• xJREB@lemmy.world
    0·
    10 months ago

    Is Google Chrome fighting uBlock country-specific? I use Chrome on Win 10 with uBlock and haven’t seen a YouTube ad outside of the mobile app in ages. For me, uBlock never stopped working in Chrome and I watch YouTube videos every 1-2 days.

  • bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    0·
    10 months ago

    as a firefox user i cant give up and just installed freetube, exported everything from yt. its great

  • DNOS@lemmy.ml
    0·
    10 months ago

    YouTube can definitely afford a war ship and pay people to shoot…we may have enough people to operate a death star for free but can we afford one ?

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      0·
      10 months ago

      The image doesn’t quite work because youtube needs a MASSIVE solution that works, scales, doesn’t fuck up their infrastructure and on and on and on.

      Meanwhile on the user front, all your doing essentially is just skipping parts of a video, that will always be infinitely cheaper easier to do. Challenging for sure, but the solution can be small.

      Even something as stupid as delaying your video start by 1 min, pre buffering then skipping ads. It’s brute force and barbaric but the point is that Google can’t do shit against that.

      My ultimate vision is AI that preloads videos you want and detects ads / sponsor segments and just skips them / cuts them out on your device.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
        0·
        10 months ago

        Another way to think about it… YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it’s an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
      0·
      10 months ago

      I guess you haven’t heard they’re experimenting with injecting ads right into the videos on the server. Just turning off scripts won’t do anything for that.

      • TwanHE@lemmy.world
        0·
        10 months ago

        Sponsor block gives me a nice list of options to do in that case: skip automatically, show a skip button or ignore. All based on what type of interruption there is.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      Blocker
      Blockers
      Blocker 3
      Blocker Resurrection
      Blocker vs Inline
      Blocker vs Inline: Requiem
      Revanced
      Blocker: Covenant
      Blocker: Romulus

    • reddithalation@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      10 months ago

      nah, if they embed the ad into the video stream (they were testing this for some users!), the only adblocking option will be to blank out the screen and wait through the ad (or download the video in advance and edit the ad out automatically), both of which would make it a lot more annoying to adblock than currently.

    • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
      0·
      10 months ago

      They have infinite resources. They’re making gestures to dissuade casuals. I suspect this will get them most of the result they want. They’re also wasting time, effort and resources of adblock programmers (and that is a far more limited resource).

      • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
        0·
        10 months ago

        Sure but as long as there is a least one dedicated bearded dude hidden in a dark underground room behind his screen, they will be defeated. No matter how much they spent on the new technology. What I mean is that devs might burn out, they will still be replaced by others. And we get such people faster than youtube is able to burn them out

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    0·
    10 months ago

    What this? I cant hear you over my high definition yt-dlp content.

    Where i am going I haven’t needed a google account in over a year.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        10 months ago

        At that point i will either have to use an ai tool to scrub the filth out

        Or

        Consider if i really need whatever content is within it and touch some grass instead.

      • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
        0·
        10 months ago

        With yt-dlp? Skip them manually.

        Like, my main issue with ads is all the tracking they do. If they add non-targeted ads to the video file I downloaded, whatever, I’ll just fast forward through that part of the video.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        10 months ago

        Are you familiar with Jellyfin?

        https://jellyfin.org/

        If you can set up a server of this then its as easy as making the library folder the output folder for yt-dlp

        https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

        I didnt even have to write me own script. I gave chatgpt a notepad with channel urls and just told it to write me code to load these urls one by one and download the Last 2 videos. (Trust me you dont want to accidentally download a whole channel). Yt dlp can maintain a log of sort so videos aren’t downloaded more then once.

        I run this script on a schedule and delete the video when i am done with it. Nice and clean. I can also recommend trying to run an invididious instance for general video browsing but mine took some twiddling to setup right.

        https://invidious.io/

    • g1ya777@lemmy.world
      0·
      10 months ago

      Personally, I use Tubular on my phone ( Newpipe fork with sponsorBlock ), freetube on PC, and Smart tube on my android tv.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    So we have:

    • Ad Blockers
    • ‘Ad Blocker’ blockers
    • ‘‘Ad blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blockers; and finally;
    • ‘’‘’‘‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blocker’ blockers; with;
    • ‘’‘’‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers

    in development.