Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

  • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    My biggest issue is circumventing ads on smart TV apps, 99% of my YT viewing is on a TV.

      • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I don’t live in the US so I don’t have as easy access to random Android boxes like the ones on Amazon, but yeah I’ll probably get one eventually. I have a Chromecast 4K, but I haven’t really explored all the available apps yet. I’d love to be able to sideload apps, if I could get Grayjay on there that’d be awesome.

        • beefontoast@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          If you get a fire stick from Amazon and load smarttube app (side loading) you can use that and all the adverts and sponsor sections will be blocked out of your YouTube viewing. You can login to your YouTube account also with the app.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        83·
        11 months ago

        Then you are part of the problem.

        If no one bought that crap there wouldn’t be an insensitive for this psychological warfare.

        • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          415·
          11 months ago

          Imagine paying for content. What’s the saying? If it’s free you are the product?

          Anyway, I paid long before the AdBlock crackdown.

          • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            Idk man, paying for YT premium feels like paying for an ad-free experience, not content. Like my subscription would be going to YT, not the creators who made the content.

          • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            11 months ago

            You forget that YouTube was always free in the before times of long long ago. Content was free and delivered flawlessly. Minimal ads. Maybe banner ads or something. Now it’s ads every few minutes.

            • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
              22·
              11 months ago

              That’s obviously not sustainable. At some point they need to recover expenses on all their infrastructure and development. It can either be through ads or a subscription model. Alternatively they shut down permanently. Which do you want?

              • InternetUser2012@midwest.socialEnglish
                3·
                11 months ago

                At this point, I’m fine with it shutting down. If it shut down, creators would go somewhere else, we could end up with something much better. i won’t watch youtube if I have to watch minutes of ads before the video, and more throughout the video. Hard fucking pass.

              • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                They had paid for it for years. The sustainability relied on the range of services vs the service itself. For example, Walmart doesn’t really profit on big tvs. Typically the markup is negative. They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc. It’s not a this or that for me. It’s the choice of the company to change it up to be more profitable.

                Let’s be real, the point of a business is to make money. More money = more success, right? But what happens when you reach one billion dollars? Is one more billion more successful?

                This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.

                • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  They had paid for it for years.

                  Yes. With the intent of making a profit eventually. Or they wouldn’t have.

                  They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc.

                  What is YouTube going to “combat” with if not advertising or subscriptions…?

                  This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.

                  One billion means nothing if you’re spending tens of billions per year to continue operating. I’m not suggesting the CEO of YouTube deserves to get richer. I’m saying the company has operational expenses and investments that require some level of profitability, and “free for everyone forever” is literally just not a viable option.

                  • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    11 months ago

                    Alphabet spent $70 billion on stock repurchases last year. Their server costs aren’t a problem.

                  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    11 months ago

                    YouTube is only one section of an entire corporation. Compare Walmart’s entertainment department to the rest of the store. The company does profit.

                    Free forever was the whole premise of YouTube. That’s why it was named You Tube. Users create content and host it. Ads were fine, the ads now are not fine.

                    The operational expenses were always covered by ads. Ads is Googles whole business model. They were successful when they were less intrusive, why do they need to do things this way and break up the videos when they have grown an empire on what was previously done?

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            31·
            11 months ago

            I just bypass google entirely by hosting my own modified invidious instance and nuked my account.

            Free, no clutter, blazing fast. Took maybe 20 minutes to setup.