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YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers

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Video playback resumes to normal when ad blockers are disabled

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78 comments

We need a publicly funded video hosting service like PBS.

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- Good luck getting that through the system… the cost to run something like YouTube is… well, let’s just say the lack of real competitions speaks volumes.
  
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  The biggest drain is the copyright fights, I'm guessing. Defending against and pleasing every big company with an interest.
  
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  China did it...https://www.youku.tv/ probably the EU could do it too, if it cared about owning its own critical infrastructure.
  
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  We have torrent technology, we just need to make it a little more dynamic.
  
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- If we fund a peertube instance we could do that.
  
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  There are lots of peertube instances. The issue is that YouTube uses ads to pay content creators, and so everyone puts their content on YouTube in the hope of becoming the next big thing.
  
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- What people need to do is start self-hosting PeerTube IMO.
  
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- People refuse to even let an ad play but sure, they'll participate in the pledge drives
  
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  Ads are not just inconvenient but very often annoying and misleading, so I can't blame anyone for that.
  
  Micropayment donations might, though. It's not annoying, not misleading, and there is a considerable amount of people even now that regularly donate/otherwise support their favorite content creators, and this would be even more convenient because it is automatic and the amount depends on how much time did you watch videos.
  And it doesn't even necessarily depend on cryptocurrencies.
  
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  What is it?
  
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- at that point why not just subscribe to yt premium?
  
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  Public service =/= privately owned mega corp
  
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I haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned in this article while using Firefox + uBO (on Windows, Linux, and Fennec fork on Android), nor while using the Tubular app on Android.

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- Its likely to be a slow rollout thing. I havent either for what its worth.
  
  I did have a couple of videos fail to play, but they worked on refresh so I assume that was unrelated.
  
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If a YouTube ad installs a virus on my system, can I sue YouTube?

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- I doubt viewing the ad on YouTube would give you a virus. You’d have to click on the ad, leave YouTube, and at that point google would wash their hands of it and say it’s your fault.
  
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  Google has literally deployed crypomining malware through adsence. They don't check ad code before deploying it.
  
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  If YouTube takes files from 3rd parties and simply displays them, then viruses are possible. This is more true of ads placed via ad-broker on other websites. To get ad revenue a webmaster provides a space where the ad is inserted. The ad is provided by a 3rd party who pays the ad broker for placement. Neither the webmaster nor the ad broker have any visibility into the content of the ad, which could even contain code (ads which move or present UI elements have code to make those things work)
  
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- YouTube is the virus
  
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- No, you cannot, because you're the one who chose to disable the adblockers that NIST and/or CISA (can't remember if it's both entities) highly encourage everyone to use.
  
  E: I reread it, and it sounds I'm being mean. I was, in fact, being facetious. I'm on the same mindset as you, and I will sooner not use YouTube than disable antiadware protection.
  
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  But I would not have disabled my ad blocker in other circumstances, but YouTube is forcing me to disable it against my better judgment to be able to use the site.
  
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- Sure! There's zero likelihood of this ever happening, but in the weird universe where it does you can probably sue them for coming around and shaving your dog too.
  
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Moving to Albania might solve the problem.

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i don't see why you wouldn't just get premium? it's probably one of the better streaming service platforms since i watch youtube and twitch more than i watch anything on peacock, paramount, etc plus it comes with youtube music

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- because fuck Google
  
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  yet you still want to use their services?
  
  -14
- Fuck off, Google.
  
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  yeah so much better to create 50 posts every day whining because google is stopping your adblocker /s
  
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- They don't deserve my money, they already harvest enough of my data.
  
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- “Why don’t you just bend over and take it!”
  
  No ma’am I don’t think I will. Interesting suggestion though.
  
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- In fact the ads are not really a big problem for me (if they're not too much present) but the trackers behind are much more, so what is the point of paying to have the same amount of trackers, most of the time I watch my YouTube creators on privacy focused solution or going to peertube for the rest
  
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- Dude, I have YouTube music and I literally am not able to change or upgrade to YouTube premium. They don't let me, it links me to a useless empty page with no options. I don't even know what the price is like. This whole subscription thing is a mess.
  
  I solved it by using YouTube revanced and have all premium functions and more. On desktop I wrote my own player. It's so much better because their website is a mess. At this point do I really want to pay for features I know I won't use?
  
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- lol
  
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- It's an unpopular opinion but I do agree with this. Google deserves to get a lot of shit for a lot of things, but even after how far downhill YouTube has gone it's still the best hosting/streaming service out there.
  
  Between podcasts at work and normal videos at home I probably watch more than 8hrs of YouTube a day with no issues. I may as well pay for it like I would Netflix, considering I get, like, 20x more out of it in comparison.
  
  If there was a non-enshittified alternative, though, I'd gladly pay for it.
  
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- Most importantly because I don't want to support that wholly unethical company that google is, and I think nobody else should. They already have plenty of money, which would be enough, if they wouldn't be a publicly traded company with endless thirst for more and more and more and more.
  
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- As much as it pains me to say it, I agree and am annoyed at the amount of "no, fuck Google" in response. I agree, fuck Google, but not because they're charging for a service so good that we all use it, fuck Google for its heavy user tracking of paying users. I understand it costs immensely to host the sheer amount of data that they do, and they still allow creators to have a portion of what's made from each video. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sticking to the man and all that, but to want a website that provides the same service without any costs involved is unreasonable. Peertube is the closest solution we see, and there are still costs involved for anyone hosting a server. I hate that YouTube is our only real option and I'd love something different, but they already have all of our content, and ultimately, they're fairly reasonable with their demands (pay for our service or watch our ads). The amount of user tracking they do is what's unacceptable to me, but that's across all of their products, and I would love to see some enforcement of minimum required data.
  
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