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It’s extremely unfair for youtube to not put time stamps and show exactly what caused the video to be taken down. They leave it to speculation so that people would self sensor.
The irony here is that I didn't watch the original video, but now knowing youtube thinks it's worth banning, I've gone and found out what the content was. So good job TH-cam in highlighting this content for me.
I didn't have to, TH-cam straight up suggested it to me the day after it was removed. And then suggested Rossman's video on it next. Quite literally Streisanding themselves.
TH-cam in 2010: Here's how to make a bomb TH-cam in 2024: Nah, you can't tell people about how to prevent Google from tracking you. That's too dangerous
TH-cam in 2010: Here's how to make a bomb TH-cam in 2024: Nah, you can't tell people about how to prevent Google from tracking you. That's too dangerous. Also, here's how to make a bomb.
I've had a few inexplicable strikes over my TH-cam career. Right now I'm on a first strike because I scorched the end of my beard with a lighter in an 18 second TH-cam short (Beard end scorching is common in Turkey). My community warning was for a safety video intended to save lives, that suddenly got taken down and a warning issued with no reason given. A previous strike was a "counterfeit strike" for taking apart a Chinese industrial limit switch that turned out to be a clone of a Dutch manufacturers product and they filed a strike against me for "promoting counterfeit products". Meanwhile TH-cam is trying to bribe me to use their "membership" service so I can lose everything in just a few automated strikes. Umm - no. I'll keep using Patreon, since I really don't trust TH-cam at all. Using Patreon lets me keep putting out video content on another platform when TH-cam inevitably panders to the Karens and deletes my channel for doing "technical stuff".
TH-cam is inconsistent on what they deem to be against community guidelines........I've been comment banned before just for repeating what was said in the video itself and I was deemed a threat to community safety just for writing out what was said
The issue isn't youtube showing ads, the issue is youtube showing ads that are outright malware or scams. The issue is TH-cam being a monopoly. The issue is youtube violating their own ToS. The issue is youtube letting big channels abuse small channels.
@@imran_huseyn I suspect that the ads shown to "power users" are probably the lowest tier of ad. Nobody who actually had to pay for the ad with their own money rather than stolen credit cards wants to show us ads, they know we aren't going to click even if it's something we want.
I find it hilarious that they marked that video as harmful or dangerous content, whereas the ads they (google) serve their customers are literal scams 😂
I don’t mind ads. What I mind are scams, adult content in ads, the same ad being played over and over until it becomes torture, ads in foreign languages that I don’t even understand that I get for some reason, etc. The entire ad system on YT is broken.
I am sure I had adds that looked like "video game" or something like this and it was worse than torture. Like, kind of shit that if you were to upload to TH-cam would be taken down in minutes.
for the ads you dont want to see, maybe you deactivated targeted ads, maybe google is not allowed to see the full spectrum of your data to target ads to you, check your privacy settings for ad content. of course there is still the money google is receiving from the advertisers, if they pay them enough they can show whatever to anyone
Ad blocking is not piracy, it's self-defense. In the name of every client who I've personally removed malware from as part of my day job I will die on this hill knowing I cannot win it.
I don't know much about TH-cam ads. But I reported a Facebook ad for fraud because there was someone selling SUP boards of known brand with dubiously high discounts and faked website compared to the original. Safe to say my report was denied. Amazing.
That's why I use adblock. I thought that system was great - and many other websites do the very same thing! Ads before, after, and during the video? (some unskippable!) No-way.
@@chrille91 The cost to encode, store and deliver video has likely dropped 100x if not more since the inception of TH-cam. Better codecs, better hardware, better software. And in many countries, free electricity for DC's if your company happens to be Google. Implying that the costs of video delivery are driving the nutty ad policies is not entirely accurate.
I just don't get why companies keep posting these 30 stupid second adds. If they are 5-10 I honestly don't really care that much, but for the longer ones I just check out.
Same. I had an (unlisted) playlist that existed for 10 years and all of a sudden it was removed. None of the videos in the playlist were removed. Just the playlist. It wasn't anything controversial and again, all the videos are still there. I have no idea why it was removed. I submitted to have the removal reviewed and it came back as still violating community standards. HOW AND WHY?!!!
@@Drumonymus Google: We're a private business so we get to decide what content is on this platform! Also Google: "Your laws don't apply to us because we don't create the content and we can't be held responsible for what is on our platform" 🤦🏻♀
@@Drumonymus But there is a difference when their behavior is harming consumers and or the way they enforce their ToS is harming consumers, it's why the U.S. has the FTC in the first place and many other countries with similar government bodies. Leaving things vague in a ToS just leads to that person filing a lawsuit in court, (Disney is getting sued for that reason and courts have ruled against some contracts/ToS for ambiguity) it may be their platform, but it should be crystal clear on why they did it, because they can be sued for leaving things vague.
I feel like this would apply if they acted like Twitter does now and actively went against you linking or even mentioning alternative sites your content is present on. Tho they're still one regardless
The Rossman comment about the two sides of lawyers in Google was particurlarly amusing. Who has more sway at corporate, the TOS team or the Anti-trust team? TOS is currently in the lead, but he thinks the Anti-trust guys will win long term. Just think about that dynamic, no matter what they decide to do, someone will have an issue with it.
TH-cam needs real competition ASAP. The Ads alone have gotten completely out of control along with the ridiculous penalties for anything that they slightly disagree with.
Its currently completely not feasible. To run TH-cam you need massive amounts of bandwidth and server space. The amount of 4K videos that are getting uploaded near constantly is enough to take out most servers that exists these days. TH-cam itself isn't a profitable venture and is propped up by Google's various other businesses.
TH-cam has become impossible to watch without either an ad blocker, or subscription. The amount of ads they would serve you every single minute, is insane.
and now even ad blockers don't work well.. i have times where i cant watch youtube videos for a day or 2 if a dont turn of the adblock... then it seems to forget about it for like a week and bum again
@@ginobrc1 isn't there an extension that speeds those ads to the point where you'll only see them for a split second? i wouldn't know the pain of ads because i have dont see any
TH-cam Premium should not be more expensive than 3 dollars, separate YT music. Bring back dislike because the dangers of false or wrong information succeeds someone getting sad about a review bomb. Ads should NOT be the only way to create money. We need better systems than ads
It’s not the only way- they are also harvesting as much data as they can about you, which they then aggregate and use to further develop their algorithms. How much did they pay you for your data? I got $0.
Google is masquerading as an "ads" company, but it really is a data-mining company. Even if you give them $3 to remove the ads, they would still mine your data for free.
Linus: I'm going to make a video on TH-cam respecting their decision to remove our video and being more careful due to future strikes Dbrand: Hey bro use this cupon code in your video The cupon code: 7:49
TH-cam needs to fix their ad system. I click on a five minute video and the next thing I know I'm watching a one hour ad that looks like a normal TH-cam video.
There is a difference between not paying taxes as a result of adhering to the ludicrously complicated loop hole infested tax code, and failing to follow the law and pay your taxes. One is codified into law - even if unintentionally; the other is tax evasion. Companies like google tend to end up in the realm of "Hey look, our taxable revenue in your jurisdiction somehow went to negative, oh well".
I mean, yeah, but we all know that the ultimate intention of tax laws is that people and businesses should pay taxes. Using legal loopholes might be all good de jure, but it is still de facto tax evasion. Trough taxes, companies pay for all the public resources they use to run their business, be it the education system that produced their workforce, the roads they use to get to work, or the judicial system they use to protect their interests. I don't see google and other corporations very eager to defend their legal rights at the courts of Bermuda or Cayman Islands.
They aren't tho. There's even a "youtube" that pays it's creators in crypto. There's MANY +1m non crypto YT channels that upload there. YT is just the most popular. Let's not pretend.
I wouldn't have much of a problem with advertisements, if TH-cam actually took time to stop annoying stuff like - Misleading mobile game adverts - Political adverts without an explicit way to opt out of them - Gambling or Alcohol (& related substances) adverts without a way to opt out of them Or, even advertisements that are literally scams and malware (free [x] currency in [y] game, or download this software that does [z], for an example). Cable Television and other Streaming Services have less problems (albeit some different problems) with their advertising, so TH-cam has basically no excuse in this regard.
Agreed. If they're going to claim that they're a publisher and not a platform and thus it's somehow acceptable for them to censor people, then they should start with censoring ads. I've seen too many political ads advocating for breaking state laws to murder children that it sickens me.
@@anon_y_mousse Is this a thing about abortion laws? If it is, there is a bunch of nuance you're not seeing. Then again I haven't seen the ad so perhaps I'm wrong.
TH-cam isn't a restaurant, it's a food court. They didn't cook the food, they provided a space for cooks and customers to find each other. And it does cost something to provide that space, but there can be ways to do that which don't make it a miserable experience to come here to eat.
The problem in that example is that the kitchens don't charge for their food, and TH-cam doesn't charge the kitchens to serve food at the food court. TH-cam has to extract money from food court visitors, and then graciously shares small amounts of that money with the kitchens. That kind of economic arrangement means that we, the visitors to the food court, are the _product_, which means by definition we are going to have a miserable experience as TH-cam tries to extract as much value out of us as possible.
