to sleep with his eyes wide open, as if actually watching the screen.

anyone got a solution for apple tv? found one app but it works through invidious and invidious doesn’t really work anymore. even tried hosting my own at home but nothing :(
- I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don't watch a huge amount so I'm happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I've never been able to wrap my head around it.
- I’ve honestly just switched to screen mirroring my Mac and using Firefox / ublock / etc when I want to watch YouTube on the tv.

Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.

This shit doesn’t work when it’s a two hour ad lol

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