My concern is how sexual they are becoming, many are just junk games meant to steal money from you but I also get a huge amount of basically soft-porn ad content on youtube when I dont use a blocker.
RIGHT?! oh no popping up mid video isnt enough, here's this tab thing to completely jump in the middle of the comments you were reading. oh dont wNt that there? just close it. oh wait the video ad is a seperate thing to close. THOSE ?+>$*#3>"?@× i hate ads
That and the fact that they are not curated at all. Scams, cults, phishing sites, NSFW adult content...you name it, I've seen them advertise on TH-cam, because Google does not give a toss about who advertises with them. This was the main driving factor for me when it comes to using an adblocking, and also the reason why I'd rather drop TH-cam than adblocking.
Don't know the current situation but back in the days TH-cam had only one kind of ads: small pop-up on of the bottom of a video and I was OK with that. Wasn't even thinking to get rid of this stuff. Once I faced interrupting pop-ups...adblock.
If TH-cam wants to block adblockers, they need to start vetting their advertisers. So many scammers get free reign, using an adblocker is pretty much a first line of security defense.
And all those get $300million rich schemes, those trashy mobile games like Raid and those games with a gun in the hand moving down a track, and the If you complete this 2 Yo toddler's puzzle you have 1.00e+42 IQ but shows that the idiots that made the ad cannot complete such a thing.
Yep I have premium, but I tested my adblocker in incognito and it threw the flag, switched to ublock origin and it worked just fine. I also have a pihole with all my network traffic running through it and it didn't detect that either.
Louis, you described it perfectly. It's when the add is "forced" upon you and no skip option, that people really are upset with. That is tyranny. You can tell it's tyranny because of the threat of closing down your account if you dont comply, hence the word "forced".
this is their for profit company, you come to them, steal their money and dare to call their response a tyranny?? WTF is wrong with people. You have no sense of what is right and what is wrong. As long as it benefits you, you will find an excuse for every disgusting thing you do, including theft of services in this case. If you don't liek a company - LEAVE. No advertiser is going to miss a broke ass viewer like you, trust me. TH-cam doesnt need you, they actually give you the OPPORTUNITY to have access to a platform for FREE. And your kind of people are not even worth to be given to. Still whines and complaints. Go back to reading books or maybe pay $120 for a cable TV then.
The main reason I stopped watching TV was that a 1 hour and 30 minute movie would become 2 and a half hour movie due to the sheer amount of commercial breaks. The fact this is becoming a thing with TH-cam and other streaming services is why I use AdBlockers. And will continue to do so. I came here to escape ads, not find more.
100% agree. Google makes enough money when they track our internet surfing habits or our inputs in the search engine. So: when Google uses our data to make money they should pay us back by making YT totally ad free :-D
I tossed out my physical tv about 15 years ago for this exact reason. I used to be on yt all the time, but the crapton of ads just makes me not use youtube anymore. 1 second of loud obnoxious ad and I just close the entire page. We don't need 30 second unskippable ads for every single 5 second viseo we watch
I don’t really have a computer how do I get content because TH-cam premium is going up and I don’t think I can justify $20/month for a time wasting app
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." -Gabe Newell
And then Google came and made YT Premium a Spacebar Blocker that also requires you to have an internet connection to watch your "downloaded" content, so users have to use an Adblocker anyways, because having YT Premium, besides making it actually ad-free, also makes it a worse experience.
@@LiosProsum no no, just pointing out that people being unhappy with the use experience and finding ways to circumvent it isn't a problem with the users. If the user feels the need to circumvent your limitations you're moving in the wrong direction. Ads are necessary but they've become infinitely more intrusive and obnoxious lately, so people find ways around them. The easy solution is to make the advertisements less intrusive and obnoxious, not plug the holes that people were using to go around what they didn't want to see
Gabe was right but I don't think it applies to this case. Adblockers aren't alternative services with no ads, they literally just take a pre-existing service and take ads away from it. This makes them an upgrade by default, unless the service in question has no ads in the first place, meaning you _can't_ offer a better service. The only way to make people stop using adblockers is to offer a service that they're willing to support by watching ads, but in TH-cam's case, I'd rather support the creators themselves than a company that treats them like shit.
Ads on TH-cam videos were tolerable at first. But as soon as they started chaining ads as well as making them unskippable, that's what drove me to get an adblocker. Their increased intrusiveness and disruptiveness added more reason to put on an adblocker.
There was a guy a while ago that allowed all adverts on one of his videos as a test. His 3 minute 20 second video became over 8 minutes with the number of adverts.
As a kid, and even being a teenager watching cable tv, I remember not being annoyed by ads at all. It was like blissful ignorance until my program turned back on. And that was the case with youtube too. A five second ad is nothing...if it's only one. And I remember those being every couple of videos, not on every single video. The sheer volume of ads they now serve is nuts. I got tired of updating u-block and turned it off. But once I did that I noticed how ugly the website was, and also a lot of the ads were very concerning in general. I would say for people's well being that they really need ad blockers on. So actually I hope this shit that YT is pulling brings awareness to millions of users.
In the old days, ppl used remote controls on TV daily programs - befor einternet days, to mute the TV as ads were louder and obnoxious. So people developed a hatred for ads 40 years ago. Thhe louder they made the ads, on the idea ppl walked out of the room during ads, to make a coffee etc and they wanted t o make sure you could hear the ad from the kitchen just meant hthey switched off EVERY other viewer who was still watching the tv and the ads. SO they and we would just mute it. Advertisers became their own worst enemy in thier own world!
Recently I couldn't get on Paramount plus to watch one of my favorite shows so watched it on the CBS website instead. I hadn't noticed paid much attention on streaming that my 'hour long' show was only 36 minutes. The ads on network tv drove me crazy. I couldn't finish the show and held out until Paramount Plus was working again.
I was on a site earlier, apparently it detected I had a blocker & asked me to unblock it? I’m like WHAT? I went to the next. I think we can all agree it’s gotten a bit out of control. Even on the apps, this is so way out of control.
This is not the first time they've tried this. They did the same thing several years ago and it only enhanced the awareness of ad-blockers and more people installing them. They know they will lose this 'fight'.
Except with Facebook who is legit the only place I know that actually defeated adblockers. I _never_ found anything that could just block ads, suggested post, etc on Facebook. However, Facebook, a lot of people can just stop using it. Not TH-cam: it's most people's online entertainment and there much more dedicated people on YT willing to go against Google than Meta.
have you watched the previous video why he stop paying for TH-cam premium? you will understand why hes now rather pay Adblock than having subscribtion on TH-camPremium (he was a loyal 7years customer for youtube premium).
Paying "premium" to a platform that actively promotes censorship when talking about things they dont want you to while promoting scams like "climate crises" ? Nope. F youtube.
The biggest mistake google made, was trying to block adblockers and immediately after raising TH-cam premium price. A monopolistic move and creates an even bigger incentive for the user to find alternatives.
And dropping Lite level... If they managed to block my adblocker I might have actually considered paying for that level. As I have no interest in youtube music or want to pay for it as part of Premium...
I always had an adblocker, but I had a bunch of websites whitelisted because the ads weren't intrusive and I wanted to support the website in question. TH-cam used to be one of them and their war on adblock reminded me to go through and re-evaluate weather I thought the ads on the sites I whitelisted were intrusive or I still wanted to support the sites, something I hadn't even thought about in almost 13 years. I've added new sites to the whitelist, but a lot of the old sites (including youtube) I now consider too intrusive.
Same. I like to support the content creators I watch, even if that support is mostly symbolical. The line for me was when I watched two 15 second unskippable ads before a video, then after watching less than two minutes of the video another two ads played. It´s just become too much
Oh man, I've been blocking ads since the start. I use it as a hot-take IQ test in fact -- if they still don't know about adblocking (after 20 years) then I mark them down.
The fact that there are people on here getting more views on their videos than shows on cable TV are getting, but are nt getting paid the kind of money people on cable TV are making tells me that there is no reason to enable ads on TH-cam in order to "support" the content creators. For some creators that I really enjoy, I will subscribe to t h e i r p a t r e o n s or give them a superchat (eventhough youtube takes 30%).
I use to whitelist channels i liked back when og vanced was around... Then the alphabet went and cease and desisted them... The alternatives dont have the function (or have it as easily findable) so they essentially destroyed my 1 personal limit of allowance... Now i dont care and they caused it 😂
They're the ones moving the goalposts, not us. First it was banner ads Then it was overlay ads Then it was skippable short ads Then it was sometimes skippable 30 second ads Now it's multiple unskippable ads Greed. That's all it is.
I haven't seen an ad on youtube, at least on my pc, in years now. On my phone I just mute it and have my finger hovering over the 'skip' option. The smart companies have content creators doing their advertisements - I'll usually sit through that. I'm fine with content creators making a little money. F--- Jewtube/Google.
The problem with ads in the past is that the use of them on the internet have CONSISTENTLY been built on a policy of being aggressive, invasive, and hostile. Early internet advertisement was full of: 1- False locations (multiple "Download' buttons on the same page) 2- page dominance (deliberately taking up the majority of the whitespace, sometimes blocking the content you want) 3 - harassment (constant, invasive background processes, such as sound that could not be easily shut off) 4 - hostile takeover (intentional redirects, or stopping the user from even closing the ad, maliciously controlling the computer) The internet's history of advertisement has *CONSISTENTLY* been one of (even well-meaning) companies being incredibly, aggressively malicious and invasive, making websites hard to navigate and use, and in worst cases, deliberately damaging your computer or taking away aspects of control. If advertisements were CONSISTENTLY skippable (or at least short/small) and had no ulterior motives other than trying to sell a legit product, I'm sure most people wouldn't really have a problem with ads. But it's consistently been a 35 year barrage of relentless aggression and hostility against the end-user, and you have the gall to get mad at US for snapping at this behavior? If you had kept your ads humble, simple, and non-invasive, this arms race NEVER would have started, and people would have been MUCH more accepting of the idea of an ad-filled web. STOP. PISSING. PEOPLE. OFF.
i also feel like people would watch way more ads if they were actually entertaining/good like some japanese ad where dude karate chops ramen package before putting boiling water together with ramen inside his mouth or something like that
Well it's gotten a lot better but some sites really are aggressive on ads. Short 6 second ads are okay or 30 second with option to skip. The problem is alot of these ads are pertinent and don't generate income for the advertisers anyways.
They're not only inadvertently encouraging and spotlighting the use of adblockers, they're indirectly causing adblockers to be better, and for more people to get into the game of creating, coding, and learning how to make adblockers. Where there is a need, there is innovation.
Not only that, but browsers that intrinsically block ads like that, and people who weren't aware, are being prevented from using the platform and not knowing or understanding why. So when they try to 'turn it off' they can't and have to find a new browser. OR in a case I've seen myself.. I turned OFF my adblockers just to see what happened and the videos were STILL being blocked and unable to view, even after turning the blocker off. so their whole war is backfiring even more because their so called detection shit is even blocking non blocked browsers. XD
I consider an internet ad free experience a basic right. Nobody should be forced to waste their time watching ads and be spied upon for ads purposes. If i want to support a content creator, I will do it on my own will. Thankfully I have found a way around youtube's latest tyrannical adblocker ban. The day they'll force me to watch ads will be the last day I will ever watch youtube. Thank you for your video, 100% agree.
"Found a way?" Give me a break, just use a browser that isn't Chrome and install an adblocker, done and done. I haven't had any trouble with the Firefox + ABP combo for nearly a decade now. Unless this is a mobile problem, in which case... well, you're on mobile. That's your problem right there.
@@CoralCopperHead I am on both due to my job, traveling often. TH-cam had intially blocked me when using ublock origin with firefox on my desktop, so i am not sure it is just chrome, but you may be right now as I didnt experience the issue lately.
@coralcopperhead685 I am using Firefox and various adblockers on my PC since they became available. I did not even know that there were ads on YT before I first watched it on my Android phone. ( silly me ) I was absolutely stunned by the lot of crap I was forced to watch on my phone. Took me a lot of time and effort trying different apps and hacks on Android to get YT ad-free there. Finally the answer is as simple as on my PC: Use Firefox and any adblocker you like. Of course the mobile page of YT is not nearly as comfortable as the app and I encounter a few secs of black screen prior to the actual video. But: So what! That's a fair price for some peace of mind. And finally: I'd rather pay for a good adblocker than for any service provided by the big data skimmers. I donated more money to the open source community than I ever payed MS for exemple. ( And yes I am using Linux )
@@CoralCopperHead I get the latest adblocker bans as well from time to time and I'm not using Chrome. Just because you aren't getting them doesn't mean others aren't lol
What advertisers don't realize is that a great many people consciously, explicitly decide to stop buying, or decide never to buy a product just because ads are so annoying and aggravating.
True. Things like Grammarly and NordVPN are on my blacklist. Too many ads is both annoying and even making the advertised products suspicious to me. If they're that desperate to make money maybe their product isn't good at all. At least that's how I view it.
That's how I do it. I stopped buying one product just because their ads are incredibly stupid and one tv ad for computer supply online shop in my country is so annoying that when I was build computer I rather paid much more for competition just so I don't support that shitty company
Yup. The more times I see something advertised at me, the less likely I am to buy it. I've even stopped buying stuff I liked just because I saw one too many irritating ads (it was one, singular, but still one too many lol). I just don't like ads at all.
Yes - this is happening because advertisers are realising that advertising is just not working, or working llike it used to. The megolopolies of this world have sucked all disposable income the average person has left...and we just plain dont need more stuff.
In my opinion, TH-cam is running face-first into the same problem that the movie, TV, and Video Game industry keeps refusing to learn their lesson from: if your product is obnoxious, the consumer will bypass the obnoxiousness. If your response is more obnoxious, they will bypass the heightened obnoxiousness and teach their friends how to, too. This usually takes the form of piracy, or shopping at your competitor. TH-cam saw "People are finding our ads annoying and are upset that they've been getting progressively more intrusive year-by-year, so they're using third party programs en masse to bypass them. What do we do?" Their response, rather than "find a less obnoxious way to display ads" was "Let's take aggressive steps to FORCE them to look at the ads!" Honestly, heightened adblocker use is probably the best thing TH-cam could have reasonably hoped for from this public face-plant. The other alternative is one of the numerous companies who've been looking to eat TH-cam's lunch for the last decade actually starting to gain traction.
The Movie (Theater) industry is on a downward spiral as well. I went to see movie last week that had almost 40 minutes of Ads, Trailers, Announcements. And they wonder why folks aren't going more. I don't mind a trailer or two but when you're paying $10-$20/ticket plus any concessions, and trying to make sure you're there on time to make the 7:30 showing for a 2+ hour movie... I'd rather it not start 40 minutes late.
They're not doing this strictly because people are using adblocks, it's because they got caught lying about ad statistics which is just fraud. It's also why theyre being so aggressive with this sudden no adblock policy, they got caught in the cookie jar and now theyre throwing a tantrum and taking it out on their consumers instead of properly reporting their ad statistics because "less ads = less money." Essentially, what TH-cam is saying is "its your fault we had to lie about our ad statistics to get more money, so now that we got caught, we're gonna force you to watch them"
TH-cam has a very long list of changes that went directly against what their customers wanted. I really wish it didn't have this unbeatable monopoly, because then they'd already be bankrupt or forced to improve.
100% agree. Be less obnoxious and I'll watch the ads. I never used to have a problem with them when it wasn't every video all of the time and to make matters worse, the ads are also at a worse quality than the video that I'm actually trying to watch. TH-cam was like a search engine for me, and now I'm going to find alternatives/go back to 100% Google searches, or get a better adblock. I really feel like TH-cam needs to figure out a way to embed themselves in other products in the way that Google does instead of relying on volatile ad revenue.
I went to the movies a couple weeks ago. The movie was supposed to start at 3pm. Me and my buddy knew that meant 3:15pm at the very least, due to ads. It started at 5 past 4pm. I've used ad blockers since forever, on the laptop, on the phone. I NEVER ever watch ads, for anything. If I need a product I'll ask around and/or look it up. If YT continues this war I'm going to migrate to whichever site provides a similar experience without the ad war. So far so good, my current blocker is doing its job but I've seen YT trying to sneak ads in.
@@gabrielbarnagaud6287 Thanks so much dude! I got so use to no ads for so long and hated that I had to watch ads on TH-cam again. I just downloaded Ublock and it actually still works!
@@CJtheRedeemer adblock plus works for me, and if it doesn't work it's usually updated within a day or two. when Adblock plus doesn't work i use brave browser to watch youtube.
Browsing the internet on a device without adblock is wild. Opening some of the web pages that I visit regularly on my PC at home on my work laptop makes me feel like I entered Bizzaro world sometimes, because of how different and confusing everything looks with all the banners and pop ups and autoplay videos and whatnot. What a horrible experience.
...Maybe don't visit those websites on your work laptop then? I mean, it's your work laptop. It's for *_work._* Unless you _need_ to visit those sites to do your job, in which case, talk to your IT department and see if they can find a way to browbeat management into installing adblockers on the machines. Don't bother going to the managers yourself, they'll probably ignore you.
I used to accept ads as a means of "well, they're giving me free content, I can deal with this". I never thought I'd use an adblocker. But at some point in time TH-cam started to add more ads to the beginning of videos... and then unskippable ads... and THEN people started paying to have their full-length, 10-or-so minutes long gameplay videos (BAD gampleay videos, too) as "advertisement". That's what broke me. I decided to install an adblocker... and I was *amazed* at the difference. Not only in TH-cam, but in the entire internet as a whole. No more intrusive ads. No more annoying pop-ups. No more bloated websites. I never looked back.
I can tell you that once I had a 3h.. yes 3h, long add... it was a full concert of some sort... and having shi* music videos from music that I despite pop up in every single video that I watshd, making me just want to shut up asap...for my kid I like to have a playlist with content that I choose, because Yt kids has Alot of bs playing for kids... but the downside is that some times I get adds that he simple can't watch.. I don't mind watching quick an simple adds, but don't trow at me anointing stuff that takes for ever to skip or pass..
@@alan62036 They may choose to have the ads, but they don't get to choose *which* ads or how many ads. Trying to frame this as though the uploaders have "control" is an indication that you don't know as much as you'd like to push back with.
I frequently watch/listen to classical music on TH-cam. To have an ad appear during a serene slow movement of a symphony is like going to an art museum and finding that someone has put a bumper sticker across the Mona Lisa.
That's what made me get an adblocker: ads in the middle of Beethoven. Mind you, I wrote a feedback to TH-cam first, and I was innocently expecting them to fix it.
This ad-blocking shenanigans made one thing abundantly clear to many. There needs to be a viable alternative to TH-cam and their monopoly. For me, it's ad-blocking or an alternative service. No middle ground for a company that forgoes your privacy for profit. Double dipping with ads when they sell all your data to advertisers already is such shameless greed.
I have been TH-cam blocked several times in the last 3 weeks and I have tried Rumble. That is OK but nowhere near as good as TH-cam as far as content goes. TH-cam keeps reallowing me to watch then reblocking me so I suppose they are dangling it in front of my nose. I won't be bullied though and have held out so far. Since Sunday night I have been reallowed .....for the moment I view videos while I can.