@@modicoolA secret for you. Alphabet wants to be broken up. When Standard Oil was broken up Rockefeller's response was that everyone should buy stock because the courts are forcing him to make more money than ever. He was right. When a company is divided up the shareholders get shares of all of the companies. The same people own the same portion of the same group of companies. The individual companies will then have the independence to focus on their mission without competing for resources with the other decisions. New shareholders will come and go......but the shareholders who own shares before the split will profit massively.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 given that 90% of ad rev comes from search ads and there other platforms are subsidiesed to support their search ads, I would love to see how they will break that up.
Yea I used to love Google but they’re fully evil now on the same plane as Facebook Amazon and Microsoft. I’m not sure if Apple is on the same level or just below but I don’t know what to do in terms of phones.
@@BeardedTaz-Official While it's unfeasible to match the feature set for a startup, it's actually quite viable to replace specific features and platforms because they can be done much more efficiently. Not unlike most modern software, most of what they've done in the last 20 years is very inefficient and disconnected from the ground truth of the hardware it runs on. Creating something from the ground-up without using massive sluggish dependencies will allow you a much more scalable and cheap platform, which could buy you leverage over how much advertisers controlled you.
@@BeardedTaz-Official @Muskar2 I don't want to be THIS guy, but I think that if the platform isn't open source and community-governed then with enough time it would go the same heavily corporate route that TH-cam went. But at the same time I recognize that scalability is a problem with a growing userbase and no advertisers. And keeping select advertisers that will accept your terms and not the other way around will not work long term. Odysee for example is a great platform but I have no idea how it would handle even 25% of TH-cam's daily users. Of course, it's decentralized, but at the end of the day we still need the processing power to handle everything and it isn't free.
Google is big brother at this point, there is no denying it. If you think I’m wrong list one good youtube alternative it’s been around for more than five years.
The irony of this is, as a TH-cam Premium subscriber, that even "authorised" download method isn't handled in a the standard (video > local.mp4) way and pretty frustrating in my experience.
DRM is a bitch, right? I get why they do it, but it still hammers home the notion that you aren't purchasing anything nowadays-- you're just licensing access. Which can go away in an instant.
@@sirmonkey1985 This. Laws only truly exist for those too poor to shift the status quo of what evil actually means. Late stage capitalism working exactly as intended.
Well, they should just not list this under "Dangerous or Harmful Content". They should list this under "Content we don't like hosting". As Louis Rossmann keeps saying: "When you're being a bitch, be the whole bitch." And in this context that means they should own the fact and be public that they will not host any content they don't enjoy hosting and reserve the right to remove any video at any time if they decide they don't enjoy hosting it anymore. You don't pay hosting fees, you don't get assurance that your videos stay on the platform. That is their inofficial policy anyways, might as well make that be the actual rule. TH-cam is the South Park cable company guy and that is indefensible. This could never happen in a market with actual competition.
It is as if categorization of content shouldn't be left to the one, who's hosting it or is in any way related to them... Cause then, suddenly, buying stuff actually means leasing it and leasing stuff means one time use for a lifetime of payments. Oh and freedom is oppression! Remember that one!
"This could never happen in a free market with actual competition." This statement is more than false, since as soon as competition wavers, the other takes the crown and stumps down the competition, being a monopoly again. The free market argument supports that even more, since the only thing opposing a monopoly are laws, which are by definition the opposite of free market => regulated market.
When YT stops shoving ads into our screens every 5 mins, making the length of the ads equal to video runtime, I'll stop looking for ways to circumvent the ads. I'm ok with some ads but they just rely on it too much and it becomes horrible. Watching videos longer than 20mins is a terrible experience nowadays because you get more ads than in normal tv.
At the end of the day, they need to be profitable. I don't think TH-cam is the world's most profitable business to have the kind of margin to reduce ads. But I'm just guessing here
I was completely fine with the banner ads. You have a little banner over your video box and you'd close it with the (x) button. Didn't hurt a fly. The minute you do baked-in video adds, I'm out. I will fight Mike Tyson with one hand behind my back and cross the Sahara desert in a skijacket to fight ads.
@@humanchannel9421 That doesn't change how one can still think it's golden and a controversy doesn't have to be big btw. You just need to have two groups or more that disagree with each other, such as Google and us.
This is the problem of being a creator. TH-cam is not an open platform. Your entire livelihood is at their whim and they can and will change the terms when it is convenient to them. Anything that is a threat to their business they will go after. It is one of the reasons they are more okay with crypto scams, and hate material than content like this. Honestly, google needs to be regulated or broken up. No company should have this much power.
@@Immudzen We salute to all the OG TH-camrs that continues to make content then and now. But things aren't positive without fair share of unlawful takedown and controversy
The misnomer here, firstly, is being a 'content creator' as your full time hustle. For the vast majority of people, it shouldn't be looked at as a full time job and for those that can, are lucky. They were lucky they found a niche in the space they targeted, and they were lucky that thousands to millions of people find their content interesting enough to watch it every week. It is not the normality. Secondly, using a platform that isn't your own, as your platform to work from. TH-cam, Patreon and any of the others are all private bodies in their own right and at any time can remove, censor, or restrict your content or account at any point, and you have very little to no pushback opportunity.
TH-cam regularly runs harmful ads (scams, fraudulent content, questionable adult content, false advertising etc.) so it’s ironic that a video on how to circumvent that was deemed “harmful”. I would say that TH-cam has hit the peak of enshittification but I’m sure there’s always something more they can do to mess up the platform even more.
@@petrkdn8224 Not really, sure they got him for this, but because their TOS doesn't cover this specific sorta thing they had to go with a hand-wavey one that's close enough to count. If you were randomly asked what you think a harmful video is about, you probably wouldn't say "teaching people how to avoid watching ads" for a long while, if ever. They should fix the TOS, but odds are if they did it'd be bad publicity, there'd be more "don't be evil" commentary, and it'd probably be illegal in some countries.
The main reason why I installed an 'filter' system directly into my router is the potential hijacking that can occur. Ads that are run through Google's Ad system mind you, can straight up hijack your web browser, redirect you to a website and attempt to 'scareware' you. It happened more than I care to admit when I was casually browsing on my phone, and I don't want to deal with the potential risks associated with such. EDIT: I remember having an ad that hijacked my browser, and straight up started playing a loud sound with no way to exit it since it was spamming notifications. I had to taskkill it to get out of that tab.
Facebook has been notorious for this too. The day I vowed to block all ads was the day I wasted THREE HOURS while at work, on the phone to a panicking mother whose PC was screaming, flashing, and just about burning itself alive... Only to discover it was an auto-playing, self-full-screening, speaker-unmuting scam ad. when finally over and I asked, she'd only been scrolling Facebook... Never again!
Yeah. Maybe 8-10 years ago when forums were extremely popular, I was browsing without adblock. Visited a site and an ad had javascript in it that stole everyone's credentials that visited the page. Including my own. Had no idea it happened until someone attempted to login, but it failed (ty MFA). Ever since then, I adblock pretty much everything. Google/YT attempting to force everyone not to, while Google's own adsense is actively serving scams is kinda silly. Like right now, there's a VERY GOOD CHANCE you'll see some sort of scam/ID theft ad within the next 20-30 minutes by browsing YT without an adblock.
I’ve had this happen to me before. What i do is kill the wifi connection which then allows me to then kill browser and then the tab since it can’t reload without wifi.
Google: that video was dangerous Linus: how? We didn’t do anything that could harm any viewers. Google: dangerous to us, man. Think of the profits… think of the profits.
Like that Napster South Park episode; "He was supposed to get a Gold Shark Tank next to his swimming pool, but can't now, since you downloaded his song."
This is why all of us need to embrace the philosophy of the "old internet" and go back to open and decentralized platforms and technology. TH-cam is the exact opposite of what the architects of the Internet intended.
The internet is moving further and further saway from what they intended, e.g. Discord content isnt indexed, and requires invite link, is basically sand boxed from rest of internet.
@@chrcoluk discord content being sandboxed is the main reason people use discord. why would i want every person in the world to be able to see my messages and stuff i share to specially just my friends
@@craftyplayz_ And at the same time you willingly give Discord all this data which they've specifically has stated they will never delete and will also sell to third parties... nice! So its just you, your friends and all the major companies/governments who want to listen in....
@@Allexz but between the choice of every single person in the world being able to access my data or a select few entities i know which one I'm picking. I'm not saying discord is perfect I'm just saying having some things separate is a good thing
@@stigrabbid589 that's not what they meant, youtube allows videos encouraging piracy of content that isn't owned or affiliated to google in any way. as long as it's not theirs, it's not their problem.
It probably violates our Sherman Act, but major tech companies have done things such as collude to outright takedown growing social media networks here before. No accountability was ever had, and half the U.S. doesn't think there's an issue with such things happening. As an American, I apologize for this stuff bleeding out into the rest of the world.
@@SkyTreeStudio You don't steal code to use an API, because it's literally an *interface*. You don't copy an API, you use it, therefore copyright is completely irrelevant in this case.
EU doesn't actually care about consumer protection. They only care about things that are anti-American or that they can fine to further fund EU corruption.
@@SkyTreeStudio Louis Rossmann, in regards to his app, has said multiple times that it does not use TH-cam's API at least, and being open source, that's a claim that can be verified.
Frankly I don't see why it shouldn't just be 1 -- you break TOS intentionally, you're immediately removed from the platform with no possibility of return.
