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(and when things go bad...)

Ad! Ad!! Oh, it's an ad. :(

Blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker ...

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Oh Great Cthulhu, we're old.

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A møøse ønce bit my sister

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- Pøør sister!
  
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It's times like these that online advertisements need to get creative to get ahead in this never ending adblocking arms race, just like the very subtle advertisement in the car chase scene in the Academy Award nominated film, "Barbie", now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

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I know right? The other day I was drinking a coke and wondering about side effects of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, and it occurred to me that advertising could be a lot more creative and subtle.

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- But there is something to be said about superliminal messaging as well.
  
  Instead of trying to subtly influence people to watch your movie, why not tell them directly to watch your movie instead?
  
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- Sneaky upvote!
  
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So we have:

Ad Blockers
'Ad Blocker' blockers
''Ad blocker' blocker' blockers
'''Ad Blocker' blocker' blocker' blockers
''''Ad Blocker' blocker' blocker' blocker' blockers
'''''Ad Blocker' blocker' blocker' blocker' blockers' blockers; and finally;
''''''Ad Blocker' blocker' blocker' blocker' blockers' blocker' blockers; with;
'''''''Ad Blocker' blocker' blocker' blocker' blockers' blocker' blocker' blockers

in development.

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It's like playing Uno; but with reverse cards only.

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- It's like playing Uno No Mercy, with only reverse-draw-10 cards
  
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Youtube is wasting ressources, it's a fight they can't win

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They have infinite resources. They're making gestures to dissuade normies. I suspect this will get them most of the result they want. They're also wasting time, effort and resources of adblock programmers (and that is a far more limited resource).

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- If they had infinite resources, they wouldn't need to worry about adblockers.
  
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- Sure but as long as there is a least one dedicated bearded dude hidden in a dark underground room behind his screen, they will be defeated. No matter how much they spent on the new technology. What I mean is that devs might burn out, they will still be replaced by others. And we get such people faster than youtube is able to burn them out
  
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- They don't need to actually unblock everything. They just need to convince their advertisers and stock holders they are.
  
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Exactly this. They ALWAYS lose this fight.

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nah, if they embed the ad into the video stream (they were testing this for some users!), the only adblocking option will be to blank out the screen and wait through the ad (or download the video in advance and edit the ad out automatically), both of which would make it a lot more annoying to adblock than currently.

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- This is actually one of very few valid cases for an LLM, to help sponsorblock determine ad segments by analyzing the word choice and speech patterns in segments of the video.
  
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- YouTube Revanced already has a blocker for sponsor segments embedded in the video.
  
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- No, you just need to skip the ad. Sponsorblock has been working for years now, solving pretty much the same problem
  
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Mushroom mushroom

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Ad ad oooohhhhh it’s an ad.

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- It's a big ad It's a big ad Fooooooorrr beer https://youtu.be/_wM2c3WtDjQ?si=7G_HBu8FMGMZpdoe
  
  Mushroom mushroom badger badger
  
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Ad blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker blocker

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What this? I cant hear you over my high definition yt-dlp content.

Where i am going I haven’t needed a google account in over a year.

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What will happen when ads are injected in the video stream directly.

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- At that point i will either have to use an ai tool to scrub the filth out
  
  Or
  
  Consider if i really need whatever content is within it and touch some grass instead.
  
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- The same thing that happened with sponsored segments.
  
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- With yt-dlp? Skip them manually.
  
  Like, my main issue with ads is all the tracking they do. If they add non-targeted ads to the video file I downloaded, whatever, I'll just fast forward through that part of the video.
  
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Personally, I use Tubular on my phone ( Newpipe fork with sponsorBlock ), freetube on PC, and Smart tube on my android tv.

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Point us towards salvation, Grand Master!

...where can i sign up..?

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- Are you familiar with Jellyfin?
  
  https://jellyfin.org/
  
  If you can set up a server of this then its as easy as making the library folder the output folder for yt-dlp
  
  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
  
  I didnt even have to write me own script. I gave chatgpt a notepad with channel urls and just told it to write me code to load these urls one by one and download the Last 2 videos. (Trust me you dont want to accidentally download a whole channel). Yt dlp can maintain a log of sort so videos aren't downloaded more then once.
  
  I run this script on a schedule and delete the video when i am done with it. Nice and clean. I can also recommend trying to run an invididious instance for general video browsing but mine took some twiddling to setup right.
  
  https://invidious.io/
  
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You've never needed a YouTube account to watch youtube

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Blocker & Blocker

2 Blocker 2 Blocked

Blocker Tokyo Drift

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Block of the Bockers; Return of the Blockings

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- BlocX
  
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The Final Blocker

The Final Blocker 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Blocker
Blockers
Blocker 3
Blocker Resurrection
Blocker vs Inline
Blocker vs Inline: Requiem
Revanced
Blocker: Covenant
Blocker: Romulus

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- The new timeline reboot:
  
  Blocker: The beginning
  
  The Blocker Returns
  
  The Dark Blocker
  
  Blocker Homecoming
  
  Rise of the Blockers
  
  Dawn of the Blockers
  
  War of the Blockers
  
  Kingdom of the Blockers
  
  And to bring it full circle:
  
  Planet of the Blockers
  
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No one can beat Ublock Origin

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I hope it stays that way.

