The only ads Ive watched in the past year were ads from flex seal and tim henson, and those were technically just videos.
If ads were like that I wouldnt mind them as much
Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi
I’ve got one thing to way to you
Ublock origin
in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
wait what this is real
Wow is this a clip from Archie’s Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I’d see that online.
Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
🏴☠️
Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
Damn even your genitals??
That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
I usually don’t watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
That’s been my experience going to some of my friend’s houses. It’s despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.
I swear I don’t understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days…
Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.
What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?
DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won’t skip sponsored segments though, you’ll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they’ve decided to shill.
DNS/piblock
I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.
Doesn’t seem to work on the PS5
Can it run Firefox?
I’m sure it could
That’s what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.
That is not the right way to treat each other. Playing the blaming game does only benifits such companies to keep us devided and occupied while they continue to enshitify everything.
People have had decades and 5 generations of PlayStation to learn this lesson. If they still don’t get it, that’s on them.
What an awful way to conduct yourself. Try and be better my guy.
Imagine thinking tone policing is more important than getting people off proprietary platforms.
Try and be better my guy
Do you realise that we are the overwhelming minority here hanging out on lemmy?
Cause everyone of us could never use proprietary stuff again and the companies wouldn’t even notice.
The vast majority of people just want something that is convenient and where there friends are.
What consoles even exist that would be a viable replacement to an Xbox or PlayStation as I can’t think of one.
This doesn’t apply to me, I’m a PC gamer who plays two games: Minecraft and Factorio. But I’m not disillusioned into thinking that what I see on lemmy is indicative of society as a whole. I’m also quite confident that you would be using things that other people on here might call you out for.
Finally, read the room dude clearly you don’t have the votes here that people agree with you.
Edit: On further reflection I don’t see a reason for your original comment other than to act superior than the other person. Because if you truly cared about their choice you might have offered some example others. Imagine the person didn’t know about why you might be against proprietary hardware, so you imagine your comment gets them on side or alienates them.
You do get to be the second person on here who I tagged as Asshole with the nice badges in Voyager. So congrats.
I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?
PiHole
YouTube serves ads from the same domains that serves the video so you can’t block ads with pihole for YouTube
Quick google search suggests the ads come from same domain as youtube, so wouldnt be blocked.
Back to muting ads and reading lemmy on my phone
Haven’t personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it’s ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don’t know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
Please do not use Sponserblock unless you support that creator in some other way; or you just don’t care about them.
sponsorblock lets you unskip things so you can watch any sponsor you like. it also helps skip all sorts of non content, not just ads so it’s useful either way. you can set it to auto skip, no skip, manual skip prompt, only marked for any type of content (intro, intermission, filler, sponsor etc) not using it is just stupid.
with all that said, I don’t think sponsorblock affects creators at all. I highly doubt sponsors look at how much specific sections of a video has been watched. they only care about how popular a creator is, who their audience is and what they say during the sponsored section.
even if they decide whether to continue sponsoring based on how well the previous sponsored video did, the important metric would be the view count of the video, not how many people watched or skipped an ad section specifically.
if that were important creators wouldn’t split their sponsored sections in time codes they provide because they know it’s an easy skip. more importantly regardless of the creators, the sponsors would simply ask not to do it as part of the agreement. (inb4 legal requirement: I’m not talking about disclosure; I’m talking time codes specifically)
I legit hate this take. YT was started as a way for everyone to share videos with each other, not be a corporate pusher for those that want to ‘go big’. The fact that YT even offered profit sharing is awful.
Yeah, go ahead and support who you like. But don’t sit there and be like “you’re hurting them if you don’t pay them and you don’t want their bullshit ads”. Get the fuck out of here with that shit. “creators” who “make a living” from YT are the reason YT is a cesspool of dogshit now. If you aren’t on YT because of a genuine desire to simply share videos, without expecting monitary kickbacks to support your life, gtfo. The support should come naturally through other avenues.
you could have just saved all of that when you read my comment. “unless you support that creator in some other way” you know, like your mentioned natural other avenues?
They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they’re big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they’ve chosen to sell doesn’t affect them financially.
The Tuber already got paid by the sponsor. And sponsors look at click trough and conversion rates not views. If I’m not going to buy what they are selling me I might as well skip the ad. I don’t need NordVPN or Squarespace or whatever shit they are trying to push on me.
If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.
uhm yeah just as I said in the comment.
I’m allergic to advertisement, I’d rather not watch a video at all than watching the ads in it. SponsorBlock for me is just an automation of what I would do anyway pressing forward 5-7 times to jump over this section. I will not buy this stuff anyway it’s just a waste of my time. I go even so far that I don’t mind paying for YouTube Premium because this removes the advertisement, but there is no way to pay for skipping sponsors automatically other than SponsorBlock.
Creators don’t get money for you watching their sponsorship, only if you click through and do something with it
If you don’t plan on interacting with the sponsorship we then blocking it just saves time
If anything it should be the other way around since sponsor spots don’t make money per person watching them.
Drink the verification can
Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we’re not far now…
That meme was prophetic.
Press M for mute. Most adds’ sound design is awful.
The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button
Robert Rankin’s “Armageddon” trilogy has something like this, where Actively Viewing pays you rehousing credits, so the main character has developed away to sleep with his eyes wide open, as if actually watching the screen.
Any adblocks x smart TV?
If you need it on tizen os (Samsung TV’s) there is tizentube
I now moved to android tv (modified), but tizentube made my Samsung tv at least bearable.
SmartTube if it’s an Android TV.
Download and install the APK through Downloader app or USB, only takes a few mins following instructions.
Devs keep it very regularly up to date. SponsorBlock included. Many excellent additional features making it way better at being YouTube than the YouTube app could ever be.
That’s not the official site. It has an old version (July 2024) and the file might contain malware. You can safely download the latest version from GitHub and find their updated guide there.
If you don’t want to use Github, you can use the site they have linked to which is https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
Don’t connect the TV to the internet. Buy a Shield or AppleTV.
anyone got a solution for apple tv? found one app but it works through invidious and invidious doesn’t really work anymore. even tried hosting my own at home but nothing :(
I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don’t watch a huge amount so I’m happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.
I’ve honestly just switched to screen mirroring my Mac and using Firefox / ublock / etc when I want to watch YouTube on the tv.
Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.