@@cameraredeye3115 Because 1) Mistakes can happen 2) TH-cam would go bankrupt if one mistake meant you're out, no matter the size and 3) Automatic systems still can mistakenly give you a strike
Me asking Gemini: How to remove TH-cam ads Gemini: 1. Use an ad blocker: Browser extensions: Install a browser extension like AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, or AdGuard. These extensions block ads on most websites, including TH-cam. Ad-blocking browsers: Use a browser like Brave, which has built-in ad-blocking features. It did say "some method may be against TH-cam's terms of service" but Google suggested so...I guess i just have to go with what Google suggested me to do Literally telling me to do the wrong thing, if it is wrong, why is the first one to come up.
as louis pointed out: futo (and grayjay) are not youtube users or creators(and thus never agreed to the TOS) which means they can't really go after futo directly, so it seems google is now trying to restrict people from hearing about it instead....
2:23 You do not download videos. You're getting a limited access to use them offline. It might be sound like the same thing as downloading, but there is some little bittsy detail... Such as if video owner chooses to delete the video, take it to private or video gets a strike, you cannot access it. It's gone, unlike what wouuld have happen if you upload it into your PC. LIKE what happened to De-google part 2 in my downloaded folder.
I didn't even KNOW you had a "de-Google" series until THIS video showed in my feed. So ironically-- if they hadn't tried to 'corpo' you, i wouldn't have been aware at all. And because they banned it, now I'm very interested in seeing it. Because of this stunt and that i'm just fed-up with these giant soul-less monopolistic corporations in general like Google and Nintendo, I'm going to watch all your de-google videos, switch to firefox, share this vid with all my friends ✌ 😼
also note that the "download" button in yt premium is mostly useless! it downloads videos in format, you can only open in youtube, CONNECTED to the internet. and you can't do anything else with those "downloaded" videos.
It’s like downloading within Netflix or Amazon Prime, it allows you to watch content offline, such as in an airplane, but of course it doesn’t give you a local file that you can freely copy and watch however you like.
"re-uploads that other users have graciously provided for your convenience" "what I am going to do is not issue copyright-strikes against those guys" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Effing LOL. Based AF.
Reminder that Google used to have "don't be evil" in their code of conduct, but removed it years ago. I suspected then that it meant they intended to start being evil.
Amazon Prime Video does the same thing with movies, you have two days after downloading a movie to watch it before it gets deleted until you redownload it, even if you fully bought the movie
I am a premium member because I believe in this platform. That and the lickies and chewies that come with like background play while I work is perfect for me. I don’t judge anyone not paying IF creators still get the views
If TH-cam could fix its horrendous ad system, we wouldn't have to be making videos about how to get ad-free TH-cam in the first place. Trying to shut down the content ceator is not how to fix the situation.
I would be fine with their ads if they just didn't shadow or outright delete so many of my comments when it comes to politics, war and other so called 'sensitive topics'. But yea, so long as they think they have the right to block my speech as they like, i can simply play that game too and block what they want me to see in return...
@@N0xiety then stop commenting about things that dont matter if you dont want your comments removed its that simple. You wanna talk politics go be a politician and stop doing it through pixels on a screen keyboard warrior.
I fully understand why they have ads, fully understand why they push for Premium, I just dont like the amount they do so when their 5 Executive Officers make $4 Million + in bonuses 15% from every officer and you fix TH-cam's "non-profitable issues" and they're still millionaires.
But they want to make billions and people like us make it harder. For capitalists, it is never enough, they always want more. We are pests to them, and they don't want us, but they need us. For now.
I have had both pornography and dating ads on TH-cam. I reported them and they have been taken down with an email confirmation to me. But these are triggers that I wish to avoid and as long as TH-cam allows this on the platform without regulation, I don't wish to see their ads.
I was looking forward to the companion video on how to watch everything on Floatplane without Linus or Luke or any of the creators getting a single cent. 6:11
The main problem isn't that youtube plays ads, the problem is the kind of ads they play. Adult content in ads which would have been taken down if it was an uploaded video and not an advertisement, false advertisement for mobile games, ads for scummy chinese sellers like shein, temu etc and just outright annoying ads. If it would be ads about serious products from well established brands, I'd happily watch a few to fund the software engineering, server costs and content creator
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Especially those mobile ads that do a lot of copyright infringement. Especially ads that do that none suitable for work stuff in some cases.
You'd think Google would understand the Streisand effect.. and I'd like to believe LTT knew full well Google would do this causing a Streisand effect to occur. Which would be a next level play that I'd 100% give props to.
I mean, it would threaten their business model. As Linus mentioned, you either pay for premium or you watch ads (and maybe skip them if offered the option). It's not like they were sabotaging another video hosting website or something.
Yeah, because it hurts Google's profits. You cannot do that on YT or anywhere that Google hosts because you are in direct violation of their TOS if you do.
It's not the ads that make TH-cam suck. It's the fact that the ads are going to keep getting longer, more frequent and vastly more annoying. TH-cam actually penalizes you for not clicking away the ads. If you don't click the Skip button, you get another ad! See how annoying that is? They must employ people to figure out how to make their platform more annoying so they can gradually turn up the heat without all the viewers jumping to different platforms. Google is all in on enshittification.
I always found if I clicked the skip button right when it showed up the next ad would be shorter. But if I don’t click it and let the ad play til then end, then the second ad ends up being 2 minutes plus…
Not mentioning that half of the ads on internet has literal malware attached to it, that could infect your devices instantly if you accidentally clicked on it
to be honest .. this is a case that needs to hit the FCC TH-cam is playing the "we are a private business" card and also the "we are only a provider and are not liable for stuff people put up" one .. and that really needs to stop.
Moderation has been stated to be a First Amendment right of online platforms, stated by the Supreme Court. And no, they have never been liable for stuff people put up, in the same way news websites are not liable for the comments people leave on their websites. Look into things a little more first, please.
@@TNH91 So its simple - are they soley a publisher or soley a platform? They can't be both. "moderating" makes them a publisher because they are changing or removing content - exactly the job of a publisher. If they aren't then they need to stop. If they are a platform which publishes then they already lied to the courts and should be dragged back in for a word.
@@siraff4461 No, moderating does not make them a publisher. _Publishing_ something themselves (like news websites publish things) is what would make them a publisher. Letting people put content on their site (like news websites let people comment on articles) does _not_ make them a publisher, no matter if they moderate or not. In fact, _not_ moderating can be illegal, since actually allowing illegal content to stay up _is_ something that ends up being their responsibility. But they wouldn't be prosecuted for the illegal content _being_ on their platform, only for not _removing it_ when notified about the illegal content. The person that would be prosecuted for the illegal content being on the platform would be the person that _uploaded_ it. This is part of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as well, if you wish to learn something. I wish people looked into stuff a bit more before they spewed assertions they don't have factual backing for.
@@MajorasWrath1 Oh hell no, i'd rather TH-cam be the money driven capitalist shithole that it is right now than a government entity. It would be so fucked up
The reason is simple. Because you mentioned grayjay. TH-cam/google does not fear of people using adblocks, or downloading their videos (they always can come with some DRM protection). They fear loosing control of what you watch and where you watch it. And they will use any means necessary to stop you from leaving.
Wich can lead to a lawsuit heck I want to switch to other video sharing platforms like rumble but the problem is that almost all my viewers are on youtube and no whare else
why would they do that? most of their ad-revenue comes from people watching youtube through their TV/mobile apps. pc users are a minority of their user base these days. they're going to milk that shit as far as they can because your option is watch ad's or get premium.
I've always thought if they did something like I think Pandora, where you get a few minutes of ads, then an hour of uninterrupted content, I'd take that. Or, have small 5-10 second bumpers, but if I want I can take the 2-3 minutes for an hour ad-free
@@ProtoV33MK1 They've started putting 5-10 mins of ads at the start of >1hr videos with the banner "fewer ads for this long video" which gives the impression that they've thought of this idea, but given they still show ads every 10 mins, I'm not so sure...
Honestly, props to Linus and his company for: first putting a video that had instructions of how to bypass ads that fund the 100+ that his company employs and 2nd for taking the risk on their channel being banned for going against TH-cam ToS. Thanks for putting out what you advertise, tech tips.
They also put ad on non monetized channel as well With no clear cut difference, this could cause Nintendo to think that "This channel uploaded mario music for profit"
Hi, as a precaution, you should make your own page online and put the videos there if youtube decides to delete the whole channel, with this you can use your servers for pages and videos and you are no longer dependent on TH-cam 😀 Think about it Linus Greetings from Finland to everyone 😀
They're WAY worse than Nintendo. And they'll always hold a special place in my heart for saving the gaming industry as a whole after ET. Google just made me lazier, lol.
I mean, why would Google allow content that tells people how to break away from using them? It hurts their profits directly, which is a no-no as long as you rely on them for anything.
Let's not get mixed up, ads aren't necessarily malware. That said, there is an exorbitant amount of bad actors that run ads promoting malware. Also tracking (for ads) only really works in an ideal world, a shame we live in imperfection
@@Samuel85228 Wrong. Targeted ADs are considered malware because they invade privacy, track user activity excessively, disrupt browsing experiences, create a feeling of manipulation, promote toxic and destructive behavior, and are often associated with scams or malicious content through plain and simple predatory marketing. So yes, ADs are Malware, they literally are.
@@Samuel85228 Wrong. Targeted ADs are considered malware because they invade privacy, track user activity excessively, disrupt browsing experiences, create a feeling of manipulation, promote toxic and destructive behavior, and are often associated with scams or malicious content through plain and simple predatory marketing. So yes, ADs are Malware, they literally are.