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Dunno if I'm not updated but occasionally ads will actually load or at least try to load and completely restart my video. Usually only happens when I wake the computer up and it has a YouTube video midway through.

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Youtube's crackdown on adblocker usage has created a huge Streisand effect. There's a lot of people all over the world that would've never known about adblockers if youtube just didn't say anything and didn't do exactly what they did.

Now, all the major adblockers and ad-blocking browsers have stepped their game up and made it so people can still block ads on youtube.

There's userscripts you can get from greasyfork...or is it greaseyfork that allow you to bypass all of youtube's bullshit.

100% of the videos that actually belong on youtube are almost always demonetized anyway.

If you're not constantly getting demonetized on every video you put out, despite bending over backwards to follow the rules, you're doing something wrong.

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There’s a lot of people all over the world that would’ve never known about adblockers

I see this sentiment a lot. Is there any reliable data to support it?

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- Not OP but in my personal experience I've talked to countless people that had no idea watching YouTube without ads is possible (without paying) and their minds were blown. With Google calling out attention to it like this, I'm sure many will get curious. Most people don't use their electronics beyond basic functionality..
  
  And tbh you're gonna be hard pressed to get real data of how many ppl are suddenly finding out about it.
  
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- Exhibit A: Youtube premium
  
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- yes, ublock, adguard and brave all stepped up their game
  
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Not to mention that Vanced-type apps and content mirrors are still going strong, and proper alternative platforms like Grayjay and Nebula are getting more attractive.

I wonder how soon self-hosted video distribution will be feasible. Does ActivityPub support that yet?

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- I think Peertube fits that description: "PeerTube is a self-hosted ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser."
  
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YouTube can definitely afford a war ship and pay people to shoot...we may have enough people to operate a death star for free but can we afford one ?

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The image doesn't quite work because youtube needs a MASSIVE solution that works, scales, doesn't fuck up their infrastructure and on and on and on.

Meanwhile on the user front, all your doing essentially is just skipping parts of a video, that will always be infinitely cheaper easier to do. Challenging for sure, but the solution can be small.

Even something as stupid as delaying your video start by 1 min, pre buffering then skipping ads. It's brute force and barbaric but the point is that Google can't do shit against that.

My ultimate vision is AI that preloads videos you want and detects ads / sponsor segments and just skips them / cuts them out on your device.

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- Another way to think about it... YouTube has huge amounts of compute resources, but per user it's an extremely small amount. Your phone has orders of magnitude more power to dedicate to you than YouTube does. Collectively, we have more processing power than YouTube.
  
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as a firefox user i cant give up and just installed freetube, exported everything from yt. its great

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This just in: Google suddently discontinues support for popular and profitable ad blocker blocker blocker blocker, because literally all they know how to do is kill things that work.

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God I love the web platform!

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What of I told you there is an easier way of blocking ads: noscript.

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I guess you haven't heard they're experimenting with injecting ads right into the videos on the server. Just turning off scripts won't do anything for that.

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- Depending on your country, these ads still need to be marked clearly as such. And for accessibility reasons, that mark will always be machine readable.
  
  So blockers will be fine.
  
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- Sponsor block gives me a nice list of options to do in that case: skip automatically, show a skip button or ignore. All based on what type of interruption there is.
  
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- Yeah I've seen it on twitch. We are joeover.
  
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Is Google Chrome fighting uBlock country-specific? I use Chrome on Win 10 with uBlock and haven't seen a YouTube ad outside of the mobile app in ages. For me, uBlock never stopped working in Chrome and I watch YouTube videos every 1-2 days.

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Ublock publishes patches so fast you never had a problem

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- Wow, these guys are even more awesome than I thought then...
  
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So the final step is the internet blows up?

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The great arms race for your attention

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uBlock and YouTube got trace busters for their trace busters.

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I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers scenes from this terrible movie. This was the first thing that came to mind.

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I'm one of the dozen people that bought premium to not have to deal with it. I'm just patiently waiting for alternatives to become more viable so I can jump ship entirely. YouTube is the last remaining Google service I still use.

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You have funded the enemy.

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- From what I've read, YouTubers don't get paid from views that use an ad-blocker, but they still do from views that have premium, so my justification is that I'm helping support the creators I like. I'm also paying for Nebula, which some of the documentary-style creators upload to as well now.
  
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