• Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    It’s times like these that online advertisements need to get creative to get ahead in this never ending adblocking arms race, just like the very subtle advertisement in the car scene in the Academy Award nominated film, “Barbie”, now available in Blu-ray and select streaming services.

    • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I know right? The other day I was drinking a coke and wondering about side effects of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, and it occurred to me that advertising could be a lot more creative and subtle.

    • JordanZ@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers scenes from this terrible movie. This was the first thing that came to mind.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    What this? I cant hear you over my high definition yt-dlp content.

    Where i am going I haven’t needed a google account in over a year.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        Are you familiar with Jellyfin?

        https://jellyfin.org/

        If you can set up a server of this then its as easy as making the library folder the output folder for yt-dlp

        https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

        I didnt even have to write me own script. I gave chatgpt a notepad with channel urls and just told it to write me code to load these urls one by one and download the Last 2 videos. (Trust me you dont want to accidentally download a whole channel). Yt dlp can maintain a log of sort so videos aren’t downloaded more then once.

        I run this script on a schedule and delete the video when i am done with it. Nice and clean. I can also recommend trying to run an invididious instance for general video browsing but mine took some twiddling to setup right.

        https://invidious.io/

    • g1ya777@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Personally, I use Tubular on my phone ( Newpipe fork with sponsorBlock ), freetube on PC, and Smart tube on my android tv.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    So we have:

    • Ad Blockers
    • ‘Ad Blocker’ blockers
    • ‘‘Ad blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers
    • ‘’‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blockers; and finally;
    • ‘’‘’‘‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blocker’ blockers; with;
    • ‘’‘’‘’‘Ad Blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers’ blocker’ blocker’ blockers

    in development.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Blocker
      Blockers
      Blocker 3
      Blocker Resurrection
      Blocker vs Inline
      Blocker vs Inline: Requiem
      Revanced
      Blocker: Covenant
      Blocker: Romulus

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        The new timeline reboot:

        • Blocker: The beginning
        • The Blocker Returns
        • The Dark Blocker
        • Blocker Homecoming
        • Rise of the Blockers
        • Dawn of the Blockers
        • War of the Blockers
        • Kingdom of the Blockers

        And to bring it full circle:

        • Planet of the Blockers
        • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          I truly hope the new planet of the apes franchise is building to an actual planet of the apes remake. Time traveling astronauts and shattered statue of liberty. I feel like they’re already sowing the seeds for human mutants living underground worshipping an unexploded atomic bomb. Man those movies were weird.

  • bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    as a firefox user i cant give up and just installed freetube, exported everything from yt. its great

  • DNOS@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    YouTube can definitely afford a war ship and pay people to shoot…we may have enough people to operate a death star for free but can we afford one ?

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The image doesn’t quite work because youtube needs a MASSIVE solution that works, scales, doesn’t fuck up their infrastructure and on and on and on.

      Meanwhile on the user front, all your doing essentially is just skipping parts of a video, that will always be infinitely cheaper easier to do. Challenging for sure, but the solution can be small.

      Even something as stupid as delaying your video start by 1 min, pre buffering then skipping ads. It’s brute force and barbaric but the point is that Google can’t do shit against that.

      My ultimate vision is AI that preloads videos you want and detects ads / sponsor segments and just skips them / cuts them out on your device.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
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        4 months ago

        Another way to think about it… YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it’s an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.

  • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m one of the dozen people that bought premium to not have to deal with it. I’m just patiently waiting for alternatives to become more viable so I can jump ship entirely. YouTube is the last remaining Google service I still use.

      • AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        From what I’ve read, YouTubers don’t get paid from views that use an ad-blocker, but they still do from views that have premium, so my justification is that I’m helping support the creators I like. I’m also paying for Nebula, which some of the documentary-style creators upload to as well now.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Youtube’s crackdown on adblocker usage has created a huge Streisand effect. There’s a lot of people all over the world that would’ve never known about adblockers if youtube just didn’t say anything and didn’t do exactly what they did.

    Now, all the major adblockers and ad-blocking browsers have stepped their game up and made it so people can still block ads on youtube.

    There’s userscripts you can get from greasyfork…or is it greaseyfork that allow you to bypass all of youtube’s bullshit.

    100% of the videos that actually belong on youtube are almost always demonetized anyway.

    If you’re not constantly getting demonetized on every video you put out, despite bending over backwards to follow the rules, you’re doing something wrong.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Not to mention that Vanced-type apps and content mirrors are still going strong, and proper alternative platforms like Grayjay and Nebula are getting more attractive.

      I wonder how soon self-hosted video distribution will be feasible. Does ActivityPub support that yet?

      • theEmeraldM@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        I think Peertube fits that description: “PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.”

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s a lot of people all over the world that would’ve never known about adblockers

      I see this sentiment a lot. Is there any reliable data to support it?

      • Somerefriedbeans@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Not OP but in my personal experience I’ve talked to countless people that had no idea watching YouTube without ads is possible (without paying) and their minds were blown. With Google calling out attention to it like this, I’m sure many will get curious. Most people don’t use their electronics beyond basic functionality…

        And tbh you’re gonna be hard pressed to get real data of how many ppl are suddenly finding out about it.