I disabled ad block on TH-cam recently and one of the first ads I got was for a discriminatory documentary spreading misinformation that could legitimately get people like me killed. I've never been upset by an ad before (besides being annoyed) but this sent me. I will fight tooth and nail to keep my ad block going, the intrusiveness, abhorrent content, and frequency of ads on this website is frankly incredible sometimes.
If TH-cam didn't aggressively inject ads into videos, making them practically unwatchable, people wouldn't install adblocks... I remember the times when there were practically no ads on TH-cam and it worked too.
Yeah....and MTV used to ONLY PLAY MUSIC and had ZERO COMMERCIALS.....now there's No Music, Crap Content to Rot the Minds of Kids, and half the programming is all ads....which is why I quit watching years ago....lol
This was definitely the best period for us users. But TH-cam was also losing an insane amount of money every year until they introduced ads. The amount of disk space, computing power for transcoding and maintaining the availability of the website, networking resources etc... is enormous. They HAD to monetize one way or another. Without ads, you cannot have such a platform open to everyone without having them pay a subscription. Video is heavy, millions of creators upload countless of hours of content per minute. And it's free for them. Hell you could technically upload all your holidays videos as private videos and get some kind of backup hosting of your video content, all for free. You could make creators pay but then you would also have much less content on the website (this is the approach Vimeo chose for example) because no one wants to pay to upload videos if you are not a professional TH-camr. Of course I would love the ads to be less intrusive in general (like they cannot be longer than a certain percentage of the video length and that kind of rules). But asking for no ads is impossible. Personally I pay the Premium because there is so much educational content I follow on TH-cam and I don't. want to waste my time with ads, so I agreed to pay. Also with the sub I get access to all the TH-cam Music service so I don't have to need Spotify. This su*** but people have to understand that not everything can come for free.
Who could've possibly foreseen that youtube demanding users to stop using adblockers would backfire? It was such an unexpected consequence that no one saw coming! (said no one)
yep youtube wants to force ads but also mutes my comments and for what they dont like smart well educated people using hate as a means to fight republicans hypocrisy and their acceptance of their hate while ignoring our own with their own hypocrisy see they keep sending these man children who dont want to debate me they just want to cry about how i butcher their language even tho all english speaking nations dont respect your use of bastardizing of their language
When all this started, I just waited until the adblock devs caught up to the prompt (~1 day). Every time the prompt broke through again, I took a lovely break from TH-cam and caught up with some old shows I've been neglecting. Thanks for getting me back into other platforms, TH-cam!
lmao, nobody is going to miss you bud, youtube doesnt need a cheap ass broke people who cant even afford a premium. Trust me. What they do is to give an opportunity to poor or greedy people to still be a part of a platform for free. And you all of course dont deserve that - you only complain.
@rossmanngroup this is just a question, so please don't crucify me. If YT is such an immoral platform and you are all about morals, how come you keep posting here vs. Rumble or Kick?
if you use adblockers youtube now counts how much time you watch ads vs watching or creating content and if you watch 0 minutes of ads, but watch and create a bunch of content, they will simply delete you.@@rossmanngroup
I was never bothered to install an adblocker until a few years ago when TH-cam pushed intrusive, long, unskippable ads and doubled up on ads. TH-cam ads have actually done the opposite for me- anything I see in a TH-cam ad I remember to NEVER support the company just because of how intrusive the ads have gotten.
Aggressive ads are not only annoying but also make me believe the product/service sucks and whoever's pushing it is desperate for sales. It's not helping them at all. If a product is high quality it will speak for itself and existing customers will do the advertising.
I can never understand why sites try to FORCE people to watch ads. If I've gone to the trouble of installing an adblocker, do advertisers really believe that I will view their company in a positive way if I am forced to disable it? I'm more likely to spend ten minutes going on review sites leaving stinking reviews!!
ad companies don't care what you think about their ads. If they can get an ad to stick in your memory by annoying the fuck out of you then that's what they'll do. When you are in need of some product then the first thing that you'll think of is that annoying ad that you hate from people selling that product.
Maybe you would prefer paying a subscription fee to specific channels that provide you with valuable content - instead of ads? None of us are entitled to valuable content free of charge. Respect the resource!
@@jimbeam-ru1my Yep, and it's on my list of "Definitely not buying this because they use obnoxious advertising methods and I don't want to reward negative behavior." Too bad I can't do the same thing with politicians that use distorted negative attack ads, since they all do it.
Haha Me Too ! 😅 . Thats hilarious.... ive download so many scam games Just to give a 1 star Bad review cus of youtube ads . And done the same as you on other irritating youtube ads too . Nice one 🤜 🤛
I mean, that's exactly why ads on TH-cam are becoming more and more scammy and ridiculous. Less legitimate advertisers are willing to pay for a business model which essentially uses ads as an annoyance in order to propel users to buy a subscription.
When TH-cam started threatening to stop me from viewing videos after being a user of their platform for over a decade! I definitely installed an adblocker. Sometime I was getting 3 ads for a 6 minute video. Ridiculous.
I was in a programming class and asked my classmates how they were dealing with TH-cam's anti adblock . Imagine my shock when they were like, 'You can block ads on TH-cam?' This is a programming class with students that supposedly use computers to do things that most people don't do. So yeah, Louis is very right. Reminds me of every time Internet's been blocked in third world countries and suddenly everyone knows what a VPN is.
This isn't that surprising to me. I know people in their 20's and even their 30's who need help opening Word. It's mind boggling to me when I meet someone who has grown up in this era who has almost no knowledge of how to perform even basic functions.
@@OutLanderUSN Yeah, someone in their 20's asked me if I knew how to make a sign-out sheet. I was like, "Yeah... you just make a simple table in Excel or Google Sheets. It's pretty easy."
This was exactly my experience. I never used adblocker once, until this TH-cam anti-adblocker move took place. They really did just bring this into the forefront of the masses.
I didn't start using an adblocker on the internet until website ads started getting too obnoxious years and years ago. I intentionally didn't use an adblocker on youtube in order to support creators, until youtube started putting ads on creators and videos that weren't monetized and putting multiple long ads on videos so short that the ads had a longer playtime. I was willing to watch ads knowing a percentage went to the creator. Now when youtube is demonetizing people's videos for completely arbitrary reasons while still putting ads on them and deleting people's channels for no reason, and other such asshole behavior I will not support them. I haven't looked back since.
I do use an adblocker, but I found I couldn't bypass youtube's censure. The internet taught me to use incognito mode with adblock enabled. It works not only on youtube, but also on other sites that had popups asking me to support their site.
The entire reason I started using an adblocker over a decade ago was because the main site I checked in with everyday became a wall of advertisements. I was already supporting them by regularly buying their overpriced low quality merch. The modern internet is insufferable. You try to view a recipe or a user written article and only 30-40% of the screen is readable text with the rest being autoplaying videos, large banners leading to dodgy websites, or fake news article etc. I don't understand what these people were expecting. I've also had to start googling things and watching trailers etc in incognito mode because everything google related spams me with spoilers for anything it knows I have even a tangential interest in. Every time I watch Critical Role I get blasted with Baldur's Gate spoilers until I hit 'not interested' and 'don't recommend channel' enough times to buy myself a reprieve.
It feels like "not interested" and "don't recommend channel" don't actually work, because I keep getting recommendations from channels I've told the algorithm I don't want recommended.
Agreed. I finally started using one a couple of years ago, when one of my favourite websites got so stuffed with heavy ads that my old computer could not cope with it anymore.
@@mistermidnight1823 "Don't recommend" does seem to work. No idea what "not interested" is actually supposed to accomplish so it is hard to tell if it is having any effect. One problem with "Don't recommend" for me is that there seems to be an infinite number of channels reposting Joe Rogan clips.
The fact that all of this was quietly going down in the MIDDLE of the SSSniperWolf advertiser and money drama just proves that TH-cam is a money hungry, disgusting company. They hit record profit margins of nearly 40% in their 2021-2022 Fiscal year and their idea to keep the momentum is "Remove adblockers." Which is only going to get more people to use adblockers, for intrusive reasons. No 6 second meme clip needs a 30 second unskippable ad.
@@QuantIosi The adblock war has been going on quietly in the background (a few weeks ago, to a month+) since before the Jacksfilms fiasco, it just started picking up more traction after the other news died out.
Louis' willingness to not only condemn youtube ads, but to also being able to switch perspectives to youtube's side on how they're doing intrusive ads because we the internet like free stuff the most is a beautiful show of clarity of mind. Honestly I should've subbed to you since long ago
Thank you! I think about this a lot more as I get older. Most of why the world sucks is a reflection of us. How we got here is simple... companies realized people will go to the ends of the earth to not spend $15 on art/media/software, but would happily take it for "free" if the cost were their data or their privacy. If the reaction to gmail in 2004 was *"FUCK. THAT. I am paying for my email hosting, storage, software, & interface before I **_EVER_** let you fucks look through my email to advertise to me"* , maybe we'd live in a different world. Same with music. *"DRM sucks and you won't provide me what I want the way I want it even if I pay!"* is a good argument, but for every time I saw that, I saw 20 other people arguing that $15 for a world class album was a "ripoff".... they listened... they heard we were willing to pay for nothing, but the only thing we valued less than our opinions of them, were our own time, data, & right to privacy... thus, the ad supported models were born.
And to flip things around one more time, Alphabet likes free stuff too. Recaptcha has taken in hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours of labor for free by unduly coupling the generation of training data for ML models that they can profit off of massively.
The adblock war has hammered more nails into my TH-cam channel. Views have plummeted and income has halved. Good one TH-cam, you have effectively destroyed the platform in one greedy move. Spook the audience and their eyeballs go somewhere else
My breaking point was a few years ago. I dealt with ads, especially with longer videos. Then, while I was engrossed with Jacksepticeye playing something that kept me really engaged and immersed... Only to be hit with an obnoxiously loud ad that had nothing to do with the game. I was done. I looked up an adblocker and haven't looked back. Hell, I actually considered leaving TH-cam behind forever until my adblocker updated and started working again.
There really is no way adblockers can be ultimately defeated. If it really comes down to it, I'm happy to wait through through a 3min ad with a black box covering it and the sound on mute.
Make it so, that the video don't play after the Ad and start 2 or three videos. Everything you get the black box and muted sound, you switch the another video for another 2-3 minutes of content before the next Ad.
Within few years we will have AI model trained on ads that will filter whatever feed you provide to it. The only downside will be slight processing lag.
Yea, some one may put the ad blocker in the code of the browser or we can even just open two tabs and silence the one that is running the ad.
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For years I refused to use adblockers, ads were not intrusive, usually a small textbox somewhere on the page. I have no problem of the creators making money. The small textbox ad was OK for me on youtube too. Then they started to you intrusive ads, which was the turning point for me. They actually made me use adblockers. Congrats. Now a decade or so later, when I see internet without adblocker, I'm shocked
The sites that were littered with ads back in the old days of the net were considered suspicious or just straight up viruses. Now it's unfortunately the norm. Even worse that they killed their own search function for the sake of their own algorithm to push recommended or sponsored content.
It started for me somewhere between 2000 and 2010, when on a forum I visited, there was a flu medicine ad with sound which did a very loud "Atchoo!" every time it popped up, giving me a near heart attack. I still didn't use a blocker then, I simply stopped visiting that forum. Then on TH-cam I wondered why sometimes videos are choppy. I then noticed it was every time a Nintendo ad was displayed on the right. Flash was still a thing then and that ad, using Flash, seemed to use up most of my computer's resources. An adblocker resolved that issue nicely. I stopped using the blocker again later and didn't really mind the occurrence of ads before a video on YT, as long as I could skip them. Then they began to show 2 ads, one often not skippable, and more and more ads during the video, often interrupting mid-sentence or during a music video. Also on a lot of websites, ads are switching constantly, making the content I'm trying to read jump up and down randomly. Yeah, full-time adblock user now and very happy with it.
The reasons why showing people how to fix their own device led to more of them paying you to do it for them is: 1) it showed how competent you are, 2) it showed your work ethic, 3) it showed people how involved it was and a lot of people don't want to get that involved, 4) so they appreciated what you did more, which 5) made your services more valuable.
Agreed, like myself being a mechanic, rather teach how to notice and do a fix , makes my work easier because they know when something is wrong, not just ....well, it's making a "noise"
i often end up tryng to fix my own stuff to a degree, but when i gotta pay for help i always try to at least know the professional a little bit and vice versa so he understands that the thing they got paid to fix has face and a reason because even today is rare to encounter stores that make videos to be known.
Never in my life have I ever been inspired to “buy anything” that TH-cam advertised. And when I need an answer right away and TH-cam shoves three ads in my face I’m 1000x less likely to buy a product.
There is a HUGE problem with very long skippable ads and music playlists. I don’t mind a small (less than 30 seconds) ad every few songs, but a 10 minute “skippable” ad while I’m in the shower or doing housework is crazy. Not even radio is crazy enough to go that far.
actually that not bad. i sometimes i just put off my earphone then just start focusing more. the weird things is how crazy the recommendation to these TH-cam AdBlock war video keep showing to me. ughh fcking weird
@@mcbean1 Incorrect, you OVERPAY with your time. To make it quick: The revenue generated by ads, per person, is higher then the 'Prime' fee. Informing us the service is being overcharged for ad-users.
It's gotten to the point where even actually shady sites, pirate and adult sites who have particularly terrible ads because no legitimate company is willing to pay to be associated with them, _are less bad about ads than TH-cam is._
As terrible as TH-cam is with their ads, they are far from the worst. Shady websites still force pop-ups with any click on their websites. Fandom and every news article smear ads into every crevice with autoplaying videos that follow you while you scroll.
@@slippslope I prefer fandom. Both are bad, but YT ads actively make it so you CANNOT see the content you are here for and instead must watch ads. They replace your video with BS you aren't here to see. I don't even look at the Fandom ads. I just scroll right to my content. On YT the content isn't there while the add is playing.
@@shupasopni exactly we learned to recognize/ignore the old style ads. nothing worse than YT spewing those noisy ads thatll play for a whole minute every 8..and the obligatory one when your video ends. and the ads are SO cringe ffs!
If TH-cam didn't introduce the double ad nonsense and if ads weren't so freaking bad I never would have installed adblock in the first place. Now there's no way I'm using TH-cam without it
i've watched you for at least 5 years. Every single time you are always 100 percent spot on with your topics and mentality, that's also why you always do so well. Your common sense is absolutely insanely good. i truly wish more people were level headed like you are.
Never forget to look at the state of advertisements in traditional media like TV and radio. Nearly 33% of any broadcast time can be solely for ads. And this is what they're doing to people who are paying for expensive cable packages! Never give an inch to these greedy corporate scum. If you pay $12.99 for TH-cam premium this month next year you'll be paying $19.99 a month but with pre-roll ads. Internet media is likely going to fully replace radio and TV within our lives and if we're not staunch on preserving the values that made it great it will become the anti-consumer shithole cable TV is.
It's why I did away with my television. I'm not going to pay to receive ads. Never! As for TH-cam and ads, they've tried this several years ago and it only led to more people installing ad-blockers because of more awareness of the issue. They know they can't win this.
I think the advertising pie is now being split too many ways between traditional media and social media so the companies putting ads out on the traditional media are not as plentiful as they used to be as on TV you sure notice a lot of repetition and a lot of advertising for their own shows or future shows - advertising is likely dying on these traditional platforms as well.
This. Look at streaming. -You pay for Prime Video. They increase the price. -You continue to pay for Prime video. They increase the price. -Prime video then starts running adverts, OR you can pay the new price. How about no. You had my business, then you got too greedy. If adverts were reasonable, fine. But when you have 6 adverts for a 3 minute video and often in-video ads too. It's just too much.
Despite being a tech person and being fully aware of adblockers (I use brave for almost everything), I watch a lot of videos without an ad blocker, because I watch them on my phone and can't be bothered to install a third party app. I also know that watching the ads supports the creator and I am (for now) willing to endure the ads. That being said, I've noted recently that: (1) the ads are getting much longer and unskippable and (2) the volume on the ads is often (significantly) louder than the audio from the video. Those two things combined are starting to make me reconsider.
Supporting the creator is tough because of course, some money is better than no money, especially for independent creators. But at the same time, this kind of support should not come at the detriment of actual viewership which is what an independent artist and their content needs in order to thrive. I stopped watching twitch on my phone because of this. Enter a live stream, get hit with ad. A lot of creators post their vods on youtube. Support the artist? Donate to their patreon / membership, buy their merch / works, spread their content.
I'll just go ahead and say, Adblockers will never die. As long as there are Ads, Adblockers WILL exist and they will keep on getting better as they find ways to detect them. I wish more people were like you and I wish more people on youtube would promote adblockers.
We are bombarded with ads wherever we go to the point it is so saturated we don't even notice most of them. Look at old TV of streets, buses and buildings, everywhere looked so much more peaceful to our sight. Paste your 'message' on a billboard you are fine but paint an image on a wall and it is a crime.
never say never dude... u realize google owns the govt in most of the usa. see what happened to Limewire and Napster for music, but imagine that , plus the addition of videos...
I wouldn't celebrate just yet. For example, adblockers don't work on Twitch any more because they inject the ads into the video stream itself (unlike youtube where the ads are separate videos from the content so they're easy to block). There are hacky, low quality, workarounds for Twitch but they only work because they specifically allows a separate 360p picture-in-picture of the actual stream to exist so you don't miss any of the action while the ads play. If they got rid of that there would be ZERO workarounds... the point being it all depends on how fiercely TH-cam wants to fight this battle.
Ads are annoying and this video is so refreshing to see someone speaking genuinely. I miss seeing honest reviews and articles. We need to make a better internet
“In my opinion, the advertiser-supported internet is reaching that late stage where the content that rises to the top is not the best content, but in many cases is simply the content that will make you the angriest or give you a cheap laugh, and is not necessarily the content that is even healthy for you to be consuming.” This is a great point and I’m glad it’s being stated in a relatively eloquent way. I’m surprised I even found your videos again since I used to only watch your repair videos. But in a way it makes sense, because this video might cause feelings of anger or is controversial.
Yep. It's all about keeping people angry. That is why TH-cam will constantly try to suggest Ben Shapiro the obvious con-toddler and other hateful idiots all the time even though I say to "Never suggest these videos" I get them daily and never watch them. Always just pass them up or tell them to go away. Yet I still get far right BS in my feed all the time. I never watch them yet they always show up... What a coincidence...
most AREN'T comfortable. they just don't know how easy it is to get an adblocker nowadays. they think it's like deep-web shit, or its malware. they don't know that something that good CAN be free, too. i was that way once, too.
I just the TH-cam app most of the time. No adblockers, but I've found a couple of ways to reduce the ad time. Like closing and reopening a video until I get a 5 second ad. Even if there's 2 ads in a row, once that first one is played, you can close the video and reopen to no ads. I also skip to the end of the video to remove all the midroll ads(doesn't always work). I've also found that opening and closing youtube shorts while an ad is playing can interrupt the ad and let you go back to the video.
