how would you even know that
hopefully you weren't silly enough to turn your ad blocker off :O
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Youtube is so insanely unhinged, I have no idea how people use it normally.
I'm glad it exists because a lot of cool stuff comes from there but damn
i’ve already been thinking a long time ago about creators liberating themselves from youtube’s abusive choices and going to self-serve their content, like you’d do on a personal blog.
but what youtube is really good at is discoverability. maybe there should be a website where creators can make accounts, tag the accounts with specific topics, and then post Content Links with tags. and the website would have a simple tag-based algorithm like “you view a lot of #apple content, so maybe you’d like to see some general #tech content”, or even an option to disable algos and just view content. it would be great i think. sorry if this sounds incomprehensible i had 5 hours of sleep but i think you can get the gist of it.
I'm unsure what's worse tbh, the openly hateful ads for fascist bigots, or the ones that suddenly scream at me about how I'm a MAN and need to be using MAN SOAP or MAN SHIRTS or whatever on all my MANLY MAN PARTS
sure do love watching youtube with my mom as the youtuber stops to tell us about ball trimmers for 5 minutes
I'm very fortunate that the people on youtube that make stuff I really want to watch tend to be the kind to shun ads in favor of patreon or the likes, because yeah.
exactly same, I've been getting that same experience before my gf taught me about ad blockers
Youtube (and any other platform) is so quick to demonetize videos for not being advertiser friendly, but never turns around and asks if their advertisers are fucking friendly to the content creators and watchers.
Until people uploading videos can choose what and how many ads run on their videos, I won't even consider turning off adblockers.
I'm fucking HAPPY when one of my spouse's stream VODs gets demonetized because then we aren't forced to run fucking pragerU ads on our videos.
"yeah we need that ad money to pay your favourite creators"
cuts off ad revenue to any video that says a swear word even fucking James Rolfe had to change the title of You Know What's Bullshit
ublock can stop youtube popups with this personal addition to filters I'm pretty sure
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)
snippets like these tend to break more than they fix - just keep filter lists up to date and you should be all good (see https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/111236021993017892)
