THE BOOT SLURPING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AD BLOCKERS ARE DISABLED
THE BOOT SLURPING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AD BLOCKERS ARE DISABLED
>2. disabling extensions (though i've had the same for years, it shouldn't have changed anything) Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes...
I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can't with these dweebs.
Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.
fuck google for doing this.
Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.
why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using "welfare queen" language. how did you know?
They don't pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.
I'm not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.
YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
Anyway, it's your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.
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These people are so funny, and have been around forever. They spend time customizing their filters to only block certain kinds of ads, or not blocking on sites they like. I can't imagine.
All so they can "support the site" by being subjected to ads for hard lemonade.
brb making adtech to serve ads for cyanide capsules and microtargeting it at people with ad blockers but who have whitelisted the site
/j
the value of a commodity is the socially necessary labor time required to produce it, but the price of a commodity is whatever the capitalists can get away with charging it. As the SNLT for so many digital commodities approaches zero, the only way to make money off of it is to employ a parasitic rent-seeking software-as-a-service or ad-blitzkrieg model. The alternative to this model built on artificial scarcity and planned obsolesence and a never ending arms race between different kinds of software developers is just nationalizing the tech companies and making data free if it doesn't cost anything to (re)produce. but we can't have that.
Baleted
Edit: I’m leaving this picture here for now to illustrate how funny takes you agree with can be harmful, regardless of your intentions. And how when others call you out on unconscious bigotry you should address it.
Edit again: No one asked for me to remove the picture. Just thought it was the right thing to do.
I already pay Google with my data, they don't need more money
why are you complaining so much? the Doritos™ Dew™ verification can is sugar-free and ethically sourced, and it actually tastes pretty good!
Users who look away during ads will be shot.
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When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.
People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
The users are just doing what the FBI wants them to do (install adblockers):
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
Because unlike Netflix or Amazon its user generated content. Also, normal people dont pay for those either.
Even better one of those people having issues were paying for it and still got screwed
What's that quote from a book, about how if the rich figured out how to bottle all the air in the atmosphere, people like this would scold and condescending you for suggesting it shouldn't cost money to breathe? And if you suggested banding together and smashing the air tanks, they would haul you in to the police in the hopes of receiving some air for their loyalty?
Jfc they have Chrome flair
Chromies are only gonna get more deranged in the next couple years.
Sorry I don't want my 6yo child seeing fucking ads for alcohol, P2W mobile games, and sex pills
It's bad enough he's so susceptible to click-bait "minecraft parkour" type bullshit videos...
I had turned the ad blocker off for a bit when YT first started blocking them and saw a fucking Goblin Slayer mobile game ad.
I installed Playlet and got rid of YouTube on my Roku-based TV(which is also a cesspool of ads) after my kid's YouTube junk food stuff started serving up ads for Disaronno. Like he was watching KooKoo Kangaroo or one of those magnetic metal ball ASMR videos.
I'd have a pihole running too but we have AT&T fiber and they don't let you change some settings needed for a pihole.
I honestly wouldn't even know how to raise a kid in this day and age. So much advertising vying for their attention, trying to whittle away at their already tiny attention span. It must be hard.
It fucking sucks for a lot of reasons. The oldest is just starting to learn that things cost money and he can't just get stuff because he wants it. His grandparents spoiled him for the first couple of years and I told them I didn't want them to buy him a ton of toys and stuff, but they did. I explained to my wife that the reason was partially because my own grandma spoiled us and then got shitty when she would come over and we'd ask for gifts. It's unhealthy conditioning for a developing mind. Thankfully the inlaws now mostly buy him and our youngest utilitarian stuff like clothes.
Oldest does seem to know at least to some extent that right now we are working with a single income and a teacher's salary at that. Keep him fed and let him play Switch and he's mostly good.