At least you still have your clone of PAtreon in the form of Floatplane where you can post any videos you like. Right after watching this video, I saw a suggestion from TH-cam to watch the very episode they yanked off your channel. Apparently, lots of other people saw the video because TH-cam showed them it. Weird. The only entanglement I have with Google is TH-cam. To upload videos, watch them, watch old movies to see if they're worth buying on DVD, and to leave comments.
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lol great code name
That's a real code? Savage Linus.
“We’ve had our share of controversy’s against us”
Doesn’t talk about gamers nexus or the fact that they have posted misinformation more times to count
lul
It’s extremely unfair for youtube to not put time stamps and show exactly what caused the video to be taken down. They leave it to speculation so that people would self sensor.
The irony here is that I didn't watch the original video, but now knowing youtube thinks it's worth banning, I've gone and found out what the content was. So good job TH-cam in highlighting this content for me.
Streisand Effect at play here.
its almost as if this is a literal term....
I didn't have to, TH-cam straight up suggested it to me the day after it was removed. And then suggested Rossman's video on it next. Quite literally Streisanding themselves.
@@Donnerwamp I don't think they give a shit about the Streisand Effect.
@@TheFunniBaconMan How would they give a shit about the original vid then?
dbrand consistently sponsoring every single controversy is iconic
i like it its like shotgun type approach
They're based like that
I like the code f TH-cam lol
Good 💯
*puts on tinfoil hat with dbrand logo*
What if they planned all of this? Intentionally make controversial videos and sponsor them?
TH-cam in 2010: Here's how to make a bomb
TH-cam in 2024: Nah, you can't tell people about how to prevent Google from tracking you. That's too dangerous
Ah! Ah! Ah! *Pipe bomb
Literally
TH-cam in 2010: Here's how to make a bomb
TH-cam in 2024: Nah, you can't tell people about how to prevent Google from tracking you. That's too dangerous. Also, here's how to make a bomb.
they never allowed bomb making videos lol.
Google I WILL SHOW YOU Chinesse ads that are looking to scam you
Also Google We will protect you by no let you protect your privacy
I've had a few inexplicable strikes over my TH-cam career. Right now I'm on a first strike because I scorched the end of my beard with a lighter in an 18 second TH-cam short (Beard end scorching is common in Turkey). My community warning was for a safety video intended to save lives, that suddenly got taken down and a warning issued with no reason given.
A previous strike was a "counterfeit strike" for taking apart a Chinese industrial limit switch that turned out to be a clone of a Dutch manufacturers product and they filed a strike against me for "promoting counterfeit products".
Meanwhile TH-cam is trying to bribe me to use their "membership" service so I can lose everything in just a few automated strikes. Umm - no. I'll keep using Patreon, since I really don't trust TH-cam at all. Using Patreon lets me keep putting out video content on another platform when TH-cam inevitably panders to the Karens and deletes my channel for doing "technical stuff".
Who crossed all my letters out.
You shouldn't trust patreon either...
TH-cam is inconsistent on what they deem to be against community guidelines........I've been comment banned before just for repeating what was said in the video itself and I was deemed a threat to community safety just for writing out what was said
BigClive... Nice to see you here... of the many times I have been in your Comment section just as well!
so true Clive We started Patreon also just struggling to get people across to it
Google was like: I ain't raising a traitor
Google must reign supreme
😂😂😂
why does he have to make himself look like some techy hip young kid, hes like 50
@@twangyyy18888none of your business
W@@HardwareScience
The issue isn't youtube showing ads, the issue is youtube showing ads that are outright malware or scams. The issue is TH-cam being a monopoly. The issue is youtube violating their own ToS. The issue is youtube letting big channels abuse small channels.
I know there are ways to report a video or a channel. But are there ways to report an ad? I think this functionality is key.
@@Sekir80 I think it's just the same way you report a video, since the ads are just normal youtube videos.
@@imran_huseyn I suspect that the ads shown to "power users" are probably the lowest tier of ad. Nobody who actually had to pay for the ad with their own money rather than stolen credit cards wants to show us ads, they know we aren't going to click even if it's something we want.
In the past week alone out of every 3 ads that I’ve gotten, 2 were for sports betting sites, something that I absolutely don’t like
I find it hilarious that they marked that video as harmful or dangerous content, whereas the ads they (google) serve their customers are literal scams 😂
I don’t mind ads. What I mind are scams, adult content in ads, the same ad being played over and over until it becomes torture, ads in foreign languages that I don’t even understand that I get for some reason, etc. The entire ad system on YT is broken.
I am sure I had adds that looked like "video game" or something like this and it was worse than torture.
Like, kind of shit that if you were to upload to TH-cam would be taken down in minutes.
Unskippable ads that are as long as the video you want to watch.
for the ads you dont want to see, maybe you deactivated targeted ads, maybe google is not allowed to see the full spectrum of your data to target ads to you, check your privacy settings for ad content. of course there is still the money google is receiving from the advertisers, if they pay them enough they can show whatever to anyone
You don't mind ads? Go get your booster.
HERO WARS - the shooting kind or the hentai kind.
I'm kind of proud of google's black box algorithm actually suggesting me a second hand re-uploaded part2 right next to this one.
It’s great that Linus is letting people reupload the video without copyright striking them
He probably shouldn't have mentioned that. If YT was so inclined, they could easily say he was facilitating TOS violations, just one step removed.
I'm guessing Colton's been fired so he doesn't do it by accident 😉
remember alt plats exist
@@TheJohn8765 and then the video gets reposted by more people... its almost like youtube isnt allowed to win the silencing game with big heat videos.
@@endeyfire Streishand effect baby!
Linus: How to remove ads.
Google: Excuse me ?
Linus: How to remove ads using Bing.
Google: EXCUSE ME ?!
use u block and never see ads :)
nex weeks . . . .
Linus: how to use brave to remove ads.
Google: again? lemma put u few warning . . .
tbf using bing is dangerous
@shiroiokami9 Type in "printer support" and Bing will return a list of 10 scams before any HP official link lmao
@@BBRAIN1977 Doesn't work on Andriod
Dbrand is the kind of friend who'd come to laugh at you when you are in trouble but then first to give a helping hand as well.
they'll pay the bail money, but make fun of you for years about it
@@shinjisan2015 a good freind, an annoying one, but a good one
dbrand is only using this company to make money lol they dont care about LTT or linus get real kid
@@Likhinn Kinda sorta. There's a point where it's better to swallow the trouble than endure the pride tax that the would-be helper would exact.
Ad blocking is not piracy, it's self-defense. In the name of every client who I've personally removed malware from as part of my day job I will die on this hill knowing I cannot win it.
I don't know much about TH-cam ads. But I reported a Facebook ad for fraud because there was someone selling SUP boards of known brand with dubiously high discounts and faked website compared to the original. Safe to say my report was denied. Amazing.
Wanting to protecting your mind from being polluted by professionally manipulative people should be universally agreeable.
The FBI recommends adblocking
Yeah now TH-cam will lock your access after 3 videos if you dont turn your adblocker off. Oh and that bing trick doesn't work anymore
Linus literally called it piracy before and went to argue for it on wan. The channel has been techslop for years now.
The Greatest Takedown That's Ever Lived
let lupe out
How is Lupe ?
-Someone's Wife
How are you bro? 😃
@SalemTechsperts love your vids only you can make that pun 🥷
verified youtubers always makes the cringest comments
Remember when youtube ads were just a side-banner and didn't interfere with the video itself in anyway? Those were the days.
That's why I use adblock. I thought that system was great - and many other websites do the very same thing! Ads before, after, and during the video? (some unskippable!) No-way.
Well, costs were different back then. Think of exponential growth of media quantity and quality.
@@chrille91 The cost to encode, store and deliver video has likely dropped 100x if not more since the inception of TH-cam. Better codecs, better hardware, better software. And in many countries, free electricity for DC's if your company happens to be Google. Implying that the costs of video delivery are driving the nutty ad policies is not entirely accurate.
@@bigdrill8881I think @chrille91 spelled "greed" and "stock price" wrong.
I just don't get why companies keep posting these 30 stupid second adds. If they are 5-10 I honestly don't really care that much, but for the longer ones I just check out.
TH-cam should be required to let one know, in detail, what the violation is. I have received two violations and I still have no idea what I did wrong.
No they should simply not be allowed to engage in censorship, period.
Same. I had an (unlisted) playlist that existed for 10 years and all of a sudden it was removed. None of the videos in the playlist were removed. Just the playlist. It wasn't anything controversial and again, all the videos are still there. I have no idea why it was removed. I submitted to have the removal reviewed and it came back as still violating community standards. HOW AND WHY?!!!
@mind-of-neo it's their platform, so they can do what they want (which does not mean I agree with TH-cam taking down videos).
@@Drumonymus Google: We're a private business so we get to decide what content is on this platform!
Also Google: "Your laws don't apply to us because we don't create the content and we can't be held responsible for what is on our platform" 🤦🏻♀
@@Drumonymus But there is a difference when their behavior is harming consumers and or the way they enforce their ToS is harming consumers, it's why the U.S. has the FTC in the first place and many other countries with similar government bodies.
Leaving things vague in a ToS just leads to that person filing a lawsuit in court, (Disney is getting sued for that reason and courts have ruled against some contracts/ToS for ambiguity) it may be their platform, but it should be crystal clear on why they did it, because they can be sued for leaving things vague.
