if they come for yt-dlp i will record their videos with a fucking VCR and clip out the ads so help me god
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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If I'm provoked to retaliation, my tactic would be to start aggressively mirroring other people's content to PeerTube.
I haven't done so yet out of respect for the creators, but my patience with Google is wearing thinner and thinner...
I've got a vcr in my closet, I don't know why, but maybe their days are coming back.
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I can’t watch YouTube without getting ads with some gravy seal in camo walking around in the woods telling me there’s a storm coming.
Who’s allowing these clowns to spread their propaganda?
YouTube. Obviously.
And the rest of us are, too.
I don't know what a "gravy seal" is, but I'm trying to picture it and I'm kinda laughing to myself
Imagine a fat, old, or otherwise unfit civilian who has purchased tactical-looking gear and weapons, which he uses for aggressive posturing. That's my understanding of the term.
Pretty much spot on. This imaginary man also owns a truck too big to park and will assault you for being gay and/or brown. People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.
People just like him populate moderate swaths of the American South and make other minor appearances farther north.
People like him populate rural America everywhere. The South is just slightly more rural than other parts of the country.
Member of Meal Team 6, Vanilla ISIS, or Y'all Qaeda. Usually drives a pavement princess.
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Seriously!! I don't mind the frequency so much as the absolute SHIT they're serving up. Conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory. I've been skipping some of my favorite creators because I just don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with the bullshit every five minutes. It is truly enraging.
I also got a Nebula subscription. It's not perfect, and I wish more of the people I follow were on there, but it helps so much, mentally. I don't have to see crappy ads I didn't sign up for, or feel guilty for using an ad blocker, because the people I follow are getting paid through the subscription.
Ads are the reason I stopped listening to regular FM radio. I used to live in a more rural town and it was at least half an hour to get to any city I would have to go to for more than basic groceries. Once when I was coming back somewhere that takes a whole hour drive to get home, I heard nothing but commercials the entire drive. Not one fucking song (aside from ad jingles) for a whole fucking hour. Ridiculous.
I switched to Sirius. And it was great.... Until they got bought/merged with XM. Now they have a monopoly on satellite radio, they immediately cut features and jacked up prices. They also started playing ads. So I cancelled that.
I've been using Spotify Premium ever since. It started off pretty great; they've recently been cutting back features and jacking up the price tho. So I may end up cancelling Spotify, too, if shit keeps trending downhill. Especially if they put ads in the premium service I pay for specifically to not have ads.
I've been adding music to my mp3 collection since Napster got started. It feels old fashioned now but I have yet to see a reason to use an alternative method. I actually have a lifetime subscription to SiriusXM. So I pay nothing, and I still don't listen to that shit.
Hearing new music is why I like Spotify. Sure, there are ways to find new music without streaming, but it takes actual effort, where Spotify can just make it happen.
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Remember the time when people used to have a stack of CDs in the car? Some cars even had a a fancy player that could hold multiple discs.
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What features has Spotify cut? I've had premium for like 5 years and I think I've seen a dollar raise in price.
Idk I pay for Spotify family premium and it's only gone up $1 since their launch in 2011... I think that's pretty good. Now if it becomes and annual thing then fuck'em.
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YouTube Ads: "You are a MAN with a GUN and you will MURDER EVERYONE if it means you can PROTECT your FAMILY"
I don't even know, or care, wtf they are selling but they missed the target audience with that one. That's the cringiest fetishism I've ever seen in my life.
So many ads seems like Powerthrist turned down to 70% but lacking the irony.
Google must be scraping the bottom of the barrel of crazy that's also stupid enough to pay for ads, I think it's common knowledge now that Google games analytics to artificially inflate the appearance of ad impact.
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These ads make it impossible to use YT as a free learning platform anymore.
When I want to dig into a subject, I want to do it focused and without being distracted, and YT makes it impossible. The only content one can tolerate ads on is entertainment, which makes YT just another TikTok.
Currently sharing piped.video with every single educator there is. There should NEVER FUCKING EVER be ads on educational videos. Youtube is run by POS's and greedy shitfaces.
Well, it's owned by Google...so...
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I live in the Philippines and get ads for cock fighting.
In America we just call that gay porn
Hi! We're Liberty Mutual! All of our ads are weird and quirky, which is funny! Quirky equals funny, right? You're laughing, aren't you? This one has an emu! An emu is funny, isn't it? Liberty Mutual!
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Don't see mention of Invidious in here so may as well share.
Like piped - front end for youtube. No ads.
I know it's not, but that totally looks like the domain of a porn site.
Baby, you're going to get piped so hard.
Fuck YouTube
Not only the way they keep pushing more and more ads is becoming way too much, they don't have any standards for what sort of ads they push. From blatant political propaganda to petty false advertising of apps. A reckoning is way overdue.
Chumba casino ads are the so dystopian and bleak it's like I'm listening to an ad in a GTA game.
This is why I avoid the steam in-game web browser like t͟h͟e͟ P͟L͟A͟G͟U͟E͟
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YouTube AIDS
Weirdly, and annoyingly, I get this same thing when watching YouTube on my TV (the quantity thing, not the war propaganda stuff. Just regular ads). Whether via Roku stick, Chromecast or anything. It's sometimes an ad every 2 minutes. However watching the same thing on a laptop or my phone even without any adblock and the video will play far better. Maybe 1 ad at the halfway point and nothing else.
I don't know why the TV version of YouTube is such an arse for ads. They're not even in clean places - I get an ad mid-sentence.
Honestly, for a 20 minute video I'd be perfectly ok with a 30 second ad or so. It helps the creators and isn't that much of a pain for me. But getting adverts every 2 minutes, even if they're skippable is just a horrific experience.
The time and set duration for their ads is based on viewer habits, so they are basically banking that you are too lazy to skip it or are out of the room and they can still claim they ran the whole ad.
Recently in a 5 minute video an ad came up that showed it was an hour and 10 minutes long. There is no good reason for that garbage
Dude with kids cartoons it’s horrible. 5+ min ads disguised as cartoons for 2min videos. It’s absurd.
If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.
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Reminds me the first time watching a movie on TV in the UK in year 2000. 4 long ass commercial breaks and... News in the middle.
I just found a new app called Grayjay, it combines all the platforms, haven't used it much, but it doesn't have ads, or at least is not supposed to
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