But I even had a plan early on that I didn't want him exposed to commercials and ads to the extent that I could help but life got busy and that fell apart and next thing I know, he's watching a bunch of consumerist product influencer shit on YT. We don't have regular TV so like those commercials aren't an issue but Prime and Hulu still stuffs ads at the beginning of movies and Twitch injects ads into their streams. It's awful. Like way worse than when I was a kid. They took cigarette ads away from magazines(justifiable) because they figured out they influenced children but unfettered consumerism ads for dumb shit made out of plastic is ok?
Sorry for the rant. It's just something that sets me off.
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called findom. People don't complain about other kinks.
Paypig
I haven't had any problems on firefox yet
See, that’s where the messed up part is. If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like Chrome (being a Google product) is programmed to start hoovering up CPU and RAM if it detects a YouTube ad blocker. Firefox wouldn’t do that because it’s not a Google product.
Which to me isn’t just not cool, it’s moving Chrome into the realm of malware: use our product as we intend or your computer will become borderline non-functional.
That's disgusting
Oh, so when I had Chrome it wasn't just chrome eating up RAM because it was poorly designed bloatware, it was maliciously designed bloatware. That's pretty fucked up.
to start hoovering up CPU and RAM if it detects a YouTube ad blocker.
In my experience it hoovered the CPU and RAM since forever that's why I switched to Firefox
It seems there are two broad sects of pro-advertising assholes on the internet:
There are the people who believe watching ads is a necessary evil for art to exist at all, and their willingness to toil in the marketing mines is some sort of moral virtue they have over the ad blocking "freeloaders".
And there are the tech perverts who actually get excited about the latest fucking spyware hidden throughout their OS, browser, and apps because they take some sort of sick enjoyment in being subjected to increasingly personalized ads as if the only problem with marketing brainwashing is that it just isn't quite relevant enough to their interests yet.
The first group is annoying, but the second is genuinely terrifying.
Thank you hexbear for existing and you guys being here. I always thought that people simping for corpos was weird. Let me take care of this chud
People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money
Yes I do
I posted it earlier, so I'll post it here as well
Using uBlock origin works as long as you add the below lines:
! 2022-07-23 https://mobile.twitter.com
mobile.twitter.com##.r-11nfnuw.r-16wqof.r-1dqxon3.r-16y2uox.r-kemksi.css-1dbjc4n
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
To add these, simply go to uBlock > Dashboard > My Filters, you can just wholesale copy/paste into there
After, go to the Filter Lists tab, and press Apply Changes, then Update Now (or maybe those need to be reversed, it's been a while)
If you had a youtube tab open, close browser and re open
Haven't needed to do anything since throwing that script on back in 2023 when YouTube forced the issue
thanks
Chromecucks btfo
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imagine defending google, the west is so fucking cooked
You can use a Boot Slurp to generate 2 new unique advertisements!
iNoVaTiOn!!1!
I am once again asking my fellow gommunists to use alternative YouTube frontends like invidio.us
The convenience of the YouTube mobile app is what’s keeping me (and probably many others)
newpipe is an open source adless front app that has never given me any trouble and lets you play audio in the background and download stuff. as far as i'm concerned, its signifigantly more convenient than the youtube app. i can't imagine having to listen to an ad every 5 minutes as i try to sleep, i'd become a terrorist
If you want you could use YouTube Revanced instead. It's easy to install and gives you all of the advantages of YouTube Premium for free.
Try libretube
I still haven't had any issues with this using firefox, uBlock origin (no other adblockers or they trip on each other), protonVPN, and never logging in. Age-gated videos I hit with youtube-dlp and it's no issue.
they suddenly warned me that i could only watch 3 videos with ublock origin enabled on Firefox before they would block my access a couple months ago.. same with my partner and also her dad. we just clear cookies or sign out and reset the limit every time it comes up.. they seem to have given up for now.. or they're trying to find another way to harass ad blocking users
A Reddit link was detected in your post. Here are links to the same location on Teddit and Libreddit, which are Reddit frontends that protect your privacy.
The users are just doing what the fbi wanted them to do (install ad-blockers):
Um yeah I'll just use invidious. It doesn't get slowed down.