Reminder: If it's harmful to big corporations, it's a positive for humanity.
@@fall1n1_yt nuclear weapon detonation is harmful for big companies, and also not positive humanity.
But corporations are made up of humans. Did you forget that part?
TH-cam supports Floatplane so much, they forced Linus to make an 8 minute ad for it.
@@custoskyyokohama676 He is American and how is that even relevant here?
@@custoskyyokohama676 ???
I don't know which to call you, an idiot or a pessimist.
@@ashyouknow7420 an ad for a video hosting platform devoid of ridiculous terms and conditions? How is it not relevant?
@@guaiqueritech He edited his comment. Earlier he said about that this state of TH-cam is all because of an Indian CEO.
*Google:* We're not a monopoly!
*Also Google:*
"make your own network of video servers'' they say, as those are purposely buried in searches aka never found
I feel like this would apply if they acted like Twitter does now and actively went against you linking or even mentioning alternative sites your content is present on. Tho they're still one regardless
Underrated comment
Remember... DON'T BE EV... Sorry that's no longer our policy.
The Rossman comment about the two sides of lawyers in Google was particurlarly amusing. Who has more sway at corporate, the TOS team or the Anti-trust team? TOS is currently in the lead, but he thinks the Anti-trust guys will win long term. Just think about that dynamic, no matter what they decide to do, someone will have an issue with it.
TH-cam needs real competition ASAP. The Ads alone have gotten completely out of control along with the ridiculous penalties for anything that they slightly disagree with.
I like how you say "competition" with absolutely zero thought. It's just a magic word to you isn't it?
How do you think this competitor will make money? With magic?
Don't wanna be that guy but all companies are against people using the product for free
You either pay or watch ads
Its currently completely not feasible. To run TH-cam you need massive amounts of bandwidth and server space. The amount of 4K videos that are getting uploaded near constantly is enough to take out most servers that exists these days. TH-cam itself isn't a profitable venture and is propped up by Google's various other businesses.
TH-cam has ads?
Linus specifically mentioning and explaining ONLY the Bing workaround from the previous video is masterclass
TH-cam has become impossible to watch without either an ad blocker, or subscription. The amount of ads they would serve you every single minute, is insane.
and now even ad blockers don't work well.. i have times where i cant watch youtube videos for a day or 2 if a dont turn of the adblock... then it seems to forget about it for like a week and bum again
That’s the exact reason I refuse to run ads on my channel. Keeping my fight against enshittification
@@DyslexicMitochondria good job man. Checked out your channel. Looks dope. Will binge later today
@@ginobrc1 isn't there an extension that speeds those ads to the point where you'll only see them for a split second?
i wouldn't know the pain of ads because i have dont see any
@@DyslexicMitochondriaYou're an absolute legend for doing that. 🫡
TH-cam Premium should not be more expensive than 3 dollars, separate YT music. Bring back dislike because the dangers of false or wrong information succeeds someone getting sad about a review bomb. Ads should NOT be the only way to create money. We need better systems than ads
It’s not the only way- they are also harvesting as much data as they can about you, which they then aggregate and use to further develop their algorithms. How much did they pay you for your data? I got $0.
Google is masquerading as an "ads" company, but it really is a data-mining company. Even if you give them $3 to remove the ads, they would still mine your data for free.
Even with premium we have to see sponsored Adblocks inside every video Smdh
@@kizanko You're lucky your comment didn't get censored. I can barely find any comments I've made these days cause they instantly dissappear.
@@kevinfromsales9445 yeah wtf is happening? Can creators just remove comments?
Linus: I'm going to make a video on TH-cam respecting their decision to remove our video and being more careful due to future strikes
Dbrand: Hey bro use this cupon code in your video
The cupon code: 7:49
@@NikTek yo nwhat you doin Here lol
gz u watched the video and now repeating what it said
Dbrand knows to do stuffs lol
@@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh159 leeching
You know dbrand is feeling spicy when the coupon code isn't a dig at Linus's height.
TH-cam needs to fix their ad system. I click on a five minute video and the next thing I know I'm watching a one hour ad that looks like a normal TH-cam video.
When the company we're talking about is still evading taxes in a lot of countries we probably shouldn't be considerate about their bottom line.
These poor people in Google, how could they afford home and food for their family if people are stealing from them. If only they rich. 😢😢
maybe if they bothered not being evil, like a certain motto of theirs used to be, I might not revel in the revenue I'm depriving them of
There is a difference between not paying taxes as a result of adhering to the ludicrously complicated loop hole infested tax code, and failing to follow the law and pay your taxes. One is codified into law - even if unintentionally; the other is tax evasion. Companies like google tend to end up in the realm of "Hey look, our taxable revenue in your jurisdiction somehow went to negative, oh well".
The "Money" we currently use is Fake. Hopefully everyone will eventually work out the Scam...
I mean, yeah, but we all know that the ultimate intention of tax laws is that people and businesses should pay taxes. Using legal loopholes might be all good de jure, but it is still de facto tax evasion. Trough taxes, companies pay for all the public resources they use to run their business, be it the education system that produced their workforce, the roads they use to get to work, or the judicial system they use to protect their interests. I don't see google and other corporations very eager to defend their legal rights at the courts of Bermuda or Cayman Islands.
"we're not a monopoly!" says the company partaking in monopolistic practices
I feel like this was right on the line of not being monopolistic, doesn't mean it's good though
Not sure you know what a monopoly is if you think this video is anything to do with that....
They aren't tho. There's even a "youtube" that pays it's creators in crypto. There's MANY +1m non crypto YT channels that upload there. YT is just the most popular. Let's not pretend.
Protecting their assets and revenue stream on their own platform is not monopolistic.
Explain??
I want to go back to time, when ads on TH-cam were just a banner ones on the side. TH-cam right now is trash and needs competition
Sadly, those days are gone.
3:01 thankfully they protected the identity of that man in the video by blurring his face.
@@harrasika I'm surd that anonymous man appreciated having his identity keepy a secret
I mean clearly that's Slim Shady, but Whatever!
I wouldn't have much of a problem with advertisements, if TH-cam actually took time to stop annoying stuff like
- Misleading mobile game adverts
- Political adverts without an explicit way to opt out of them
- Gambling or Alcohol (& related substances) adverts without a way to opt out of them
Or, even advertisements that are literally scams and malware (free [x] currency in [y] game, or download this software that does [z], for an example). Cable Television and other Streaming Services have less problems (albeit some different problems) with their advertising, so TH-cam has basically no excuse in this regard.
Agreed. If they're going to claim that they're a publisher and not a platform and thus it's somehow acceptable for them to censor people, then they should start with censoring ads. I've seen too many political ads advocating for breaking state laws to murder children that it sickens me.
@@anon_y_mousseWTF
I never saw shit like this
@@enrikdaka2183 I've reported it every time I've seen it, but if it plays again I'll post the video ID for you.
@@anon_y_mousse please do couse its actually insane
@@anon_y_mousse Is this a thing about abortion laws? If it is, there is a bunch of nuance you're not seeing. Then again I haven't seen the ad so perhaps I'm wrong.
TH-cam isn't a restaurant, it's a food court. They didn't cook the food, they provided a space for cooks and customers to find each other. And it does cost something to provide that space, but there can be ways to do that which don't make it a miserable experience to come here to eat.
Thats a way more representative example in my opinion
Very well put
The problem in that example is that the kitchens don't charge for their food, and TH-cam doesn't charge the kitchens to serve food at the food court. TH-cam has to extract money from food court visitors, and then graciously shares small amounts of that money with the kitchens. That kind of economic arrangement means that we, the visitors to the food court, are the _product_, which means by definition we are going to have a miserable experience as TH-cam tries to extract as much value out of us as possible.
@@blackraen That's right!
isn't that way that's not "miserable" just youtube premium?
Seriously, TH-cam? Right in the middle of an antitrust suit? Extremely unsmart.
Google, not youtube. TH-cam is one of its many acquisitions.
@@modicoolA secret for you. Alphabet wants to be broken up. When Standard Oil was broken up Rockefeller's response was that everyone should buy stock because the courts are forcing him to make more money than ever. He was right. When a company is divided up the shareholders get shares of all of the companies. The same people own the same portion of the same group of companies.
The individual companies will then have the independence to focus on their mission without competing for resources with the other decisions. New shareholders will come and go......but the shareholders who own shares before the split will profit massively.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 given that 90% of ad rev comes from search ads and there other platforms are subsidiesed to support their search ads, I would love to see how they will break that up.
I am getting tired of Google, it's getting worse every single day.
yup
Yea I used to love Google but they’re fully evil now on the same plane as Facebook Amazon and Microsoft. I’m not sure if Apple is on the same level or just below but I don’t know what to do in terms of phones.
Time to make our own platform / business services and solutions / etc. lol
@@BeardedTaz-Official While it's unfeasible to match the feature set for a startup, it's actually quite viable to replace specific features and platforms because they can be done much more efficiently. Not unlike most modern software, most of what they've done in the last 20 years is very inefficient and disconnected from the ground truth of the hardware it runs on. Creating something from the ground-up without using massive sluggish dependencies will allow you a much more scalable and cheap platform, which could buy you leverage over how much advertisers controlled you.
@@BeardedTaz-Official @Muskar2 I don't want to be THIS guy, but I think that if the platform isn't open source and community-governed then with enough time it would go the same heavily corporate route that TH-cam went.
