if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter

  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    432·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be a bit sad if YT becomes unwatchable without blocking ads but I’ll get over it and watch something else somewhere else. Same as I did with Reddit.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      40·
      1 year ago

      I’ll be a bit sad if YT becomes unwatchable without blocking ads

      YT has been unwatchable without blocking ads for years now.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
        16·
        1 year ago

        I disabled all extensions while trying to fight against that pop-up and I realized YouTube is almost unwatchable even with adblocker if you don’t have sponsor block. How someone can sit thru the ads and sponsored sections just blows my mind. As if sitting on youtube watching videos isn’t already waste of your time enough.

        • evranch@lemmy.ca
          7·
          1 year ago

          Well you can just skip over the sponsors manually, I did it for ages before discovering SponsorBlock. Nowhere near as bad as unskippable ads.

          Plus there are the occasional Youtubers that will actually do entertaining sponsor reads, whereas YouTube ads are always unbearable. Haven’t seen one on my own devices in… Well, I think I was running adblockers before the creation of YouTube. Pour one out for “The Proxomitron”, ancient ancestor of today’s adblockers.

          • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
            3·
            1 year ago

            The only Youtuber I know who shills his sponsors in really funny, creative ways is Jay Foreman - and specifically in the Map Men videos he does with his pal Mark Cooper Jones. He puts actual time and effort to make the fucking plugs amusing to watch (and I suspect he also sells his own talents as a comedian at the same time).

            I watch his plugs. I’ll never buy anything from the motherfucking advertisers who pay him but I sure watch him.

            • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              CriticalRole’s Sam Riegel also does amazingly hilarious ad reads that have me bowled over laughing most of the time.

              There’s definitely ways to make ads more bearable without forcing them on users.

              • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
                13·
                1 year ago

                Aww God I can’t stand that stupid Piped bot… Here’s another one who shills his open source project I’m sick to the backteeth hearing about.

                Hey Piped bot: if I had wanted to replace my YouTube links with yours, I’d have done it myself. Enough with the autolinks already…

    • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world
      123·
      1 year ago

      Get Freetube, it’s FOSSome, you don’t even need a Google account to subscribe. All content and history is local on your machine, it just pulls the feed from the channels you ask it to. No ads, no tracking, Linux client available, you can even skip sponsor chapters and download videos right from the native client app.