You know what's AMAZING? Listening to your favorite ASMR channel, you have your headphones on, you lie down to go to sleep, the audio is soothing you and you're right on the verge of falling asleep, and just before you enter dreamland, RUclips DECIDES IT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO SHOVE AN UNSKIPPABLE AND VERY LOUD AD IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR VERY QUIET VIDEO!! RUclips is rapidly making itself unusable without AdBlock installed.
Meanwhile, the FBI is actively telling people to use adblockers and that they're basically a necessity, and Google is apparently getting in the news (and presumably in legal trouble) for how malware ridden their advertisments are... and apparently the process of Detecting adblockers in order to block them might actually be breaking EU laws (or at least, it's close enough that people are filing official complaints with the relevant authorities on the basis that it appears to) because everything the adblocker does takes place Client Side, and thus is data that google isn't actually entitled to unless it is necessary to allow them to provide the service (note that this is not being used to provide the service, but to actively Deny it), or something like that.
I wouldn't be surprised if some ad detection takes in data of the client side, but that shouldn't be the only way to detect blockers. Also, in my understanding games like Valorant have been able to use anti-cheat that runs on the root level, which means Google "defending" its product through steps on the client side is actually relatively mild. If Google loses this add-blocker war we might see the kind of dystopian methods that video game studios have resorted to. Maybe Google will try to force free users to download a root-level watchdog, and/or lock down their API. I hope not, because it honestly won't take much for RUclips to decide that providing free content with ads to the broader world population doesn't make monetary sense, and then the poor boy in an Indian village trying to learn how to code or fix electrical hardware is out of luck.
What's really spiteful is when you're the guy who automates that process to make it so much easier for everybody else to do it. That's the real module for impact.
Actually, if you remember the days of broadcast TV, advertisements were never surprise pop-ups that happened at random. They always had fixed time slots and were in a fixed length block, usually either 3 or 5 minutes long. Many old TV shows were DESIGNED around this, so they'd have cliffhanger moments right where the ad break would be. Knowing there would be a break at the halfway point of an hour long show meant you could wait to use the bathroom or get another drink until then. It wasn't all bad. :) Contrast that with youtube that just shoves ads in wherever, and you see why people are so much more upset at it.
I stopped watching Twitch entirely because I was reliably getting pre-rolls and mid-stream ads every time I clicked on a channel regardless if they were partnered or not. I was down with Mixer because ads were streamer-controlled and integrated into the experience, but getting my interest in the streamer's content nuked by a 1-2 minute ad completely blocking the stream while the streamer is still talking/playing? Heck that.
People hated commercials back in the day too I remember friends & families complaining about them Regardless of time period, consumers generally hate ads/commercials
Some days in which I am specially spiteful for some reason, I take out my black list and I put the companies whose ads have pissed me off, to try to avoid them as much as possible. Like sometimes they are fine, and sometimes I have had a bad day, I am watching finally something that makes me happy, a small reprieve from the difficulties of life, and BAM, BUY THIS CANDY. WELL, FUCK YOUR CANDY.
Galaxius made a good video a couple of months ago called “The Cobra Effect” where he talks about the anti-adblocker policies and how they can hurt revenue in the long run. In it, he brings up how ads used to be more acceptable and even enjoyable, but have been getting more annoying and invasive to the point that people are getting fed up. Also how predatory a lot of new ads are (malware, scams, etc.)
I'm under the impression that any workaround you can find there is another guy willing to automate that process for normal people. I think it's gonna be a back and forth battle forever.
Only Alana can turn a 26 min reaction video into a 1h+ hour reaction video, shes such a gifted reaction reaction reaction reaction content reaction creator
@@SmugAlana here's hoping you wont learn the "attack communities that i dont agree with" part, the masterbaldman loves those, he can create content from the drama.
A huge part of how RUclips and Netflix got big enough to snowball into the major players they are was just How Bad the advertising situation had got on television (including cable television where you were Already paying a subscription fee) in the USA. People will tolerate a lot, but there are limits to how far you can push before they bail the moment a viable alternative appears (push a bit harder and they'll bail even Without one). Now, exactly where that point IS varies a lot, but it exists, and once you cross it, you generally will not Ever get those viewers/cusomters/whatever back.
I would say that a much bigger part of Netflix's and RUclips's success comes from how they beat out their competition and how they allowed their uses to pick the time and content of their use, which they won't lose with this move. The problems RUclips and Netflix currently face which drive them to uptick prices and crack down on "exploitive" users are quite different. Netflix is now having to compete with a host of other subscription platforms, not to mention RUclips which is drawing in more new users than all of them put together. RUclips has an immense number of users, but each one provides relatively little income, and a growing number of those users are using adblockers. They need this crackdown, or its users will rapidly switch to using more resources than they generate.
I hate that we can barely have a conversation about it online because so many people online think everyone spends every waking moment of their life online just because they do.
I honestly appreciate the General insurance’s game when it comes to ads, even if I still find most ads annoying. I recently ran into one that all it was is: “The General gives you a break when you need it! That’s why we’re giving you a break from this ad.” And the little avatar presses the skip button. 5 seconds flat, short sweet and to the point, I find nearly all ads absolutely annoying but I have to admit that got an appreciative chuckle out of me.
adblockers will work after 1 refresh AFTER the player stops working btw. Opera and Brave are fighting back though. Opera's built in adblock will block youtube intrusive ads, but not the front page ads.
Me and my sis got the same ad block on Opera and she said hers stopped working for a moment. Mine was so I also told her to retry some time later and it was back running. Safe to say I will just find another ad block that dodges youtubes net until they f*ck off or fix their intrusive maleware ads.
I remember the early commercial skipping VCRs when I was a kid, and then TIVO, cable with no commercials, then subscriptions to have no ads, now I have network wide adblocking. I'll spend the $10-20 to not have commercial interruptions. I don't particularly mind baked in ads or integrated sponsored content like internet historian or the cheesy LTT segways. I've also set up dozens of Pi-Holes or other VPN type tools for friends and family to cut out the overbearing ads. especially when the advertising online is so so spammy and prevalent that their aging PCs or phones can't handle it.
