Oh no! Anyway…
continues using an AdBlocker
Not when they disable ad blockers like twitch
My AdBlocker still works on twitch, you just have to do some fanaegling with user scripts.
Really? How do you do it? I’m assuming you use ublock origin
Yes. You can block ads by creating a special script, you can find the info on how to do that at the end of this GitHub ticket but I’ll paste it here too.
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Navigate to the uBlock Origin Dashboard (the extension options)
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Under the My filters tab add
twitch.tv##+js(twitch-videoad). -
Under the Settings tab,
enable I am an advanced user, then click the cog that appears. -
Modify the value of
userResourcesLocationfromunsetto the URLhttps://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions/raw/master/vaft/vaft-ublock-origin.js
Then just disable and reenable uBlock to refresh it and you should be good to go.
Holy shit thank you!
It ain’t much but it’s honest work
Wow, this is awesome. Thank you for sharing this, will add this to my ublock :)
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This aged as expected 😓
I use adblocker in Firefox mobile. Noticed YouTube keeps downgrading the quality on every video load even tho higher quality is set to auto
I use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube and I haven’t seen an ad in ages. When I do see an ad, it’s because I’m trying to browse on somebody else’s computer.
SponsorBlock in particular is life changing. You don’t realize how much nonsense filler is in these videos. You can easily cut a 10 minute video from a mainstream YouTuber down to like 6 or 7 minutes worth of content if you skip intros, skip recaps, skip sponsorships and product plugs, and skip interaction reminders.
Sponsorblock is so good, it’s amazing. Even use it on Smarttube (firetv).
Alright I’m convinced. I’ve been using just uBlock but I’ll give sponsorblock a try.
Christ I love the Revanced project
Don’t forget SmartTube for Android TV!
Also NewPipe
There’s also the fork NewPipe x SponsorBlock with support for SponsorBlock.
There’s a Revanced? I’ve been clinging on to Vanced hoping YouTube API will not change anytime soon
Yes, instead of an app you install, you patch the app yourself using a separate app. Kinda like xmanager if you’ve used that before. I’d point you to their official reddit, but… yknow… Here’s their official Discord https://discord.gg/revanced
Dude I had vanced and it died after YouTube got them to stop updating. You’re saying it’s still going!?
As far as I know, not the same team, at least officially. Unlike vanced, they don’t provide the app themselves, you have to build it yourself, but that isn’t too hard. Your given the patches and the app that writes them patches to a stock version of YouTube downloaded on APKMirror, all that plus vanced MicroG and you got Revanced
That’s awesome, I’ll definitely check it out! I’m not the most tech savvy but am up for learning:) thanks!
They really want to tv-ify web content huh? People left TV because they were sick of ads.
I only have YouTube premium because I do not want a TV license and one is definitely cheaper than the other but the fuck man.
Cable TV did not originally have ads. That was part of the reason that people started paying for it.
What you are seeing is the natural cycle of content and greed.
Not just them either. Netflix has an ad based tier now and I wouldn’t be surprised if other platforms have them too as they realise there’s a limit to how much they can realistically charge people. It seems like we’ve circled back to the start of cable
Yeah, i use youtube and youtube music like daily, to me it worth the money than any other tv service
Yeah i am totally fine with being showed ads or paying for an ad free option. I got YouTube red when it came out and never looked back. Plus they gave us Cobra Kai, which was amazing. I do wish they also included a “we won’t sell your data” option in that premium though
not mildly infuriating. just straight up rage-inducing
That’s not even usable
Proper source or GTFO, please
NewPipe x Sponsorblock on Android, Invidious on iOS, Adblock + Sponsorblock in Firefox, SmartTubeNext on Android TV box.
Must be the season of boycott, youtube about to do a reddit moment.
It’s like everyone’s speedrunning it’s downfall 😂
Peertube? I guess? Whats the alternative then?
Aside from Peertube one I could think of is vimeo, dailymotion, dtube and twitch, then again in terms of content and servers available around the world nothing matching youtube, except maybe tiktok and twitch. There is pornhub which I think could be the best competitor for youtube barely any restrictions you can talk shit in fact some actually upload gaming videos and some random stuff aside from porn ofcourse they have a lot of servers around the world. The videos dont buffer that much. Who ever owns pornhub if they decide to have sfw alternative to it they could be best alternative to youtube.
Edit: I think they dont have sfw because its hard to make money out of it similar to youtube which is operating at a loss. The only reason google still keeps youtube running is because its a white elephant.
I finally got a Nebula subscription. A lot of my YouTube favorites are on there, and I’ve found a couple new ones to follow. I still wind up on YT for a few folks, but that number is dropping.
That’s wild. I would never sit through that. I’ve been a YouTube premium sub for years because it’s bundled with music. Never knew it was this bad
When I canceled my Spotify subscription, I did the same. I get music and video w/o ads
Careful, lots of people take issue with paying for a service these days. /s but only kinda
YT premium has been by far the most worth it subscription for me. I spend a frankly unhealthy amount of YT, even have it running in the background while not watching actively, and I listen to YT music for hours every day. Really easy value sell for me.
But somehow people expect YT to host and deliver literal exabytes of data for free.
These kind of unsolicited reports from users prove a really important point, and one that Spez and company would prefer to ignore. If you have good enough content people will pay for an ad-free experience.
They’re trying everything to get us to buy YT premium. At what point do they start becoming full-on commercials? Lol
If this post is true it pretty much would be like tv commercials.
amazon music too. exceeded skip count ->buy premium skip
It’s even worse that they’re apparently going to crack down on adblockers too. Ik people will just make anti-adblock blockers but it’s still fuckin dumb. I swear yt wants to make itself worse than cable tv in terms of ads.
PeerTube needs more traction.
R.I.P Invidious. Good ol’ enshittification.
How does PeerTube handle storage? I’m trying to imagine trying to create a federated system version of Youtube and it seems very problematic. Storage and bandwidth.
Quoting Wikipedia:
Each PeerTube instance provides a website to browse and watch videos, and is by default independent from others in terms of appearance, features and rules.
Several instances, with common rules (e.g. allowing for similar content, requiring registration) can form federations, where they follow one’s videos, even though each video is stored only by the instance that published it. Federations are independent from each other and asymmetrical: one instance can follow another to display their videos without them having to do the same. Instances’ administrators can each choose to mirror individual videos or whole friend instances, creating an incentive to build communities of shared bandwidth.
Videos are made available via HTTP to download, but playback favors a peer-to-peer playback using HLS and WebTorrent. Users connected to the platform act as relay points that send pieces of video to other users, lessening the bandwidth of each to the server and thus allowing smaller hardware to operate at a lower cost.
Ah so the P2P works via instances, not users. Interesting idea.
How does it monetize? What makes it attractive to creators?
I had the same questions. The first one is answered here better than I could.
As to monetization, I would think that that’s up to the creator. The Patreon model, sponsors. Like that.
This is why we use Piped and Newpipe/Libretube.
