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Jonnyprophet @lemmy.world

1 mo. ago • 96%

YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.

84 comments

Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers

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- Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
  
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  I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
  
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  I wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
  
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- Sad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
  
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- Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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I give up, this has really let me down.

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- Gave you the runaround?
  
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- I run around, and desert YouTube.
  
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You aren't doing youtube correctly.

PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube

Mobile: revanced, newpipe

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- How does one Rick roll people who don’t do YouTube correctly, which is most everyone?
  
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  Those people? We don't interact with those people.
  
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- Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
  
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- Honestly, I have Firefox + ublock origin in Mobile too
  
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  and sponsorblock 👌
  
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  Same.
  
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  I have all 3 options on mobile as well
  
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- FreeTube has an Android fork now that works just as well as the PC version.
  
  https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases
  
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- For iOS, since there’s no easy app based method to block YouTube ads: fire up a VPN connection to Albania. Streaming ads are illegal in Albania.
  
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- Freetube has been failing consistently on all my desktops lately. None of the instances on the main site work. Can you verify it's till working and maybe DM me the instance you're using?
  
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I can't believe I'm about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don't have ads.

Such as: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SXHMnicI6Pg

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- Wow, a legitimate use case for shorts.
  
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- Nice! May I recommend you share that with all of our professional rickrollers? (Or may I share it there?)
  
  !rickrolltactics@lemmy.world
  
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  I've literally rickrolled thousands of people and i didn't hesitate for a second to click on that link. wow. (_⁠﹏;)
  
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  Go for it!
  
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- Tenor's has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
  
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If you're seeing ads on YouTube, you're doing it wrong.

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Don't click this link

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- Thank you. I needed this.
  
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- Omg did you just reinvent YouTube?!?
  
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I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.

And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.

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- Fuck u peasant! What are you going to do about it?
  
  Pirate Content?
  
  Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
  
  🐸
  
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  Even premium isn't safe nowadays
  
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  Pirate Content?
  
  Yes.
  
  Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
  
  What? Wtf no! Use an ad blocker, my guy!
  
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- What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.
  
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  Same in UK for Sky. You have to be a Sky TV customer (paying) to use the Android or iOS Sky Go app and it still makes you watch adverts without skipping.
  
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dwXcQ

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- Nippy Kind Langur
  
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Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM

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- you motherfu-
  
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I know theres a github page. I believe its shatterdisk? When i was in school they firewalled youtube. So i found alternatives to rick roll.

Where there is a rick roll There is a rick way

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Wasn't there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?

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Wrong

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- I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
  
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  It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
  
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  Not for me, probably due to Ninja Cookie being installed, but the video doesn't start playing...
  
  I can't even press play, it's like there's an <img> tag of the thumbnail with no interaction.
  
  I probably blocked something, something bad.
  
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There was a vociferous but somehow under the radar outcry about this back in 2018 and an incredibly simple solution was widely suggested: demonetize the video.

However, the highly viewed video is a significant source of royalty revenue for Mr. Astley, which, as he well argued at the time in a series of tweets, is only just compensation for the way his image has been turned into a joke literally hundreds of millions of times now.

Mr. Astley implored YT not to bow to pressure and demonetize the video. YT famously replied “don’t worry, we’re never going to give you up, never going to let you down.”

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Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/never-gonna-give-you-up/1559900284

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- Oh, oh, oh! Thanks! I think I'll click on it right now.
  
  Ed. Damnit
  
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- DRM-free link
  
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Just use a different site here

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Now playing Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

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Not true

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- I don't know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
  
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Cant you just use a thirdparty youtube ui url?

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You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.

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Yes but the billionaire got a little more billions, very important

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I don't understand why people have to watch those ads. It's one websearch that will save you a lot of time.

I use Mozilla for desktop and brave for Android to listen to videos while the screen is off.

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A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.

Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.

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- If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.
  
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  relevant username
  
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  I disagree. This is an important issue
  
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  Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such
  
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- I see someone doesn't understand the definition of Rick Rolling...
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
  
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  Dude... my kid will never get to experience this. I didn't even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.
  
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- You can't do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?
  
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  exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads
  
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- This is just false, I don't know where you got this idea
  
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