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madamepestilence · 5 months

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Okay, so I just wanna bring something up regarding YouTube (and Google by extension, as they fully own YouTube, and also Google [and Amazon] are currently being sued for being illegal monopolies)

So YouTube's bad updates have officially pushed me to Firefox, but I wanna break down some of their recent updates

The first thing they did was removing people's ability to watch videos if adblockers were present, which is borderline legal

There is no law in the US, where Google is hosted, that requires a user to disable adblockers on certain websites, meaning that YouTube blocking people from using adblockers and paying for their product/watching extensive ads instead isn't technically legal, but also isn't technically illegal

This is also the Adpocalypse 2, with ads being anywhere from 10 seconds to a full minute, and ads also run at the beginning of videos, the end of videos, as midrolls, as the starts of every chapter, and when you move your location in the video -

even on some videos that've disabled ads and use sponsorships - and these also run occasionally on videos marked for sleep-aids such as ASMR videos and on unmonetized videos that shouldn't have ads as the person who put up the video doesn't get paid

The next problematic update they put up was creating an artificial 5-second delay for Firefox users (this can be remedied with www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001) in uBO), which is in violation of antitrust law

What pushed me to Firefox is that the new update for Chrome (and all Chrome-based browsers), Manifest v3 will completely disable any extensions not directly authorized by Google, and this includes completely disabling uBlock Origin, which forces people not on Firefox or TorBrowser to be bombarded with ads and data scraping.

After moving to Firefox, I've noticed another thing that I'm 90% sure is another violation of antitrust law: In Chrome, there's 1080p. In Firefox, it's split into 1080p and 1080p Premium, reducing the intended bitrate and making videos visibly lower quality - requiring people to pay for YouTube Premium in order to use YouTube as intended.

What the fuck is happening?

#google #youtube #ublock #ublock origin #ubo #adpocalypse #i literally don't know what to tag this tbh

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direbeastrex · 6 months

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Youtube's new 'three videos and then you will be blocked if you run an adblocker' has got me so fucking anxious. I couldn't pick 3 videos if I tried. What would I watch? Probably one of the rare animated movies you can still watch for free, or something that I can remember fondly- because I'm not subjecting myself to youtube's egregious, usually bigoted ads, and if I can help it, I just won't watch videos on youtube anymore *full stop*. I won't be able to afford to support all the creators I want and get their videos on patreon, but at least I have Nebula now? Not a lot of the folks I followed are on there though.

#youtube adblock #youtube #adpocalypse

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ingdamnit · 5 months

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Tumblr: no no why are you using an ad blocker? That hurts our feely weelyies. Also here's an unmitigated deluge of scams, rancid mobile game ads and explicit extreme cartoon gore if not just fetish material also advertizing shit mobile ads. Eat it up piggy. Our visceral contempt for your can't be understated. We clearly think you're the dumbest most vile filth and exist only to transport your wallets to your betters. Oink oink oink pay pigs.

Please disable ad blocker or pay us a ransom to reward us for having unbearably toxic ads. Fuck you. Give us money. Here's tumblr live. Pay us then gky.

#tumblr staff #adpocalypse #ads #mobile games

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thehouseofgrey · 6 months

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This fucking latest YouTube adpocalypse is so fucking funny to me because I’ve never seen her. I’ve literally never experienced whatever the fuck y’all are talking about. Skill issue.

Me n Firefox (with the Adnauseam extension) are over here making out with tongue and watching YouTube logged in completely unbothered by whatever hell y’all chromium users are in. Hope not using Firefox is worth it ✌🏾

#youtube #adpocalypse #google #download firefox #i am no longer asking

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martiansodas-blog · 2 months

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“Want a break from the ads? If you tap now to watch a short video, you’ll receive 30 minutes of ad free music.”

Allow “Website” to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?

“This website uses cookies to improve your experience,”

#15 million merits #black mirror #adpocalypse #ads #spotify #youtube ads #dystopian

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sunny-m00n · 7 months

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I can’t get through one video on an old internet virus without (so far) 10 ADS

YouTube is actually falling apart, I’m worried that any long video essays will be hell to get through if it’s this bad on a 20 and a half minute video-

#sunny screams #YouTube #it’s falling apart unfortunately-#adpocalypse #I feel a lot of spite today so sorry everyone-

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iwilltryalittlearter · 1 year

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Cackling because every ad in my feed now is shirts specifically for old men.

And the terrible thing is I’m actually a little tempted 😂😂

#not my arts #adpocalypse

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wyrd-and-words · 1 year

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Just gone through and blocked every brand on the brand registry.

#begone brands #adpocalypse

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lesser-mook · 3 days

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1 Second video (15 Second Ad)

#Y #adblock #youtube #adpocalypse #broadcast our sponsors

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cursi4do · 5 days

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gente disiendole: te amo a 1 publicidad yop: 😳

#adpocalypse

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screwtrapdaemon · 1 month

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I dislike how tumblr just like "bugs out" on mobile when you scroll past an ad, and you're forced to see it on you screen for 3 seconds and you can't do anything. Before it's back to normal, I immediately close the app and put it in time out when it happens.

#Bug zapper #adpocalypse

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takofoodtruck · 1 month

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I went to see Dune part 2 today. I wanted to see a movie since I hadn't done that in a long time and I've been under some stress. In the last year or two, I've only really been watching movies at home or overseas when I travel with work.

I have to say, the /lasting/ vibe I have after getting home is...

Why are there so many damn advertisements!? It was just commercial after commercial. Not even including the previews, which were their own awful batch of shit.

I honestly almost got up and left before the movie even started. It was really jarring to go from "HAH HAH BUY PRODUCTS" into the reverend mother talking about the spice. Within seconds.

I think they've finally gotten me to say "welp. Guess I'm just done with movies now". Which is what happened with TV once they started cutting out the background music due to licensing, making 80 different streaming sites, and putting commercials into literally everything in between. The only show I've watched recently that wasn't creator run was the one piece live-action. And that was only because I used to watch a lot of one piece. Otherwise, I haven't watched TV in years. Not that it's a good or bad thing. Just that the constant strive for ads turned me off from it. And I haven't missed it.

I've been dialing back from movies since the writers strike and the constant increasing adpocalypse. I'm just tired of my every waking moment being ads.

Seriously. I'm so burned out on these bread and circus keys jangling shit everywhere.

#movies #adpocalypse #the ever grinding gears of profit at any cost #enshittification #i paid to be there for that fucking movie and my main takeaway was how many goddamn ads there were before it.

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ingdamnit · 6 months

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Thanks Tumblr for constantly showing me the ad for the misegregation cuckold fetish game ad