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They won't get MY eyeballs goddamn it (lemmy.world)
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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I don’t watch ads, as a rule. They might play, but I don’t watch or listen to them.

I do the same thing when I choose to “watch” ads in games for rewards (except I have to disable my pihole for that). Basically I’m trading losing my enjoyment for 30 seconds for whatever the reward, and they can have a tiny bit of my data (like wifi, not personal data), but I will not actually consume that bullshit.

I may not have a choice in how the model works, but I can choose not to participate.

Sucks to be them, too, because if they weren’t making me sit through ads I’d probably give them money directly, which would be worth a lot more… but I don’t support double dipping so.. 🤷🏻

[–] ChickenButt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is precisely how I feel.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

For youtube:

also for android: NewPipe, LibreTube, browser

[–] Tekchip@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube Vanced got shut down. That's why ReVanced exists. Don't used Vanced it's no longer maintained. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975890/youtube-vanced-app-discontinued-shutting-down-legal-reasons

[–] Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternative for android is to use Firefox with ublock origin as it supports extensions on mobile.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

true! tho kind of annoying

[–] opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

+1 for Newpipe, it's amazing. I can't imagine watching YouTube without it at this point. It's basically YouTube premium but free, and with some extra features like channel groups. Oh and no sign-in.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just Brave Browser. Works for Android, iOS, PC, etc.

On android just disable the built in YouTube app if you can't remove it. For casting toggle desktop mode on the browser.

[–] BlueGerald@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is a very shady browser though.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why is it shady?

The only thing I've seen recently was that some companies were upset that they were selling data (website data, not user data) for training AI models, but that's the same legal battle that OpenAI is fighting right now with ChatGPT. We'll have to see what the courts decide for that.

[–] KayMan17@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hits mute while looking away

[–] barberousse@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm more of a mute person than looking away. It's funny how ads look silly without sound. Also, it doesn't stick in your head.

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If it's youtube, I just back completely out of the video and exit the app and go somewhere else with my time. I do it every time, and now they don't show me 30 second unskippable ads anymore.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

so you never watch YouTube anymore?

[–] LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try Newpipe

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

You can get the same result by refreshing the page until it doesn't give you an ad or gives your a skippable one. Usually works well enough for me.

Now when they have an ad in the video more than 3 times in 30 minutes I'm out

[–] EpicFailGuy@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@CIWS@kbin.social

@band_on_the_run

Revanced

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My 6 yo taught me if you click the i and then select don't show this ad it's skips straight to the video on YouTube

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

mine did the same.

makes me wonder what it does to The Algorithm though

[–] ech@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

RESUME VIEWING

[–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is another solution, I often use: "Turn off the video, and turn it on again." Do that 'till they give you short/skipable add, or even better 'till you're so god damn angry, that you turn off the app.

[–] PracticalParrot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

I'm so used to adblock that when I see an ad, I either immediately close the app in frustration or spend the next god knows how long blocking the ads. Still can't block YT ads on my TV so I don't use YT there. And if I must... cast from my phone or PC where it is blocked.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I do. They still get revenue from this though.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I got fed up with ads back in the early 90s and it fitted with we got a VCR so we could skip the several minute long ad segments.

Same with ads on websites, started using ad blockers in the 2000s when sites became unusable because of ads.

A few years ago YouTube went from occasionally showing one 5 second ad, and all ads longer than 5 seconds could be skipped. To multiple five second ads I got enough, and now it's getting as bad as flow TV.

[–] andarwaid@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm taking that 25 seconds to install ad blocker

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mute them on the TV at least.

I CAN'T HEAR YOUUU.

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

BILLY MAYS HERE

[–] Oha@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://revanced.app

[–] Faceless@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Better option, or safer: https://newpipe.net/

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NewPipe

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Or Firefox with an adblocker. I haven't watched an ad in what feels like a decade now.

[–] middlemanSI@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They won't get your eyeballs..yet

[–] RudiMental@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Glad to find a group that do the same 😅

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You say that, but...

From the FAQ section:

How do you know if a user is watching the PreShow video?
We use proprietary facial recognition technology. That's why it's so easy to pause the viewing, and resume it later, at your leisure.

But that's voluntary. It's not like you have to use that service. You could just buy a movie ticket.

However... If (or more like when) Google decides to go and add eye tracking to the JavaScript idle detection API, we're all fucked. Sit back and watch this whole five minute YouTube ad... or let us make sure you're watching a 30-second one.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could print an image and hang it before the camera or place a life-sized cardboard human there.

BTW: We're not all fucked. Only those who use Google products are.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A second camera pointing at a different angle would squash that workaround, sadly. And if it gets to the point of paper mache humans, I wouldn't put them past it to add a third, infrared camera.

BTW: We're not all fucked. Only those who use Google products are.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Non-comforming browsers could just be blocked or forced to watch the longer, unskippable ad. Similar concerns to how the implementation (or refusal to implement) web environment integrity would create a two-tiered internet.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I'd miss but could maybe do without the entertainment from YouTube, I need the software tutorials.

[–] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

There were software tutorials before Youtube, and there will be after.

Personally, I hate having to watch a video to learn something because reading a text is just so much faster.

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

revanced

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://youtu.be/17euo2DzBZI

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they don't win unless you end up buying something you wouldn't have bought otherwise.

You do lose, though, because you still get to watch hours of useless ads.

[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry, they don’t win unless you end up buying something you wouldn’t have bought otherwise.

Yes, but that often happens unconsciously. You're in the store, you have two brands that are similarly priced. One that you have never seen before and one that somehow seems familiar. You're much more likely to buy the second brand, even if you don't remember how you know it and actually it was just some super annoying ad you saw months ago.

Everyone thinks they're not influenced by ads, but companies wouldn't spend billions on them if they didn't work.