I think most people take for granted their knowledge of software. Most people that werent born with PCs on their homes turn into deers in headlights instantly when faced with a software problem. They just freeze, even when you try to explain. You gotta explain almost like a kindergardener to them and guide then through and practice many, many times . And they wont be able to get very far on their own even with tutorial videos.
not really, youtube is better for creators as it has the best discoverability and the vast majority of users just watches on their phones, which never really had an effective ad blocker. and the new platform would also need money (big surprise) so they would also eventually disable ad blockers. there's no other way of income for them to get as big as youtube, and if it's paid then it's the same as youtube premium. people are extremely stupid for coping about this, just give up or lose more time avoiding ads than simply watching them.
Goofd luck with that. RUclips is backed by Google. Both Google and RUclips come preinstalled in most smartphones. You cant compete with that. There is no way to have a challenge here. The monopoly they have is basically idiotproof. They cant fuck it up even if they tried.
if twitter can be run by an extremely incompetent idiot who has visibly been running the place to the ground can keep it afloat and decimate its better competitors, i highly doubt youtube...THE youtube, one of the biggest platforms on the internet besides google itself, has any chance of having any competitors come close to it, even in its current state. youtube could actively support hitler and have constant propaganda posted on ads, and it would probably STILL be too big to have any competitors come close to it, its just THAT big. the fact that youtube can casually decide one day to rival tiktok AND twitch like its a casual friday night should show you just how big youtube actually is.
14:20 according to another vtuber I know who used to work on giving aponsors to people and taking sponsorships, usually a sponsor will last anywhere between a month and 3 months, anything after that doesn't matter as the code expires and they son't get a cut anymore. So basically only watch the high effort ads where the people doing them put some effort
If they would limit ads to 1 ad at the start of the video, I'd be inclined to turn off adblock. The reason I stopped watching TV is because there were just too many ads. It was like 40% ads 60% show. That's such a waste of my attention. If the ad is like less than 3% of the total runtime of the video, I'm okay with that. Any more though, and I start to get annoyed.
RUclips needs to meet people in the middle. The reason why people use adblock is because the ads are way too invasive and/or straight up scams or spyware. It was never possible to block live tv ads. No idea what crack you're on to think that was ever a thing. You might be thinking of DVR that would automatically skip ads on playback.
You forgot to mention if they aren't scams or spyware it's just straight up porn. If I had a penny for everytime I was flashed furry boobs in my face i'd have a dollars worth by now.
TV ads or cable had standard for ads and work with community of what town or cities is being shown, RUclips takes whatever payment for scummy ads to show it to whoever vs tv/cable ads which follow a rule set.
@@44.caliberbrainsurgery63yeah, that shit is wild. I listen to RUclips vids while I'm at work and many times I'd autoplay into another vid and 5 mins into it I'd be like "wtf is this video?" When I look, it's some hour plus ad playing as a pre roll. Those just plain should not exist.
Idk what it is exactly, but you're by my favorite Vtuber by now. Maybe it's the ice-fox avatar, maybe the general attitude, but it just feels nice to listen to you.
for tv ads people just got into the habbit of leaving the room or doing something else whenever the tv ads appeared. so no i don't think the tv ads really work well either.
A guy named Kaiffu on Twitch and RUclips left Twitch because of how intrusive the ads on Twitch are. People were still getting ads in between the times when he and the boys would take breaks and run midrolls. His vids and vids are 3-4 hours so an ad every now and than isn’t that bad. But seeing 20 different ads in the first 10 minutes of an hour long vid is god dame annoying. And 100% RUclips shoving in more ads to make more money.
reseting your cache/history/cookies will make it so you can use adblockers again (for the most part), and also having multiple adblock extensions will make it so that the adblockers who are blocked or not working, you just turn of to be able to skip ads again
Asmongold forgets there are browsers that dedicate themselves to blocking ads. Thats why adblock isnt getting used. People will almost always switch to a better means.
35:45 it is not that people are stupid. My father is a surgeon, he has been a surgeon for 40 years, and when I was a child I had to teach him how to double click with the mouse (without destroying the mouse) and how to copy and paste. My father is not stupid. In fact, he is probably smarter than 99% of y'all, and than me. But different people have different sets of skills. Some people know the name of the facial nerves in order and some people know the lines of the DOOM code in order.
Streamers are always so out of touch in the ad/piracy conversation. Months later and every time youtube tries to refresh this update again and it always gets patched in less than an hour. They will always lose because they are a giant moving corpo machine with all the bureaucracy that comes with. Open source can just freely move and change as needed to run circles around them. It's the classic str vs dex argument, str wins in one hit, but can never land a hit on dex.
6:44 this has happened to me, on my phone, on pc and on my tv, sitting watching a Afrikaans show, a show with zulu/xhosa or English and suddenly a german ebay ad pops up, hell even the RUclips surveys are in german, despite the fact i don't speak german, don't watch or follow any German speaking streamers, video creators and the sole exception to that only streams in English for his American audience and yet ads are in German. Also I have gotten the ad blockers are not allowed on RUclips despite not using one, that was like a few days ago and was the last time something English popped up from RUclips.
@M-und-M no, all ads previously was usually English and related to what I looked up, now they are in German and are mostly eBay ads and other German company's, hell even got one add for a vet clinic Berlin.
@M-und-M The distinction is that Usually, such adds are for things you can Actually Buy/pay to access where you are, even if you're buying From an American company. Because getting you to pay for the advertised thing is the entire point in the advertisment. A vet in Berlin isn't going to get any money from advertising to some random in South Africa (or there-abouts), so as annoying as that is to the end user, RUclips is also screwing over the Advertiser in that context.
Steps for If this too obnoxious: 1. Bookmark literally and youtube to mp4 converter site. 2. Make a Temp Folder somewhere 3. Open youtube, start queueing vids you wanna watch going for shortest to longest With my download speed of 90MPBS, I can download anything under 10 minutes long at 1080p in less time than 2 full ads loading and playing. A matter of seconds. 4. By the time you're done with the first vid, at least a few of the others should be done or near done, unless all you watch are Hours-long video essays.
Hey RUclips, let's make a deal - you don't weasel out of paying your creators so often and I'll stop blocking your ads. Seriously, direct Donations and stuff really seem like the only way to support creators sometimes because it feels like you can never be sure if they're actually getting paid ad revenue due to demonitization and stuff. I'd also be willing to settle for "Actually take ad revenue away from creators that actively break your terms of service instead of from those that say bad nono words" Edit: Some wording and spelling
well, that and start actually vetting the advertisments for malware and blatent scams. Preferably limit the add lengths to something sane (at least relative to the video they're on) too.
