• RedEye FlightControl
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    26122 days ago

    Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It’s an awful experience. But they’ll leave my browser before my adblocker does.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      14722 days ago

      100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.

      My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.

    • @zurohki@aussie.zone
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      6122 days ago

      The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

      • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        1121 days ago

        This is also a good beginner way to learn about self hosting in docker.

        Freetube can make a great backup for when google inevitably breaks something.

        And for thise videos you really cant miss there is always yt-dlp scripted to download a channels latests video on a schedule straight to jellyfin of course.

        I have not visited the youtube website in more then a year.

      • @Carrot@lemmy.today
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        320 days ago

        It’s not perfect, but I use grayjay. They have an android app and a desktop client, and are usually pretty quick to make updates that will sidestep Google’s anti-adblocking measures (within 1-2 days.) Again, not perfect, but I don’t mind a slightly worse experience to avoid having to see an ad. Plus it has sponsor block support built right in

    • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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      321 days ago

      Same. When I opened the Stats for Nerds pop-up, I noticed that I was being throttled to 1500kbps. Anything above 720p was unplayable this week.

      But apparently the Ublock Origin devs yet again figured out another workaround, because streaming speeds are back to normal for me as of yesterday.

  • @SpicyTaint@lemmy.world
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    12522 days ago

    I’ve started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      If Google really wants to, they can crack down on yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they’re likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but…

      • rumba
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        1222 days ago

        It will happen eventually. All they need to do is start new/rotating keys on wildvine and put the ads at random times right in the stream, then disable fast forward if you use it to skip ads. It’ll be a UX hit, so it’ll need to be worth it to them.

        In the end, they can’t stop us from HDMI capturing and using comskip to detect / remove but there are a million ways to play tag between where we are now and that which don’t require people posting videos to pirate bay :)

            • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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              222 days ago

              They aren’t fool proof, and relatively easy to detect from the source.

              Source: high end AV tech for like half a decade

            • @solrize@lemmy.ml
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              strip out the HDCP

              Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

              But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

              We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

          • rumba
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            221 days ago

            I break HDCP right now. Those keys have been leaked for AGES. $10 amazon HDMI copy in between your videocard and the capture.

      • mesaOP
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        1022 days ago

        My ip was blocked a LONG time ago by google for using yt-dlp. Works with VPN but nothing else. Fun times. I think I only pulled a couple of videos off for archival services. On my own channel non-the-less.

        • @tal@lemmy.today
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          You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

          • mesaOP
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            1122 days ago

            Ok cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.

      • @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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        922 days ago

        Virtual desktop program that watches videos and uses sponsorblock and adblock after the fact to pick it clean and re-encode it.

        I’m that level of anal

        • @tal@lemmy.today
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          322 days ago

          I’m not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won’t run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

        • @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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          Right. At the end of the bullshit, the content still plays to completion if the user hits play. We can script and Ai and remove ads all day long after a program snags the feed.

    • @pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      1322 days ago

      This is the way.

      When YouTube wanted to throw me some entertainment and a couple ads, very conveniently, I was down for that.

      Now that it’s an all out technology knowledge battle - well, I’m quite good at that.

      So I spend the time I would have laughed at their ad instead working around their bullshit.

      I haven’t seen an ad in years, but I still enjoy the same content. 🤷‍♀️

      To me, it seems like they’re working really hard, just to fail to serve me ads.

      • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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        221 days ago

        I would but my issue with that is that SponsorBlock doesn’t work on downloaded videos.

          • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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            221 days ago

            I use SponsorBlock for more than just skipping sponsored segments. It’s also useful for skipping intros, “like and subscribe” messages, and other general annoyances in most YouTube videos. Once you get used to it, you can’t go without.

    • Ebby
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      322 days ago

      Me too. I’m up to 3TB locally. Had to do that slowly though. Hit some temp bans a few times.

    • @gruhuken@slrpnk.net
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      I’ve been doing this with band love videos and storing them on a hard drive. One I love got taken down and almost lost a while back and it’s made me paranoid ha

  • SinkingLotus
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    9322 days ago

    I’d sooner spend five minutes waiting for the video to buffer than five seconds watching an ad

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    7422 days ago

    Make me wait 5 mins on a black screen and I’ll do that before watching an ad.

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)
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    6521 days ago

    A wild YouTube appeared!

    Go, uBlock Origin!

    Wild YouTube used Throttle!

    It’s not very effective…

    uBlock Origin used Evolve!

    It’s super effective!

    YouTube fainted!

    • @Shaper@lemm.ee
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      120 days ago

      Is it possible to post the same video both to youtube and peertube without trouble? I wonder if this is prohibited cause I think many creators would mirror their content to peertube if they could.

  • @Phegan@lemmy.world
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    5122 days ago

    Ive been commenting on creators videos asking them to upload elsewhere as well. I doubt it will work, but we could try

    • @MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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      1521 days ago

      A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I’d ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.

      • LeTak
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        721 days ago

        I also asked some creators, but they can’t because of the Google partnership Programm, it prohibits reupload on other platforms

    • yeehaw
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      622 days ago

      Great idea. Eventually, and if enough ask, it could be a thing.

  • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    4721 days ago

    I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up

    They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow

    • mesaOP
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      2421 days ago

      My wife and I were discussing this. This isnt “slow” to us, its just a tiny bit inconvenient. We were used to the old AOL pictures taking a good minute or two to load.

      We would get rid of Youtube before we get ads.

  • @CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    4422 days ago

    I’ve been seeing this for a couple weeks now along with a popup telling me “ad blockers aren’t allowed” at work where I’m forced to use Chrome. I have UBlock Lite installed. Typically a refresh takes care of the popup and a 10 second delay later, the video loads.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      1322 days ago

      uBlock Lite is simply not as potent, so it’s understandable it can be beaten. Almost like Google is abusing their monopoly

    • Lka1988
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      1022 days ago

      I run portable Firefox on my work PC. I refuse to use chrome. some of our apps require Edge, but outside of that, I don’t touch chrome.

    • @myreel@lemm.ee
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      221 days ago

      I switched to Firefox basically as soon as ublock origin didn’t work on chrome. It was easier than I thought it would be.

    • yeehaw
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      This is their way to try and get you into their money making fold.

  • @Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent

    Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant’s comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn’t really provide details LOL

  • oh_
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    3021 days ago

    “Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.

    • @xzot746@sh.itjust.works
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      221 days ago

      Or “Might as well do EVIL”, what is anybody going to do about it, maybe make some noise but we just pay off TACO and we good.