adblock days are over - youtube getting arsey now

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Premium is about £150 a year - are you going to pay it?

Apparently the onslaught of ads is relentless without an ad blocker. Having been running Firefox for many years now, and thus ad blocker, i can't remember a time when i had to wait for ads to play through. Looks like the party's well and truly over now though.
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[WD Forte]

If Youtube stops me using an ad blocker I just wont use it again.

It's 90% shit anyway interspersed with some genuinely good stuff.
I saw it with ads the other week when setting up a lappy, went online
and hadn't installed AB+ etc
A few seconds was enough !! fuck that shit
____________________
bikers smell of wee

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

i've got way too reliant and dependent on youtube - it can be great for reviews of gear (at least until they removed the thumbs down counter a couple of years ago - jesus f***ing christ what an absolutely sh*t idea that was), etc.

also, old interviews with film directors, authors, musicians, going back to the '50s and all the way to the present - it's incredible - stuff you never ever dreamed you'd ever get to see, it's usually there (although in recent years the search function has been all but destroyed and the introduction of 'shorts' has wrecked things even more)

also, almost any recording of a song from the past 50 years or you could ever think of is on there - for that alone it's better than spotify, apple music or bandcamp

i'll have to stump up the ackers for premium, looks like - there's just so much incredible content on there that simply can't be viewed anywhere else

i have to say though that i think i'll be in the minority - and if i am, that will surely lead to massive changes, none of which will be positive
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[Islander]

I've had warnings about ad blocking but wait a period and get access anyway. I'm betting the Youtube specific blocker I user will get updated to get around the blocks and the same for other blockers.

I use a browser plugin to manage Arsebook (FBP). It blocks ads and 'sponsored posts' and other such shite and it's excellent at it. It makes Arsebook useable.. Every so often Arsebook tweaks its code and breaks the plugin. Wait a week or two and there's a new version of it and it's business as usual. The same will happed for blockers I'm sure of that.

[Easy-X]

Has anyone ever seen an ad they were actually interested in and clicked on? I mean for a genuine product, not some manipulative clickbait fraud.
____________________
Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[uberkron]

I've been paying since it was YouTube red.

I think it's awesome. I like the music app just as much.

early adopter. fuck it's not cheap anymore lol.
____________________
i ride a zip 50 2smoke. It overtakes a hundred times a day.

[MercurialWarc...]

Firefox plus uBlock Origin is the way to go.
The official Reddit page has all the info: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/

I'm personally already paying for Amazon Prime, and I'm currently watching the entirety of Columbo through Amazon's Freevee, and the ads there are certainly bad enough.

I'm also subscribed to Spotify Premium, so there's not actually that much that I would be missing out on by boycotting YouTube.

Oh, and as of yesterday, YouTube's parent company has a net worth of $1.56 trillion USD...

So aye, YouTube certainly ain't getting no extra money from me...

[MCN]

Youtube (Google) can double dildo fuck themselves.
I just deleted youtube from all my devices coz they banned me again. I don't know exactly the reason but feelings must have been crimped by a comment I made.

They can do one.

Google too.

Only issue is that Google owns the key to t' Internet Universe (as we currently know it.)

Bastirts.
____________________
Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Btw when I said adblocking is having a big effect on profits for YouTube, maybe it actually isn't.

My other theory - equally as whacky as the idea that humans have evolved special mind powers that enable them to unconsciously mute the telly by reflexively grabbing and pressing the remote, just as surely as if their leg twitched when you tap their kneecaps with a toffee hammer - my other theory is this:

That for whatever reason, YouTube ad revenue is going down (even when the use of adblock is taken into account). I appreciate that the onus is on me to prove that, and - trickier still - to explain why this might be happening. However, I do feel like the question of WHY NOW??? is just as difficult to answer. Why, why now, is YouTube finally tackling adblock.

My theory is this: Server costs. More and more and more content is being uploaded to YouTube. And a lot of it isn't just "Shorts" - although god knows youtube is REALLY pushing that tiktok influenced short format thing at the moment. No - a lot of YouTube content is like Russell Brand windbaggery. Too many people blathering on for far, far too long. Long format is what we've long come to expect from YouTube whether it's Matt at the Workshop taking an hour to tell us why he hasn't finished Isaac's ER500, or if it's Jordan Peterson banging on and on and on about how post-structuralists have got Nietzsche all wrong.

There must be server sheds in Arcola North Virginia that are as big as Doncaster purely to cope with MrBeast's channel - never mind all the millions of Itchy Boots copy cats.
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[The Artist]

I have been paying for it for a while. The ads are so intrusive and annoying and I use youtube more than any other streaming service by far. I don't have Netflix, disney+ etc. Just prime and youtube.

For the amount of content available, it is definitely worth it for me but I can see how people who only use it occasionally would find it expensive/bad value.

I should add that I use YT on my phone and an android TV box as well so ublock origin was only useful on my PC.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[that_impulse_guy]

I like my adblock, and I like youtube. I'm suitably annoyed right now.

From Youtube's point of view, if I say "stuff this, I'm going"...who cares...not only did they never make money from me, I actually cost them money.

From my point of view...I add to the community with the odd comment, or recommend something to a friend.

One of these viewpoints will win, but it will likely kill the other one too.
____________________
Gone: Yamaha DT50lc, Suzuki DR500, Suzuki A100, Kawasaki z250ltd, RD350YPVS, Suzuki DR Big, Kawasaki AR125, Kawasaki KMX200, Suzuki GS1000S, Katana 1100, GS550M, Suzuki RGV250
Now: Suzuki GSX400X, Suzuki RF900R, NS400R

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[doggone]

I'm using ublock origin with chrome and firefox and only a few get through, but on smart TV they are making it unwatchable especially if you are on something like a concert on volume #11 and suddenly it goes to loud advert.
I have tinkered with some settings maybe on router trying to reduce them but don't think it worked.

For over two years we've had no terrestrial TV due to freeview mast catching fire (bilsdale) and having missed the years of 'conditioning' now it is back that is all unwatchable too.
Not that it was watched much before.

[Ayrton]

I'll never pay for it and I use YouTube all the time. Every other website manages to come up with an ad solution that isn't stupidly intrusive like YouTube but of course the only reason it's there is to force people into buying the subscription because the alternative is so bad.

I use firefox and had a couple of ads the other day and then they all got blocked again. I cant see them being able to circumvent the adblocks permanently.

[MCN]

[Hetzer]

Years of free music from YT. It makes me larf when I see links below the vid window (now that my ad-blocker doesn't work) with obscene prices for songs and albums. "click click" and the MP3 is on my desktop, headed for my car-music USB stick.

Thank you YT.
____________________
"There's the horizon! Ride hard, ride fast and cut down all who stand in your way!"

[Islander]

[DaddyStu]

Another vote for uBlock here. Have been using it for 2 years across a variety of ad-infested sites.
____________________
Daddystu
Zontes 125-G1 (part-ex'd). Yamaha Tracer 700.

[MarJay]

Ironically I found a youtube video about uBlock Origin, and as long as you regularly update/reset it, it works fine. I'm using it right now after constant popups using enhancer for Youtube.
____________________
British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.