@@laurencefraser I don't think youtube really has an incentive to scan for scam ads. They have a report function so I'm guessing they can claim plausible deniability or something. I don't even mind them as long as the money goes to the right people, but more often than not it doesn't. Another thing for me personally is that I wanna be able to check out stuff from people I don't wanna support to get their side on issues and of course for that adblock is fantastic. The click alone is of course still helpful for them but at least that way they're not getting ad revenue from me.
I use to watch a lot of twitch, when ad block stopped working on twitch I just stoped watching twitch. Sure people do deal with it, but there are people who will just drop the media.
it will end up happening is normies end up deciding what subscriptions they are willing to keep and whether or not youtube is one of the keepers...everyone has their limit or price point and some just don't wanna pay and will watch ads
All of this happens by javascript that's run on the client side. The player and surrounding code are basically checking to see if you've blocked things that an ad-blocker would block and then refusing to play. So far, you can still work around it, as there's still a standard used for the actual streaming video part..... I expect youtube to switch to their own custom streaming protocol that only works with their own player software, so you can't just download things either.
The reality of this is, it's going to actually hurt content creators and they're going ro turn ads off entirely and switch to patron type platforms. With more ads, unskippable ads and longer ads. People will watch less and less. This won't motivate people to buy premium. This will spawn a competitor. Will they take over? Probably not. But competition is what we need.
It's crazy to me that people are so isolated in their little bubbles and don't interact with people outside of it. If you think people are smart enough to download an adblocker and add script to it, you have no idea how fucking stupid the average person is when it comes to tech.
Those people who say its very easy cause they have more knowledge on programming or whatever web extension uses, it is like telling everyone "Financial reports are not that hard to understand and calculate all those figures, you just need to follow the standard, can finish it in no time."
I don’t simply because then I’m giving money to the company that’s having all this scummy ad policies, plus I just don’t have the budget for it (yes, I don’t have the budget to pay nearly $20 just to not have ads on RUclips on my phone)
Years ago I found out that RUclips pulls information from Google searches to tailor your ads. I was searching up a lot of stuff about autoimmune disorders when I was first diagnosed, and RUclips started giving me nothing but ads for AIDS because apparently it didn't know the difference between the two.
Content creators were just coping when they thought RUclips would win the Adblock war, RUclips lost hard, daily views for the whole website are down and data shows more people are now using adblock then before this whole thing started.
yes, it's very true, a lot more people now a days are way more tech savvy, for real... it's not like the first thing tech support asks is if your screen is turned on or not... truly tech savvy... -.-
(obviously that was sarcasm) even in my house, my brother who is around 5 years older than me, breaks every piece of tech he owns at least every year, he somehow broke a PC screen in the same way 3 times and counting, one of which wasn't even his. my mother learned how to use a pc way better then all the others, yet she doesn't even know the difference between Wi-Fi and mobile data... and my father... my god... he closes every single tab in the browser when he want to either refresh the page or bloody go back to the last one... as if the go back and refresh buttons don't even exist. (even if he would need to log in with 2 factor, every. single. time...)
man, time sure changes people. trough this channel i have learned that asmon is actual content creator nowdays. i remember back in the days when most of this guy was just compilations of his 'Tism strokes when some one had wow mount he didnt have.
So far, I'm still ad-free (as in actually no ads come up, even on Twitch, free adblock still even, been years since I've had an ad on my browsers). The only ads I watch... are Internet Historian's ads because they're great.
9:25 You know... She has a point. The only good Ads are the ones that give you a heads up that they are coming so you aren't instantly taken out of whatever video you were enjoying a second ago. Still not better than no interruptions at all but better than everything youtube has done.
I don't remember the last time I ever watched a commercial in the middle of a play off, you're wrong commercial breaks happen during dedicated times of the game when nothing is happening
My brother in christ They call TV timeouts during DEAD BALL situations not in the middle of a play... You ever see Tom Brady in the middle of a drop back and get an Ad before throwing? You ever seen LeBron on a fast break getting ready to get a chase down block but nah you see an AD instead...
shows my age but that was a change made. they make time between plays now. theres countless times my father missed plays and i heard about it from across the house when it happened. i dont watch idc to but the way my father lost his mind at missing plays due to commercials left an impression. wanna act like all stuck up go for it. i simply made a joke and got called out like i called someone out.@@SmugAlana
I dont think ive ever used an ad blocker on youtube. Most of the time i have vids playing as background noise whilst gaming and just let the ads play....
It's so funny hearing the ultra tech savvy Alana chatters trying to argue, "It's just a couple of lines of code." As someone who briefly worked as IT for a video game company, a place filled with people supposedly computer literate, you would be surprised by how many people can barely even turn on their PC.
On youtube, waiting for a premier of a music video that was less than five minutes long, I have (in the past) got a preroll advertisment that was 10-20 minutes long, that started a couple of minutes before the premier time. ... ... yeah. And, of course, I was doing other things waiting for the countdown to kick in so I didn't immediately hit the skip button. I only noticed what was happening when I looked over and saw comments about the video ENDING when it hadn't even started yet on my machine.
Yeah, Alana is right. I looked thru my add-ons and one of them had an ad blocker built in, so I killed it. Now I don't get the slightly annoying pop up, but I have started to get the thing that goes "Try RUclips Premium", which is not going to happen, not at $14 a month (Australian)
It's been in the works for awhile.Alot of browsers that had plug ins for ad block were Chromium in nature. And considering Google's main business is selling advertising and data and that they obviously are the ones behind chrome they were able to disproportionately sway the browser/ad block market. On top of this, they basically held secured signatures (for website safety verification) hostage. Put another way, if you refused their rules your website gets removed from Googles search results- a death sentence given the vast majority of Web traffic passes through their websites or search engines. There will be no avoiding this new ad thing. And on top of the steady nudging of Google/youtube content to becoming more safe/ advertiser friendly what will eventually happen is the vast majority of the Internet will fall to Googles sanitised and tamed vision for the Internet. This naturally extends to RUclips, which will become like the Cabel networks of 10-20 years ago; only safe TV style videos get promoted, nothing edgy, nothing interesting......just nice tame TV style content- with plenty of advertising.
I started going on an Alana binge, then find this video and it makes me realize how dumb I am. Alana talks about how she would pirate, and it made me realize that I can barely use my phone, computer, and consoles.
You have 4 options. Continue and get screwed, ignore the ads, buy premium, or buy or get gifted a sub to a streamer, like Alana and just parasocially watch through them
24:40 Yes. It was a sales feature for a bit. ....Cable company. ...Cable company was Viacom. [business insides here] ....Turned into Time Warner. Time Warner is {who} now.
