Youtube is becoming more ridiculous

[BLoCKANDLOADED ⭕⃤]

1. Forcing people to watch annoying long multiple Advertisements (some adblock still works)
2. 1080p Premium now exist and we need to pay them.
3. Whats more to come?

[Jackie Daytona]

Ursprungligen skrivet av BLoCKANDLOADED ⭕⃤:

1. Forcing people to watch annoying long multiple Advertisements (some adblock still works)
2. 1080p Premium now exist and we need to pay them.
3. Whats more to come?

YouTube has done nothing EXCEPT get worse for at least 5+ years.

It's not uncommon to see 3-6 ad breaks during a 20 minute video. Each ad taking up (at least) 30 seconds to 2 minutes. With every break seeing 2 ads. At minimum, that's 3-24 minutes of ads.

On average, that makes it as bad as network broadcast television. A modern episode of 'Jeopardy' will have around 11 minutes of ads. In a 30-minute time-slot... that's only 19 minutes of content.

Hour-long shows in the 1960's had only 2-3 minutes of commercials. YouTube has pre-roll ads, post-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and there's an in-video sponsor. All so I can watch a short video of a guy making fun of someone.

All you can do these days is block ads or turn it off.

[BLoCKANDLOADED ⭕⃤]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jackie Daytona:

Ursprungligen skrivet av BLoCKANDLOADED ⭕⃤:

1. Forcing people to watch annoying long multiple Advertisements (some adblock still works)
2. 1080p Premium now exist and we need to pay them.
3. Whats more to come?

YouTube has done nothing EXCEPT get worse for at least 5+ years.

It's not uncommon to see 3-6 ad breaks during a 20 minute video. Each ad taking up (at least) 30 seconds to 2 minutes. With every break seeing 2 ads. At minimum, that's 3-24 minutes of ads.

On average, that makes it as bad as network broadcast television. A modern episode of 'Jeopardy' will have around 11 minutes of ads. In a 30-minute time-slot... that's only 19 minutes of content.

Hour-long shows in the 1960's had only 2-3 minutes of commercials. YouTube has pre-roll ads, post-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and there's an in-video sponsor. All so I can watch a short video of a guy making fun of someone.

All you can do these days is block ads or turn it off.

Funny that Youtube can't convince people to stop using adblock so they added this feature called "1080p Premium" for a little bit more bit rate. the 1080p Normal now looks like 780p.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

4 ad breaks in 1960 tv get up for 3 minutes get snack. 12 minute an hour
youtube 1 minute of ads sometimes for 10 minute video so ads got shorter so you cant get up

[Crazy Tiger]

Ublock works fine still, so no ads here. So I'm fine.

[wesnef]

Youtube is becoming more ridiculous

You spelled "Off Topic" wrong. :D

[MEGA MAN]

duckduckgo has a new own (experimental) browser with youtube add block >:)

[xDDD]

Ursprungligen skrivet av N3tRunn3r:

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Mozilla and their products do use a very different engine than all these Google-infested browsers, forced-ads crap and stealing and gathering your privacy data!

You can even use Firefox and its Developer Edition + uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill on your Smartphone devices... for ever ads-free !!

No need to use any bloated, influenced and forced "Apps".. a reason why you should also leave Apple BS ..
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Blink[en.wikipedia.org]"-Engine, which forces ads on your machines and devices and steal your informations..

The iOS editions of mentioned browsers as well as Safari[en.wikipedia.org] do use the "WebKit[en.wikipedia.org]"-Engine which does the same, stealing info and forcing ads and apps.. especially their "Apps"..

Steam uses the CEF[en.wikipedia.org] (Chromium Embedded Framework), it is never "safe" to use Steam's integrated "Browser" .. you are completely out of control there ..

Firefox[en.wikipedia.org] uses the "Quantum[en.wikipedia.org]"-Engine, made for privacy and security .. a reason why the "TOR"-Browser is built as a Firefox-Fork..

I have used Mozilla Firefox for minimum 2 decades, only Firefox, and switched over to Firefox Developer Edition a couple of years ago, for even more performance, speed and possibilities.. for privacy & security and other features and editings..

"Firefox + uBlock Origin" is a must-have on your PCs, Laptops and Smartphones .. !!

!! NOTHING ELSE !!

So never use an app like the YouTube App.. use Firefox.. never be logged in to Youtube or any Alphabet/Meta accounts, and reconsider to use any KDE software as WebKit was a KDE-fork..

Very good post

But I just want to reiterate that Firefox is NOT a "privacy browser" either. They still use something called "Firefox Glean" that records literally EVERYTHING you do on Firefox. Everytime you close Firefox, Not only does it send 112 requests when you first run it, but it also sends a giant request containing all information about the state of your browser EVERY TIME YOU CLOSE IT.
Maybe that's part of the reason why Firefox uses an excessive amount of RAM...


In reality, Firefox is basically the controlled opposition of the browser world. They only exist so Google and pretend not to have a monopoly on browsing (although I'm sure eventually Chrome will completely take over all browsing)

But eh, what can be done. All browsers are privacy nightmares. There really aren't any super private ones out there. The best is probably Pale Moon since it doesn't use Google OR Firefox's engine but usage is rough in other ways.

[Jackie Daytona]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Megami Blanc:

4 ad breaks in 1960 tv get up for 3 minutes get snack. 12 minute an hour
youtube 1 minute of ads sometimes for 10 minute video so ads got shorter so you cant get up

False.

Check out the original 'Mission Impossible' series, and the original 'Star Trek' series. Both made in the 1960's. Most episodes are 56-58 minutes. (You might find some that are 52-54, but any less is rare. At least in these shows.)

[Enigmatic]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Crasus:

Please dont mention uBlock origin. The more people that know about uBlock the more likely sites find a way around it's code or big ad companies attack the uBlock devs in some way

It's a constant battle. The known trackers are known so you can block.
They will only break their site if they made some of that stuff hard dependencies.
I think it's fine if everyone uses ublock. I'd encourage it.
I don't really use it myself because I too lazy to install it. But everyone really should.
noscript also is a good idea.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jackie Daytona:

YouTube has done nothing EXCEPT get worse for at least 5+ years.
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yes, age restricted videos is a method of soft censorship. Also, there is lots of ways the can censor people. Because now you can't watch age restricted youtube from outside youtube. youtube-dl won't work on age restricted videos now. Then you need an account to view it.