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People need to learn that just because you see an ad for something doesn’t mean you need to DO the thing. Take the time to learn who you are and then look at all these external things and ask yourself if you need this shit in your life. 95% of the time, the answer is no. If you’re confident in who you are as a human, you can pick and chose and neuter the things you want and avoid the ones you don’t.
Besides the solid list from @[email protected], use an Invidious front end. Even just search for a video on DDG and play it there.
Youtube shorts / short form content has driven me so mad that I’ve now deleted all social media, with only voyager to access lemmy. I actually couldn’t handle how shit it all is, which I kept going back to like a drug
There’s browser extensions/addons to block YouTube shorts. Combine it with SponsorBlock, DeArrow and a decent adblocker and YouTube becomes somewhat useable. The only thing you still notice is content creators wasting time and beating around the bush so they can abuse your watch time for ad money and better watch statistics.
Unlock Origin for browsers (mobile and desktop)
NextDNS or PiHole (for everything)
FOSS apps for ad free apps that do exactly what the ad-full and premium apps do but free
And minimize usage of software that sells your data wherever possible
Everyone needs to be doing these things. Corporations gaslight folks into thinking they need ads and your info to upkeep and improve their services, but it isn’t true. They pocket the revenue while making their products shittier and shittier.
Don’t support shitty buisinesses
Strange to read your comment then notice that you are writing that from Cloudflare’s centralised walled garden. Not supporting corporate technofeudal shitholes entails staying outside of Cloudflare.
It’s this extreme enshittification that made me sail the high seas again
It’s not that I want to
It’s not that I don’t want to pay
It’s not that the seas are cheap
It’s not that the seas are easy
It’s hard, it’s expensive (storage is cheap until you need to store boat loads of 20-40GB files, it takes huge amounts of time and has become a hobby because that’s what it takes.
I would gladly pay a single provider 100/month for all my series, movies, music, etc and always have access to everything everywhere without ads but the providers literally fucked us over on each and every one of those items so I’m done.
Aarrrr mateys, all aboard!
“THE ONE PIECE… THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!”
No chance @ 100/month. At that money, I want my dick sucked as well. Netflix used to be just 5.99 a month. I let it run for months even when I wasnt watching it because, fuck it. Its only 5 bucks. Not its what, 20? Fuck that. And thats before you get to all the other shit.
I spent 300 on a 22gb HDD and havent looked back. Sonarr downloads whatever tv shows Im watching, and I play it through plex or infuse. Both of which I paid the 100 for the lifetime sub. Other than that, I pay for internet and power. I also pay 45 a year for an iptv sub. Im in the UK, so thats 45 for the year to watch football that would cost me 50 per month to watch legally, and I still wouldnt get to see every game.
All of these greedy cunts have created this world of the high seas. But in order to get people away from it, it would have to nowhere near 100 a month. Theres no way Im chipping in for some fat CEOs fucking boat, just to watch tv. They can charge a fair rate, or they can fuck off.
I spent 300 on a 22gb HDD and havent looked back.
I hope that was a typo. If not you got ripped off. And depending on what your sonars finds you’re going to run out of storage fast.
Maybe they bought it back in 2002?
Even in 2002 that would be a massive ripoff. In 2002 youd probably pay about 20/25 quid for a 20gb hdd. And even then, that would be high as I remember grabbing a 40 for not much more.
There are people who are building and participating in alternatives. They deserve support. But people have also become accustomed to getting a lot for free.
Now I’m not defending YouTube, but they have to store billions of hours of videos and serve millions of people at a time, just so you (and me) can stream 10hrs of video a day just to listen to lo fi study music or watch let’s plays. that’s very expensive. The whole model is ass-backwards, that content creators exist to get paid. YouTube should be charging content creators for storing their videos, and if the creator wants to saturate their shit with ads and e-begging, then it be their choice.
You’re right, but this benefits rich content creators at the cost of new ones creating more income inequality in the content creation business.
The free/cheap entitlement definitely seeps into FOSS areas. I periodically see things like “this app/platform NEEDS to have all of the functionality of the paid one, be free and easy to set up” or particularly contradictory “a Linux phone NEEDS to have reliable calls, texts, support my banking apps, WhatsApp, have modern hardware, and cost $200”
(or variations thereof)
I like the idea of free software, but users shouldn’t expect people to do the work for them for free. If there’s software I need that’s free, great. If there’s no free version, I’m not owed one and I’m not gonna complain until I get one.
Complaining is part of contributing ideas. You can contribute code, or ideas, or both. Have a look at [email protected].
One good principle that’s aligned with what you’re saying is that every FOSS contributor desides for themself what work to do. It’s uncivil to try to task someone in partcular with work. No one should be personally pushed to do work. Avoid that, and there is nothing wrong with reporting bugs and making suggestions generally to the commons.
The username in this image: ::chef’s kiss::
You know, if ads actually worked, I wouldn’t mind them. We have AAAAALL this tech to try to find the exact thing I might want to buy, and they still can’t do it. If the ads in my feed were 100% things I would buy, I wouldn’t actually mind them because it’s things I like and either have bought or would want to buy. Instead, I hate ads because it’s all things I don’t and never would buy!
When I was growing up watching Cartoon Network, obviously there were ads, and those ads actually were suited to me, because I was a child watching children’s programming. When they advertised a toy, I saw it and I thought “Ooh I want that!”; I didn’t always get it, but I definitely wanted it. That was in the late 90s, with 1000x less information on me personally than they have now.
Ads do work. We have this whole surveillance dystopia to track how people behave online and the data shows that it is profitable to show them ads. All those eCommerce companies know how many sales they got via ads and yes, that’s profitable. It is the reason why there are so many ads.
