Adblockers are the only reason people can still tolerate watching content on the ad-riddled shitscape.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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Google whines about problems it caused -_-
Maybe dont put an ad every 5 minutes, that could lead people not to use adblocker. I wasn't an adblock user but seeing how the web is today its impossible to surf it without one
I, and many others left using YouTube from the site once they banned adblockers. I used to watch an hour a day I'd guess.
I'm technical, so I bothered seeking out alternative clients that can bypass the ads (Freetube, Grayjay, etc), but i still watch less overall. And after speaking to less technical friends and family, they said that the unskippable ads just got too much. So they stopped using it except for essential vids like tutorials.
Too many ads = consumer go byebye now.
Ya fuckin' milked the cow dry, idiots.
Youtube is still 100% usable with uBlock Origin... Even the "lite" version of uBO.
Its always a cat and mouse game. They say they blocked adblockers... but then that gets circumvented. But then they patch it, but that gets circumvented. If they spent a fraction of what they spend trying to stop adblockers and just show less ads... people wouldnt need to resort to adblockers!
Right, but through the entire debacle where Youtube supposedly stopped working with adblockers at all, I had absolutely zero interruptions. Firefox w/uBO (mobile and desktop), Chrome w/uBOL, and even YT Revanced.
This is literal abusive language. "Look what you made me do"
Its like every time when these corporations say they don't know how ads got injected into the start menu or something. Surely thats just happens through magic, and not weeks of managerial approval, and software work.
Ad blockers didn't break view counts. Them attempting to block the ad blockers broke view counts
Don't you hate it when you mistype a comma and your code to show ads suddenly issues a pull request, approves it, uploads itself to staging, goes through QA and then deploys to prod completely by accident? I know I do! /s
It's bullshit. They suddenly changed their metrics and views dropped sharply. The amount of people not using adblockers is staggering. Most people I know had to be made aware they existed and there are many more who watch YouTube through their smartphone app where there are no adblockers.
If you wanted me specifically to watch your videos, you'd stop putting ads in every 2 minutes. It makes the videos unwatchable. But also, I'd only watch directly if the video weren't on YouTube. Fuck them and their monopoly. They can only sustain it because of Google Search (or what's left of that service).
The video creators decide how many ads are on their video. YouTube is a heavy influence on that decision, but the number and timing of ads is up to the creators.
Really? I have trouble believing they'd insert ads at the worst moments possible.
They do. The youtube studio thing automatically inserts a shitload of ad breaks by default, but channels have the option to customize it. When you see a video with annoying ad breaks, it's because the creator didn't choose to remove them.
I use yt by default without ads, shorts, etc. on the home page only suitable recommendation ( or on the desktop none at all ). I recently had to reflash my phone and then went to yt. So wow I saw the garbage hslde and immediately closed it again and then configured my phone first for Ad & trash free yt
If you don't make your metrics reliant on spyware, they won't be affected by me blocking your spyware. But thats not a trick they teach at google university.
I can see this. I will only try refreshing a video a couple of times before giving up and moving on, if I can't watch it without ads. And lately, YouTube has been fighting with my adblocker so much, that I end up just turning it off altogether. Fuck ads.
Are you able to use yt-dlp or PipePipe?
I will be honest...I don't know what those are. Lol!
The first one is a popular video downloader, typically used for YouTube. The second is an Android app that is very well made.
And all I can think of is...
I'm doing my Part!
[Would you like to know more?]
Thought that does make it seem like we're part of some kind of movement, rather than just people sick of too many privacy invading ads.
I can see where this is going. Next, ad blocking will be made even harder than it already is.
Wtf. It's obviously crashed because of how absolutely unusable and disgusting youtube has become. I used to use youtube for 3 4 hours a day, but in the last year it may have gotten to an average of 20mins. Because you have to sign in to your google account to watch a video, many of videos cant be viewed with a vpn (which is how very large population of the world use youtube) and the overall quality of content has dropped massively, specially with 3/10 videos and shorts being AI slops.
Revanced extended. ( remove ads, shorts etc. ) ( Be careful with other sources regarding malware. (although ultimately you should not blindly trust this source either))
Hah!
haha, knew this gonna be their narrative