Intrusive ads are the absolute WORST and I strongly believe they should be illegal. The absolute OUTRAGE I used to feel when I'd open a site (like a recipe blog, or an online tech store) and suddenly have sound, music, or whatever other sort of audio start playing from an ad hidden SOMEWHERE at the bottom of the page cannot be described in words. What's even worse is how unsafe some of them are. There's a special place in hell for people who embed viruses in advertisements. 🤬🤬🤬
I share your rage. Sadistic idiots. When an ad suddenly jumps out and hits my eyes or ears, I feel like someone has suddenly flung my window or door open and is hosing me down with their toxic s**t. A bit dazed, I chant, "shut up, shut up..." to drown out the ad until I can turn the volume off. But then I'm left with residual anger.
it's most likely illegal in eu actually wich could put an end to this whole shit rly fast (well as fast as eu politic work, but it wouldnt be the first time fine in the B e fall
I was _never_ afraid of it. In fact, I've been using it since the 1990's, when a lot of the people who love picking on Boomers weren't alive. If you don't like being treated unfairly, don't do it to others.
The day the Smartphone was released was the end of the old Internet. I want my sweaty neckbeard Internet Back with ftp's and irc Channels that Boomers do Not understand
When it comes to traditional advertising, there are rather strict regulations every advertiser must follow. Those regulations would prevent, say, placing a huge sign over the freeway and blasting stadium floodlights from it right into driver's faces at night to "grab their attention". As far as I know, little to no such regulation exist when it comes to digital advertising. It can get as intrusive, as loud, bright and disruptive as possible. Adblockers are a must, and a right in such chaos.
@@TheUKNutter Unfortunately Google is a US company and therefore doesn't care. In the UK we don't have to suffer from the endless pharmaceutical adverts, nor adverts for guns, but anything else seems to be fair game. Doubtless the Tory party will remove even these protections shortly.
I know for a fact that ads on TH-cam are against regulations in my country, I refuse to believe otherwise. I also turned off personalised ads on my account and I get the full range of ads for every kind of product you can imagine for every different demographic. It shocks me that TH-cam can even be making money from it, most of its vapourware.
TH-cam genuinely has nobody to blame for this but themselves. I've been watching youtube from the very beginning, and for 15 or so years I had no problem with ad's. They'd play for a few seconds, usually allow a skip, or would skip themselves then I could get on with my music video or whatever. But over the past 5 years or so they have gotten so unbelievably intrusive and obnoxious. sometimes multiple 30 second long unskippable ads for a 5 minute youtube video. Sometimes I'd be listening to an album on youtube while working on my car, and would notice after 5-10 minutes I've been listening to some stupid ad yapping on and on and on, I'd have to get out from under my car walk over to the speaker and lo n behold a 45 minute ad about gravel or some shit would be playing. It got to the point where I just couldnt take it anymore. I looked up how to install an adblocker and have never looked back. I had the exact same experience with hulu and other streaming platforms that would subject you to ad's. It got so damn annoying listening to the same 5 minutes of ads 50 times a day that I just figured out how to find free streaming sites on google. They got greedy and devalued their platform so far that they shrunk to obsolescence. It's gotten to the point to where I feel television had far fewer and far less annoying ad breaks than shows do now on tubi or something.
Shit, that thing happened to me too where I was listening to music and suddenly an ad appears that you have to wait for it to finish and continue with your normal life. But you realize that the damn ad never ends and you have no choice but to go to the phone in an annoying manner (I'm a house painter and when I'm at heights I usually leave the phone down there). For those stupid things I installed an ad blocker with anti-tracking almost exclusively for the use of You Tube.
No, broadcast TV was and still is horrid. If you cut ties with ad-infused programming nearly 20 years ago like I did, you really should turn on a broadcast station for just one hour and see what the content-to-ad ratio is. It's so bad you start to wonder if the actual program is even on. Radio is the same. TH-cam because of the ability to just jump to another video is sometimes worse now because depending on the video you could hit several in a row in one minute of hopping that have long ads in front. The whole thing is idiotic and I use an adblocker. And when youtube started forcing the blocker when I was logged into my acocunt, I just logged out of my account and started using shortcuts. If I really want to see my subscription list, I log in, check it, log out, and go back to watching with blocker on. OR you can just use FreeTube to manage everything with no ads as long as you don't mind being limited to 1080p. OR you can install one of the advanced scripts for TH-cam that get around actually watching the ads. One way or another, TH-cam needs to change revenue models like Louis said.
Ugh, this. Any time I have tried to listen to music on TH-cam while busying myself with something else (doing dishes, making dinner, etc.), I have gotten these long TH-cam ads that last as long as an entire tv program. It's so frustrating to have to stop what you're doing, clean off your hands, and go get your phone just to skip an ad that is 10+ minutes long.
Yep sounds familiar. Never liked ads but accepted them, as long as they were roughly equivalent to the ad breaks on UK TV. In fact I seem to remember YT ad breaks being less annoying than TV when it first started. Biggest annoyance is the fact you can't leave it to listen to, like you can with commercial radio. Fell asleep once and woke with a skippable EIGHT HOUR advert playing!
Same. I knew about adblock for like 10 years before I started using one. I only started using one when the ads became unbearable and almost every TH-camr got their own sponsors and have many ad reads on top of many YT ads every video...ads are one thing but ads on top of ads before doing some more ads is too much.
The thing that TH-cam didn't take into account is there is simply no way that someone will go from not experiencing ads on TH-cam videos for many years to simply accepting they either need to see the ads, or pay a significant monthly charge for premium. It just isn't going to happen. They are just going to circumvent it any way they can. Now if they brought down significantly the cost of premium in the UK which is like £11.99 or even just allowed multiple users under one account or something like that I'd probably sign up.
Some years ago (7-8 years ago I think), the Norwegian Consumer Council had a live stream where they read the terms and conditions of the apps installed on an average phone (in Norway at that time) out loud. It took 32 hours. No one has the time to read every word of terms and conditions, and they specifically use manipulative design to trick people into giving away their information. Even if you know about it, you're still likely to slip up sometimes. I've heard a lot of people say things like "when it's free, you are the product". But really we are the test subjects in the hands of these massive corporations, and they keep getting away with horrific things because they're too large and powerful to be stopped without serious consequences.
The problem is that the opposite is not necessarily true, i.e. "when it's paid, you are not the product". There's no guarantee. They might have the exact same terms and conditions.
This anti-sponsor segment is so good. Shame the companies who've stopped innovating and calling them out. I've never been more interested in a segment with "sponsor" in it
But also, all ERP software (like QuickBooks) is convoluted buggy garbage. At least, that's my experience with the five that I've had the misfortune of working with. So far nothing comes close to how bad Intacct's API is.
The part that angers me more than anything is the sheer arrogance and entitledness of advertisers. We're utterly bombarded with ads daily; online, on TV, on billboards, bus stops, benches, clothing, it's EVERYWHERE, and you have the gall to tell me I'M in the wrong for not wanting someone to try and sell me something at all times? Go to hell. I spent $1,200 on this computer, I put it together myself, I'm gonna use it how I want.
Well ain't that the Fucking Truth!!!! I'll be damned if i have to deal with ads filled with malware or spyware etc!! Fuck out my face with that shit! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️😡
I agree wholeheartedly, and would add the fact that I've never once made a purchase from one! I've seen what, 10,000 commercials and billboards and whatnot in my life and not one has led me to a purchase. I say this as a guy with a lot of disposable income (still won't buy youtube red though lol)
The word you used that resonated with me the most was... arrogance. TH-cam, originally a FREE service, decided to run ads to gain revenue. Ok. THEN.. they decided to run ads DURING content, as if they had any right to interrupt ANY content THEY didn't make, when they were already bringing in revenue from the existing ad structure. Holy arrogance, batman! And NOW.. they've decided to FORCE us to watch these fking ads OR ELSE! It wasn't enough to have strip ads on the page, nor to have them at the beginning of a vid... no no.. they start running intro ads, then every few minutes into the content.. over and over... MONEY MONEY MONEY NAHM NAHM NAHM! Arrogance. It's a good word. I've also been at war with them lately, and finally landed on a good blocker, for only 12 bucks a year, up to 5 devices.. and IT WORKS! So happy now. But still...
Advertisers have proven over and over and over that they cannot be trusted. I will never run by choice any code of theirs, ever. Whether that's malware, badly designed CPU hogs, annoying adverts, tracking. It's never enough, and the only thing that has stopped them has been regulation, ad blockers, and so on.
@@error707detected Advertisers like to put malicious code in their ads to try and steal your information or perform other malicious activity. There are also many ads that are straight up viruses or scams and can break your devices or worse if you were to accidentally click them. Basically, adblock is an important security measure to protect yourself from malicious advertisements. Its like a shield.
@@error707detectedI wouldn’t worry too much. Use duck duck go to help with your privacy. It’s free and their whole thing is privacy. Also, read up how privacy on the internet to learn some more about this topic. It’s not just advertisers, it’s basically anything online you do leaves a digital footprint, which means that you leave a trackable record online regardless of whether you intend to or not. The only thing with advertisers, is that advertisers use that digital footprint to help direct more targeted ads at you. Most of the time, that’s it. The general population isn’t going to be targeted with anything else really. You’re good, no worries.
Even with regulations let's look at an example of how they try to get around those: they're told, "You have to give people a choice about your cookies," then they try to make it as inconvenient as possible to opt out of data collection, forcing people to jump through multiple hoops and click dozens of times to opt out, while at the same time making consent to data collection as easy as possible. Judges then told them, "You can't do that," and now they're looking for ways that aren't specifically browser cookies so they don't have to comply anymore. It's similar to the hacking arms race, but the bad actors in these cases are the ad companies and their big tech clients. They are a fucking menace and targeted advertising has to get banned by law - it's way overdue.
What idiot actually buys most the crap they advertise ?!🤷♂️ . All the games they advertise are scams only an idiot would pay to play . . There must be ALOT of stupid people out there who would literally jump off a cliff if a politician told them to . For ads to be such an obsession for the rich and greedy ? 🤷♂️ . . Its the Only explaination 🤷♂️ . most of society must be very Stupid to allow ads to dictate what they spend their money on 🤪
The amount of ads that are plain scams or innapropriate really baffles me! How can they have such strict content regulation but virtually nothing when it comes to ads? It's crazy.
There is content regulation for ads (I've worked before on setting up ads for Google/Bidswitch networks), it's just very random how it's enforced. If you see suspicious ads, it's because you're already on a shady/illegal website (and if you're not, you can usually report the ad) - google is quite strict on what is allowed, and humans regularly/randomly check manually new creatives you put up to make sure it's all compliant. It's not 100% checked because... well, there's too many buyers for ad slots. Too many companies, too many ad companies. It's literally impossible to check everything.
By the way, there are sites that clone youtube content and don't have ads as far as I can see, like for example piped (dot) yt. But don't tell anyone :)
They never going to be able to except if they make a deal with those adblockers company except if they paid them so they stop blocking youtube's ads which has almost no chance to happen. Even if they would end up doing that people would still make make free open source adblock on github, gitlab....
This fine gentleman mentioned compiling Gentoo in 2004 and won my heart. On a more serious note, your recent videos about TH-cam and Piracy scratch some of my recent itches. It's good to know there are people on the other side articulating what I feel.
My problem is not only the fact that they banned adblockers, but they made the amount of ads you get more frequent and intrusive. For example, most of the ads you get now are 2 ads in a row, and many times I've noticed, the first ad is 5 seconds or less. This way, you can't even hit the skip button, and your forced to watch the second ad. The amount of ads I get is insane, 1 out of every 3(maybe even 2) videos I click on, I will most likely get an ad.
I'm probably wrong about this but then again it's been years since I actually had to put up with ads due to how many adblockers I had but didn't it used to be that you would only get one ad for a five minute video but now there's a lot more for shorter videos. A few days ago I was watching a video that was actually shorter then the ad that played before it.
Without a blocker, I get two ads every video and an extra two ads interjected within the videos, and then another two ads after the video ends. It's insane the amount they throw at us.
@@anthonydelfino6171 another annoying thing is that you can't see where the ads are now, you used to see a little yellow bar in the video progress bar or if you were watching a performer they might say there's an ad coming up but now the ads surprise you.
What we really need is an adblocker that "plays" the worst ads in the background silently and costs advertisers money for an even worse clickthrough / purchase rate. If it's war, drive TH-cam's revenue down further.
@@TheCatherineCC there's something called adnauseum. I haven't used it and unsure if it works with TH-cam but this does exactly that. It clicks all ads in the background to mess around with data.
What you say in the first part of the video is 100% correct when it comes to me. I kept adblocking TH-cam videos, and when TH-cam started its most recent shenanigans, my attitude was, "Okay TH-cam, if you want to block me, block me - I'll just find a better adblocker, and if none block your shitty ads, I'll just find another streaming video service." And I don't have time to waste looking at shitty ads for stuff I don't need. I'm over 60 years old - I have everything I need already.
The recent rubbish with TH-cam blocking me from using it, made me get out of the house and buy a few books. Life is probably better without too much youtube anyway.
@@lukedaniels7750 for real! this is bs. youre telling me that google needs the ad rev when they rake in billions yearly? there are more than enough mobile users watching ads and no ones paying almost $20 a month for no ads. its bullshit
There really isn't another free video streaming service with user uploaded content worth watching, so the answer is really either watch the ads, pay for premium, or just do something else with your time and life. I'm a high bandwidth youtube user, so I long ago began paying. I haven't had a youtube ad in the better part of a decade, and it better supports the people I watch, and I know I'm paying for a service I actually use.
I wanna see them block me too. Not sure I would care tbh. We are here cause they have the monopoly on users, but now they’re going out of their way to lose them, I say start with me TH-cam! Lol, what a bunch of nimrods. * and they just did! woohoo! later youtube!
I think this is one of the first, if not the first video by you I ever saw. I got about 5-10 minutes in and immediately followed you. Also, I didn't realize TH-cam was trying to get more aggressive with ads, because I use an adblocker. What I DID notice was that when I was trying to listen to my youtube playlists, I kept getting ads. So I stopped trying to listen to my youtube playlists, rather than just dealing with the ads, for all the reasons you outlined.
The German court ruled years ago that prohibiting users from using an ad blocker on your website is illegal. Despite these court cases, TH-cam started "banning" ad blockers about a week ago, even in Germany. I hope that there is someone passionate enough to bring this to court. With the previous court cases, I'm pretty sure TH-cam will lose.
@@swish6143 And Germany doesn't have to let it's citizens run the risk of having their devices infected by malware hidden in advertisements that TH-cam broadcasts to free users.
@@swish6143its not that simple. In theory you can choose your market. But germany is a big county. You dont lose on millions of $ just because some would use a adblocker.
I agree with you that the ads themselves are the problem. Clickbait, scrapers, promoted adverts, fake comparison sites, all that. Oh, and the fact that I cannot recall ever having seen an ad for anything I would buy.
that is because no legit company would advertise on TH-cam because they know it would be more negative for their products compared to regular TV and paper advertising.
I keep getting those tiktok voice over ads that talks about some new "medical news" about "HOW TO CURE [THING]" and it's a little shocking that there's like. No regulations for these. Also just tons of get rich quick scams.
how about getting hit with the same horrible ad for something you purchased over and over again for months.... I've stopped purchasing products to make these ads stop....
Also can we just take a minute to remember that adblockers werent designed to block ads, they were designed to block INTRUSIVE ads. Adblockers dont by default block simple ad banners on the side of websites for example. Imagine you are on your way to your local supermarket and instead of billboard signs on the side of the road the supermarket hired a guy to jump infront of your car for 60 seconds to hold up a sign in your face for a product they think you would like based on intel they gathered eavesdropping on your famility at your house, before he "allows" you to keep on driving. Thats exactly what those kinds of video ads are on the internet and people are not having it. Anyone arguing for intrusive ads is completely delusional, if your website cant exist without shady ad methods then your website should shut down until you figure out a better way to get funds. Not to mention that the kind of people that install adblockers are ones that ads dont even work on to begin with even if they watched it. They might even start actively boycotting the product/company out of spite after getting tilted by their ads.
Absolutely agree with your last point. I'm too lazy to set up an ad blocker for my home network so when I'm watching youtube or prime video late at night on my ps5 I audibly curse at ads that interrupt the content I'm trying to watch. Ads make me want to *avoid* a product.
The worse part of the ads is, if you don't skip the short ad, they play you a much longer one. Anyone who's not skipping ads is probably busy, like driving.... Also say goodbye to the 8 hours per night that TH-cam runs while I'm asleep. Lately I turn the laptop off because I feel like a rube when I wake up to an ad.
Having grown up in a time when just clicking on the blank space on a website had the potential to unleash pop-ups and maybe even some malicious automatic software downloads. I see ad blockers as not just an annoyance and inconvenience blocker, but an additional veil of protection when surfing the web.
I got a ransomware virus on a work computer from an infected ad on a trusted weather site years ago, and ever since then adblockers have been my first line of defense since even antivirus software can be thwarted fairly easily these days, as evidenced by the sheer number of malware that can get past antivirus software via ads.
@@duckner I've been using uBlock since I was 15 in October 2021. I've blocked almost 30 million items in the course, and over 14 million this year, alone. I don't regret doing this.
Until a couple of years ago, I purposely didn't use ad blocker, because I wanted to support You Tube and the channels I watch. I was OK with an ad at the beginning, end, and 1 in the middle. I was even willing to tolerate 2 ads at the beginning. But when You Tube starting showing ads every 3 and a half minutes, that was ridiculous. So I put ad-blocker on all my browsers.
Exactly the same as me ! . I could just about tollerate the same, to support the channel . but youtube became unusable with the bombardment of 10+ ads on a 30 min video... with pop up ads on top of the ads taking you to play store or other websites . Then i read comments from alot of channels saying they dont get a penny from the ads 🤷♂️ . it wasnt them putting 20+ ads on a 1980s movie . . Its why i stopped using youtube for Along time until i found adblockers
@@boiledrat i found mine in the play store of all places ! . Some of them stopped working so i tried others . Goto your app store and try some until you find one that works 👍
i had a 59 minute ad last week. i sometimes like to watch yt the same way i watch tv - while i'm doing something else, like preparing dinner, in which case i have no problem w/a couple of short ads running - but there 30, or even 60 minute ads of some dimwit blathering on about some scam...i used to see ads for some sort of phone relationship psychic that were stupid and way too long too, not sure what happened to those but now it's even stupider/scammier ads. i much prefer walmart or whatever other mega company running normal ads, to these fly by night con artists w/30 minue rambling bs ads. how do they afford to pay for a 30-minute yt ad? does yt not charge normal or standardized ads the way regular tv and print advertisers used to? or do hey have a bunch of clueless trannie wokesters running their ad department? it's bizarre! its a multibillion $ company, they can't do better than that?
