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vozy 🎀

google rolling out stricter adblock rejection on youtube, removing support for proper adblocking extensions on chrome, jacking up the price of youtube premium by 20%-50%, and also playing ads when you pause a video—

why the FUCK aren’t you using a fork of/Firefox, uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and YouTube reVanced/YTLite+ or some 3rd party app yet?

fuck google. this isn’t even about “privacy” to me anymore. this isn’t some statement where i’m upset at “big corpo trying to get their bag”, nahdah. i just hate seeing shit i don’t wanna look at, i hate seeing that the only legitimate solution is almost as expensive as double the minimum wage and costs almost as much as dinner. i’m not paying 14$ to fix the problem you mother fuckers made. i don’t have the parasocial relationship to care if the guy i watch is getting paid either. i’ll buy their merch if i like them that much.

fuck google. block their ads.

13 comments
Parker
@vozercozer they still haven't stopped me from paying in dong so while I'm not really proud to be paying them at all for $3 USD per month it is what it is ig
Mari
@vozercozer the firefox thing is jist cuz chrome has a borderline monopoly, and that like 90% of other browsers are chromeclones
Fluor

@vozercozer its kinda crazy how much Susan Wojcicki got hate when she was fairly chill while her successor basically instantly went full crazy corpo on the platform

(surely youtubers wouldnt be avoiding calling him out because of his aim to increase monetization :clueless: )

vozy 🎀

@fluor Susan was easy for me to hate when I was 15 and drama like that was my politics. Now I realize she was just... trying to make YouTube profitable while still keeping YouTube a place where you can break the boundaries of what was and is acceptable. She was actually quite moderate with her grasp LOL.

RIP Susan, and fuck cancer

Dushman

@vozercozer@wetdry.world

google rolling out stricter adblock protection on youtube
Still doesn't phase ublock lol

prettygood
@vozercozer librewolf + ublock origin + no account + don't care about creators ad revenue + choke the beast + steal bandwidth + fuck advertisers + maintain some privacy + L + ratio
Lego

@vozercozer helping my mom make the jump to Firefox on Saturday, because ublock breaking was her last straw

shorko :Blobhaj_Flag_Nonbinary:

@vozercozer@wetdry.world so real. heard they are rolling out ad injection in google for ios in the form of modifying certain parts of a given webpage to include links to their own services

Gwen, the kween fops :neofox_flag_trans: :sheher:

@vozercozer@wetdry.world I use this hack on the mainline youtube app, where when an ad starts playing I close the video and open it back up. Usually after the 3rd time you do it (once you trained google enough) it just accepts you won't see an ad and plays the video....

then youtube started "getting buggy" if I do that too much, and the close button on the mini player doesn't work anymore. that's usually my cue to close the app and do something else for at least half an hour.

I really should look into getting reVanced, but last time it got blocked as soon as I installed it, I don't wanna bork it for everyone else ​:neofox_blep:​

@vozercozer@wetdry.world I use this hack on the mainline youtube app, where when an ad starts playing I close the video and open it back up. Usually after the 3rd time you do it (once you trained google enough) it just accepts you won't see an ad and plays the video....

then youtube started "getting buggy" if I do that too much, and the close button on the mini player doesn't work anymore. that's usually my cue to close the app and do something else for at least half an hour.

I really should look...

spycrosoft

@vozercozer@wetdry.world real i use libre wolf with ublock! all hail piracy!

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