Piracy is moderately difficult with major inconvieniences, files are missing sometimes you cant use apps that require a sign in, its risky, you can't use coop in games, you can pirate but it aint gonna be simple. About the adblockers being progressively banned on youtube, you setting up a vpn or changing domains or shit just makes it so that the website that run the adds played you, instead of waiting for 15 secs you wast 2-3 hours of your life. with vpn too the law from some countries can ban you, the connection speed is slower, vpn usage can be blocked by the specific sites, domain changes can be scuffed it doesnt even fucking work on youtube cause they use specific servers.
I watch youtube on my TV, so i have no choice but watch ads. They are annoying for the most part, when you get ad every 4 mins, or if you go take a shower, se up some music to play, and as soon as you get in, you get fking Raid Shadow legends ad lol I was even considering buying Premium, but dang it... 15$ just not to see ads... is A LOT Edit: Just noticed how in 20 min video i had 2 ads at 12min and 16min. So, ads are placed in "Most watched" place of the video... Totally Destroying the moment. Fking hate that shit
RUclips Enhancer. It doesn't block ads (you have to disable that feature to make RUclips work if they've decided to troll you like they trolled me), but it adds a "skip ads" button on the control bar that you can link to a keyboard shortcut. Absolute fucking life saver. Also, I've adopted the policy of never consuming anything that RUclips tries to advertise me. Doesn't do shit to this hellsite's bottom line probably, but it makes me feel better.
When I was a kid in Virginia it was so long ago that we didn't even have cable. I got all of my chores done every day during commercials. This was after we invented dirt. We had white hat hackers up to thirty years ago but only financial companies used them at first. Ads aren't why we gave up cable. We quit because they only wanted to sell us packages that had a lot of sports for a lot of money. We don't watch sportsball. BTW- I'm stupid about almost everything so...
I'm a programmer but when I block ads it's not about being tech savvy it's about how stubborn you are. I never wrote a line of code to block anything. I know people aren't going to do it.
I wouldn’t have a problem with ads if the RUclips people I watch didn’t have their content demonetized and yet still end up getting ads on the video….. and if the ads were so intrusive and obnoxious
As someone that easily learns techy shit, I don't work around ad-block-blocking. Why? Because I'm too lazy. When I want to sit and watch a stream or video, I'm just trying to relax and get away from work, and I'm not going to go out of my way to remove a couple 15 second ads.
I found Alana's video a little bit ago and I don't use an ad blocker I just use Vance RUclips, newpipe, or libretube on my phone or just invidious on pc which is more or less like youtube but it doesn't save watch history.
Yes we hate ads, but we always hated ads and had to suffer through them in the TV age. We couldnt skip them and all other channels had ads at the same time.
As an IT worker I can confirm most people are definitely not tech savvy. The younger (i.e gen z's) are almost as bad as the boomers for tech illiteracy, as they've been brought up in walled garden mobile OS's
Alana, Cable was initially supposed to be Ad Free, you were paying for the service to have ALL the content with no ad interuptions. Then they get market saturation and need ads. So Streaming Services rise up, and some are still ad free on your purchase.
Laziness will always choose losing 5 mins on an ad break, over losing 45 mins to trying to learn about or apply a fix even if in the long term it saves them hours before they shift the code and a new fix is needed And rhats making he huge assumption they can understand the fix instructions. Most people really dont know what theyre doing with tech
The thing about the ublock or brave blocking assets is that you can block the pop up, you can block the screen dim overlay, but you cant easily stop the video from pausing which becomes an indicator that you got the pop up prompt, nor will you be able to scroll to the comments until you 'close the popup'. You might be able to dig into the source code in order to add them to the filter, but really how much effort are you willing to put into it when the add is only around 15s long.
From you earlier reply to my comment to this video, you appear to be a vtuber version of asmon. I'm subbed now and I'm here forever. Edit: premium is $14 now!! I'm a beta user so I get a discount, but even I thought $11 was a lot.
I've personally never used and ad blocker for the longest time I just sat through the ads and honestly never had an issue with them. I can understand why people want to avoid them they can be annoying no doubt. I've just started to using yt premium though that's mainly for the downloadable videos but I can say I now do understand how nice it is having no ads.
Look, I respect your decision, but honestly after i pay my rent/electric/water, car insurance, phone bill, for my internet, then my respective gaming console(s) online subscription, and my X number of tv streaming services like netflix or hulu, I'm gonna stick to my adblockers like uMatrix and a video downloader. I don't mean that in an angry or offended way, I'm just still mad when sony quietly slipped in paid online service when they released the ps4.
@@Jakaze_ that's completely understandable my intention wasn't to advocate for yt premium especially as the price is quite steep if you only want it for the no ads.
@@littleboxes9662 I feel you boss, I remember there was once a time I would just buy a thing instead of trying to find a workaround. But nowadays it feels like I'm getting nickel and dimed by every little thing I wanna do. To each their own
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You know what's AMAZING? Listening to your favorite ASMR channel, you have your headphones on, you lie down to go to sleep, the audio is soothing you and you're right on the verge of falling asleep, and just before you enter dreamland, RUclips DECIDES IT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO SHOVE AN UNSKIPPABLE AND VERY LOUD AD IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR VERY QUIET VIDEO!!
RUclips is rapidly making itself unusable without AdBlock installed.
Meanwhile, the FBI is actively telling people to use adblockers and that they're basically a necessity, and Google is apparently getting in the news (and presumably in legal trouble) for how malware ridden their advertisments are... and apparently the process of Detecting adblockers in order to block them might actually be breaking EU laws (or at least, it's close enough that people are filing official complaints with the relevant authorities on the basis that it appears to) because everything the adblocker does takes place Client Side, and thus is data that google isn't actually entitled to unless it is necessary to allow them to provide the service (note that this is not being used to provide the service, but to actively Deny it), or something like that.
I wouldn't be surprised if some ad detection takes in data of the client side, but that shouldn't be the only way to detect blockers. Also, in my understanding games like Valorant have been able to use anti-cheat that runs on the root level, which means Google "defending" its product through steps on the client side is actually relatively mild. If Google loses this add-blocker war we might see the kind of dystopian methods that video game studios have resorted to. Maybe Google will try to force free users to download a root-level watchdog, and/or lock down their API. I hope not, because it honestly won't take much for RUclips to decide that providing free content with ads to the broader world population doesn't make monetary sense, and then the poor boy in an Indian village trying to learn how to code or fix electrical hardware is out of luck.