Thank you. While I am pro AdBlock, I am anti sponsor block. Adding that segment to sponsor block might result in intuit gaining more clients. That would make me sad.
@@rossmanngroupcan confirm it has not been sponsor blocked. Love a good anti sponsor :) even if it is a bit of a tangent from the main topic. A lot of common themes between corporate greed / apathy / desperation, and shitty user experience, + users taking matters into their own hands to find alternatives / workarounds! I especially hate Intuit for their lobbying against a national automated + free system for tax returns like most other developed nations have.. they killed a California bill which would have brought such a system online as default. Now Republicans are trying to revert funding for the IRS, which is in the midst of developing a national online / semi automated tax return system.
I have been using adblockers for years then TH-cam stopped me being able to...It drives me mad and now I have seen your video I am going to see how I can get adblockers agiain...I hate being told what to do by big companies, I hate adverts (its why I stopped watching TV entirely- never watch it...) and I am so glad I stumbled on to your channel.
The funny thing for me with all of this, is if it were a single 15 sec ad at the beginning of a video I'd probably tolerate them, but when it's 2+ ads at the beginning, plus again every 3-10 minutes, and then AGAIN at the end.... it's exhausting in it's own right. I pulled back on my content consumption until my ad blocker updated to block them again.
Just clear your cache whenever you get the TH-cam message that doesn’t let you watch. You have to log back in but it fixes it. At least for me with u block
I never saw ads on youtube (except those done inline by the content creators), but I use an ad-blocker pretty much since they were invented. What you describe is like on TV, and I do not watch TV anymore since about 20 years because of the ads and some other reasons. Internet without ad-blocker is a pain.
One of the reasons I would block TH-cam ads despite knowing it takes money away from my favourite creators is that TH-cam ads seem to be competing for which can be the most loudest and annoying. I could have my volume set to 10 on a fairly quiet video and the ad will still blast my ears out, and on top of that it is often some game ad filled with incredibly annoying, repetitive and highly suggestive sounds and visuals that would most certainly violate TH-cam's definition of "advertiser friendly".
Should also note that ads don't give creators much money to begin with, if you want to support them you're better off supporting them. Most Ad money goes straight to TH-cam.
Meanwhile, I would be sat there looking at the literal years of complaints from creators about how TH-cam was fucking them over with ad revenue, or because copyright claims flag their videos without actual proper cause and suddenly all the ad money of that video is either blocked or goes to that claimant.
i block ads due to google not moderating them... 18+ ads and malware injected stuff... it has happened before where ads tried to inject stuff or when older or ignorant people click a ad... and get sent to scamsites, ransomwaresites, etc, etc... so yeah. Every pc i get my hands on magically get 80% easier to use according to people who know me.
Why not just pay $10 for Premium? I've had it for like eight years at this point. It's my only streaming subscription and I freaking love it. No ads, downloadable playlists, listen with the screen off, and YT Premium comes with YT Music, so I don't need Spotify or other music streaming platforms
I've noticed a sudden increase in YT ads in the last few weeks. I've never had a problem just hitting "Skip Ad" before, now it's starting to be a hassle and I would start considering installing an AdBlocker.
- what is to consider - just keep omn enjoying the ads, seems you were never triggered or anything.. (daily mail banned adblockers years ago - of course there are much better "enterforment" sources out there). (plugins are readily available in your selected "browser store".)
@@Starry2000 you think $12 a month for ad-free TH-cam Premium and TH-cam Music is too much? Personally, I find it to be a great value. I have TH-cam or YT Music playing pretty much 24/7. My time is valuable, and if I added up all the time I'd lose listening to ads, $12 seems super cheap to me
I used to not have adblocker and having to deal with the ridiculous amount of ads, then someone told me that I could install a browser extension to block them so I did and it was so satisfying to watch the video all the way with no ads disturbing me at all. Never looking back to the ad-filled adware ever again!
2 things youtube did for me with their "anti adblocker" campaign: 1. i watch less youtube to prepare myself for the actual case they somehow win their loosing battle, also i have been watching unhealthy amounts of youtube before and wanted that to change, so thanks youtube for giving me the right incentive to basically quit 2.continue to use the same adblocker as before after clearing its chache.
and they started it with an ineffectual first strike. They didn't come up with anything new or innovative that would make blocking it more challenging. They just figured the internet would get bored of this before their intern.
TH-cam will run to Congress and if they succeed there, people will put up no real resistance and fall in line with any legal sanctions the bill prescribes just like they always do.
For me, it's the issue of the algorithm. YT is just too quick to demonetize *harmless* content they deem to be too "mature" or "edgy", or otherwise 'violates guidelines'. I've heard MANY of my favorite content creators, complaining about how difficult it's become in recent years, to make a profit or just a "living" from ad revenue on YT. It'd be different if that issue was the result of blocking ads--- but seems like the issue is more about TH-cam themselves, being too strict and manipulative with how they choose to monetize or demonetize videos. I'd be a LOT more willing to allow ads, if I knew, guaranteed, that my favorite YTers were getting a fair share of revenue, for the ads I see. I have no such guarantee.
Yet they have no problems collecting revenue from ads with fully naked anomated characters in sexual positions and with sexual sounds. Bunch of ffing hypocrites
This. Most of the creators I follow also complain about being demonetized on a regular basis, even the ones that aren't political. If I can't have the guarantee that the money I give to YT (either through getting premium or watching ads) is actually going to the people I like and watch, then I see no reason to give YT a dime.
I'd 100% be willing to bet behind the scenes TH-cam has some people, execs or otherwise, who play favorites to boost certain channels while certain channels/topics/things get pushed down.
The issue is TH-cam REFUSES to even touch channels who are large and pushing harmful content. This all started when PewDiePie did his stupid Nazis shit, getting people to say "death to all j*ws" and instead of apologizing and moving on, he doubled down, dressed up as a Nazi, and did the salute. When he was called out, he once again doubled down, called articles calling him out as "fake news" and "controlled" and encouraged his fans to attack the writers. Despite all this, TH-cam did nothing, and eventually, PewDiePie "shockingly" yelled out the nword and the and only then did TH-cam take a stand. Unfortunately the stand they took was to minimize profit loss and not actually punishing Felix for breaking their TOS several times
Yeah it's true. A lot of the creators we enjoy wouldn't even be getting the money from us watching the ads, due to them getting demonetized by YT constantly. And even when trying to ask why, or how to fix the demonetization, TH-cam remains incommunicative. Especially if they don't like you.
According to EU law the use of ad block detection is most likely illegal. It can be compared with a TV channel which installs a device in your house to see if you are watching their commercials. And if you don't, it will block access to their channel. Even with permission this is an infringement on privacy. This might also be the case in the USA.
im pretty sure its seen as illegal because the software they use to check if you have an adblocker enabled can see too much or isn't supposed to see it at all
@@JoeEver123 Privacy laws in the EU are really really strict. Even Meta risks being banned, because they show personalised ads, apparently that’s against the law too.
I personally drew my line when I got an ad showcasing a literal infant urinating in the mouth of an adult man. I instantly reported this to both TH-cam and Google, but got the response that "This ad does not violate our content policies, so we won't remove it." I was so baffled at how this couldn't be breaking any of their policies, so I instantly installed an adblocker because I never in my life want to see something like that again.
They frequently have ads that clearly violate the advertising policies (and would get content creators banned), but they don't care. I've yet to see anything done about the overtly sexual ads for all sorts of products ranging from dating apps to video games to marijuana (which isn't legal everywhere, but someone YT can still advertise it?)... They don't care as long as they get paid. The content was a big push for our whole family to install adblockers and tracking blockers and when YT tried to lock out my teenage daughters account, I wrote a nasty letter about how they don't have the right to control the content my child is exposed to and she got her account back a week later. I'd rather just leave YT altogether than pay for this nonsense because we'd be paying for other people to see these same types of ads and that's just gross.
That might actually fall under the FCC if you're in the US or something lol talk to them if you remember the company and also of course tell them about it being on TH-cam.
TH-cam's experiment had a vastly positive effect on my life. I scrubbed my subscriptions back to just the stuff I really really like, and even amongst that now carefully pick and choose what I watch. And almost completely ditched casual watching. I freed up hours of my limited lifespan for doing other things! Thanks, TH-cam!
In 15 years of using youtube I've never clicked on an ad and don't plan to. I use an ad blocker now and I hope they follow through with their threats and block me. The hundreds of hours I've wasted watching cat videos are hours I'll never get back.
Whoever at TH-cam who decided to make this anti-adblock campaign deserves a party in their honor, thank you random person for inadvertently teaching the masses about adblockers. I've been using them for years and legit don't remember how I came across them but it was game changing lol
@@notsocrates9529 For real. Once I got that "turn off your ad-blocker, or else" popup on a video, I simply did a quick Google search, found out the UBO guys had already made a workaround, and made the switch. I had a good giggle that night.
I told TH-cam very clearly that I will start supporting them, when creators will be shown exactly which seconds of their videos violate what laws and then having a proper Judiciary process to handle their appeal, by the books. They say "support creators." When I see their creators be treated fairly, I will support them.
£12.99 for nothing added to you only to block theirs ads and download videos in browser so you can`t watch them if your PC and account got hacked I would pay £1 every year to ad blocker not £12.99 where Disney+ and netfilx has cheaper plans
an ad-blocker functions on all sites, doesn't push useless features, and prevents me from seeing those clickbait ads with the most repulsive images on the planet. youtube takes my data and gives me ads for alt-right podcasts. i think i'll take the adblock, thanks
Totally agree that ads going too far started all this. Before youtube started running 2 ads a video and 15-30 second unskippable ads I didn't use ad block because I didn't need to use ad block. 5 seconds of ads on exclusively monetized videos was not an inconvenience warranting an ad blocker. If they backpedaled their ads I'd bet the issue would get better vs their current strategy, which I suspect will make things worse.
I wish they'd bring back those little unobtrusive silent ads that showed up on the bottom of the viewport. Like, what happened to those? Or the banners on the right side above recommendations? I'd much rather those than loud ass ads that last longer than the average mid 2000s TH-cam intro..
Yep I was fine with the ads when they were just 5-10 seconds at the beginning and end of a video. When they introduced the mid-reel ads that obnoxiously cut off videos, I started using adblockers.
@@AlphaGarg Actually, those were the worst and the most distracting. They blocked the video view, had a very small button to close them, and kept reappearing.
Ads were always intrusive but as you say tolerable. Now, YT is tyrannical in the way it enforces obnoxiously long ads that frequently interrupt videos, and they often come in doubles. It's so insufferable that some videos are no longer watchable due to the endless interruptions.
I relate to your comment so much about paying for a service and still getting the ads! just like public TV here in Canada, paid by our taxes and yet full of publicity.
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My problem has never been the adverts themselves, but rather the sheer level of intrusiveness, intensity, and disruptiveness of them.
My concern is how sexual they are becoming, many are just junk games meant to steal money from you but I also get a huge amount of basically soft-porn ad content on youtube when I dont use a blocker.
RIGHT?! oh no popping up mid video isnt enough, here's this tab thing to completely jump in the middle of the comments you were reading. oh dont wNt that there? just close it. oh wait the video ad is a seperate thing to close. THOSE ?+>$*#3>"?@×
i hate ads
That and the fact that they are not curated at all. Scams, cults, phishing sites, NSFW adult content...you name it, I've seen them advertise on TH-cam, because Google does not give a toss about who advertises with them. This was the main driving factor for me when it comes to using an adblocking, and also the reason why I'd rather drop TH-cam than adblocking.
@@Rexhunterj You should be looking into who you share your device with, ads are targeted based on your interests.
Don't know the current situation but back in the days TH-cam had only one kind of ads: small pop-up on of the bottom of a video and I was OK with that. Wasn't even thinking to get rid of this stuff. Once I faced interrupting pop-ups...adblock.
If TH-cam wants to block adblockers, they need to start vetting their advertisers. So many scammers get free reign, using an adblocker is pretty much a first line of security defense.
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this. use an ad blocker. sincerely, infosec
And all those get $300million rich schemes, those trashy mobile games like Raid and those games with a gun in the hand moving down a track, and the If you complete this 2 Yo toddler's puzzle you have 1.00e+42 IQ but shows that the idiots that made the ad cannot complete such a thing.
And there are inappropriate adds that may pop up while you have kids around watching a fricking disney song.
@@indigetes even politicians pop up add can make anyone puke at any given moment.
Fun fact: Ublock Origin still blocks ads, and every time YT changes the system to make it not block them, Ublock just updates a few hours later.
"Age of Information" . . . . . . . . .
Yep I have premium, but I tested my adblocker in incognito and it threw the flag, switched to ublock origin and it worked just fine. I also have a pihole with all my network traffic running through it and it didn't detect that either.
no wonder i never noticed any problems with ads despite seeing all these videos, never even seen the warning about blocking the video player
shhhh lets enjoy
My Ublock stats: Blocked on this page [9,527 (55%)]
Louis, you described it perfectly. It's when the add is "forced" upon you and no skip option, that people really are upset with. That is tyranny. You can tell it's tyranny because of the threat of closing down your account if you dont comply, hence the word "forced".
this is their for profit company, you come to them, steal their money and dare to call their response a tyranny?? WTF is wrong with people. You have no sense of what is right and what is wrong. As long as it benefits you, you will find an excuse for every disgusting thing you do, including theft of services in this case. If you don't liek a company - LEAVE. No advertiser is going to miss a broke ass viewer like you, trust me. TH-cam doesnt need you, they actually give you the OPPORTUNITY to have access to a platform for FREE. And your kind of people are not even worth to be given to. Still whines and complaints. Go back to reading books or maybe pay $120 for a cable TV then.
You do have a skip option, an adblocker.
The main reason I stopped watching TV was that a 1 hour and 30 minute movie would become 2 and a half hour movie due to the sheer amount of commercial breaks. The fact this is becoming a thing with TH-cam and other streaming services is why I use AdBlockers. And will continue to do so. I came here to escape ads, not find more.
In the late 70s through the 80s, any James Bond movie was a three hour Sunday night on the network TV stations.
100% agree. Google makes enough money when they track our internet surfing habits or our inputs in the search engine. So: when Google uses our data to make money they should pay us back by making YT totally ad free :-D
I tossed out my physical tv about 15 years ago for this exact reason. I used to be on yt all the time, but the crapton of ads just makes me not use youtube anymore. 1 second of loud obnoxious ad and I just close the entire page. We don't need 30 second unskippable ads for every single 5 second viseo we watch
@Juan-os4hs My issue is not the length of the movie, it's the artificial length caused by the extra ads.
I don’t really have a computer how do I get content because TH-cam premium is going up and I don’t think I can justify $20/month for a time wasting app
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."
-Gabe Newell
Yup like an algorithm that allows us to discover new channels/music we'd care about instead of gradually bending us back to mainstream stuff
And then Google came and made YT Premium a Spacebar Blocker that also requires you to have an internet connection to watch your "downloaded" content, so users have to use an Adblocker anyways, because having YT Premium, besides making it actually ad-free, also makes it a worse experience.
While I fully agree with the sentiment, I would be careful to identify adblock with piracy. (If you were implying that)
@@LiosProsum no no, just pointing out that people being unhappy with the use experience and finding ways to circumvent it isn't a problem with the users. If the user feels the need to circumvent your limitations you're moving in the wrong direction. Ads are necessary but they've become infinitely more intrusive and obnoxious lately, so people find ways around them. The easy solution is to make the advertisements less intrusive and obnoxious, not plug the holes that people were using to go around what they didn't want to see
Gabe was right but I don't think it applies to this case. Adblockers aren't alternative services with no ads, they literally just take a pre-existing service and take ads away from it. This makes them an upgrade by default, unless the service in question has no ads in the first place, meaning you _can't_ offer a better service. The only way to make people stop using adblockers is to offer a service that they're willing to support by watching ads, but in TH-cam's case, I'd rather support the creators themselves than a company that treats them like shit.
Ads on TH-cam videos were tolerable at first. But as soon as they started chaining ads as well as making them unskippable, that's what drove me to get an adblocker. Their increased intrusiveness and disruptiveness added more reason to put on an adblocker.
Ads were never tolerable. Never will. Brainwashing should be illegal.
i follow a few youtubers how dont allow Adds and their videos are being shadow banned
@@rodden1953 looool
There was a guy a while ago that allowed all adverts on one of his videos as a test. His 3 minute 20 second video became over 8 minutes with the number of adverts.
I don't mind adds between my vids but when you breaks in the middle of a short vid, it gets super annoying.
As a kid, and even being a teenager watching cable tv, I remember not being annoyed by ads at all. It was like blissful ignorance until my program turned back on. And that was the case with youtube too. A five second ad is nothing...if it's only one. And I remember those being every couple of videos, not on every single video. The sheer volume of ads they now serve is nuts. I got tired of updating u-block and turned it off. But once I did that I noticed how ugly the website was, and also a lot of the ads were very concerning in general.
I would say for people's well being that they really need ad blockers on. So actually I hope this shit that YT is pulling brings awareness to millions of users.
In the old days, ppl used remote controls on TV daily programs - befor einternet days, to mute the TV as ads were louder and obnoxious. So people developed a hatred for ads 40 years ago. Thhe louder they made the ads, on the idea ppl walked out of the room during ads, to make a coffee etc and they wanted t o make sure you could hear the ad from the kitchen just meant hthey switched off EVERY other viewer who was still watching the tv and the ads. SO they and we would just mute it. Advertisers became their own worst enemy in thier own world!
Recently I couldn't get on Paramount plus to watch one of my favorite shows so watched it on the CBS website instead. I hadn't noticed paid much attention on streaming that my 'hour long' show was only 36 minutes. The ads on network tv drove me crazy. I couldn't finish the show and held out until Paramount Plus was working again.
I was on a site earlier, apparently it detected I had a blocker & asked me to unblock it? I’m like WHAT? I went to the next. I think we can all agree it’s gotten a bit out of control. Even on the apps, this is so way out of control.
@@roxannlegg750 I started hating most, if not all of the companies that keep pushing their garbage ads.
Just use the brave browser. No ads and no constant need of updating ublock.
No matter how hard TH-cam tries to stop adblockers, there will always be someone who is one step ahead.
I hope so...
This is not the first time they've tried this. They did the same thing several years ago and it only enhanced the awareness of ad-blockers and more people installing them. They know they will lose this 'fight'.
Except with Facebook who is legit the only place I know that actually defeated adblockers. I _never_ found anything that could just block ads, suggested post, etc on Facebook.
However, Facebook, a lot of people can just stop using it. Not TH-cam: it's most people's online entertainment and there much more dedicated people on YT willing to go against Google than Meta.
I stopped using Facebook and my life is much better now. Facebook is an equivalent of a drug dealer in modern world.@@Lebon19
the beauty of software programming..no matter how tight your security is, there is always that nerd who can still hack you if he wants to
It speaks wonders when people would rather pay an ad blocker to block ads on TH-cam than pay TH-cam to not have ads on it.
have you watched the previous video why he stop paying for TH-cam premium? you will understand why hes now rather pay Adblock than having subscribtion on TH-camPremium (he was a loyal 7years customer for youtube premium).