But at the same time I recognize that scalability is a problem with a growing userbase and no advertisers. And keeping select advertisers that will accept your terms and not the other way around will not work long term. Odysee for example is a great platform but I have no idea how it would handle even 25% of TH-cam's daily users. Of course, it's decentralized, but at the end of the day we still need the processing power to handle everything and it isn't free.
Google is big brother at this point, there is no denying it. If you think I’m wrong list one good youtube alternative it’s been around for more than five years.
Big Brother is watching.
And the algorithm is the thought police.
Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you, you sold me
More like big they/them.
Don't wanna be that guy but all companies are against people using the product for free
You either pay or watch ads
@@Ntmoffi the way antitrust is going it will soon be was/were.
Solutions like creating your own video platform are great alternatives offering you more control.
with less audience
@@manfredmichael_3ia097 audience issue
@@4RILDIGITAL odyssee or lbry do
I give Linus mad props for making the video in question, and for making this video.
The irony of this is, as a TH-cam Premium subscriber, that even "authorised" download method isn't handled in a the standard (video > local.mp4) way and pretty frustrating in my experience.
DRM is a bitch, right? I get why they do it, but it still hammers home the notion that you aren't purchasing anything nowadays-- you're just licensing access. Which can go away in an instant.
You'll own nothing and like it
Is the Max 720p still too? 😂
@@gtamike_TSGK yes 😭🙏
That's why you should set up yt-dlp and don't worry about it
Google used to have the motto the "Don't be evil", but they dropped that years ago... strange
it's don't be evil until you control enough of the market so you can do what ever the f you want.
@@sirmonkey1985seems like a smart business move, if i was running an evil corp, i would wait a little bit before telling people
@@sirmonkey1985 This. Laws only truly exist for those too poor to shift the status quo of what evil actually means. Late stage capitalism working exactly as intended.
Actually, they do still have that motto, they just decided to drop the "Don't" part of it...
Actually they only dropped the "Don't" part of the motto.
Well, they should just not list this under "Dangerous or Harmful Content". They should list this under "Content we don't like hosting".
As Louis Rossmann keeps saying: "When you're being a bitch, be the whole bitch." And in this context that means they should own the fact and be public that they will not host any content they don't enjoy hosting and reserve the right to remove any video at any time if they decide they don't enjoy hosting it anymore. You don't pay hosting fees, you don't get assurance that your videos stay on the platform.
That is their inofficial policy anyways, might as well make that be the actual rule. TH-cam is the South Park cable company guy and that is indefensible. This could never happen in a market with actual competition.
That would require a notoriously dishonest company to be something they will never be, honest. We can hope I guess.
Would that be an out right admission of YT being a publisher?
It is as if categorization of content shouldn't be left to the one, who's hosting it or is in any way related to them... Cause then, suddenly, buying stuff actually means leasing it and leasing stuff means one time use for a lifetime of payments. Oh and freedom is oppression! Remember that one!
It's in their T&Cs that they can remove any video without reason or warning.
"This could never happen in a free market with actual competition." This statement is more than false, since as soon as competition wavers, the other takes the crown and stumps down the competition, being a monopoly again. The free market argument supports that even more, since the only thing opposing a monopoly are laws, which are by definition the opposite of free market => regulated market.
The moment a viable youtube platform alternative comes out, I'm dropping this place like a hot potato.
When YT stops shoving ads into our screens every 5 mins, making the length of the ads equal to video runtime, I'll stop looking for ways to circumvent the ads. I'm ok with some ads but they just rely on it too much and it becomes horrible. Watching videos longer than 20mins is a terrible experience nowadays because you get more ads than in normal tv.
At the end of the day, they need to be profitable. I don't think TH-cam is the world's most profitable business to have the kind of margin to reduce ads. But I'm just guessing here
@@ThomasAlex they wouldn't have bought the platform for billions if wasn't profitable.
I was completely fine with the banner ads. You have a little banner over your video box and you'd close it with the (x) button. Didn't hurt a fly.
The minute you do baked-in video adds, I'm out. I will fight Mike Tyson with one hand behind my back and cross the Sahara desert in a skijacket to fight ads.
What drives me crazy is when the ads are longer than the videos. I’m looking at you PragerU.
@@Aceborn-Gaming you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Look into things before just spouting what you think.
The fact d brand sponsored this is golden
@@tatethegamer9 No it isn't. This isn't actually controversial to anyone except Google.
@@humanchannel9421 🙄🙄
@@humanchannel9421 That doesn't change how one can still think it's golden and a controversy doesn't have to be big btw. You just need to have two groups or more that disagree with each other, such as Google and us.
The fact that d-brand sponsors these guys at all ensures I'll never buy d-brand
@@ceebee ?
This is the problem of being a creator. TH-cam is not an open platform. Your entire livelihood is at their whim and they can and will change the terms when it is convenient to them. Anything that is a threat to their business they will go after. It is one of the reasons they are more okay with crypto scams, and hate material than content like this. Honestly, google needs to be regulated or broken up. No company should have this much power.
@@Immudzen We salute to all the OG TH-camrs that continues to make content then and now. But things aren't positive without fair share of unlawful takedown and controversy
Yeah after the way MXR plays got screwed out of their channel I’m almost done with TH-cam. Def come here less.
The misnomer here, firstly, is being a 'content creator' as your full time hustle. For the vast majority of people, it shouldn't be looked at as a full time job and for those that can, are lucky. They were lucky they found a niche in the space they targeted, and they were lucky that thousands to millions of people find their content interesting enough to watch it every week. It is not the normality.
Secondly, using a platform that isn't your own, as your platform to work from. TH-cam, Patreon and any of the others are all private bodies in their own right and at any time can remove, censor, or restrict your content or account at any point, and you have very little to no pushback opportunity.
You can't go on a platform and tell people how to steal from that platform.
*Pickachu Face*
All the more reason to have a backup plan for work if your youtube channel goes down.
TH-cam regularly runs harmful ads (scams, fraudulent content, questionable adult content, false advertising etc.) so it’s ironic that a video on how to circumvent that was deemed “harmful”. I would say that TH-cam has hit the peak of enshittification but I’m sure there’s always something more they can do to mess up the platform even more.
not to jinx it, but as long as adblockers actually still work, I wouldn't consider it the peak yet
I swear to god TH-cam's video striking system has the accuracy of Cupid.
So, accurate then? Did you even watch the video? Linus literally accepted his fault.
@@petrkdn8224 Not really, sure they got him for this, but because their TOS doesn't cover this specific sorta thing they had to go with a hand-wavey one that's close enough to count. If you were randomly asked what you think a harmful video is about, you probably wouldn't say "teaching people how to avoid watching ads" for a long while, if ever. They should fix the TOS, but odds are if they did it'd be bad publicity, there'd be more "don't be evil" commentary, and it'd probably be illegal in some countries.
@@petrkdn8224 That's not Linus. It's an AI replacement.
@@DeusExRequiem They dropped the "Don't Be Evil" motto in 2015
@@bolle666 So that's why he was being a little b, bending over and taking it up the a while s youtubes c
These deepfakes have gotten scary.
The main reason why I installed an 'filter' system directly into my router is the potential hijacking that can occur. Ads that are run through Google's Ad system mind you, can straight up hijack your web browser, redirect you to a website and attempt to 'scareware' you. It happened more than I care to admit when I was casually browsing on my phone, and I don't want to deal with the potential risks associated with such.
EDIT: I remember having an ad that hijacked my browser, and straight up started playing a loud sound with no way to exit it since it was spamming notifications. I had to taskkill it to get out of that tab.
Yeah, one more reason, to use an adblocker.
Facebook has been notorious for this too. The day I vowed to block all ads was the day I wasted THREE HOURS while at work, on the phone to a panicking mother whose PC was screaming, flashing, and just about burning itself alive... Only to discover it was an auto-playing, self-full-screening, speaker-unmuting scam ad.
when finally over and I asked, she'd only been scrolling Facebook... Never again!
@@Fanaticalight Sounds like you suffered a good example of XSS-- Cross Site Scripting!!! 😬
Yeah. Maybe 8-10 years ago when forums were extremely popular, I was browsing without adblock. Visited a site and an ad had javascript in it that stole everyone's credentials that visited the page. Including my own. Had no idea it happened until someone attempted to login, but it failed (ty MFA).
Ever since then, I adblock pretty much everything. Google/YT attempting to force everyone not to, while Google's own adsense is actively serving scams is kinda silly. Like right now, there's a VERY GOOD CHANCE you'll see some sort of scam/ID theft ad within the next 20-30 minutes by browsing YT without an adblock.
I’ve had this happen to me before. What i do is kill the wifi connection which then allows me to then kill browser and then the tab since it can’t reload without wifi.
Google declared to be a monopoly, proceeds to lean INTO it.
I think they've been in it for a while lol
@rwdplz1 Our government doesn't have the ability to stop it.
-don't- be evil
@@user-zu5do6ri6rThe government can take out google. Its just that will take time, money, alot of paperwork, and lawyers.
@@user-zu5do6ri6r They do, they just don't want to
Here's hoping the youtube monopoly is starting to break. I'm 100% ready to pay creators directly. Thanks for linking Floatplane! 😍
Ads violates my home’s privacy policy
Then don't use TH-cam. You are not entitled to anything.
@@janeadams1627 seriously
@@MajorasWrath1 Stealing from massive corporations that purposefully make their own products worse is good actually.
This!