Never forget Google, the people who own RUclips, removing "don't do evil" or whatever their motto was from y'know... their motto.
@@JetBalrog indeed
RUclips underestimates me. I will run through hundreds of scripts if I have to in order to block ads. Because yes, I am that petty and spiteful.
just like me fr
What's really spiteful is when you're the guy who automates that process to make it so much easier for everybody else to do it. That's the real module for impact.
Actually, if you remember the days of broadcast TV, advertisements were never surprise pop-ups that happened at random. They always had fixed time slots and were in a fixed length block, usually either 3 or 5 minutes long. Many old TV shows were DESIGNED around this, so they'd have cliffhanger moments right where the ad break would be. Knowing there would be a break at the halfway point of an hour long show meant you could wait to use the bathroom or get another drink until then. It wasn't all bad. :)
Contrast that with youtube that just shoves ads in wherever, and you see why people are so much more upset at it.
She's also full of shit that there were "tv adblockers". Nobody watched ads 25 years ago either, we got up to take a piss. Ads lost.
For example, the mid episode credits of One Piece. Because One Piece was a show for TV, not for the internet or dvd.
I stopped watching Twitch entirely because I was reliably getting pre-rolls and mid-stream ads every time I clicked on a channel regardless if they were partnered or not. I was down with Mixer because ads were streamer-controlled and integrated into the experience, but getting my interest in the streamer's content nuked by a 1-2 minute ad completely blocking the stream while the streamer is still talking/playing? Heck that.
People hated commercials back in the day too
I remember friends & families complaining about them
Regardless of time period, consumers generally hate ads/commercials
Some days in which I am specially spiteful for some reason, I take out my black list and I put the companies whose ads have pissed me off, to try to avoid them as much as possible. Like sometimes they are fine, and sometimes I have had a bad day, I am watching finally something that makes me happy, a small reprieve from the difficulties of life, and BAM, BUY THIS CANDY. WELL, FUCK YOUR CANDY.
Galaxius made a good video a couple of months ago called “The Cobra Effect” where he talks about the anti-adblocker policies and how they can hurt revenue in the long run.
In it, he brings up how ads used to be more acceptable and even enjoyable, but have been getting more annoying and invasive to the point that people are getting fed up. Also how predatory a lot of new ads are (malware, scams, etc.)
I didn't care about getting ads until I started getting hour long ones while listening to music.
I'm under the impression that any workaround you can find there is another guy willing to automate that process for normal people.
I think it's gonna be a back and forth battle forever.
Only Alana can turn a 26 min reaction video into a 1h+ hour reaction video, shes such a gifted reaction reaction reaction reaction content reaction creator
asmon can turn a bunch of tweets into a 26min reaction video, besides that time he turned a 1 min clip into more than an hour of video.
I learned from the masterbaldman
@@SmugAlanasoon enough you will reveal a bald model, and we cannot wait!
Well... I'm guessing you haven't seen EFAP yet. those guys will turn a 15 minute video into a 6+ hour discussion.
@@SmugAlana here's hoping you wont learn the "attack communities that i dont agree with" part, the masterbaldman loves those, he can create content from the drama.
32:42 imagine getting called lazy by a dude whose room is a massive mess and can't clean it up
ReVanced self patched on your phone does miracles, takes 20 mins to set up at most, not 1 ad ever again.
A huge part of how RUclips and Netflix got big enough to snowball into the major players they are was just How Bad the advertising situation had got on television (including cable television where you were Already paying a subscription fee) in the USA. People will tolerate a lot, but there are limits to how far you can push before they bail the moment a viable alternative appears (push a bit harder and they'll bail even Without one). Now, exactly where that point IS varies a lot, but it exists, and once you cross it, you generally will not Ever get those viewers/cusomters/whatever back.
I would say that a much bigger part of Netflix's and RUclips's success comes from how they beat out their competition and how they allowed their uses to pick the time and content of their use, which they won't lose with this move. The problems RUclips and Netflix currently face which drive them to uptick prices and crack down on "exploitive" users are quite different. Netflix is now having to compete with a host of other subscription platforms, not to mention RUclips which is drawing in more new users than all of them put together. RUclips has an immense number of users, but each one provides relatively little income, and a growing number of those users are using adblockers. They need this crackdown, or its users will rapidly switch to using more resources than they generate.
I hate that we can barely have a conversation about it online because so many people online think everyone spends every waking moment of their life online just because they do.
I honestly appreciate the General insurance’s game when it comes to ads, even if I still find most ads annoying. I recently ran into one that all it was is: “The General gives you a break when you need it! That’s why we’re giving you a break from this ad.” And the little avatar presses the skip button.
5 seconds flat, short sweet and to the point, I find nearly all ads absolutely annoying but I have to admit that got an appreciative chuckle out of me.
adblockers will work after 1 refresh AFTER the player stops working btw. Opera and Brave are fighting back though. Opera's built in adblock will block youtube intrusive ads, but not the front page ads.
I use opera GX and mine stopped blocking last night, they said they're working on it constantly so idk
feels like it's hit or miss
@@bruisedvein meanwhile, here I am with my many Chrome tabs video player blocked, still watching videos on Opera while logged in. lul
Me and my sis got the same ad block on Opera and she said hers stopped working for a moment. Mine was so I also told her to retry some time later and it was back running. Safe to say I will just find another ad block that dodges youtubes net until they f*ck off or fix their intrusive maleware ads.
no problems here with waterfox addblocker o: ....
@@bruisedvein I'm using opera gx and mines running smoothly
I remember the early commercial skipping VCRs when I was a kid, and then TIVO, cable with no commercials, then subscriptions to have no ads, now I have network wide adblocking.
I'll spend the $10-20 to not have commercial interruptions. I don't particularly mind baked in ads or integrated sponsored content like internet historian or the cheesy LTT segways.
I've also set up dozens of Pi-Holes or other VPN type tools for friends and family to cut out the overbearing ads. especially when the advertising online is so so spammy and prevalent that their aging PCs or phones can't handle it.
I think most people take for granted their knowledge of software. Most people that werent born with PCs on their homes turn into deers in headlights instantly when faced with a software problem. They just freeze, even when you try to explain. You gotta explain almost like a kindergardener to them and guide then through and practice many, many times . And they wont be able to get very far on their own even with tutorial videos.