I'd also rather pay a bodyguard instead of just handing my cash to a robber.
Paying "premium" to a platform that actively promotes censorship when talking about things they dont want you to while promoting scams like "climate crises" ? Nope. F youtube.
You pay for one service instead of hundreds for what is effectively the same job.
with how youtube treated it's creators over the years, paying youtube is basically immoral.
The biggest mistake google made, was trying to block adblockers and immediately after raising TH-cam premium price. A monopolistic move and creates an even bigger incentive for the user to find alternatives.
They're getting cockier
What alternatives? TH-cam uses monopolistic practices because youtube IS a monopoly.
And dropping Lite level... If they managed to block my adblocker I might have actually considered paying for that level. As I have no interest in youtube music or want to pay for it as part of Premium...
I dont see how this is there biggest mistake, or even a mistake at all.
Adblockers are significantly cheaper and overall more beneficial.
Who could have seen this coming...
I always had an adblocker, but I had a bunch of websites whitelisted because the ads weren't intrusive and I wanted to support the website in question.
TH-cam used to be one of them and their war on adblock reminded me to go through and re-evaluate weather I thought the ads on the sites I whitelisted were intrusive or I still wanted to support the sites, something I hadn't even thought about in almost 13 years. I've added new sites to the whitelist, but a lot of the old sites (including youtube) I now consider too intrusive.
Same. I like to support the content creators I watch, even if that support is mostly symbolical. The line for me was when I watched two 15 second unskippable ads before a video, then after watching less than two minutes of the video another two ads played. It´s just become too much
Oh man, I've been blocking ads since the start. I use it as a hot-take IQ test in fact -- if they still don't know about adblocking (after 20 years) then I mark them down.
We can whitelist certain channels only on TH-cam.
The fact that there are people on here getting more views on their videos than shows on cable TV are getting, but are nt getting paid the kind of money people on cable TV are making tells me that there is no reason to enable ads on TH-cam in order to "support" the content creators. For some creators that I really enjoy, I will subscribe to t h e i r p a t r e o n s or give them a superchat (eventhough youtube takes 30%).
I use to whitelist channels i liked back when og vanced was around... Then the alphabet went and cease and desisted them... The alternatives dont have the function (or have it as easily findable) so they essentially destroyed my 1 personal limit of allowance... Now i dont care and they caused it 😂
They're the ones moving the goalposts, not us.
First it was banner ads
Then it was overlay ads
Then it was skippable short ads
Then it was sometimes skippable 30 second ads
Now it's multiple unskippable ads
Greed. That's all it is.
They forced our hands. The blame is on them and them only. The people are innocent
I haven't seen an ad on youtube, at least on my pc, in years now. On my phone I just mute it and have my finger hovering over the 'skip' option.
The smart companies have content creators doing their advertisements - I'll usually sit through that. I'm fine with content creators making a little money. F--- Jewtube/Google.
the investors want the infinite ammounts of money they were promised and youtube is trying desperately to get it
In the future, forced people to buy premium. Next would be ads in premium just like Netflix & Hulu
Conditioning us to accept fewer choices and less control over everything.
The problem with ads in the past is that the use of them on the internet have CONSISTENTLY been built on a policy of being aggressive, invasive, and hostile. Early internet advertisement was full of:
1- False locations (multiple "Download' buttons on the same page)
2- page dominance (deliberately taking up the majority of the whitespace, sometimes blocking the content you want)
3 - harassment (constant, invasive background processes, such as sound that could not be easily shut off)
4 - hostile takeover (intentional redirects, or stopping the user from even closing the ad, maliciously controlling the computer)
The internet's history of advertisement has *CONSISTENTLY* been one of (even well-meaning) companies being incredibly, aggressively malicious and invasive, making websites hard to navigate and use, and in worst cases, deliberately damaging your computer or taking away aspects of control.
If advertisements were CONSISTENTLY skippable (or at least short/small) and had no ulterior motives other than trying to sell a legit product, I'm sure most people wouldn't really have a problem with ads.
But it's consistently been a 35 year barrage of relentless aggression and hostility against the end-user, and you have the gall to get mad at US for snapping at this behavior? If you had kept your ads humble, simple, and non-invasive, this arms race NEVER would have started, and people would have been MUCH more accepting of the idea of an ad-filled web.
STOP. PISSING. PEOPLE. OFF.
i also feel like people would watch way more ads if they were actually entertaining/good like some japanese ad where dude karate chops ramen package before putting boiling water together with ramen inside his mouth or something like that
That's called marketing
@@dairiskuznecovs7233 The ads of the 90s were the pinnacle of creativeness as well as very entertaining.
@@billweir1745 flash game ads. Hit the clown, get redirected to this site.
Well it's gotten a lot better but some sites really are aggressive on ads. Short 6 second ads are okay or 30 second with option to skip. The problem is alot of these ads are pertinent and don't generate income for the advertisers anyways.
They're not only inadvertently encouraging and spotlighting the use of adblockers, they're indirectly causing adblockers to be better, and for more people to get into the game of creating, coding, and learning how to make adblockers. Where there is a need, there is innovation.
Not only that, but browsers that intrinsically block ads like that, and people who weren't aware, are being prevented from using the platform and not knowing or understanding why. So when they try to 'turn it off' they can't and have to find a new browser. OR in a case I've seen myself.. I turned OFF my adblockers just to see what happened and the videos were STILL being blocked and unable to view, even after turning the blocker off.
so their whole war is backfiring even more because their so called detection shit is even blocking non blocked browsers. XD
@@novasiri7809 The same thing has happened to me.
Sooner or later, one of those coders (or more likely, a group of them) will make a decent alternative to TH-cam.
@@novasiri7809 download unblock origin makes the blocking of ads work like a charm
@@GeorgeDCowley There are already a few.
I consider an internet ad free experience a basic right. Nobody should be forced to waste their time watching ads and be spied upon for ads purposes. If i want to support a content creator, I will do it on my own will. Thankfully I have found a way around youtube's latest tyrannical adblocker ban. The day they'll force me to watch ads will be the last day I will ever watch youtube. Thank you for your video, 100% agree.
"Found a way?" Give me a break, just use a browser that isn't Chrome and install an adblocker, done and done. I haven't had any trouble with the Firefox + ABP combo for nearly a decade now. Unless this is a mobile problem, in which case... well, you're on mobile. That's your problem right there.
@@CoralCopperHead I am on both due to my job, traveling often. TH-cam had intially blocked me when using ublock origin with firefox on my desktop, so i am not sure it is just chrome, but you may be right now as I didnt experience the issue lately.
@coralcopperhead685
I am using Firefox and various adblockers on my PC since they became available. I did not even know that there were ads on YT before I first watched it on my Android phone. ( silly me ) I was absolutely stunned by the lot of crap I was forced to watch on my phone. Took me a lot of time and effort trying different apps and hacks on Android to get YT ad-free there.
Finally the answer is as simple as on my PC: Use Firefox and any adblocker you like.
Of course the mobile page of YT is not nearly as comfortable as the app and I encounter a few secs of black screen prior to the actual video. But: So what! That's a fair price for some peace of mind.
And finally: I'd rather pay for a good adblocker than for any service provided by the big data skimmers. I donated more money to the open source community than I ever payed MS for exemple. ( And yes I am using Linux )
@@CoralCopperHead Get an open source adblocker.
@@CoralCopperHead I get the latest adblocker bans as well from time to time and I'm not using Chrome. Just because you aren't getting them doesn't mean others aren't lol
What advertisers don't realize is that a great many people consciously, explicitly decide to stop buying, or decide never to buy a product just because ads are so annoying and aggravating.
True. Things like Grammarly and NordVPN are on my blacklist. Too many ads is both annoying and even making the advertised products suspicious to me. If they're that desperate to make money maybe their product isn't good at all. At least that's how I view it.
That's how I do it. I stopped buying one product just because their ads are incredibly stupid and one tv ad for computer supply online shop in my country is so annoying that when I was build computer I rather paid much more for competition just so I don't support that shitty company
#GAYco gecko
Yup. The more times I see something advertised at me, the less likely I am to buy it. I've even stopped buying stuff I liked just because I saw one too many irritating ads (it was one, singular, but still one too many lol). I just don't like ads at all.
Yes - this is happening because advertisers are realising that advertising is just not working, or working llike it used to. The megolopolies of this world have sucked all disposable income the average person has left...and we just plain dont need more stuff.
In my opinion, TH-cam is running face-first into the same problem that the movie, TV, and Video Game industry keeps refusing to learn their lesson from: if your product is obnoxious, the consumer will bypass the obnoxiousness. If your response is more obnoxious, they will bypass the heightened obnoxiousness and teach their friends how to, too. This usually takes the form of piracy, or shopping at your competitor.
TH-cam saw "People are finding our ads annoying and are upset that they've been getting progressively more intrusive year-by-year, so they're using third party programs en masse to bypass them. What do we do?" Their response, rather than "find a less obnoxious way to display ads" was "Let's take aggressive steps to FORCE them to look at the ads!"
Honestly, heightened adblocker use is probably the best thing TH-cam could have reasonably hoped for from this public face-plant. The other alternative is one of the numerous companies who've been looking to eat TH-cam's lunch for the last decade actually starting to gain traction.
The Movie (Theater) industry is on a downward spiral as well. I went to see movie last week that had almost 40 minutes of Ads, Trailers, Announcements. And they wonder why folks aren't going more. I don't mind a trailer or two but when you're paying $10-$20/ticket plus any concessions, and trying to make sure you're there on time to make the 7:30 showing for a 2+ hour movie... I'd rather it not start 40 minutes late.
They're not doing this strictly because people are using adblocks, it's because they got caught lying about ad statistics which is just fraud. It's also why theyre being so aggressive with this sudden no adblock policy, they got caught in the cookie jar and now theyre throwing a tantrum and taking it out on their consumers instead of properly reporting their ad statistics because "less ads = less money." Essentially, what TH-cam is saying is "its your fault we had to lie about our ad statistics to get more money, so now that we got caught, we're gonna force you to watch them"
TH-cam has a very long list of changes that went directly against what their customers wanted. I really wish it didn't have this unbeatable monopoly, because then they'd already be bankrupt or forced to improve.
100% agree. Be less obnoxious and I'll watch the ads. I never used to have a problem with them when it wasn't every video all of the time and to make matters worse, the ads are also at a worse quality than the video that I'm actually trying to watch. TH-cam was like a search engine for me, and now I'm going to find alternatives/go back to 100% Google searches, or get a better adblock. I really feel like TH-cam needs to figure out a way to embed themselves in other products in the way that Google does instead of relying on volatile ad revenue.
I went to the movies a couple weeks ago. The movie was supposed to start at 3pm. Me and my buddy knew that meant 3:15pm at the very least, due to ads. It started at 5 past 4pm. I've used ad blockers since forever, on the laptop, on the phone. I NEVER ever watch ads, for anything. If I need a product I'll ask around and/or look it up. If YT continues this war I'm going to migrate to whichever site provides a similar experience without the ad war. So far so good, my current blocker is doing its job but I've seen YT trying to sneak ads in.
I genuinely didn't know adblockers worked on TH-cam until TH-cam's campaign. Gotta thank TH-cam for informing me. Now I haven't seen an ad in weeks.
what app are you using?
@@CJtheRedeemer ublock works
@@gabrielbarnagaud6287 Thanks so much dude! I got so use to no ads for so long and hated that I had to watch ads on TH-cam again. I just downloaded Ublock and it actually still works!
@@CJtheRedeemer adblock plus works for me, and if it doesn't work it's usually updated within a day or two. when Adblock plus doesn't work i use brave browser to watch youtube.
How do you keep TH-cam from banning you like they say they will if you keep using an AdBlocker?
Browsing the internet on a device without adblock is wild. Opening some of the web pages that I visit regularly on my PC at home on my work laptop makes me feel like I entered Bizzaro world sometimes, because of how different and confusing everything looks with all the banners and pop ups and autoplay videos and whatnot. What a horrible experience.
Yes, without adblock the internet is anti-human in design.
...Maybe don't visit those websites on your work laptop then? I mean, it's your work laptop. It's for *_work._*
Unless you _need_ to visit those sites to do your job, in which case, talk to your IT department and see if they can find a way to browbeat management into installing adblockers on the machines. Don't bother going to the managers yourself, they'll probably ignore you.
I used to accept ads as a means of "well, they're giving me free content, I can deal with this". I never thought I'd use an adblocker. But at some point in time TH-cam started to add more ads to the beginning of videos... and then unskippable ads... and THEN people started paying to have their full-length, 10-or-so minutes long gameplay videos (BAD gampleay videos, too) as "advertisement". That's what broke me. I decided to install an adblocker... and I was *amazed* at the difference. Not only in TH-cam, but in the entire internet as a whole. No more intrusive ads. No more annoying pop-ups. No more bloated websites. I never looked back.
I can tell you that once I had a 3h.. yes 3h, long add... it was a full concert of some sort... and having shi* music videos from music that I despite pop up in every single video that I watshd, making me just want to shut up asap...for my kid I like to have a playlist with content that I choose, because Yt kids has Alot of bs playing for kids... but the downside is that some times I get adds that he simple can't watch.. I don't mind watching quick an simple adds, but don't trow at me anointing stuff that takes for ever to skip or pass..
You are aware that it's the uploader choosing to have these ads, right?
THREE HOURS! Goodness gracious! That's overkill!@@paulacruz6239
@@paulacruz6239 Sounds like you had a virus lol
@@alan62036 They may choose to have the ads, but they don't get to choose *which* ads or how many ads. Trying to frame this as though the uploaders have "control" is an indication that you don't know as much as you'd like to push back with.
I frequently watch/listen to classical music on TH-cam. To have an ad appear during a serene slow movement of a symphony is like going to an art museum and finding that someone has put a bumper sticker across the Mona Lisa.
This is unbelievably annoying when I’m listening to dark ambients tracks to meditate
Same here. Listening to ocean waves to assist with calming my anxiety and up comes an ad. Grrrrrrr
That's what made me get an adblocker: ads in the middle of Beethoven. Mind you, I wrote a feedback to TH-cam first, and I was innocently expecting them to fix it.
Thats funny
The worst is when you're running and you have to break stride to hit skip.
This ad-blocking shenanigans made one thing abundantly clear to many. There needs to be a viable alternative to TH-cam and their monopoly. For me, it's ad-blocking or an alternative service. No middle ground for a company that forgoes your privacy for profit. Double dipping with ads when they sell all your data to advertisers already is such shameless greed.
Absolutely. And they are coming in the following years
I have been TH-cam blocked several times in the last 3 weeks and I have tried Rumble. That is OK but nowhere near as good as TH-cam as far as content goes. TH-cam keeps reallowing me to watch then reblocking me so I suppose they are dangling it in front of my nose. I won't be bullied though and have held out so far. Since Sunday night I have been reallowed .....for the moment I view videos while I can.
ublock origins....@@johndorber6877
I assume you want that alternative to be free?
I don't see that happening unless they go bankrupt or Internet 2 gets released. Most of these monopolies are just too big to fail
I disabled ad block on TH-cam recently and one of the first ads I got was for a discriminatory documentary spreading misinformation that could legitimately get people like me killed. I've never been upset by an ad before (besides being annoyed) but this sent me. I will fight tooth and nail to keep my ad block going, the intrusiveness, abhorrent content, and frequency of ads on this website is frankly incredible sometimes.
I sign out to see vid. Ad blocker is working for unsigned and no account holder!
Explain
If TH-cam didn't aggressively inject ads into videos, making them practically unwatchable, people wouldn't install adblocks... I remember the times when there were practically no ads on TH-cam and it worked too.
Yeah....and MTV used to ONLY PLAY MUSIC and had ZERO COMMERCIALS.....now there's No Music, Crap Content to Rot the Minds of Kids, and half the programming is all ads....which is why I quit watching years ago....lol
Remember when TH-cam had relatively unobtrusive banner ads on pages? Can we go back to the days of banner ads?
aka 2005 , I too remember this time. This is a time where i started on youtube.
@@Ornithopter470 Agree, for TH-cam and mobile games PLEASE
This was definitely the best period for us users.
But TH-cam was also losing an insane amount of money every year until they introduced ads.
The amount of disk space, computing power for transcoding and maintaining the availability of the website, networking resources etc... is enormous. They HAD to monetize one way or another.
Without ads, you cannot have such a platform open to everyone without having them pay a subscription. Video is heavy, millions of creators upload countless of hours of content per minute. And it's free for them. Hell you could technically upload all your holidays videos as private videos and get some kind of backup hosting of your video content, all for free.
You could make creators pay but then you would also have much less content on the website (this is the approach Vimeo chose for example) because no one wants to pay to upload videos if you are not a professional TH-camr.
Of course I would love the ads to be less intrusive in general (like they cannot be longer than a certain percentage of the video length and that kind of rules). But asking for no ads is impossible. Personally I pay the Premium because there is so much educational content I follow on TH-cam and I don't. want to waste my time with ads, so I agreed to pay. Also with the sub I get access to all the TH-cam Music service so I don't have to need Spotify.
This su*** but people have to understand that not everything can come for free.
Who could've possibly foreseen that youtube demanding users to stop using adblockers would backfire? It was such an unexpected consequence that no one saw coming! (said no one)
it really hasn't though, a bunch of people whining changes nothing
@@neonwired4978 Because a lot of people complaining about something they disagree has NEVER made any changes in history, never.
it could have worked if they cut the price of premium(by at least half) to coincide with the demand
it has increased the number of adblock users ....@@neonwired4978
i love it when youtube tries to play 10-15 second ads on youtube shorts that barely extend past 30 seconds xD
It's always shocking to me whenever using a friend or family member's computer and getting just drowned in ads. I've no clue how people deal with it
My parrents who are incredibly Computer illiterate asked me to make the ads dissapear.
It's called brainwashing. Most people these days just accept being annoyed.
they have npc mentality, devoid of any curiosity to improve their experience
@@grantofat6438wrong. Many people just don't know you can get rid of them, just how he says in the video
yep youtube wants to force ads but also mutes my comments and for what they dont like smart well educated people using hate as a means to fight republicans hypocrisy and their acceptance of their hate while ignoring our own with their own hypocrisy see they keep sending these man children who dont want to debate me they just want to cry about how i butcher their language even tho all english speaking nations dont respect your use of bastardizing of their language
When all this started, I just waited until the adblock devs caught up to the prompt (~1 day). Every time the prompt broke through again, I took a lovely break from TH-cam and caught up with some old shows I've been neglecting.
Thanks for getting me back into other platforms, TH-cam!
lmao, nobody is going to miss you bud, youtube doesnt need a cheap ass broke people who cant even afford a premium. Trust me. What they do is to give an opportunity to poor or greedy people to still be a part of a platform for free. And you all of course dont deserve that - you only complain.
i changed my ablock 5 times this December, due to this problem of detection. I will not let youtube tellling me what to do..
