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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Can't say I've seen them.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

also works on android

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Yep, this works! No ads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What if you only use the apps?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You'll have to side load it yourself, but it's got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don't want to hear shilling during a video.

No idea for iPhone.

[–] brb 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not just use the original ReVanced?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

It had stopped working for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lookup Grayjay

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

What ads? My adblocker still works.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Youtube has ads? Since when.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

"But we can't pay our content creators! We're a starving tech company! Niche stuff no one uses or has heard of! We needed to cut the money so they had to push scams!"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And since they made so much while people are effectively using adblocker, there's no need to fight them back, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not about making money, it's about making all the money. Stock holders will pressure to fire the guy that does that.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

YouTube ReVanced all the way

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 days ago (18 children)

what ads? taps ublock and firefox android

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[–] [email protected] 251 points 3 days ago (21 children)

What youtube ads, I haven't seen one in years, fortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (21 children)

I say this every time the topic comes up, and I’m always downvoted for it but here goes again:

YouTube is going to do this suit because YouTube CAN do this shit. It’s their company. They can enshitify it as much as they’d like. And they WILL enshitify it as much as they like as long as people continue to use it.

How long have they been in existence now? 18-19 years? And with every year they gets worse and worse, while growing bigger and bigger. Why do you think that is?

Could it be because they know that although everyone will bitch about them, complain about them, and write scathing tech articles about them- people will still gobble their shit up regardless.

Don’t like what YouTube is doing? Maybe think about not using it. Because as long as you’re participating- either by creating content or viewing it- you are a big part of the reason they’re getting away with doing this shit.

Downvote away.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Ads didn’t make 10 billion, Google charged advertisers 10 billion. IMO ads have gone so pervasive they’ve hit a point of diminishing returns. They’re everywhere, we hate them, and those 10 billion spent would have to bring many more billions in sales to be an attractive service.

I can’t wait for the ad bubble to burst, as advertisers understand they’re just giving money away to megaadvertisers for paltry conversions.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm an admin in Google Ad Manager for a few hundred sites. Saying that to say I've read a lot of their documentation. They have a great graph showing this very concept. Less ads, less money, happy users. More ads, more money, unhappy users. They're aware. They aren't pouring the poison. They're designing the pitcher and selling different size cups.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I pay for a YouTube premium family plan. It’s probably a rip off but my kids enjoy content on YouTube more than any other platform but YouTube is not safe for children with ads enabled (and YouTube kids is a joke)

Soggy cereal made a video about how YouTube ads are unsafe a few weeks ago and that was exactly my experience before I started paying for yt premium, look that up if you are curious

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 children)

Those poor suckers. I don't think I've seen an advertisement on YouTube in something like five years.

Edit: And I sure as hell ain't paying Google either.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

havent seen them. are they any different? i am sure it is the same scam google does with Ads. only boomers see it, but are not the target group and the advertisers are just wasting money.

instead of using piped/smarttube i advise to not use US based services at all.I mean fuck you for supporting the ultragreedy.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. I never see any ads on youtube.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (27 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that's much more important for the platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.

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