This is a golden opportunity for another platform to contest youtube
not really, youtube is better for creators as it has the best discoverability and the vast majority of users just watches on their phones, which never really had an effective ad blocker. and the new platform would also need money (big surprise) so they would also eventually disable ad blockers. there's no other way of income for them to get as big as youtube, and if it's paid then it's the same as youtube premium. people are extremely stupid for coping about this, just give up or lose more time avoiding ads than simply watching them.
Goofd luck with that. RUclips is backed by Google. Both Google and RUclips come preinstalled in most smartphones. You cant compete with that. There is no way to have a challenge here. The monopoly they have is basically idiotproof. They cant fuck it up even if they tried.
Yeaaaaah. I wish them luck cause it sure ain’t happening anytime soon.
if twitter can be run by an extremely incompetent idiot who has visibly been running the place to the ground can keep it afloat and decimate its better competitors, i highly doubt youtube...THE youtube, one of the biggest platforms on the internet besides google itself, has any chance of having any competitors come close to it, even in its current state.
youtube could actively support hitler and have constant propaganda posted on ads, and it would probably STILL be too big to have any competitors come close to it, its just THAT big. the fact that youtube can casually decide one day to rival tiktok AND twitch like its a casual friday night should show you just how big youtube actually is.
Ya man how's vimeo doing?
14:20 according to another vtuber I know who used to work on giving aponsors to people and taking sponsorships, usually a sponsor will last anywhere between a month and 3 months, anything after that doesn't matter as the code expires and they son't get a cut anymore. So basically only watch the high effort ads where the people doing them put some effort
If they would limit ads to 1 ad at the start of the video, I'd be inclined to turn off adblock. The reason I stopped watching TV is because there were just too many ads. It was like 40% ads 60% show. That's such a waste of my attention. If the ad is like less than 3% of the total runtime of the video, I'm okay with that. Any more though, and I start to get annoyed.
adds that are longer than the video (especially when they kick in during the countdown for a premier) are also terrible.
RUclips needs to meet people in the middle. The reason why people use adblock is because the ads are way too invasive and/or straight up scams or spyware.
It was never possible to block live tv ads. No idea what crack you're on to think that was ever a thing. You might be thinking of DVR that would automatically skip ads on playback.
You forgot to mention if they aren't scams or spyware it's just straight up porn. If I had a penny for everytime I was flashed furry boobs in my face i'd have a dollars worth by now.
the only middle google wants is the middle of the crack of people's butt
TV ads or cable had standard for ads and work with community of what town or cities is being shown, RUclips takes whatever payment for scummy ads to show it to whoever vs tv/cable ads which follow a rule set.
I love getting slapped by ads that are straight up a full 3 hour length video. They can seriously crawl into a hole and rot for eternity.
@@44.caliberbrainsurgery63yeah, that shit is wild. I listen to RUclips vids while I'm at work and many times I'd autoplay into another vid and 5 mins into it I'd be like "wtf is this video?" When I look, it's some hour plus ad playing as a pre roll. Those just plain should not exist.
I remember cable. I used to channel surf during ads.
Idk what it is exactly, but you're by my favorite Vtuber by now. Maybe it's the ice-fox avatar, maybe the general attitude, but it just feels nice to listen to you.
for tv ads people just got into the habbit of leaving the room or doing something else whenever the tv ads appeared. so no i don't think the tv ads really work well either.
A guy named Kaiffu on Twitch and RUclips left Twitch because of how intrusive the ads on Twitch are. People were still getting ads in between the times when he and the boys would take breaks and run midrolls. His vids and vids are 3-4 hours so an ad every now and than isn’t that bad. But seeing 20 different ads in the first 10 minutes of an hour long vid is god dame annoying. And 100% RUclips shoving in more ads to make more money.
reseting your cache/history/cookies will make it so you can use adblockers again (for the most part), and also having multiple adblock extensions will make it so that the adblockers who are blocked or not working, you just turn of to be able to skip ads again
Asmongold forgets there are browsers that dedicate themselves to blocking ads. Thats why adblock isnt getting used. People will almost always switch to a better means.
M I the only one that press "F5" to refresh / close and open again to watch a video/song when an ADD pops up?
I just realized ive been watching this for an hour almost need more alana videos lol
There are ways to add lists to your adblockers that stop the ads before a website can even see that you're using an adblocker.
when i get twitch ads in the middle of the stream i usually end up leaving since i ended up missing an important part of the stream.
Dang the amount of long comments really shows how much people don't like ad block
35:45 it is not that people are stupid. My father is a surgeon, he has been a surgeon for 40 years, and when I was a child I had to teach him how to double click with the mouse (without destroying the mouse) and how to copy and paste. My father is not stupid. In fact, he is probably smarter than 99% of y'all, and than me.
But different people have different sets of skills. Some people know the name of the facial nerves in order and some people know the lines of the DOOM code in order.
Streamers are always so out of touch in the ad/piracy conversation. Months later and every time youtube tries to refresh this update again and it always gets patched in less than an hour. They will always lose because they are a giant moving corpo machine with all the bureaucracy that comes with. Open source can just freely move and change as needed to run circles around them. It's the classic str vs dex argument, str wins in one hit, but can never land a hit on dex.
6:44 this has happened to me, on my phone, on pc and on my tv, sitting watching a Afrikaans show, a show with zulu/xhosa or English and suddenly a german ebay ad pops up, hell even the RUclips surveys are in german, despite the fact i don't speak german, don't watch or follow any German speaking streamers, video creators and the sole exception to that only streams in English for his American audience and yet ads are in German. Also I have gotten the ad blockers are not allowed on RUclips despite not using one, that was like a few days ago and was the last time something English popped up from RUclips.
@M-und-M no, all ads previously was usually English and related to what I looked up, now they are in German and are mostly eBay ads and other German company's, hell even got one add for a vet clinic Berlin.
@M-und-M Who cares about Germ-a-many or their ads
@M-und-M The distinction is that Usually, such adds are for things you can Actually Buy/pay to access where you are, even if you're buying From an American company. Because getting you to pay for the advertised thing is the entire point in the advertisment. A vet in Berlin isn't going to get any money from advertising to some random in South Africa (or there-abouts), so as annoying as that is to the end user, RUclips is also screwing over the Advertiser in that context.
