The day that Youtube makes it impossible to watch videos without their awful intrusive ads is the day that I never use Youtube again.
Youtube ads are 1000x worse than TV commercials because somehow they are not only even louder and more obnoxious, but they also interrupt what you're watching mid-sentence because they have zero intelligence to their placement.
This. Just about the only way they will lose their monopoly on online video hosting is to make the whole thing so fucking annoying and intolerable that people can't be bothered to go there anymore. They're fucking trying, aren't they?
Pretty much this. But I have faith that a way will be found to get around this. Even if they just blank the screen and mute it for however long the "commercial" is would work for me.
Use a different frontend anyways now. There's extensions for Firefox at least that allow you to redirect to anything you want. I personally use freetube, a program that works like YouTube. Another one I can recommend is piped.video, great frontend and works just like YouTube does.
Ultimately, YouTube will probably do what Reddit started doing; charge for access to their API. That would make a lot of these third-party frontends untenable. I love that they're a thing, and I use them myself. But if YouTube is banning people who use adblock, they're likely next.
And that's where you say fuck API and just scrape it all. IIRC something like newpipe on android does not use any API, I also checked piped just now: does not use any of their API.
This. Yet again, it is shown that "piracy" (though the word probably doesn't apply to adblock) is a service problem. If it was one or two brief ads per video, I wouldn't have a problem letting the ads play. But they've ratcheted things up to the point where it is nearly unbearable without an adblock.
The day that Youtube makes it impossible to watch videos without their awful intrusive ads is the day that I never use Youtube again.
Youtube ads are 1000x worse than TV commercials because somehow they are not only even louder and more obnoxious, but they also interrupt what you're watching mid-sentence because they have zero intelligence to their placement.
This. Just about the only way they will lose their monopoly on online video hosting is to make the whole thing so fucking annoying and intolerable that people can't be bothered to go there anymore. They're fucking trying, aren't they?
Rumble has better ad placement because they are placed non-intrusively.
Pretty much this. But I have faith that a way will be found to get around this. Even if they just blank the screen and mute it for however long the "commercial" is would work for me.
Use a different frontend anyways now. There's extensions for Firefox at least that allow you to redirect to anything you want. I personally use freetube, a program that works like YouTube. Another one I can recommend is piped.video, great frontend and works just like YouTube does.
Ultimately, YouTube will probably do what Reddit started doing; charge for access to their API. That would make a lot of these third-party frontends untenable. I love that they're a thing, and I use them myself. But if YouTube is banning people who use adblock, they're likely next.
And that's where you say fuck API and just scrape it all. IIRC something like newpipe on android does not use any API, I also checked piped just now: does not use any of their API.
This. Yet again, it is shown that "piracy" (though the word probably doesn't apply to adblock) is a service problem. If it was one or two brief ads per video, I wouldn't have a problem letting the ads play. But they've ratcheted things up to the point where it is nearly unbearable without an adblock.
It gets better.
Whenever I fast forward any video on my PS5 it treats it as having watched the video for that time and it shoves 2 ads in my face straight away.