YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

Rayspekt, 10 months ago

How do the 3rd party clients for youtube work? Can they still circumvent the adblock-blockers or where are the "positioned" inside youtube's code? Sorry for the weird terminology, I'm no programmer.

mishimaenjoyer, 10 months ago

most of them go through proxy services like invidious. google is fighting them atm.

50MYT, 10 months ago

Re vanced mods the normal app with a premium override.

I had to patch mine as the blocking mentioned in the article was kicking in after about 20 seconds. The video would just stop and sit loading.

Revanced works on Android devices, and Doesn’t need root. Follow the guide to do it.

1ird, 10 months ago

YouTube ReVanced still works. They patch the app to not play the ads.

The way it works is you install the normal YouTube app, install the ReVanced patcher and it patches and reinstalls the app.

CTdummy, 10 months ago

Is the photo for this article two naked chicks smoking at a bar for anyone else?

jon, 10 months ago

On Artemis, yes. On kbin.social, no. Was kinda wondering why no one else was talking about it.

PinGZ, 10 months ago

I have the same image, also on Artemis/ camp

unconsciousvoidling, 10 months ago

ehhh… i see five gerbils playing in a mariachi band.

Erika2rsis, 10 months ago

I’m using Alexandrite and see no thumbnail.

Eggyhead, 10 months ago

Fellow camper here. The two topless chicks were quite a shock.

Eggyhead, 10 months ago

@hariette

I think there might be something glitchy with Artemis.camp’s federation of this article. Lemmy.world and kbin.social is showing this as a generic YouTube thumb, but Artemis.camp, both in and out of the app, is showing two nude women smoking in a bar.

Chozo, 10 months ago

It's with Kbin, in general, I think. Kbin.social is having similar issues with caching the wrong thumbnails lately. Been happening for a few days.

deleted, 10 months ago

Go home CTdummy. You’re drunk. /s

I don’t see any photos other than youtube logo.

Memmy for lemmy on iOS.

kspatlas, 10 months ago

It is for me

Mdotaut801, 10 months ago

Piped

mrvictory1, 10 months ago

clicks on link

It looks like you are using an ad-blocker

moitoi, 10 months ago

This is one of these problem with multiple unsolvable issues:

• people are used to ad block and won’t change
• the price is too high for part of the population (-> ad block for part of them)
• $1/month, $10/year would attract new paid account but not that much
• people can’t afford/don’t want a subscription everything
• users don’t see any value in it
• a fraction of the paid will go ad block with the price increase
• people will circumvent the ad block block
• capitalism
• …

tibi, 10 months ago

I think a lot of people would subscribe if they had a lower price tier where they have a reduced amount of ads (like an ad every few videos). Without ad blockers, youtube is unwatchable, you get more ads than you would on TV (where in many places ads are legally capped at around 15mins/hour).

Pregnenolone, 10 months ago

I think they are likely to pull a Netflix and create a lower premium tier with ad support and missing other premium features like picture in picture

Pechente, 10 months ago

They already solved it. Premium was way cheaper before they started bundling it with Music which is just utter garbage. I’d pay like 5€ / month for YouTube Premium without Music IF the experience was actually good and they didn’t shove shorts in my face everywhere like that non-dismissable panel that breaks up my subscriptions now.

Graphine, 10 months ago

Dear YouTube,

Go fuck yourselves.

Sincerely, the 1% of people who actually use adblockers happily.

fne8w2ah, 10 months ago

Or revanced/rvx extended.