I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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That's already been confirmed to be bullshit....And what I mean by that is that youtube's claim is bullshit.
Can you say "anti-trust"
lol, I take back the snark I gave in another thread the other day about Google doing this to fuck with people now. Egg on my face for giving them the benefit of the doubt.
They can't honestly think this will have the desired effect. I also bet the poor sod that had to implement it "strongly advised not to do it". But was over ruled by some know it all shit head MBA.
I feel like the explanation follows a thread of believability, but even then, this feature was terribly coded if it was circumvented via User Agent string manipulation.
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make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
The sad thing is, I consider this an upgrade. I'll take a moment to breathe and maybe break out of the negative spiral that is modern internet use.
Active enshitification.
I don't understand why companies still place ads on youtube. I've never ever bought a product or visited a company's website which was advertised on youtube.
Are there really people who listen to youtube ads?
Absolutely. I've participated in several campaigns that resulted in ~20% increases in sales for targeted ads. It makes a difference.
Sadly.
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This is hillarious! I didn't even notice that. YT always delayed video loading a little. Is this really a change?
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It's like when a teacher can't target the bad kid so they punish the whole class instead.
Ads are sub suboptimal viewing.
GrayJay is still working pretty good. I cannot use the YouTube app, or mobile browsers because most of the content I'm interested in isn't highly visual so I like to turn my screen off and listen. I am ok with a reasonable amount of ads but the anti-feature of background play disabled without premium is just stupid.
You need YouTube ReVanced.
Google's modus operandi - business as usual. Deploying their dirty tricks on their mass of servers to edge out and destroy competition. When caught out they apologize all surprised Pikachu style, then do it again differently. This is likely in response to news about Firefox mobile finally allowing extensions to work. People are probably trying it out, but their Youtube experience will be crap, so they'll go back to chrome.
I feel like all the people running Firefox (most of my friends/family and many colleagues) are just going to say “damn, YouTube sucks. I should look elsewhere” and not “oh, it must be slow because I’m not on chrome.” Heck my parents don’t even know what chrome is.
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Still illegal
when are they gonna learn that any client-side restriction or hindrance can and will be defeated? sleep(5000) is kinda like them throwing a fit, not actually trying to punish anyone. obviously we'll find a way to avoid waiting the 5s, do they think we'll just give up?
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I'll just blame it on my ISP being shit