Steps for If this too obnoxious:
1. Bookmark literally and youtube to mp4 converter site.
2. Make a Temp Folder somewhere
3. Open youtube, start queueing vids you wanna watch going for shortest to longest
With my download speed of 90MPBS, I can download anything under 10 minutes long at 1080p in less time than 2 full ads loading and playing. A matter of seconds.
4. By the time you're done with the first vid, at least a few of the others should be done or near done, unless all you watch are Hours-long video essays.
Hey RUclips, let's make a deal - you don't weasel out of paying your creators so often and I'll stop blocking your ads. Seriously, direct Donations and stuff really seem like the only way to support creators sometimes because it feels like you can never be sure if they're actually getting paid ad revenue due to demonitization and stuff.
I'd also be willing to settle for "Actually take ad revenue away from creators that actively break your terms of service instead of from those that say bad nono words"
Edit: Some wording and spelling
well, that and start actually vetting the advertisments for malware and blatent scams. Preferably limit the add lengths to something sane (at least relative to the video they're on) too.
@@laurencefraser I don't think youtube really has an incentive to scan for scam ads. They have a report function so I'm guessing they can claim plausible deniability or something.
I don't even mind them as long as the money goes to the right people, but more often than not it doesn't.
Another thing for me personally is that I wanna be able to check out stuff from people I don't wanna support to get their side on issues and of course for that adblock is fantastic. The click alone is of course still helpful for them but at least that way they're not getting ad revenue from me.
I use to watch a lot of twitch, when ad block stopped working on twitch I just stoped watching twitch. Sure people do deal with it, but there are people who will just drop the media.
I never got the pop-up you could click away from, one day I could watch videos with adblocker on and the next every video was replaced by that text
it will end up happening is normies end up deciding what subscriptions they are willing to keep and whether or not youtube is one of the keepers...everyone has their limit or price point and some just don't wanna pay and will watch ads
All of this happens by javascript that's run on the client side. The player and surrounding code are basically checking to see if you've blocked things that an ad-blocker would block and then refusing to play. So far, you can still work around it, as there's still a standard used for the actual streaming video part..... I expect youtube to switch to their own custom streaming protocol that only works with their own player software, so you can't just download things either.
Azure and skidrow was practically a second home growing up poor in the 2000s. God I'm old.
The reality of this is, it's going to actually hurt content creators and they're going ro turn ads off entirely and switch to patron type platforms. With more ads, unskippable ads and longer ads. People will watch less and less. This won't motivate people to buy premium. This will spawn a competitor. Will they take over? Probably not. But competition is what we need.
I just don't like my videos being interrupted. If i could just play 5min straight of adds and be clear of them for the next few hours, i wouldn't mind
It's crazy to me that people are so isolated in their little bubbles and don't interact with people outside of it.
If you think people are smart enough to download an adblocker and add script to it, you have no idea how fucking stupid the average person is when it comes to tech.
my adblock works and i didn't have to add anything to it
Those people who say its very easy cause they have more knowledge on programming or whatever web extension uses, it is like telling everyone "Financial reports are not that hard to understand and calculate all those figures, you just need to follow the standard, can finish it in no time."
Only psychopaths didn't mute the cable commercials lol
I just use youtube premium dont even have to think about it anymore
I don’t simply because then I’m giving money to the company that’s having all this scummy ad policies, plus I just don’t have the budget for it (yes, I don’t have the budget to pay nearly $20 just to not have ads on RUclips on my phone)
Years ago I found out that RUclips pulls information from Google searches to tailor your ads. I was searching up a lot of stuff about autoimmune disorders when I was first diagnosed, and RUclips started giving me nothing but ads for AIDS because apparently it didn't know the difference between the two.
That sounds funny and annoying.
I don’t know what the frick I’ve been searching for, but I keep getting ads for period pads and tampons. *I’m not biologically a girl*.
I work in IT tech support for a college. There are plenty of 18 year old's who are general users. 18 year old's now grew up with phones and tablets.
Watching this video 6 months later is really funny with adblock still working.
Well two weeks after this upload I tested out a bunch of adblockers and now they work again. Can anyone explain that to me?
Content creators were just coping when they thought RUclips would win the Adblock war, RUclips lost hard, daily views for the whole website are down and data shows more people are now using adblock then before this whole thing started.
@@MrHellknightimp have you noticed RUclips try to glitch a ad in? A yellow bar would appear first and then the video would play..
ublock can block youtube videos again. The attempted ad-valanche has been avoided.
yes, it's very true, a lot more people now a days are way more tech savvy, for real... it's not like the first thing tech support asks is if your screen is turned on or not... truly tech savvy... -.-
(obviously that was sarcasm)
even in my house, my brother who is around 5 years older than me, breaks every piece of tech he owns at least every year, he somehow broke a PC screen in the same way 3 times and counting, one of which wasn't even his.
my mother learned how to use a pc way better then all the others, yet she doesn't even know the difference between Wi-Fi and mobile data...
and my father... my god... he closes every single tab in the browser when he want to either refresh the page or bloody go back to the last one... as if the go back and refresh buttons don't even exist. (even if he would need to log in with 2 factor, every. single. time...)
man, time sure changes people.
trough this channel i have learned that asmon is actual content creator nowdays.
i remember back in the days when most of this guy was just compilations of his 'Tism strokes when some one had wow mount he didnt have.
So far, I'm still ad-free (as in actually no ads come up, even on Twitch, free adblock still even, been years since I've had an ad on my browsers). The only ads I watch... are Internet Historian's ads because they're great.
9:25 You know... She has a point. The only good Ads are the ones that give you a heads up that they are coming so you aren't instantly taken out of whatever video you were enjoying a second ago. Still not better than no interruptions at all but better than everything youtube has done.
"commercials didnt happen during content." every single sports fan just lost their minds LOL
I don't remember the last time I ever watched a commercial in the middle of a play off, you're wrong
commercial breaks happen during dedicated times of the game when nothing is happening
Not just sports, but movies too. Some channels roll in ads in the middle of sentences.
My brother in christ They call TV timeouts during DEAD BALL situations not in the middle of a play... You ever see Tom Brady in the middle of a drop back and get an Ad before throwing? You ever seen LeBron on a fast break getting ready to get a chase down block but nah you see an AD instead...
shows my age but that was a change made. they make time between plays now. theres countless times my father missed plays and i heard about it from across the house when it happened. i dont watch idc to but the way my father lost his mind at missing plays due to commercials left an impression. wanna act like all stuck up go for it. i simply made a joke and got called out like i called someone out.@@SmugAlana
I dont think ive ever used an ad blocker on youtube. Most of the time i have vids playing as background noise whilst gaming and just let the ads play....