@@devinbannish1469Then don't get mad when they smack you
Google: that video was dangerous
Linus: how? We didn’t do anything that could harm any viewers.
Google: dangerous to us, man. Think of the profits… think of the profits.
To be fair, any companies main aim is to make as much profit as they can, its not exactly a secret
User discovers capitalism
TH-cam has never really been very profitable... That's the problem
Don't wanna be that guy but all companies are against people using the product for free
You either pay or watch ads
Like that Napster South Park episode; "He was supposed to get a Gold Shark Tank next to his swimming pool, but can't now, since you downloaded his song."
Bro copyright strike himself??? 💀
Edit:TWICE 💀
Twice
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It happens not the first big corp it happened before
He makes me feel special
This is why Alphabet's monopoly needs competition. We need TH-cam alternatives now more than ever.
Dbrand seem like a good sibling. They simultaneously support and absolutely dunk on Linus at every opportunity.
This is why all of us need to embrace the philosophy of the "old internet" and go back to open and decentralized platforms and technology. TH-cam is the exact opposite of what the architects of the Internet intended.
stay woke
The internet is moving further and further saway from what they intended, e.g. Discord content isnt indexed, and requires invite link, is basically sand boxed from rest of internet.
@@chrcoluk discord content being sandboxed is the main reason people use discord. why would i want every person in the world to be able to see my messages and stuff i share to specially just my friends
@@craftyplayz_ And at the same time you willingly give Discord all this data which they've specifically has stated they will never delete and will also sell to third parties... nice!
So its just you, your friends and all the major companies/governments who want to listen in....
@@Allexz but between the choice of every single person in the world being able to access my data or a select few entities i know which one I'm picking. I'm not saying discord is perfect I'm just saying having some things separate is a good thing
5:45 grayjay DOES NOT use TH-cam API exploits. It runs a browser in the background loading the whole page and servers the user only the video from it.
He didn't say it did, he said third parties, because lots of them do
Yup, I haven't looked into Grayjay's codebase specifically but I imagine that it works in a manner very similar to how yt-dlp does.
I love that piracy is completely fine with Google as long as it’s not piracy of THEIR content.
Especially funny, given that they produced none of it.
they dont want to see the world burn, they want to burn the world!
Adblockers aren’t even piracy
@@stigrabbid589 that's not what they meant, youtube allows videos encouraging piracy of content that isn't owned or affiliated to google in any way.
as long as it's not theirs, it's not their problem.
@@stigrabbid589 A shitload of bootlickers and Fanboys will say something different :D.
Pretty sure shutting down discussion of alternative apps is a major violation of antitrust/anticompetitive behavior laws, at the very least in the EU
the issue is that these alternative apps probably use copyrighted parts of code from the TH-cam API, thats where theyd have the legal right to
It probably violates our Sherman Act, but major tech companies have done things such as collude to outright takedown growing social media networks here before. No accountability was ever had, and half the U.S. doesn't think there's an issue with such things happening.
As an American, I apologize for this stuff bleeding out into the rest of the world.
@@SkyTreeStudio You don't steal code to use an API, because it's literally an *interface*. You don't copy an API, you use it, therefore copyright is completely irrelevant in this case.
EU doesn't actually care about consumer protection. They only care about things that are anti-American or that they can fine to further fund EU corruption.
@@SkyTreeStudio Louis Rossmann, in regards to his app, has said multiple times that it does not use TH-cam's API at least, and being open source, that's a claim that can be verified.
“3 strikes and you’re out” from the company who pulls what a strike is out of their a$$ when it’s convenient to attack someone
...to be fair, this seems to apply to current MLB umpires as well.
Jokes aside, I completely agree. This is extremely monopolistic behavior.
Frankly I don't see why it shouldn't just be 1 -- you break TOS intentionally, you're immediately removed from the platform with no possibility of return.
@@cameraredeye3115 Because 1) Mistakes can happen 2) TH-cam would go bankrupt if one mistake meant you're out, no matter the size and 3) Automatic systems still can mistakenly give you a strike
Me asking Gemini: How to remove TH-cam ads
Gemini: 1. Use an ad blocker:
Browser extensions: Install a browser extension like AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, or AdGuard. These extensions block ads on most websites, including TH-cam.
Ad-blocking browsers: Use a browser like Brave, which has built-in ad-blocking features.
It did say "some method may be against TH-cam's terms of service"
but Google suggested so...I guess i just have to go with what Google suggested me to do
Literally telling me to do the wrong thing, if it is wrong, why is the first one to come up.
Because you did not ask it anything about "being a white male", so they don't care at this point in time.
7:03 Microsoft ain't gonna be happy about that 😂
@@scenicdragon808 lmao the low key snitch
@@FutureRideshareMillionaire I know better than to snitch 😂
as louis pointed out: futo (and grayjay) are not youtube users or creators(and thus never agreed to the TOS) which means they can't really go after futo directly, so it seems google is now trying to restrict people from hearing about it instead....
I wonder if you say that name 3 times gets your comment removed 🎉
Easy, spread it via comments, surely youtube can't do a site wide ban of the word futo anf grayjay right?
@@SkipInPerth Nah, their lawyer pops out your monitor and slaps you with a lawsuit
@@SkipInPerth Futo. Futo! FUTO!!!
@@nashadkajr.3111 The fact that google automatically acts like your comment needs to be translated to English is hilarious.
2:23 You do not download videos. You're getting a limited access to use them offline. It might be sound like the same thing as downloading, but there is some little bittsy detail... Such as if video owner chooses to delete the video, take it to private or video gets a strike, you cannot access it. It's gone, unlike what wouuld have happen if you upload it into your PC. LIKE what happened to De-google part 2 in my downloaded folder.
I didn't even KNOW you had a "de-Google" series until THIS video showed in my feed.
So ironically-- if they hadn't tried to 'corpo' you, i wouldn't have been aware at all.
And because they banned it, now I'm very interested in seeing it.
Because of this stunt and that i'm just fed-up with these giant soul-less monopolistic corporations in general like Google and Nintendo,
I'm going to watch all your de-google videos, switch to firefox, share this vid with all my friends ✌ 😼
also note that the "download" button in yt premium is mostly useless! it downloads videos in format, you can only open in youtube, CONNECTED to the internet. and you can't do anything else with those "downloaded" videos.
It does allow for offline playback but you have to connect to the internet every 30 days
@@galzajc1257 to be honest I find it really useful
@@opposite342so not offline
It’s like downloading within Netflix or Amazon Prime, it allows you to watch content offline, such as in an airplane, but of course it doesn’t give you a local file that you can freely copy and watch however you like.
@@galzajc1257 to be fair
You can open the youtube download page offline.
It does work . I used it on a plane no wifi.
"re-uploads that other users have graciously provided for your convenience"
"what I am going to do is not issue copyright-strikes against those guys"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Effing LOL. Based AF.
Reminder that Google used to have "don't be evil" in their code of conduct, but removed it years ago. I suspected then that it meant they intended to start being evil.
@@xen84 Yeah, it's funny - that's the sort of motto you can never change or it will be mentioned each time you do a bad thing.
I suspect they didn't remove the whole motto. They only removed the "don't" part.
This. Never forget.
I've still got the PTSD from the pop-up ad plague of the 90s, you'll never get me to uninstall my adblocker.
1:46 It's coz, it's "Harmful or dangerous" to Google 😂😂
If after 'downloading' a YT video on paid subscription, you cannot watch it after 3 days without connecting to internet, you have been deceived by YT.
Amazon Prime Video does the same thing with movies, you have two days after downloading a movie to watch it before it gets deleted until you redownload it, even if you fully bought the movie
That's definitely not true as I have watched a video on a hiking trip that I had sitting there for a week without my phone even being turned on
@@0106johnny how long ago was that?
Wait, for real you pay for downloading videos and they expire? Ludicrous. 🤡
False, it is 30 days. Just used it this week.
7:33 Activate Windows
Lolllll nice
I am a premium member because I believe in this platform. That and the lickies and chewies that come with like background play while I work is perfect for me. I don’t judge anyone not paying IF creators still get the views
If TH-cam could fix its horrendous ad system, we wouldn't have to be making videos about how to get ad-free TH-cam in the first place. Trying to shut down the content ceator is not how to fix the situation.
I would be fine with their ads if they just didn't shadow or outright delete so many of my comments when it comes to politics, war and other so called 'sensitive topics'. But yea, so long as they think they have the right to block my speech as they like, i can simply play that game too and block what they want me to see in return...
For a capitalist, it is usually easier to get rid of "annoying" customers than to provide a better service.
@@N0xiety then stop commenting about things that dont matter if you dont want your comments removed its that simple. You wanna talk politics go be a politician and stop doing it through pixels on a screen keyboard warrior.
6:27 who did that? Patreon glasses lol
I fully understand why they have ads, fully understand why they push for Premium, I just dont like the amount they do so when their 5 Executive Officers make $4 Million + in bonuses 15% from every officer and you fix TH-cam's "non-profitable issues" and they're still millionaires.
But they want to make billions and people like us make it harder. For capitalists, it is never enough, they always want more. We are pests to them, and they don't want us, but they need us. For now.
I have had both pornography and dating ads on TH-cam. I reported them and they have been taken down with an email confirmation to me. But these are triggers that I wish to avoid and as long as TH-cam allows this on the platform without regulation, I don't wish to see their ads.
I was looking forward to the companion video on how to watch everything on Floatplane without Linus or Luke or any of the creators getting a single cent. 6:11
Yeah, because why another subscription?