@allashama try it at a grocery, stel some food, and talk like this to a police officer lol 😄 people are seriously morpns... unbelievable
The FBI recomends everyone use an adblocker
www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
You're not lying. That is a .gov website, posting a public service announcement from the FBI.
@rossmanngroup this is just a question, so please don't crucify me. If YT is such an immoral platform and you are all about morals, how come you keep posting here vs. Rumble or Kick?
@@mikelee9173because they suck
Network effects. Audience reach, simple@@mikelee9173
if you use adblockers youtube now counts how much time you watch ads vs watching or creating content and if you watch 0 minutes of ads, but watch and create a bunch of content, they will simply delete you.@@rossmanngroup
I was never bothered to install an adblocker until a few years ago when TH-cam pushed intrusive, long, unskippable ads and doubled up on ads. TH-cam ads have actually done the opposite for me- anything I see in a TH-cam ad I remember to NEVER support the company just because of how intrusive the ads have gotten.
Aggressive ads are not only annoying but also make me believe the product/service sucks and whoever's pushing it is desperate for sales. It's not helping them at all. If a product is high quality it will speak for itself and existing customers will do the advertising.
@@HarakiriRock Agreed, all I've ever seen is "exposed" videos on popular youtube ads and sponsers.
I can never understand why sites try to FORCE people to watch ads. If I've gone to the trouble of installing an adblocker, do advertisers really believe that I will view their company in a positive way if I am forced to disable it? I'm more likely to spend ten minutes going on review sites leaving stinking reviews!!
ad companies don't care what you think about their ads. If they can get an ad to stick in your memory by annoying the fuck out of you then that's what they'll do. When you are in need of some product then the first thing that you'll think of is that annoying ad that you hate from people selling that product.
Maybe you would prefer paying a subscription fee to specific channels that provide you with valuable content - instead of ads?
None of us are entitled to valuable content free of charge. Respect the resource!
@@jimbeam-ru1my Yep, and it's on my list of "Definitely not buying this because they use obnoxious advertising methods and I don't want to reward negative behavior." Too bad I can't do the same thing with politicians that use distorted negative attack ads, since they all do it.
Haha Me Too ! 😅
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Thats hilarious....
ive download so many scam games Just to give a 1 star Bad review cus of youtube ads
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And done the same as you on other irritating youtube ads too
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Nice one 🤜 🤛
I mean, that's exactly why ads on TH-cam are becoming more and more scammy and ridiculous. Less legitimate advertisers are willing to pay for a business model which essentially uses ads as an annoyance in order to propel users to buy a subscription.
When TH-cam started threatening to stop me from viewing videos after being a user of their platform for over a decade! I definitely installed an adblocker. Sometime I was getting 3 ads for a 6 minute video. Ridiculous.
I was in a programming class and asked my classmates how they were dealing with TH-cam's anti adblock . Imagine my shock when they were like, 'You can block ads on TH-cam?'
This is a programming class with students that supposedly use computers to do things that most people don't do.
So yeah, Louis is very right.
Reminds me of every time Internet's been blocked in third world countries and suddenly everyone knows what a VPN is.
Da fuq ? O_o
everyone in that class was a laid off journalist
This isn't that surprising to me. I know people in their 20's and even their 30's who need help opening Word.
It's mind boggling to me when I meet someone who has grown up in this era who has almost no knowledge of how to perform even basic functions.
@@OutLanderUSN Yeah, someone in their 20's asked me if I knew how to make a sign-out sheet. I was like, "Yeah... you just make a simple table in Excel or Google Sheets. It's pretty easy."
yeah, I was pretty much the person to teach people around me how to use adblockers AND VPN…
This was exactly my experience. I never used adblocker once, until this TH-cam anti-adblocker move took place. They really did just bring this into the forefront of the masses.
I didn't start using an adblocker on the internet until website ads started getting too obnoxious years and years ago.
I intentionally didn't use an adblocker on youtube in order to support creators, until youtube started putting ads on creators and videos that weren't monetized and putting multiple long ads on videos so short that the ads had a longer playtime.
I was willing to watch ads knowing a percentage went to the creator. Now when youtube is demonetizing people's videos for completely arbitrary reasons while still putting ads on them and deleting people's channels for no reason, and other such asshole behavior I will not support them.
I haven't looked back since.
If you never had an adblocker, what about TH-cam’s new shit prompted you to get an adblocker, since it only targets people who already had one?
@@skarloeythomas5172 a lot of browsers come with a light-weight adblock build in, that isnt good enough for youtube
We had no ad blockers on my wifes computer and it shut her from watching the content.....@@skarloeythomas5172
I do use an adblocker, but I found I couldn't bypass youtube's censure. The internet taught me to use incognito mode with adblock enabled. It works not only on youtube, but also on other sites that had popups asking me to support their site.
The entire reason I started using an adblocker over a decade ago was because the main site I checked in with everyday became a wall of advertisements. I was already supporting them by regularly buying their overpriced low quality merch.
The modern internet is insufferable. You try to view a recipe or a user written article and only 30-40% of the screen is readable text with the rest being autoplaying videos, large banners leading to dodgy websites, or fake news article etc. I don't understand what these people were expecting.
I've also had to start googling things and watching trailers etc in incognito mode because everything google related spams me with spoilers for anything it knows I have even a tangential interest in. Every time I watch Critical Role I get blasted with Baldur's Gate spoilers until I hit 'not interested' and 'don't recommend channel' enough times to buy myself a reprieve.
It feels like "not interested" and "don't recommend channel" don't actually work, because I keep getting recommendations from channels I've told the algorithm I don't want recommended.
Agreed. I finally started using one a couple of years ago, when one of my favourite websites got so stuffed with heavy ads that my old computer could not cope with it anymore.
30-40% ? You're greatly exagerating.
And dont forget that 80% of the time the actual text turns out to be ai generated garbage.
@@mistermidnight1823 "Don't recommend" does seem to work. No idea what "not interested" is actually supposed to accomplish so it is hard to tell if it is having any effect. One problem with "Don't recommend" for me is that there seems to be an infinite number of channels reposting Joe Rogan clips.
Me: Totally spot on. Streisand effect makes ad-blockers more common than they were
Louis: I use a paywall blocker
Me: 👀 THOSE ARE A THING!?!?!?
The fact that all of this was quietly going down in the MIDDLE of the SSSniperWolf advertiser and money drama just proves that TH-cam is a money hungry, disgusting company.
They hit record profit margins of nearly 40% in their 2021-2022 Fiscal year and their idea to keep the momentum is "Remove adblockers." Which is only going to get more people to use adblockers, for intrusive reasons.
No 6 second meme clip needs a 30 second unskippable ad.
Actually, they want you to pay for YT premium.
Just install all blockers man.
wow a greedy corporation? Now that's an oxymoron
Anyone who thinks corporations aren't just out for the money is a deluded imbecile
every one, all of them. blocker. install down to the 7th ring of hell. @@BalboaBaggins
@@QuantIosi The adblock war has been going on quietly in the background (a few weeks ago, to a month+) since before the Jacksfilms fiasco, it just started picking up more traction after the other news died out.
Louis' willingness to not only condemn youtube ads, but to also being able to switch perspectives to youtube's side on how they're doing intrusive ads because we the internet like free stuff the most is a beautiful show of clarity of mind. Honestly I should've subbed to you since long ago
Thank you! I think about this a lot more as I get older. Most of why the world sucks is a reflection of us. How we got here is simple... companies realized people will go to the ends of the earth to not spend $15 on art/media/software, but would happily take it for "free" if the cost were their data or their privacy. If the reaction to gmail in 2004 was *"FUCK. THAT. I am paying for my email hosting, storage, software, & interface before I **_EVER_** let you fucks look through my email to advertise to me"* , maybe we'd live in a different world. Same with music. *"DRM sucks and you won't provide me what I want the way I want it even if I pay!"* is a good argument, but for every time I saw that, I saw 20 other people arguing that $15 for a world class album was a "ripoff".... they listened... they heard we were willing to pay for nothing, but the only thing we valued less than our opinions of them, were our own time, data, & right to privacy... thus, the ad supported models were born.
And to flip things around one more time, Alphabet likes free stuff too. Recaptcha has taken in hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours of labor for free by unduly coupling the generation of training data for ML models that they can profit off of massively.
@@rossmanngroup Brave browser has been working great blocking youtube ads.
If you want an ad blocker just get premium, it's worth it and helps the creators more!
I haven't seen an ad in years guilt free.
@@zachreadswhy pay when im using ublock origin? TH-cam pays little to creators. If you want to support creators, just pay them directly offsite.
The adblock war has hammered more nails into my TH-cam channel. Views have plummeted and income has halved. Good one TH-cam, you have effectively destroyed the platform in one greedy move. Spook the audience and their eyeballs go somewhere else
you deserve it, your videos are poison.
Its also the rampant censorship of independent media channels that is driving people to other platforms.
Lets hope so, becasue the yt monopoly needs a drastic culling. Maybe this will incentivise people to move to better platforms like Odysee
you only recently started uploading infrequently after months of absence, I don't think the blocking of adblockers is at fault here...
what the actual fuck is your content
My breaking point was a few years ago. I dealt with ads, especially with longer videos. Then, while I was engrossed with Jacksepticeye playing something that kept me really engaged and immersed... Only to be hit with an obnoxiously loud ad that had nothing to do with the game. I was done. I looked up an adblocker and haven't looked back. Hell, I actually considered leaving TH-cam behind forever until my adblocker updated and started working again.
mine never stopped working but then i have AdBlock and AdBlock plus installed together both are the free versions.
There really is no way adblockers can be ultimately defeated. If it really comes down to it, I'm happy to wait through through a 3min ad with a black box covering it and the sound on mute.
web integrity api
Peace, at last!
Make it so, that the video don't play after the Ad and start 2 or three videos. Everything you get the black box and muted sound, you switch the another video for another 2-3 minutes of content before the next Ad.
Within few years we will have AI model trained on ads that will filter whatever feed you provide to it. The only downside will be slight processing lag.
Yea, some one may put the ad blocker in the code of the browser or we can even just open two tabs and silence the one that is running the ad.
For years I refused to use adblockers, ads were not intrusive, usually a small textbox somewhere on the page. I have no problem of the creators making money. The small textbox ad was OK for me on youtube too. Then they started to you intrusive ads, which was the turning point for me. They actually made me use adblockers. Congrats. Now a decade or so later, when I see internet without adblocker, I'm shocked
Yeah its insane how intruive they are now. Some even open up a new tab page when they start....
The sites that were littered with ads back in the old days of the net were considered suspicious or just straight up viruses. Now it's unfortunately the norm. Even worse that they killed their own search function for the sake of their own algorithm to push recommended or sponsored content.
It started for me somewhere between 2000 and 2010, when on a forum I visited, there was a flu medicine ad with sound which did a very loud "Atchoo!" every time it popped up, giving me a near heart attack. I still didn't use a blocker then, I simply stopped visiting that forum.
Then on TH-cam I wondered why sometimes videos are choppy. I then noticed it was every time a Nintendo ad was displayed on the right. Flash was still a thing then and that ad, using Flash, seemed to use up most of my computer's resources. An adblocker resolved that issue nicely.
I stopped using the blocker again later and didn't really mind the occurrence of ads before a video on YT, as long as I could skip them. Then they began to show 2 ads, one often not skippable, and more and more ads during the video, often interrupting mid-sentence or during a music video. Also on a lot of websites, ads are switching constantly, making the content I'm trying to read jump up and down randomly.
Yeah, full-time adblock user now and very happy with it.
Adware has basically become madware, a variant of malware but one that drives you mad crazy.
@@stuartdparnell ...well, and malware too. My final flip to block all was networks not trying very hard (at the time) to keep out malicious stuff.
The reasons why showing people how to fix their own device led to more of them paying you to do it for them is: 1) it showed how competent you are, 2) it showed your work ethic, 3) it showed people how involved it was and a lot of people don't want to get that involved, 4) so they appreciated what you did more, which 5) made your services more valuable.
Yep
It also shows that "unfixable" can be fixable. Sometimes very easily
True that
Agreed, like myself being a mechanic, rather teach how to notice and do a fix , makes my work easier because they know when something is wrong, not just ....well, it's making a "noise"
i often end up tryng to fix my own stuff to a degree, but when i gotta pay for help i always try to at least know the professional a little bit and vice versa so he understands that the thing they got paid to fix has face and a reason because even today is rare to encounter stores that make videos to be known.
Never in my life have I ever been inspired to “buy anything” that TH-cam advertised. And when I need an answer right away and TH-cam shoves three ads in my face I’m 1000x less likely to buy a product.
There is a HUGE problem with very long skippable ads and music playlists. I don’t mind a small (less than 30 seconds) ad every few songs, but a 10 minute “skippable” ad while I’m in the shower or doing housework is crazy. Not even radio is crazy enough to go that far.
you either pay for it with your time of actual money one way or another.
brave browser is adfree! I couldn't enjoy youtube without it. No add ons needed - Brave! Really tho it's that easy
actually that not bad. i sometimes i just put off my earphone then just start focusing more. the weird things is how crazy the recommendation to these TH-cam AdBlock war video keep showing to me. ughh fcking weird
I think the longest add ive ever seen was 3 hours
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Incorrect, you OVERPAY with your time.
To make it quick:
The revenue generated by ads, per person, is higher then the 'Prime' fee.
Informing us the service is being overcharged for ad-users.
It's gotten to the point where even actually shady sites, pirate and adult sites who have particularly terrible ads because no legitimate company is willing to pay to be associated with them, _are less bad about ads than TH-cam is._
As terrible as TH-cam is with their ads, they are far from the worst. Shady websites still force pop-ups with any click on their websites. Fandom and every news article smear ads into every crevice with autoplaying videos that follow you while you scroll.
@@slippslope I prefer fandom. Both are bad, but YT ads actively make it so you CANNOT see the content you are here for and instead must watch ads. They replace your video with BS you aren't here to see.
I don't even look at the Fandom ads. I just scroll right to my content. On YT the content isn't there while the add is playing.
@@shupasopni exactly we learned to recognize/ignore the old style ads. nothing worse than YT spewing those noisy ads thatll play for a whole minute every 8..and the obligatory one when your video ends. and the ads are SO cringe ffs!
I watch lots of porn and TH-cam and can with great certainty attest to the Fact that that is Absolutely TRUE😎
You watch porn because you're horny. I watch porn because the ads aren't so bad. We aren't the same.
If TH-cam didn't introduce the double ad nonsense and if ads weren't so freaking bad I never would have installed adblock in the first place. Now there's no way I'm using TH-cam without it
Problem is that they don't really work anymore
@@bloodhoug82 uBlock Origin is working fine with the occasional hiccup.
there are youtube specific ones that still work@@bloodhoug82
they work@@bloodhoug82
TH-cam also likes to insert an ad in the middle of a song, e.g. on Live From Daryl's House.
i've watched you for at least 5 years. Every single time you are always 100 percent spot on with your topics and mentality, that's also why you always do so well. Your common sense is absolutely insanely good. i truly wish more people were level headed like you are.
Never forget to look at the state of advertisements in traditional media like TV and radio. Nearly 33% of any broadcast time can be solely for ads. And this is what they're doing to people who are paying for expensive cable packages! Never give an inch to these greedy corporate scum. If you pay $12.99 for TH-cam premium this month next year you'll be paying $19.99 a month but with pre-roll ads. Internet media is likely going to fully replace radio and TV within our lives and if we're not staunch on preserving the values that made it great it will become the anti-consumer shithole cable TV is.
It's why I did away with my television. I'm not going to pay to receive ads. Never!
As for TH-cam and ads, they've tried this several years ago and it only led to more people installing ad-blockers because of more awareness of the issue. They know they can't win this.
I think the advertising pie is now being split too many ways between traditional media and social media so the companies putting ads out on the traditional media are not as plentiful as they used to be as on TV you sure notice a lot of repetition and a lot of advertising for their own shows or future shows - advertising is likely dying on these traditional platforms as well.
This.
Look at streaming.
-You pay for Prime Video. They increase the price.
-You continue to pay for Prime video. They increase the price.
-Prime video then starts running adverts, OR you can pay the new price.
How about no. You had my business, then you got too greedy.
If adverts were reasonable, fine. But when you have 6 adverts for a 3 minute video and often in-video ads too. It's just too much.
YT is already too expensive for what it does.
You can try to replace yt with other apps and websites, whenever possible
Despite being a tech person and being fully aware of adblockers (I use brave for almost everything), I watch a lot of videos without an ad blocker, because I watch them on my phone and can't be bothered to install a third party app. I also know that watching the ads supports the creator and I am (for now) willing to endure the ads. That being said, I've noted recently that: (1) the ads are getting much longer and unskippable and (2) the volume on the ads is often (significantly) louder than the audio from the video. Those two things combined are starting to make me reconsider.
Same. It's becoming similar to the length of commercials on TV. It really burns my toast.
Supporting the creator is tough because of course, some money is better than no money, especially for independent creators. But at the same time, this kind of support should not come at the detriment of actual viewership which is what an independent artist and their content needs in order to thrive.
I stopped watching twitch on my phone because of this. Enter a live stream, get hit with ad. A lot of creators post their vods on youtube.
Support the artist? Donate to their patreon / membership, buy their merch / works, spread their content.
I use brave on my phone just to watch TH-cam because the ads have gotten so bad.
That and "oh you’re watching in 240p to save data? That must be for me. FULL HD AD"
I have Adblock browser on my phone and watch youtube in the browser.
I'll just go ahead and say, Adblockers will never die. As long as there are Ads, Adblockers WILL exist and they will keep on getting better as they find ways to detect them. I wish more people were like you and I wish more people on youtube would promote adblockers.
We are bombarded with ads wherever we go to the point it is so saturated we don't even notice most of them. Look at old TV of streets, buses and buildings, everywhere looked so much more peaceful to our sight.
Paste your 'message' on a billboard you are fine but paint an image on a wall and it is a crime.
never say never dude... u realize google owns the govt in most of the usa. see what happened to Limewire and Napster for music, but imagine that , plus the addition of videos...
Opera gx native blocker still work btw, simetime it just block the ads but not the timer but still worth it
I wouldn't celebrate just yet. For example, adblockers don't work on Twitch any more because they inject the ads into the video stream itself (unlike youtube where the ads are separate videos from the content so they're easy to block). There are hacky, low quality, workarounds for Twitch but they only work because they specifically allows a separate 360p picture-in-picture of the actual stream to exist so you don't miss any of the action while the ads play. If they got rid of that there would be ZERO workarounds... the point being it all depends on how fiercely TH-cam wants to fight this battle.
It's like antivirus systems basically.
Ads are annoying and this video is so refreshing to see someone speaking genuinely. I miss seeing honest reviews and articles. We need to make a better internet
“In my opinion, the advertiser-supported internet is reaching that late stage where the content that rises to the top is not the best content, but in many cases is simply the content that will make you the angriest or give you a cheap laugh, and is not necessarily the content that is even healthy for you to be consuming.”
