You can skip or avoid ads on YouTube, so meh. What really grinds my gears though, is the stupid, fucking algorhythm, which routinely offers me videos I just recently watched, vids in languages that I can't speak, "current" affairs stories that are years old, and channels/vids that I have specifically blocked. I curse YouTube daily, but will bless anyone who has a viable alternative....
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.
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Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won't roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!
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Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
Their wallets.
I seem to have the right stuff on my laptop, but not on my phone. When I play escape games on the phone I occasionally need a walkthrough video, so I'm switching between 3 apps: the game, my notes (a paint app) and the video. Walkthrough videos typically have an ad at the beginning and maybe one in the middle, and I don't mind watching 15-30 seconds of ads for the YouTuber's work.
This used to be pretty seamless, but a couple weeks ago something changed. When switching back to YouTube, it would not return me to the video but to the home screen. I have to go to "You" to get the video I was just watching, and when I click it it plays the ads again, then jumps to where I left off. So now every time I switch away I have to view an ads again when I switch back, which really sucks balls. I don't think the phone is running out of memory since other apps I have open switch right back to where they left off. So I'd love to get something that will skip all that.
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what's a youtube ad?
They do get they're not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?
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Oh please no, it's the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
I should just read a book at this point
daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.
I forgot about that site. I knew it just as the host for TV series streams back in the day