Hey Google, go fuck yourself entirely

Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.

Hey motherfucker, did you know you can go AD FREE with YouTube™ premium? Look, it's P R E M I U M. and it will only cost you $9.99 a month (plus any data we choose to siphon from you, aaaaaaand you have to be subjected to our shit-ass suggestions that you will almost certainly not be interested in, because fuck you in your stupid content sucking mouth)

yeah, this is a policy OP doesn't like, not bad design

I would argue that pop-ups like this are an intentionally crappy design meant to be frustrating and get in the way. But, I understand what your saying, this is perhaps not the best suited community for this post.

Unsolicited ads are implicitly anti-user, especially when they impede or interrupt access to content.

Don’t worry. Soon they will cover this loophole as well.

How to remove the background? It seems to remove the whole page for me.

When I tried this the damn ad blocker message thing is unable to be closed and blacks out the whole video instead of being a pop-up. The only way to play is to disable ghostery and ublock. I'm super pissed.

ReVanced?

Best thing to do is find a few friends to split it with. The family plan gives you 6 accounts I think.

What's the reason why you think this is an asshole design? I can think of two:

• Advertisements in of itself is a blight on humanity
• They have a dominant market position and it's almost impossible to compete.

But, these two things aside?

I don't think the Fediverse can really provide an alternative to YouTube. The infrastructure required for the amount of data constantly being served and processed is prohibitly expensive.

That just sounds exhausting, to be honest.

Do you leave the house? Or just take your desktop with you?

They're slowly rolling it out to all users. It's not yet a full deployment.

My friends mentioned getting it like 4-5hrs ago, while I was on YouTube myself. It wasn't appearing for me.

Then a couple hours ago, it finally popped-up for me. Right now, you can click through it or just reload the page and it goes away.

I think all of us are using uBlock Origin. And we're using various browsers.

Your time may yet come.

You probably keep your adblocker up to date automatically like I do.

Who is going to be competing for the eyeballs of people who militantly refuse to watch ads? I'd love to see YouTube have competition, but I don't think the demographic here is particularly valuable to anyone.

Yeah, I feel like this is all very cyclical.

The status quo is acceptable so people use it. It works well enough and it's practical enough that the majority of the user base sticks with a given standard, which creates momentum/inertia: the more accepted a given platform becomes the more content creators cater to it, which in turn draws and keeps more traffic.

Owners of the platform see this and monetize. It's not bad at first but eventually greed gets the better of everyone, and they keep pushing and squeezing, usually both the base and the creators, for the privilege of playing in their playground, the defacto "place to be"... without consideration of the fact that their playground only holds that status because of the very people they're squeezing.

Eventually they push it too far, and people start to jump ship as the enshittification finally tips their scales away from the status quo and makes finding an alternative the more attractive choice, even if it means giving up the positive aspects of the established platform.

Sometimes it can take a while but eventually one or more new platforms emerge as the new "place to be" and the cycle begins again.

Unfortunately, rather than learning from past mistakes and simply being less greedy and understanding that they need to find ways of generating profit that doesn't alienate their creators and viewers, instead the lesson learned seems to be 'try to find ways to trap users in your system so they can't leave'...which never is going to work.

Then I'll just make another account . . . with blackjack and hookers.

Use Invidious! No ads, no username required, no reporting to YouTube, Sponsorblock can be used, and you still get unlimited access to YouTube's content. There are dozens of instances, but inv.tux pizza usually works for me.

I know that Nebula has exclusive infotainment, but sometimes I just want to watch people be bad at video games.

There's other alternatives to vanced as well. Not at many bells and whistles, but still better than Google.

Don't care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.

Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.

It’s less about not liking ads and more that the ads are plagued with scams, spam and whatever else.

Don’t we think that they should be held accountable for the type of ads they run on there? Crypto scams, get rich quick, and mlms to name a few.

The same goes for the MSN homepage it’s fucking ridiculous.

Also, if they want to serve me ads, then stop selling my data too. If I sign up for premium they’ll still sell your data anyway.

I am not really in a place where I would want to defend billion dollar companies.

Google, apparently, when they bought YouTube. "let's host terabytes of data and stream it to users for nothing" and then do just that for over a decade before they realized "oh shit, that costs money I guess??"

Google fucked themselves. But it's not like they can't foot the bill either, based on their net profits. The fact that they are now telling people that the service they've used for nearly 20 years doesn't want to be free anymore is a valid reason for outrage.

It's like your partner of 20 years deciding that sex is now a per-month expense, when it wasn't up to that point. A bit "you fuckin wot m8" moment.

arent thpse just frontends?

+to that. However I haven't found proper alternative yet.

• I got so used that dump algorithm that at least 40% of times recommends what I'm actually interested at, that it feels so hard to go back to watch unordered vids
• Newer content is still lacking on alternatives. Like coding tutorials or documentaries etc.

• On the other hand I found many old forgotten internet classics on these alternative sites like old ads and funny clips that we used to watch at 240p back in the day.

You should also start looking into libredirect, an extension to route your youtube traffic to invidious instances

That's when my family asked me to set up adblockers.

It used to be a single 30 second ad but skippable.

It's now 2 ads skippable, then ads randomly injected into a video. A ten min video can have twelve ads. Defenders say "Oh the content maker sets those features."

Of which I say, "Bet. Gonna block them, find a new revenue stream because the next stage is pirating your shit."

AFAIK they start counting strikes after a while. After 3 of them, you are banned off Youtube. Edit: I was wrong. It just disables video playback.

If you're using an ad blocker, they don't want your business anyway.

I use ublock origin on Firefox and I unfortunately saw it for the first time today

i don't think anybody here is confused by how companies work. it's more that they understand how they work, and they find it frustrating.

I still get ads on twitch from time to time but it's just a 20sec thing at the start and once an hour or so. YouTube tho is unusable. Friends and I tried to get through ONE video on the discord YouTube activity and it's horrible. Every 5 minutes the same annoying bullshit. If it does not drive you insane, there is something wrong with you.

Only other legal option would be premium but I don't want to

YouTube has too many ads to begin with even before watching a video. I really don't mind if I have to watch an ad after watching 2 or more videos but imagine getting 2 ads for every video and an ad after a part of the video. Doesn't YouTube just want to milk money as much as it can from the non YouTube premium subscribers?

They don't make the videos on their platform.