This is a great point and I’m glad it’s being stated in a relatively eloquent way. I’m surprised I even found your videos again since I used to only watch your repair videos. But in a way it makes sense, because this video might cause feelings of anger or is controversial.
If you're a car dude the perfect example of this is Whistlin Diesel.
Yep. It's all about keeping people angry. That is why TH-cam will constantly try to suggest Ben Shapiro the obvious con-toddler and other hateful idiots all the time even though I say to "Never suggest these videos" I get them daily and never watch them. Always just pass them up or tell them to go away. Yet I still get far right BS in my feed all the time. I never watch them yet they always show up... What a coincidence...
@@Rollin8.0I don't even know what happened with that guy, one day never heard of him, next boom big name out of nowhere.
Welcome to capitalism! It encourages all our worst traits heh
@@3nertia You're confusing "capitalism" with "free market." They aren't the same thing.
i have no idea how people have gone this long without ever using an ad blocker. i simply cannot fathom how they comfortably use the internet that way.
most AREN'T comfortable. they just don't know how easy it is to get an adblocker nowadays. they think it's like deep-web shit, or its malware. they don't know that something that good CAN be free, too. i was that way once, too.
lol 6 download buttons on one page without adblocker 🤣🤣🤣dangerous
Some people really think it's better using the app or the premium services...
... People I don't understand.
@@ariabritton9669 the gap of technological literacy is crazy like it’s as simple as the chrome web store 😭
I just the TH-cam app most of the time. No adblockers, but I've found a couple of ways to reduce the ad time. Like closing and reopening a video until I get a 5 second ad. Even if there's 2 ads in a row, once that first one is played, you can close the video and reopen to no ads. I also skip to the end of the video to remove all the midroll ads(doesn't always work).
I've also found that opening and closing youtube shorts while an ad is playing can interrupt the ad and let you go back to the video.
Intrusive ads are the absolute WORST and I strongly believe they should be illegal. The absolute OUTRAGE I used to feel when I'd open a site (like a recipe blog, or an online tech store) and suddenly have sound, music, or whatever other sort of audio start playing from an ad hidden SOMEWHERE at the bottom of the page cannot be described in words.
What's even worse is how unsafe some of them are. There's a special place in hell for people who embed viruses in advertisements. 🤬🤬🤬
I am not a sadist but your frustration in the last line made me laugh 😂
schadenfreude
@@vaibhavyadav9912
I share your rage. Sadistic idiots.
When an ad suddenly jumps out and hits my eyes or ears, I feel like someone has suddenly flung my window or door open and is hosing me down with their toxic s**t. A bit dazed, I chant, "shut up, shut up..." to drown out the ad until I can turn the volume off. But then I'm left with residual anger.
for me it was the pop-ups that would open another window when you clicked anywhere on the page
The fact that TH-cam try to detect what is in your computer/smartphone is bloody intrusive.
it's most likely illegal in eu actually wich could put an end to this whole shit rly fast (well as fast as eu politic work, but it wouldnt be the first time fine in the B e fall
My older cousin always says "The Internet was a lot better back when the Boomers were afraid of it". And he's not wrong.
This! The minute old people got on, they found a way to ruin it. Personally, I blame Facebook.
A combo of social media and then the average person being able to use it on a phone really brought the bar down, this is why gatekeeping exists.
I was _never_ afraid of it. In fact, I've been using it since the 1990's, when a lot of the people who love picking on Boomers weren't alive. If you don't like being treated unfairly, don't do it to others.
Yes and before content marketing became a thing.
The day the Smartphone was released was the end of the old Internet.
I want my sweaty neckbeard Internet Back with ftp's and irc Channels that Boomers do Not understand
When it comes to traditional advertising, there are rather strict regulations every advertiser must follow. Those regulations would prevent, say, placing a huge sign over the freeway and blasting stadium floodlights from it right into driver's faces at night to "grab their attention". As far as I know, little to no such regulation exist when it comes to digital advertising. It can get as intrusive, as loud, bright and disruptive as possible. Adblockers are a must, and a right in such chaos.
The UK has some regulations.
@@TheUKNutter Unfortunately Google is a US company and therefore doesn't care. In the UK we don't have to suffer from the endless pharmaceutical adverts, nor adverts for guns, but anything else seems to be fair game. Doubtless the Tory party will remove even these protections shortly.
I know for a fact that ads on TH-cam are against regulations in my country, I refuse to believe otherwise. I also turned off personalised ads on my account and I get the full range of ads for every kind of product you can imagine for every different demographic. It shocks me that TH-cam can even be making money from it, most of its vapourware.
@@TheUKNutterwhat doesnt the UK have regulations on?
@@samharris3508beer amount limit
TH-cam genuinely has nobody to blame for this but themselves. I've been watching youtube from the very beginning, and for 15 or so years I had no problem with ad's. They'd play for a few seconds, usually allow a skip, or would skip themselves then I could get on with my music video or whatever. But over the past 5 years or so they have gotten so unbelievably intrusive and obnoxious. sometimes multiple 30 second long unskippable ads for a 5 minute youtube video. Sometimes I'd be listening to an album on youtube while working on my car, and would notice after 5-10 minutes I've been listening to some stupid ad yapping on and on and on, I'd have to get out from under my car walk over to the speaker and lo n behold a 45 minute ad about gravel or some shit would be playing. It got to the point where I just couldnt take it anymore. I looked up how to install an adblocker and have never looked back. I had the exact same experience with hulu and other streaming platforms that would subject you to ad's. It got so damn annoying listening to the same 5 minutes of ads 50 times a day that I just figured out how to find free streaming sites on google. They got greedy and devalued their platform so far that they shrunk to obsolescence. It's gotten to the point to where I feel television had far fewer and far less annoying ad breaks than shows do now on tubi or something.
Shit, that thing happened to me too where I was listening to music and suddenly an ad appears that you have to wait for it to finish and continue with your normal life. But you realize that the damn ad never ends and you have no choice but to go to the phone in an annoying manner (I'm a house painter and when I'm at heights I usually leave the phone down there). For those stupid things I installed an ad blocker with anti-tracking almost exclusively for the use of You Tube.
No, broadcast TV was and still is horrid. If you cut ties with ad-infused programming nearly 20 years ago like I did, you really should turn on a broadcast station for just one hour and see what the content-to-ad ratio is. It's so bad you start to wonder if the actual program is even on. Radio is the same. TH-cam because of the ability to just jump to another video is sometimes worse now because depending on the video you could hit several in a row in one minute of hopping that have long ads in front. The whole thing is idiotic and I use an adblocker. And when youtube started forcing the blocker when I was logged into my acocunt, I just logged out of my account and started using shortcuts. If I really want to see my subscription list, I log in, check it, log out, and go back to watching with blocker on. OR you can just use FreeTube to manage everything with no ads as long as you don't mind being limited to 1080p. OR you can install one of the advanced scripts for TH-cam that get around actually watching the ads. One way or another, TH-cam needs to change revenue models like Louis said.
Ugh, this. Any time I have tried to listen to music on TH-cam while busying myself with something else (doing dishes, making dinner, etc.), I have gotten these long TH-cam ads that last as long as an entire tv program. It's so frustrating to have to stop what you're doing, clean off your hands, and go get your phone just to skip an ad that is 10+ minutes long.
Yep sounds familiar. Never liked ads but accepted them, as long as they were roughly equivalent to the ad breaks on UK TV. In fact I seem to remember YT ad breaks being less annoying than TV when it first started.
Biggest annoyance is the fact you can't leave it to listen to, like you can with commercial radio. Fell asleep once and woke with a skippable EIGHT HOUR advert playing!
Same. I knew about adblock for like 10 years before I started using one. I only started using one when the ads became unbearable and almost every TH-camr got their own sponsors and have many ad reads on top of many YT ads every video...ads are one thing but ads on top of ads before doing some more ads is too much.
The thing that TH-cam didn't take into account is there is simply no way that someone will go from not experiencing ads on TH-cam videos for many years to simply accepting they either need to see the ads, or pay a significant monthly charge for premium. It just isn't going to happen. They are just going to circumvent it any way they can. Now if they brought down significantly the cost of premium in the UK which is like £11.99 or even just allowed multiple users under one account or something like that I'd probably sign up.
Some years ago (7-8 years ago I think), the Norwegian Consumer Council had a live stream where they read the terms and conditions of the apps installed on an average phone (in Norway at that time) out loud. It took 32 hours. No one has the time to read every word of terms and conditions, and they specifically use manipulative design to trick people into giving away their information. Even if you know about it, you're still likely to slip up sometimes. I've heard a lot of people say things like "when it's free, you are the product". But really we are the test subjects in the hands of these massive corporations, and they keep getting away with horrific things because they're too large and powerful to be stopped without serious consequences.
oh and dark patterns
horrific things like ads?
The problem is that the opposite is not necessarily true, i.e. "when it's paid, you are not the product". There's no guarantee. They might have the exact same terms and conditions.
@@jattikuukunen Now with crap like phones you're often paying quite a lot for the privilege of being a data collection endpoint for some corpo.
They do it all the time I believe Facebook got sued for something similar but it’s nothing too them since they can make the money back the next day
This anti-sponsor segment is so good. Shame the companies who've stopped innovating and calling them out. I've never been more interested in a segment with "sponsor" in it
Same. I've seen 2 other 'anti-sponser' videos and they were both entertaining and informative. lol
The only sponsor segments I watch are the one Internet Historian makes haha
That big purple thingy 😂
But also, all ERP software (like QuickBooks) is convoluted buggy garbage. At least, that's my experience with the five that I've had the misfortune of working with.
So far nothing comes close to how bad Intacct's API is.
The part that angers me more than anything is the sheer arrogance and entitledness of advertisers. We're utterly bombarded with ads daily; online, on TV, on billboards, bus stops, benches, clothing, it's EVERYWHERE, and you have the gall to tell me I'M in the wrong for not wanting someone to try and sell me something at all times? Go to hell. I spent $1,200 on this computer, I put it together myself, I'm gonna use it how I want.
I love how this is written. Also just the fact that it's 100% truth
Well ain't that the Fucking Truth!!!! I'll be damned if i have to deal with ads filled with malware or spyware etc!! Fuck out my face with that shit! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️😡
this is a very true comment, I'd rather use adblockers than premium adblocks are free
you should be a writer bro
I agree wholeheartedly, and would add the fact that I've never once made a purchase from one! I've seen what, 10,000 commercials and billboards and whatnot in my life and not one has led me to a purchase. I say this as a guy with a lot of disposable income (still won't buy youtube red though lol)
The word you used that resonated with me the most was... arrogance. TH-cam, originally a FREE service, decided to run ads to gain revenue. Ok. THEN.. they decided to run ads DURING content, as if they had any right to interrupt ANY content THEY didn't make, when they were already bringing in revenue from the existing ad structure. Holy arrogance, batman! And NOW.. they've decided to FORCE us to watch these fking ads OR ELSE! It wasn't enough to have strip ads on the page, nor to have them at the beginning of a vid... no no.. they start running intro ads, then every few minutes into the content.. over and over... MONEY MONEY MONEY NAHM NAHM NAHM! Arrogance. It's a good word. I've also been at war with them lately, and finally landed on a good blocker, for only 12 bucks a year, up to 5 devices.. and IT WORKS! So happy now. But still...
Paying for adblock is moot and stupid
lol
Advertisers have proven over and over and over that they cannot be trusted. I will never run by choice any code of theirs, ever. Whether that's malware, badly designed CPU hogs, annoying adverts, tracking. It's never enough, and the only thing that has stopped them has been regulation, ad blockers, and so on.
Sorry, I didn't understand what you said. Could you please explain in to me? I'm not that tech savvy
@@error707detected Advertisers like to put malicious code in their ads to try and steal your information or perform other malicious activity. There are also many ads that are straight up viruses or scams and can break your devices or worse if you were to accidentally click them.
Basically, adblock is an important security measure to protect yourself from malicious advertisements. Its like a shield.
@@error707detectedI wouldn’t worry too much. Use duck duck go to help with your privacy. It’s free and their whole thing is privacy. Also, read up how privacy on the internet to learn some more about this topic. It’s not just advertisers, it’s basically anything online you do leaves a digital footprint, which means that you leave a trackable record online regardless of whether you intend to or not. The only thing with advertisers, is that advertisers use that digital footprint to help direct more targeted ads at you. Most of the time, that’s it. The general population isn’t going to be targeted with anything else really. You’re good, no worries.
Even with regulations let's look at an example of how they try to get around those: they're told, "You have to give people a choice about your cookies," then they try to make it as inconvenient as possible to opt out of data collection, forcing people to jump through multiple hoops and click dozens of times to opt out, while at the same time making consent to data collection as easy as possible. Judges then told them, "You can't do that," and now they're looking for ways that aren't specifically browser cookies so they don't have to comply anymore. It's similar to the hacking arms race, but the bad actors in these cases are the ad companies and their big tech clients. They are a fucking menace and targeted advertising has to get banned by law - it's way overdue.
What idiot actually buys most the crap they advertise ?!🤷♂️
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All the games they advertise are scams only an idiot would pay to play
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There must be ALOT of stupid people out there who would literally jump off a cliff if a politician told them to
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For ads to be such an obsession for the rich and greedy ? 🤷♂️
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Its the Only explaination 🤷♂️
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most of society must be very Stupid to allow ads to dictate what they spend their money on 🤪
The amount of ads that are plain scams or innapropriate really baffles me! How can they have such strict content regulation but virtually nothing when it comes to ads? It's crazy.
because money.
As long as they get the paycheck at the end of the day, they couldn't care less about anything else.
But but...don't you want a mini heater that warms yr whole house in 5min?
There is content regulation for ads (I've worked before on setting up ads for Google/Bidswitch networks), it's just very random how it's enforced.
If you see suspicious ads, it's because you're already on a shady/illegal website (and if you're not, you can usually report the ad) - google is quite strict on what is allowed, and humans regularly/randomly check manually new creatives you put up to make sure it's all compliant.
It's not 100% checked because... well, there's too many buyers for ad slots. Too many companies, too many ad companies. It's literally impossible to check everything.
Why do we have an ad supported internet? We pay internet providers insane premiums, and virtually every service on the internet is a subscription
If TH-cam ever succeeds in fully stopping adblockers from working and keeps making their ads worse, I'll just learn to live without TH-cam again.
By the way, there are sites that clone youtube content and don't have ads as far as I can see, like for example piped (dot) yt. But don't tell anyone :)
If they fully manage to block them in a browser, I'll just switch to yt-dlp and mpv, probably with the yewtube cli tool.
They never going to be able to except if they make a deal with those adblockers company except if they paid them so they stop blocking youtube's ads which has almost no chance to happen. Even if they would end up doing that people would still make make free open source adblock on github, gitlab....
I'll get a nebula subscription, it's cheaper then premium
pretty much. everyone will just move away from youtube if they succeed
This fine gentleman mentioned compiling Gentoo in 2004 and won my heart. On a more serious note, your recent videos about TH-cam and Piracy scratch some of my recent itches. It's good to know there are people on the other side articulating what I feel.
My problem is not only the fact that they banned adblockers, but they made the amount of ads you get more frequent and intrusive. For example, most of the ads you get now are 2 ads in a row, and many times I've noticed, the first ad is 5 seconds or less. This way, you can't even hit the skip button, and your forced to watch the second ad. The amount of ads I get is insane, 1 out of every 3(maybe even 2) videos I click on, I will most likely get an ad.
Just install Brave and you will never have this problem again.
ublock origin
I'm probably wrong about this but then again it's been years since I actually had to put up with ads due to how many adblockers I had but didn't it used to be that you would only get one ad for a five minute video but now there's a lot more for shorter videos. A few days ago I was watching a video that was actually shorter then the ad that played before it.
Without a blocker, I get two ads every video and an extra two ads interjected within the videos, and then another two ads after the video ends. It's insane the amount they throw at us.
@@anthonydelfino6171 another annoying thing is that you can't see where the ads are now, you used to see a little yellow bar in the video progress bar or if you were watching a performer they might say there's an ad coming up but now the ads surprise you.
I love a good arms race. Thank you, TH-cam, for helping the adblock industry evolve. ♥
Be careful what you wish for, I know they can win if they try hard enough, I hope they don't try that hard and I'm not going to say how they can win.
What we really need is an adblocker that "plays" the worst ads in the background silently and costs advertisers money for an even worse clickthrough / purchase rate.
If it's war, drive TH-cam's revenue down further.
@@Kie-7077 They can't win lol, we will just use external sites like Piped.
@@TheCatherineCC there's something called adnauseum. I haven't used it and unsure if it works with TH-cam but this does exactly that. It clicks all ads in the background to mess around with data.
No. TH-cam can't win. The internet is not a private property of Google. It's going to be a very interesting game of whack the mole
What you say in the first part of the video is 100% correct when it comes to me. I kept adblocking TH-cam videos, and when TH-cam started its most recent shenanigans, my attitude was, "Okay TH-cam, if you want to block me, block me - I'll just find a better adblocker, and if none block your shitty ads, I'll just find another streaming video service."
And I don't have time to waste looking at shitty ads for stuff I don't need. I'm over 60 years old - I have everything I need already.
The recent rubbish with TH-cam blocking me from using it, made me get out of the house and buy a few books. Life is probably better without too much youtube anyway.
@@lukedaniels7750 for real! this is bs. youre telling me that google needs the ad rev when they rake in billions yearly? there are more than enough mobile users watching ads and no ones paying almost $20 a month for no ads. its bullshit
There really isn't another free video streaming service with user uploaded content worth watching, so the answer is really either watch the ads, pay for premium, or just do something else with your time and life. I'm a high bandwidth youtube user, so I long ago began paying. I haven't had a youtube ad in the better part of a decade, and it better supports the people I watch, and I know I'm paying for a service I actually use.
@@metaleggman18 odissee... before writing do at least a google search, but you are the best XD
I wanna see them block me too. Not sure I would care tbh. We are here cause they have the monopoly on users, but now they’re going out of their way to lose them, I say start with me TH-cam! Lol, what a bunch of nimrods. * and they just did! woohoo! later youtube!
I think this is one of the first, if not the first video by you I ever saw. I got about 5-10 minutes in and immediately followed you. Also, I didn't realize TH-cam was trying to get more aggressive with ads, because I use an adblocker. What I DID notice was that when I was trying to listen to my youtube playlists, I kept getting ads. So I stopped trying to listen to my youtube playlists, rather than just dealing with the ads, for all the reasons you outlined.
The German court ruled years ago that prohibiting users from using an ad blocker on your website is illegal. Despite these court cases, TH-cam started "banning" ad blockers about a week ago, even in Germany. I hope that there is someone passionate enough to bring this to court. With the previous court cases, I'm pretty sure TH-cam will lose.
TH-cam doesn't have to provide service to Germany. Users are free to pay for TH-cam premium.
@@swish6143 And Germany doesn't have to let it's citizens run the risk of having their devices infected by malware hidden in advertisements that TH-cam broadcasts to free users.