You throw brick at PC
Linus: This video could really harm yours and our brand
Dbrand: Heck Yeah. We’ll sponsor you!
TH-cam just proved why Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up!
Don't just comment; contact your representatives in Congress! Or better yet, contact their donors.
Why hasn't TH-cam/Google been taken to court for monopoly? I guess the same reason Microsoft hasn't either.
They have, sorta.
The main problem isn't that youtube plays ads, the problem is the kind of ads they play. Adult content in ads which would have been taken down if it was an uploaded video and not an advertisement, false advertisement for mobile games, ads for scummy chinese sellers like shein, temu etc and just outright annoying ads. If it would be ads about serious products from well established brands, I'd happily watch a few to fund the software engineering, server costs and content creator
Yeah i hate those misleading mobile games ads that show gameplay than doesnt exist on the actuall game
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Especially those mobile ads that do a lot of copyright infringement. Especially ads that do that none suitable for work stuff in some cases.
5:26 don’t forget all the ads about scams and children getting run over. Approved by youtube.
Linus, my only request is that in light of this takedown, please make that specific video available for free on Floatplane.
Stick it on Vimeo too just to rub it in. Vimeo still exists right?
You'd think Google would understand the Streisand effect.. and I'd like to believe LTT knew full well Google would do this causing a Streisand effect to occur. Which would be a next level play that I'd 100% give props to.
TH-cam really delisted a video because it showed how people could watch ad free TH-cam for free 💀💀💀
I mean, it would threaten their business model. As Linus mentioned, you either pay for premium or you watch ads (and maybe skip them if offered the option). It's not like they were sabotaging another video hosting website or something.
Yeah, because it hurts Google's profits. You cannot do that on YT or anywhere that Google hosts because you are in direct violation of their TOS if you do.
It's not the ads that make TH-cam suck. It's the fact that the ads are going to keep getting longer, more frequent and vastly more annoying. TH-cam actually penalizes you for not clicking away the ads. If you don't click the Skip button, you get another ad! See how annoying that is? They must employ people to figure out how to make their platform more annoying so they can gradually turn up the heat without all the viewers jumping to different platforms. Google is all in on enshittification.
WRONG. IT TOTALLY IS. ADS MAKE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING SUCK!
I always found if I clicked the skip button right when it showed up the next ad would be shorter. But if I don’t click it and let the ad play til then end, then the second ad ends up being 2 minutes plus…
@@costafilh0 LTT has ads yet here you are.
Not mentioning that half of the ads on internet has literal malware attached to it, that could infect your devices instantly if you accidentally clicked on it
This is why I love uBlock :)
to be honest .. this is a case that needs to hit the FCC
TH-cam is playing the "we are a private business" card and also the "we are only a provider and are not liable for stuff people put up" one .. and that really needs to stop.
Moderation has been stated to be a First Amendment right of online platforms, stated by the Supreme Court. And no, they have never been liable for stuff people put up, in the same way news websites are not liable for the comments people leave on their websites. Look into things a little more first, please.
@@TNH91 But "moderation" for the sake of killing competition IS prohibited. You know how those cartels are punished right?
@@TNH91 So its simple - are they soley a publisher or soley a platform? They can't be both.
"moderating" makes them a publisher because they are changing or removing content - exactly the job of a publisher. If they aren't then they need to stop.
If they are a platform which publishes then they already lied to the courts and should be dragged back in for a word.
@@siraff4461 No, moderating does not "make them a publisher". Read up.
@@siraff4461 No, moderating does not make them a publisher. _Publishing_ something themselves (like news websites publish things) is what would make them a publisher. Letting people put content on their site (like news websites let people comment on articles) does _not_ make them a publisher, no matter if they moderate or not. In fact, _not_ moderating can be illegal, since actually allowing illegal content to stay up _is_ something that ends up being their responsibility. But they wouldn't be prosecuted for the illegal content _being_ on their platform, only for not _removing it_ when notified about the illegal content. The person that would be prosecuted for the illegal content being on the platform would be the person that _uploaded_ it. This is part of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as well, if you wish to learn something.
I wish people looked into stuff a bit more before they spewed assertions they don't have factual backing for.
Atleast 3rd party video downloaders are protected under the same laws that protected recording tv to tape via vcr and such.
TH-cam needs a real competitor
Impossible at this stage. TH-cam needs to be seized and nationalized to become a public utility type entity.
@@MajorasWrath1 god no lol
@@MajorasWrath1 Oh hell no, i'd rather TH-cam be the money driven capitalist shithole that it is right now than a government entity. It would be so fucked up
@@ahhlewisthen there is no solution. Enjoy capitalism! You have no choice.
@@ahhlewis he's right about not having a choice as of now do to capitalism. But also due yo the huge non profitable expense youtube is
The reason is simple. Because you mentioned grayjay. TH-cam/google does not fear of people using adblocks, or downloading their videos (they always can come with some DRM protection). They fear loosing control of what you watch and where you watch it. And they will use any means necessary to stop you from leaving.
Wich can lead to a lawsuit heck I want to switch to other video sharing platforms like rumble but the problem is that almost all my viewers are on youtube and no whare else
@@tobyzilla then switch idk what to tell u but rumble isn't much better
here's a idea youtube make the ads less annoying, i wouldn't use a ad blocker if u wouldn't give me literally 2 unkippable ads every 3 mins
why would they do that? most of their ad-revenue comes from people watching youtube through their TV/mobile apps. pc users are a minority of their user base these days. they're going to milk that shit as far as they can because your option is watch ad's or get premium.
I've always thought if they did something like I think Pandora, where you get a few minutes of ads, then an hour of uninterrupted content, I'd take that. Or, have small 5-10 second bumpers, but if I want I can take the 2-3 minutes for an hour ad-free
"the FBI now officially recommends that web users download an ad blocker"
@@ProtoV33MK1 They've started putting 5-10 mins of ads at the start of >1hr videos with the banner "fewer ads for this long video" which gives the impression that they've thought of this idea, but given they still show ads every 10 mins, I'm not so sure...
Some creators, if not all. have a choice of what type of ads to put in videos, and of course where the ads go.
When the TH-cam algorithm itself suggests the very video that was removed re-uploaded by a random other channel on "Up Next"... lol.
Honestly, props to Linus and his company for: first putting a video that had instructions of how to bypass ads that fund the 100+ that his company employs and 2nd for taking the risk on their channel being banned for going against TH-cam ToS. Thanks for putting out what you advertise, tech tips.
im sure more of it comes from the sponsors not the ads
TH-cam allows de-heading videos but won’t allow ad block content lmaoooo.
10 years of no ads on TH-cam. I feel good about it.
ytea my ublock orgin still works and theres a app out there that doesnt allow ads either think its freetube or something
Source of the video? Asking for a friend, for research, 3rd excuse
@@yamisniperOn android, either revanced or newpipe.
You could stream literal CP as long as you pay for google and upload it as "advertisement".
They also put ad on non monetized channel as well
With no clear cut difference, this could cause Nintendo to think that "This channel uploaded mario music for profit"
"Don't be evil"
Yeah, how's that going?
@@CybrSlydr oh they for rid of that a LONG time ago
@@the3nder1 My point, exactly.
Evil , definition, provide billions of hours of video for free
Hi, as a precaution, you should make your own page online and put the videos there if youtube decides to delete the whole channel, with this you can use your servers for pages and videos and you are no longer dependent on TH-cam 😀 Think about it Linus
Greetings from Finland to everyone 😀
TH-cam pulling off an Nintendo I guess
They're WAY worse than Nintendo. And they'll always hold a special place in my heart for saving the gaming industry as a whole after ET. Google just made me lazier, lol.
The guy who left a comment on the video saying it would be taken down by google was right.
Several people declaired that...
I mean, why would Google allow content that tells people how to break away from using them? It hurts their profits directly, which is a no-no as long as you rely on them for anything.
You know what IS LITERALLY harmful and dangerous? MALWARE!
*ADS AND TRACKING ARE MALWARE*
Let's not get mixed up, ads aren't necessarily malware. That said, there is an exorbitant amount of bad actors that run ads promoting malware.
Also tracking (for ads) only really works in an ideal world, a shame we live in imperfection
lotta leaps to be made with that argument
Thank you, I scrolled to far for this
@@Samuel85228 Wrong. Targeted ADs are considered malware because they invade privacy, track user activity excessively, disrupt browsing experiences, create a feeling of manipulation, promote toxic and destructive behavior, and are often associated with scams or malicious content through plain and simple predatory marketing. So yes, ADs are Malware, they literally are.
@@Samuel85228 Wrong. Targeted ADs are considered malware because they invade privacy, track user activity excessively, disrupt browsing experiences, create a feeling of manipulation, promote toxic and destructive behavior, and are often associated with scams or malicious content through plain and simple predatory marketing. So yes, ADs are Malware, they literally are.
At least you still have your clone of PAtreon in the form of Floatplane where you can post any videos you like. Right after watching this video, I saw a suggestion from TH-cam to watch the very episode they yanked off your channel. Apparently, lots of other people saw the video because TH-cam showed them it. Weird. The only entanglement I have with Google is TH-cam. To upload videos, watch them, watch old movies to see if they're worth buying on DVD, and to leave comments.
I have never seen an ad on TH-cam that’s made me want to purchase that product.
Exactly, they even work (for me) the opposite way as purchase-repellent. 😂