Sponsorblock can be janky to set up. If you set it up wrong it either doesn't skip or skips unrelated parts. I had to actually double check how to properly set it up.
I'd imagine most people would give up instead of double checking.
SponsorBlock is IMO not that hard to set up, and I haven't even seen YouTube actively fight against its use; the problem is that the sponsor segment timestamps are community-sourced, which means 1) they might not yet be submitted by the time you watch a recently published video and 2) they're often very lazily done (but of course both are better than nothing).
It's basically just one button press that is "Yeah I wanna skip stuff" and if you press the wrong button because most people don't FUCKING READ you might mess up your settings
My workplace disabled extensions today, and I'm just mindblown by the amount of ads I've been blissfully ignorant about.
I play music from youtube while working, but every time I'm in a good flow now, getting stuff done, there's an ad-break that takes me out of that flow. Tiring having to work up that momentum all the time.
Supposing that I sign to YT Premium (spoiler: I will not): Does the Nord VPN, Skillshare, BetterHelp and other sponsored bull*hit part of the videos skip automatically, or I will need to manually skip that part anyway?
No, those are usually embedded into the video itself as a segment by the content creator. However, SponsorBlock works really well and will automatically skip those bits for you (assuming someone else already put in the effort to mark the sponsored content).
Which they usually already have. I'm surprised how quickly even small channels get sponsor blocked. It makes me kind of sad because I wanna contribute too, but it's hard to find video that haven't been edited
I swear you guys are watching videos made by low-quality people. I get ads, sure, but nothing I would find excessive or annoying. The only time I run into too many ads is on specific channels, and I don't stick around long when it becomes clear this creator is plastering their video with ads.
I mean, are you expecting strangers entertain you for free? Are you expecting the video host to operate as a charity? If you pay for the service, I'm just as mad as you are, but if it's free, someone has to pay for it somehow.
Don't give a fuck. I'm blocking the ads. If they want money out of me they'll have to find another way of getting it. I pay money to Patreons and streaming services I value. Google is spying on me for money. If they can't make that work they can all fuck off. Nobody has permission to subject me to mental abuse.
uBlock Origin doesn't always block YouTube's new pop-ups, and I actually have grown used to not having stuff synced to my Google account. I like it. I don't have to worry as much about Google tracking my viewing history.
Edit: Also, besides, it doesn't support the newest YouTube app version for non-rooted devices.
I feel like YouTube has gone back to normal now. I used to need to update uBlock (origin) manually few times a day but I haven't needed to do that for weeks now.
YouTube keeps buffering and skipping short sections of videos for me on PC with uBlock origin. I'm so confused since apparently AdBlock Plus which I don't use was responsible for the whole buffering thing and now I'm here and wondering wtf is wrong with my setup
Yeah my videos sometimes skips forward a few seconds aswell but it doesn't happen often enough to be an issue. Assuming you have other extensions disabled for youtube and if you're on FIrefox; remember to also turn off the enhanced tracking protection for YouTube (shield icon at the address bar while you have youtube open)
I do have Firefox although on LibreWolf I didn't experience those problems a few weeks ago. Thanks I'll check! I also have Enhancer for YouTube as a plugin so I can set custom speeds etc for videos but I disabled its ad blocker and use ublock for that. Wasn't a problem on Librewolf either but I'll try to look into it. Thanks!
Well I did get the warning several times while using Firefox + uBlock Origin and I had to manually go update the "quick fixes" filters in order to get it to work again. I did have other add-ons for YouTube aswell but no other adblockers.
if the day comes where ublock origin stops working on youtube, i'll simply stop watching youtube. plenty of quality art (stark contrast to youtube) out there to fill that consumption void
I've already started. Most of my YT viewing was from the smart TV app, and since I can't block ads from there I simply don't use it anymore. It's still OK on PC, and on mobile I use Grayjay. On my TV, I just watch shows and anime nowadays instead.
If you have an Android-based smart TV (or a device that runs Android connected to your TV), you can use SmartTube. It blocks ads, supports SponsorBlock, and casting from your phone, among other things.
The only ones I see are the ones that are part of the video, like how Hugbees does it. I don't mind that because 1) I can skip through it right away and 2) he actually makes his pretty funny
yeah on new pipe i can tap right side to skip ahead if the artist inputs sponsors into the video. so i suppose i do see ads just not in the "yt interruption" sense.
Lol ads. Not for years. I honestly don't know how people do it. Maybe they are just used to it but last time I tried to use the Internet without an ad blocker I wanted to throw my computer across that room. It's ridiculous how bad it is.
Doubt it, the reason it got this far is because of complacency from the general populace, more complacency doesn't let us keep our privacy and being ad free, the existence of lemmy is an example of that.
One of the best things I did on my Linux laptop was adding auto gain filters to Pipewire through Easy Effects to automatically tune every audio to the same volume.
And if I want to get the dynamic range back it's easy to temporarily turn off.
That actually works to my favor for podcasts. I download everything on wifi so I don't have to use data, and the audio player audipo shows the waveform of the audio. So when the ad sections come up it's easy to see how far to skip.
If YouTube stops working, it won't be the end of streaming video. Thousands of porn sites manage to do it. It may take several years, but something else will come along to take YouTube's place. In the meantime, we will have other stuff to do.
What makes you think any free option that takes YouTube's place won't have just as many ads? The traffic that pornhub gets compared to YouTube is not really comparable.
Your comment makes me giggle that there's a possible future where PornHub admins are getting angry at influencers for uploading wholesome content, in violation of the site Terms of Service.
Edit: I hope the headline reads, "PornHub has issued a press release - naming an account MrBeastPhilanthropy194768 isn't fooling anyone, and they need to take their charitable fundraising to a more appropriate platform."
I still think most sites would struggle dealing with the stream of people continually uploading full episodes of copyrighted works, as well as finding a profitable revenue stream for all the bandwidth used. Even YouTube has a hard time with it.
You'll find one right at the top of your home page, then the moment you tap on a video, it'll be preceded by an infamous unskippable ad. mapquest directions