@@swish6143Google pays linktax here, so they won't shut down TH-cam here.
@@swish6143its not that simple. In theory you can choose your market. But germany is a big county. You dont lose on millions of $ just because some would use a adblocker.
but they still do provide to users in germany so they are inherantly liable @@swish6143
I agree with you that the ads themselves are the problem. Clickbait, scrapers, promoted adverts, fake comparison sites, all that. Oh, and the fact that I cannot recall ever having seen an ad for anything I would buy.
Outright scams also.
2 weeks ago i had the adblock problem but about 4 days ago they started being blocked again so i guess the adblocker was upgraded
that is because no legit company would advertise on TH-cam because they know it would be more negative for their products compared to regular TV and paper advertising.
I keep getting those tiktok voice over ads that talks about some new "medical news" about "HOW TO CURE [THING]" and it's a little shocking that there's like. No regulations for these. Also just tons of get rich quick scams.
how about getting hit with the same horrible ad for something you purchased over and over again for months.... I've stopped purchasing products to make these ads stop....
Also can we just take a minute to remember that adblockers werent designed to block ads, they were designed to block INTRUSIVE ads. Adblockers dont by default block simple ad banners on the side of websites for example.
Imagine you are on your way to your local supermarket and instead of billboard signs on the side of the road the supermarket hired a guy to jump infront of your car for 60 seconds to hold up a sign in your face for a product they think you would like based on intel they gathered eavesdropping on your famility at your house, before he "allows" you to keep on driving. Thats exactly what those kinds of video ads are on the internet and people are not having it. Anyone arguing for intrusive ads is completely delusional, if your website cant exist without shady ad methods then your website should shut down until you figure out a better way to get funds.
Not to mention that the kind of people that install adblockers are ones that ads dont even work on to begin with even if they watched it. They might even start actively boycotting the product/company out of spite after getting tilted by their ads.
Absolutely agree with your last point. I'm too lazy to set up an ad blocker for my home network so when I'm watching youtube or prime video late at night on my ps5 I audibly curse at ads that interrupt the content I'm trying to watch. Ads make me want to *avoid* a product.
not the same at all, the road you pay for . this site you don't- advertisers do.
Thats not all true. Some ad blockers definitely block the banners and all other ads if you want them too.
...., ... HOLY CRAP Just Stop Oil is just a real life pop-up ad
And we do indeed boycott them. Speaking as one who has never bought from a YT ad. Ever.
The worse part of the ads is, if you don't skip the short ad, they play you a much longer one. Anyone who's not skipping ads is probably busy, like driving....
Also say goodbye to the 8 hours per night that TH-cam runs while I'm asleep. Lately I turn the laptop off because I feel like a rube when I wake up to an ad.
Having grown up in a time when just clicking on the blank space on a website had the potential to unleash pop-ups and maybe even some malicious automatic software downloads. I see ad blockers as not just an annoyance and inconvenience blocker, but an additional veil of protection when surfing the web.
Only sites i get this on now are movie pirating sites and p**n sites
@@duckner Maybe so. I just had such a bad experience as a kid that it kinda freaked me out for life.
Same.@@psycholuigiman
I got a ransomware virus on a work computer from an infected ad on a trusted weather site years ago, and ever since then adblockers have been my first line of defense since even antivirus software can be thwarted fairly easily these days, as evidenced by the sheer number of malware that can get past antivirus software via ads.
@@duckner I've been using uBlock since I was 15 in October 2021. I've blocked almost 30 million items in the course, and over 14 million this year, alone. I don't regret doing this.
Until a couple of years ago, I purposely didn't use ad blocker, because I wanted to support You Tube and the channels I watch. I was OK with an ad at the beginning, end, and 1 in the middle. I was even willing to tolerate 2 ads at the beginning. But when You Tube starting showing ads every 3 and a half minutes, that was ridiculous. So I put ad-blocker on all my browsers.
Exactly the same as me !
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I could just about tollerate the same, to support the channel
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but youtube became unusable with the bombardment of 10+ ads on a 30 min video...
with pop up ads on top of the ads taking you to play store or other websites
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Then i read comments from alot of channels saying they dont get a penny from the ads 🤷♂️
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it wasnt them putting 20+ ads on a 1980s movie
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Its why i stopped using youtube for Along time until i found adblockers
WANT A VIDEO WITH YOUR ADS?!
ad block recommendations please, especially for ios
@@boiledrat i found mine in the play store of all places !
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Some of them stopped working so i tried others
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Goto your app store and try some until you find one that works 👍
i had a 59 minute ad last week. i sometimes like to watch yt the same way i watch tv - while i'm doing something else, like preparing dinner, in which case i have no problem w/a couple of short ads running - but there 30, or even 60 minute ads of some dimwit blathering on about some scam...i used to see ads for some sort of phone relationship psychic that were stupid and way too long too, not sure what happened to those but now it's even stupider/scammier ads. i much prefer walmart or whatever other mega company running normal ads, to these fly by night con artists w/30 minue rambling bs ads. how do they afford to pay for a 30-minute yt ad? does yt not charge normal or standardized ads the way regular tv and print advertisers used to? or do hey have a bunch of clueless trannie wokesters running their ad department? it's bizarre! its a multibillion $ company, they can't do better than that?
I love your anti-sponsor. It was purely entertaining and I watched the whole thing.
Thank you.
While I am pro AdBlock, I am anti sponsor block. Adding that segment to sponsor block might result in intuit gaining more clients.
That would make me sad.
@@rossmanngroupcan confirm it has not been sponsor blocked. Love a good anti sponsor :) even if it is a bit of a tangent from the main topic. A lot of common themes between corporate greed / apathy / desperation, and shitty user experience, + users taking matters into their own hands to find alternatives / workarounds!
I especially hate Intuit for their lobbying against a national automated + free system for tax returns like most other developed nations have.. they killed a California bill which would have brought such a system online as default. Now Republicans are trying to revert funding for the IRS, which is in the midst of developing a national online / semi automated tax return system.
@@rossmanngroup So you‘re anti anti-sponsor block :D
@@rossmanngroupIt already is. It's a "tangential scene", which exists as a category in SB
There's always sponsorlock
I have been using adblockers for years then TH-cam stopped me being able to...It drives me mad and now I have seen your video I am going to see how I can get adblockers agiain...I hate being told what to do by big companies, I hate adverts (its why I stopped watching TV entirely- never watch it...) and I am so glad I stumbled on to your channel.
The funny thing for me with all of this, is if it were a single 15 sec ad at the beginning of a video I'd probably tolerate them, but when it's 2+ ads at the beginning, plus again every 3-10 minutes, and then AGAIN at the end.... it's exhausting in it's own right. I pulled back on my content consumption until my ad blocker updated to block them again.
This!
Just clear your cache whenever you get the TH-cam message that doesn’t let you watch. You have to log back in but it fixes it. At least for me with u block
I never saw ads on youtube (except those done inline by the content creators), but I use an ad-blocker pretty much since they were invented. What you describe is like on TV, and I do not watch TV anymore since about 20 years because of the ads and some other reasons. Internet without ad-blocker is a pain.
One of the reasons I would block TH-cam ads despite knowing it takes money away from my favourite creators is that TH-cam ads seem to be competing for which can be the most loudest and annoying. I could have my volume set to 10 on a fairly quiet video and the ad will still blast my ears out, and on top of that it is often some game ad filled with incredibly annoying, repetitive and highly suggestive sounds and visuals that would most certainly violate TH-cam's definition of "advertiser friendly".
Should also note that ads don't give creators much money to begin with, if you want to support them you're better off supporting them. Most Ad money goes straight to TH-cam.
Meanwhile, I would be sat there looking at the literal years of complaints from creators about how TH-cam was fucking them over with ad revenue, or because copyright claims flag their videos without actual proper cause and suddenly all the ad money of that video is either blocked or goes to that claimant.
i block ads due to google not moderating them... 18+ ads and malware injected stuff... it has happened before where ads tried to inject stuff or when older or ignorant people click a ad... and get sent to scamsites, ransomwaresites, etc, etc... so yeah. Every pc i get my hands on magically get 80% easier to use according to people who know me.
your favourite Creator gets more money in a month than you in a whole year!
Yeah, that mentality of creator support is just a propoganda to not use ad blockers.
I usually never had ad blockers for TH-cam BUT, now I am seriously reconsidering because how insane TH-cam is shoving ads.
Absolutely do it!! It's not just about ads, it's also about your privacy, trackers, cookies, etc! C:
Why not just pay $10 for Premium? I've had it for like eight years at this point. It's my only streaming subscription and I freaking love it. No ads, downloadable playlists, listen with the screen off, and YT Premium comes with YT Music, so I don't need Spotify or other music streaming platforms
I've noticed a sudden increase in YT ads in the last few weeks. I've never had a problem just hitting "Skip Ad" before, now it's starting to be a hassle and I would start considering installing an AdBlocker.
- what is to consider - just keep omn enjoying the ads, seems you were never triggered or anything.. (daily mail banned adblockers years ago - of course there are much better "enterforment" sources out there). (plugins are readily available in your selected "browser store".)
@@Starry2000 you think $12 a month for ad-free TH-cam Premium and TH-cam Music is too much? Personally, I find it to be a great value. I have TH-cam or YT Music playing pretty much 24/7. My time is valuable, and if I added up all the time I'd lose listening to ads, $12 seems super cheap to me
I used to not have adblocker and having to deal with the ridiculous amount of ads, then someone told me that I could install a browser extension to block them so I did and it was so satisfying to watch the video all the way with no ads disturbing me at all. Never looking back to the ad-filled adware ever again!
2 things youtube did for me with their "anti adblocker" campaign:
1. i watch less youtube to prepare myself for the actual case they somehow win their loosing battle, also i have been watching unhealthy amounts of youtube before and wanted that to change, so thanks youtube for giving me the right incentive to basically quit
2.continue to use the same adblocker as before after clearing its chache.
Please elaborate on #2 ?
I just cleared my ublock cache to watch this video. And I will do this every day if I have to.
@@bernardtsuddens8336what does that do?
@@papazypeit updates the adblocker
@@papazypepurge caches and update
TH-cam started a war that they won’t be finishing…
We will be there to look at the corpse of TH-cam and all smile knowingly.
streisand effect working for us.
@@vincei4252not any time soon
and they started it with an ineffectual first strike. They didn't come up with anything new or innovative that would make blocking it more challenging. They just figured the internet would get bored of this before their intern.
TH-cam will run to Congress and if they succeed there, people will put up no real resistance and fall in line with any legal sanctions the bill prescribes just like they always do.
They don't realize that the war against ad blockers will not affect ad blockers, but youtube users. How can they not realize this lmao
That would require them to think of users as people instead of walking bags of money.
Their c-suite is all diversity hires. They're morons.
you're not a person to them. You're a collection of unwatched ads
users that use adblock are useless for them, they don't bring them any money.
It does affect adblockers, as in 'the developers are making them better and harder to detect in direct response'
I went through more points. This guy is amazing! He's thought out extremely well many different angles of this problem! Subscribed!
For me, it's the issue of the algorithm. YT is just too quick to demonetize *harmless* content they deem to be too "mature" or "edgy", or otherwise 'violates guidelines'. I've heard MANY of my favorite content creators, complaining about how difficult it's become in recent years, to make a profit or just a "living" from ad revenue on YT. It'd be different if that issue was the result of blocking ads--- but seems like the issue is more about TH-cam themselves, being too strict and manipulative with how they choose to monetize or demonetize videos. I'd be a LOT more willing to allow ads, if I knew, guaranteed, that my favorite YTers were getting a fair share of revenue, for the ads I see. I have no such guarantee.
Yet they have no problems collecting revenue from ads with fully naked anomated characters in sexual positions and with sexual sounds. Bunch of ffing hypocrites
This. Most of the creators I follow also complain about being demonetized on a regular basis, even the ones that aren't political. If I can't have the guarantee that the money I give to YT (either through getting premium or watching ads) is actually going to the people I like and watch, then I see no reason to give YT a dime.
I'd 100% be willing to bet behind the scenes TH-cam has some people, execs or otherwise, who play favorites to boost certain channels while certain channels/topics/things get pushed down.
The issue is TH-cam REFUSES to even touch channels who are large and pushing harmful content.
This all started when PewDiePie did his stupid Nazis shit, getting people to say "death to all j*ws" and instead of apologizing and moving on, he doubled down, dressed up as a Nazi, and did the salute.
When he was called out, he once again doubled down, called articles calling him out as "fake news" and "controlled" and encouraged his fans to attack the writers.
Despite all this, TH-cam did nothing, and eventually, PewDiePie "shockingly" yelled out the nword and the and only then did TH-cam take a stand.
Unfortunately the stand they took was to minimize profit loss and not actually punishing Felix for breaking their TOS several times
Yeah it's true. A lot of the creators we enjoy wouldn't even be getting the money from us watching the ads, due to them getting demonetized by YT constantly. And even when trying to ask why, or how to fix the demonetization, TH-cam remains incommunicative. Especially if they don't like you.
According to EU law the use of ad block detection is most likely illegal. It can be compared with a TV channel which installs a device in your house to see if you are watching their commercials. And if you don't, it will block access to their channel. Even with permission this is an infringement on privacy. This might also be the case in the USA.
A lot of Euro people have screws loose in their heads. They can't tell from their heads to their a$$e$.
im pretty sure its seen as illegal because the software they use to check if you have an adblocker enabled can see too much or isn't supposed to see it at all
Is this really a law or just the fact that it is nearly impossible to implement this type of system?
@@JoeEver123 Privacy laws in the EU are really really strict. Even Meta risks being banned, because they show personalised ads, apparently that’s against the law too.
"This might also be the case in the USA." You didn't see the one about the "free" TV that did exactly that eh?
Much respect to you Louis, wish youtube had more people like you.
yeah but he likes apple
that's like being Fr*nch
Unforgivable.
@@SebineLifeWind
Are you so new to TH-cam that you've never seen any of his videos where he criticises Apple and their business practices?
@@ianl1052 I think he just wanted to trash talk French
TH-cam takes a third of your donation. Find a better way.
@@patandderry8416ain’t. No. Way.
Grow up…
Thanks for making competition look better Rumble only has 1 ad to skip if one pops up
I personally drew my line when I got an ad showcasing a literal infant urinating in the mouth of an adult man. I instantly reported this to both TH-cam and Google, but got the response that "This ad does not violate our content policies, so we won't remove it."
I was so baffled at how this couldn't be breaking any of their policies, so I instantly installed an adblocker because I never in my life want to see something like that again.
😂 - sorry I laughed
They frequently have ads that clearly violate the advertising policies (and would get content creators banned), but they don't care. I've yet to see anything done about the overtly sexual ads for all sorts of products ranging from dating apps to video games to marijuana (which isn't legal everywhere, but someone YT can still advertise it?)... They don't care as long as they get paid. The content was a big push for our whole family to install adblockers and tracking blockers and when YT tried to lock out my teenage daughters account, I wrote a nasty letter about how they don't have the right to control the content my child is exposed to and she got her account back a week later. I'd rather just leave YT altogether than pay for this nonsense because we'd be paying for other people to see these same types of ads and that's just gross.
bro what?
What? Excuse me what?
That might actually fall under the FCC if you're in the US or something lol talk to them if you remember the company and also of course tell them about it being on TH-cam.
TH-cam's experiment had a vastly positive effect on my life. I scrubbed my subscriptions back to just the stuff I really really like, and even amongst that now carefully pick and choose what I watch. And almost completely ditched casual watching. I freed up hours of my limited lifespan for doing other things! Thanks, TH-cam!
Exactly the same thing with me. House is cleaner, yard looks nicer, spending more time on the motorbike. Ive actually lost 5kg so far.
Lol me too. I am competing for bodybuilding world championship because of TH-cam.@@waimser
Same dude!
Me too! I also clear my cache and cookies more often which seems to help.
In 15 years of using youtube I've never clicked on an ad and don't plan to. I use an ad blocker now and I hope they follow through with their threats and block me. The hundreds of hours I've wasted watching cat videos are hours I'll never get back.
In 26 years of using the Internet, I can't remember clicking on a single ad ever.
Thank you for saying the things you say and using your platform for something good.
Whoever at TH-cam who decided to make this anti-adblock campaign deserves a party in their honor, thank you random person for inadvertently teaching the masses about adblockers. I've been using them for years and legit don't remember how I came across them but it was game changing lol
Yes most folks did not know. I use a linux laptop, so I did, but the average Windows user had no idea
UBO coders deserve a medal and recognition for their service to humanity.
@@notsocrates9529 For real. Once I got that "turn off your ad-blocker, or else" popup on a video, I simply did a quick Google search, found out the UBO guys had already made a workaround, and made the switch. I had a good giggle that night.
I told TH-cam very clearly that I will start supporting them, when creators will be shown exactly which seconds of their videos violate what laws and then having a proper Judiciary process to handle their appeal, by the books.
They say "support creators." When I see their creators be treated fairly, I will support them.
what ad block do you use to get past youtubers new anti adblock system?
People would rather pay for an adblocker than subscribe to TH-cam premium 😂
£12.99 for nothing added to you
only to block theirs ads and download videos in browser so you can`t watch them if your PC and account got hacked
I would pay £1 every year to ad blocker not £12.99 where Disney+ and netfilx has cheaper plans
😮! Yes, I would!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Well ad block is all websites so its better vaule
The webbrowser Brave blocks ads in a way that google can't detect.
an ad-blocker functions on all sites, doesn't push useless features, and prevents me from seeing those clickbait ads with the most repulsive images on the planet. youtube takes my data and gives me ads for alt-right podcasts. i think i'll take the adblock, thanks
Totally agree that ads going too far started all this. Before youtube started running 2 ads a video and 15-30 second unskippable ads I didn't use ad block because I didn't need to use ad block. 5 seconds of ads on exclusively monetized videos was not an inconvenience warranting an ad blocker. If they backpedaled their ads I'd bet the issue would get better vs their current strategy, which I suspect will make things worse.
I wish they'd bring back those little unobtrusive silent ads that showed up on the bottom of the viewport. Like, what happened to those? Or the banners on the right side above recommendations? I'd much rather those than loud ass ads that last longer than the average mid 2000s TH-cam intro..
I actually was happy from this info n the screen from YT because skiping it takes 5 seconds and skiping ads takes sometimes minute :D
Yep I was fine with the ads when they were just 5-10 seconds at the beginning and end of a video. When they introduced the mid-reel ads that obnoxiously cut off videos, I started using adblockers.
@@AlphaGarg Actually, those were the worst and the most distracting. They blocked the video view, had a very small button to close them, and kept reappearing.
Ads were always intrusive but as you say tolerable. Now, YT is tyrannical in the way it enforces obnoxiously long ads that frequently interrupt videos, and they often come in doubles. It's so insufferable that some videos are no longer watchable due to the endless interruptions.
I relate to your comment so much about paying for a service and still getting the ads! just like public TV here in Canada, paid by our taxes and yet full of publicity.