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[–] TranceReduction@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Incidentally, I am also implementing a three strikes policy - as in I'll still using your website after seeing this shit three times.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

Youtube already has three strikes for me, I use Newpipe. :)

[–] modulartable@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

My senior neighbor watches YouTube a ton and uses it to listen to music on his laptop. His old laptop recently died and I helped him order a new one and put FireFox with the whole works of adguard, ublock origin, sponsorblock, etc. on it for him and its changed his life! He loves not seeing these dumb ads now!

[–] mjdxp@lib.lgbt 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If YouTube starts banning people for blocking ads, it'll finally be the push I need to move to PeerTube.

[–] withersailor@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Peertube just doesn't have the content.

[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder if this will affect Revanced users.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemmyonline.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bad news for me, I use youtube a lot with an adblocker and it's essentially ad-free. It's going to be a bad day for me when they start cracking down. It doesn't surprise me, but it's a bummer.

[–] space@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to worried, the cat and mouse game would probably catch up within a few weeks on the blocking side.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be so hopeful, Twitch has pretty much remained unbeaten and the only "ad block" solution I've found still gives a 30 second interruption of the stream, it just doesn't show the ad anymore. It's why I don't use the site anymore, even with Twitch Turbo as an option these days.

[–] Velonie@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I use this one and it works perfectly fine. No interruptions

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

[–] DuzAwe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Ill just stop watching youtube. I already miss quite a bit of the Subs I have as the algo doesn't show the new vids I have to go and check myself

[–] Engywuck@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm sorry for youtube-addicted. On my part, I use it, maybe, twice per year, so I couldn't care less.

[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me using youtube daily, to learn things (I enjoy engineering and educational content) I also use it to sleep with the help of ASMR

Ads during ASMR is going to ruin it, good thing ReVanced exists

[–] Engywuck@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I guess ASMR (whatever it is) can be found elsewhere as well or dowloaded for offline use?

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[–] lemor@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is the account banned or the IP? FYI, I don't really login to use YouTube. I mostly use RSS to subscribe to a channel.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or maybe they'll use browser fingerprinting and other hints to try and suss out who the 'bad' users are

[–] Engywuck@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Then you just use a browser that randomize fingerprints.

[–] westfalenmicha@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I use vinegar on iOS, which exchanges the youtube player with a html5 play, at least in safari. No ads there

[–] d48vdj@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] CreativeTensors@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah screw that, I'll just not use YouTube.

It wouldn't be as bad if their website wasn't such a spammy f*ing mess with ads. Let's go back to the days when advertisements were just banner ads and the odd video sponsor segment.

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