The purpose of advertising isn’t always to sell you something you need or want. A lot of the time, it’s to build a desire for something you don’t. This is why it comes off as invasive and uncanny: it’s all that unsolicited, undsesired content that gets you.
Advertising exists because there’s a demand for it from businesses. There’s never going to be a 1:1 match of advertisements to customers. It’s its own market, and, often, as a consumer, you will be served ads that don’t make sense to you because someone is making money.
Ads do work. When I mention ad blockers people who dont use them say “The ads in my feed are things I would buy”. I dont care if the ads are exactly what I want to buy, I dont think they pay the site enough to warrent wasting my time and ruining the experience of what im actually trying to interact with. 50s ad on youtube isnt even paying out a cent. Thats stupid.
Normally i don’t read a wall of text in post images, but damn. Every sentence is true.
Same. I am having PTSD flashbacks
Yeah the wall of text is the medium for this art piece and it’s very effective.
It really matches the exhaustion of dealing with tech in 2025.
it’s not “tech”, it’s capitalism. tech works fine. you can see this with linux and fediverse and such. it’s companies making everything into a subscription service that sucks.
Preach
Who the actual fuck has ever clicked on an ad inhibiting you from watching the rest of the video you were enjoying? I will carry a grudge for businesses that hound me like that. Keep your fucking ads off my monitor. If I want to watch ads, I’ll tune into the Superbowl qYearly. This is why TV stations and ad executives were told to fuck off when the VCR was invented and released for consumer purchase and they tried to regulate them and make it so people could not FFW through ads and the SCOTUS had to settle it. This is the same shit different medium. If your advertisers don’ think they are getting a good bang for their buck, tough shit. Stop paying inane shitinfluencers so much money to further expedite the fast track to idiocracy and you wouldn’t need to rely on ad revenue.
There are a lot of people who just let it happen. Watching ads, clicking on ads accidentally and all that shit. If i see an ad on my screen i’d rather spend a day figuring out how i never have to see an ad again, than play their stupid little game.
Embrace free software and piracy. No account needed. No ads. No spam.
Google has mostly killed off the piracy option. Any Invidious instance that gets traction gets cut off by Google.
The FOSS option is newpipe, but if you use that over Tor (for privacy from Google), Google blocks connections.
yt-dl still works fine. Download, re-host.
Not over Tor. It has the same problem as newpipe over tor.
We need a more advanced tool, like this:
Steal what you can, live without the rest. Its shockingly easy to unplug from the majority of platforms.
Its shockingly easy to unplug from the majority of platforms.
FYI, you’re using the most abusive privacy abusing platform in silicon valley: Cloudflare. I suggest leaving lemmy.world.
Oh word? Perhaps I will switch then.
If you go to lemmyverse.net and click TAGS next to a funnel icon, you can then select to /hide/ Cloudflare tags (in which case it’s not hiding the tags but actually hiding nodes that have the CF tag). That is one way to find a Cloudflare-free Lemmy instance.
I personally fetched the dataset, imported it into a DB, then I had the freedom to specify all the criteria I want in my searches.
I FUCKING HATE HAVING TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT BY SENDING EMAILS IN A LENGTHY AND UNNECESSARY SUPPORT TICKET EMAIL CHAIN
give me a button. give. me. a. delete. acount. button. I am asking this not of the corporations, but of the government. Right to be forgotten should mandate making it convenient. When I want to delete my account I click Delete Account and recieve a confirmation email. I click the link in the email. My account gets deleted right then and there.
The shit that really killed me is when my favorite card game, Magic the Gathering, went all in on making cross-promotional sets. Who knew fucking card games could have ads too? Had to cut that shit out of my life.
More people need to have this mentality. If your favourite thing in the world turns to shit. drop it, cancel it. No matter how weaved into their ecosystem you think they trapped you in. You can always get out. This goes for any form of entertainment, devices, politics, friends and even family.
well the strongest card was always the credit card.
but yes, hearthstone player here. The starcraft crossover set was the worst and most-nerfed set in history, released a year ago and is STILL getting nerfed.
Games have an 8 year life span, change my mind.
Youtube is not full of ads.
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When Google started its attack on Invidious, I was forced to try direct YT access. The ads were so frequent and intrusive that I had to walk. It’s intolerable.
No ads on my side, either.
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Team Kodi checking in. Also on team ad blockers.
Team PiHole, unlock and Privacy Badger here. What’s an ad?
Revanced user here, and I don’t have the faintest clue either.
no ads on my side either.
greetings from the
~/.bin/ytgang.use like
yt fHYNyCi2lnAwhere fHYNyCi2lnA is the youtube video id.#!/usr/bin/bash # usage example: yt fHYNyCi2lnA if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "Usage examples:" echo " yt fHYNyCi2lnA" echo " yt https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a1oxZ6RtpPk" exit fi ADDRESS="$1" # change https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a1oxZ6RtpPk to a1oxZ6RtpPk if [[ "$ADDRESS" == *"watch"* ]]; then arr=(${ADDRESS//'v='/ }) ADDRESS="${arr[1]}" fi echo video id: "$ADDRESS" mpv "https://youtube.com/watch?v=%24ADDRESS"
It’s the wild west all over again until they establish law and order in the tech world. No standards, just everyone trying to make their millions (billions nowadays?). I can’ help but think the end result of all this is an empty husk of a planet, floating dead through space because people wanted to collect money tokens of various values and denominations.
Yeah capital is basically free to inject unwanted messages as often and as long as they want.
It’s time theft, indoctrination, intrusion, invasion, mind control, etc.
I really don’t understand people who feel some “moral” obligation to cooperate.
