Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

  • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    My biggest issue is circumventing ads on smart TV apps, 99% of my YT viewing is on a TV.

      • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I don’t live in the US so I don’t have as easy access to random Android boxes like the ones on Amazon, but yeah I’ll probably get one eventually. I have a Chromecast 4K, but I haven’t really explored all the available apps yet. I’d love to be able to sideload apps, if I could get Grayjay on there that’d be awesome.

        • beefontoast@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          If you get a fire stick from Amazon and load smarttube app (side loading) you can use that and all the adverts and sponsor sections will be blocked out of your YouTube viewing. You can login to your YouTube account also with the app.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        Then you are part of the problem.

        If no one bought that crap there wouldn’t be an insensitive for this psychological warfare.

        • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          311·
          10 months ago

          Imagine paying for content. What’s the saying? If it’s free you are the product?

          Anyway, I paid long before the AdBlock crackdown.

          • maruudn@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Idk man, paying for YT premium feels like paying for an ad-free experience, not content. Like my subscription would be going to YT, not the creators who made the content.

          • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            10 months ago

            You forget that YouTube was always free in the before times of long long ago. Content was free and delivered flawlessly. Minimal ads. Maybe banner ads or something. Now it’s ads every few minutes.

            • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              That’s obviously not sustainable. At some point they need to recover expenses on all their infrastructure and development. It can either be through ads or a subscription model. Alternatively they shut down permanently. Which do you want?

              • InternetUser2012@midwest.socialEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                At this point, I’m fine with it shutting down. If it shut down, creators would go somewhere else, we could end up with something much better. i won’t watch youtube if I have to watch minutes of ads before the video, and more throughout the video. Hard fucking pass.

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            I just bypass google entirely by hosting my own modified invidious instance and nuked my account.

            Free, no clutter, blazing fast. Took maybe 20 minutes to setup.