It's so funny hearing the ultra tech savvy Alana chatters trying to argue, "It's just a couple of lines of code." As someone who briefly worked as IT for a video game company, a place filled with people supposedly computer literate, you would be surprised by how many people can barely even turn on their PC.
On youtube, waiting for a premier of a music video that was less than five minutes long, I have (in the past) got a preroll advertisment that was 10-20 minutes long, that started a couple of minutes before the premier time. ... ... yeah. And, of course, I was doing other things waiting for the countdown to kick in so I didn't immediately hit the skip button. I only noticed what was happening when I looked over and saw comments about the video ENDING when it hadn't even started yet on my machine.
Yeah, Alana is right.
I looked thru my add-ons and one of them had an ad blocker built in, so I killed it.
Now I don't get the slightly annoying pop up, but I have started to get the thing that goes "Try RUclips Premium", which is not going to happen, not at $14 a month (Australian)
I wouldn’t mind ads if they were just at the beginning and end of videos but not when it interrupts the videos. 15 sec ads max only tho
It's been in the works for awhile.Alot of browsers that had plug ins for ad block were Chromium in nature.
And considering Google's main business is selling advertising and data and that they obviously are the ones behind chrome they were able to disproportionately sway the browser/ad block market.
On top of this, they basically held secured signatures (for website safety verification) hostage.
Put another way, if you refused their rules your website gets removed from Googles search results- a death sentence given the vast majority of Web traffic passes through their websites or search engines.
There will be no avoiding this new ad thing.
And on top of the steady nudging of Google/youtube content to becoming more safe/ advertiser friendly what will eventually happen is the vast majority of the Internet will fall to Googles sanitised and tamed vision for the Internet.
This naturally extends to RUclips, which will become like the Cabel networks of 10-20 years ago; only safe TV style videos get promoted, nothing edgy, nothing interesting......just nice tame TV style content- with plenty of advertising.
I started going on an Alana binge, then find this video and it makes me realize how dumb I am.
Alana talks about how she would pirate, and it made me realize that I can barely use my phone, computer, and consoles.
Ublock origin works like a champ. Haven't had this issue yet.
You have 4 options. Continue and get screwed, ignore the ads, buy premium, or buy or get gifted a sub to a streamer, like Alana and just parasocially watch through them
Or be lucky to live in a country every citizen of which was given RUclips Premium for free 8D
wut @@Prushinthespirit
OOOOOOrrr.... use an adblocker
I blocked the adblocker warning with adblocker
24:40 Yes. It was a sales feature for a bit. ....Cable company. ...Cable company was Viacom. [business insides here] ....Turned into Time Warner. Time Warner is {who} now.
Piracy is moderately difficult with major inconvieniences, files are missing sometimes you cant use apps that require a sign in, its risky, you can't use coop in games, you can pirate but it aint gonna be simple. About the adblockers being progressively banned on youtube, you setting up a vpn or changing domains or shit just makes it so that the website that run the adds played you, instead of waiting for 15 secs you wast 2-3 hours of your life. with vpn too the law from some countries can ban you, the connection speed is slower, vpn usage can be blocked by the specific sites, domain changes can be scuffed it doesnt even fucking work on youtube cause they use specific servers.
Wild how this has not gotten worse since andit has in fact become easy to circumvent again
I want to see asmon react to this and turn it into a 3 hour video
I just swapped to a different adblock, and browser. Now I'm going to swap to a different viewing platform.
I watch youtube on my TV, so i have no choice but watch ads. They are annoying for the most part, when you get ad every 4 mins, or if you go take a shower, se up some music to play, and as soon as you get in, you get fking Raid Shadow legends ad lol I was even considering buying Premium, but dang it... 15$ just not to see ads... is A LOT
Edit: Just noticed how in 20 min video i had 2 ads at 12min and 16min. So, ads are placed in "Most watched" place of the video... Totally Destroying the moment. Fking hate that shit
RUclips Enhancer.
It doesn't block ads (you have to disable that feature to make RUclips work if they've decided to troll you like they trolled me), but it adds a "skip ads" button on the control bar that you can link to a keyboard shortcut. Absolute fucking life saver.
Also, I've adopted the policy of never consuming anything that RUclips tries to advertise me. Doesn't do shit to this hellsite's bottom line probably, but it makes me feel better.
When I was a kid in Virginia it was so long ago that we didn't even have cable. I got all of my chores done every day during commercials. This was after we invented dirt. We had white hat hackers up to thirty years ago but only financial companies used them at first. Ads aren't why we gave up cable. We quit because they only wanted to sell us packages that had a lot of sports for a lot of money. We don't watch sportsball. BTW- I'm stupid about almost everything so...
Have opera that has adblock in it and i just refresh twice and the adblock youtube think disapears.
Brave Browser built in ad blocking no ads, unless it's part of the video
I'm a programmer but when I block ads it's not about being tech savvy it's about how stubborn you are. I never wrote a line of code to block anything. I know people aren't going to do it.
"Tuturuuu~! Mayushi desu!"
if i had to pay for no ads and later still have to watch ad even after payment. thats why i would use ad blocker
peepo will buy premium to avoid adds youtube-kun makes mad BANK :D
I wouldn’t have a problem with ads if the RUclips people I watch didn’t have their content demonetized and yet still end up getting ads on the video….. and if the ads were so intrusive and obnoxious
2024 ad blocker are still working
As someone that easily learns techy shit, I don't work around ad-block-blocking. Why? Because I'm too lazy. When I want to sit and watch a stream or video, I'm just trying to relax and get away from work, and I'm not going to go out of my way to remove a couple 15 second ads.
I found Alana's video a little bit ago and I don't use an ad blocker I just use Vance RUclips, newpipe, or libretube on my phone or just invidious on pc which is more or less like youtube but it doesn't save watch history.
59:25 they've had white hat/ grey hat hackers for decades.
25:04 - yoho yoho and a bottle of rum~♫
Yes we hate ads, but we always hated ads and had to suffer through them in the TV age. We couldnt skip them and all other channels had ads at the same time.
As an IT worker I can confirm most people are definitely not tech savvy. The younger (i.e gen z's) are almost as bad as the boomers for tech illiteracy, as they've been brought up in walled garden mobile OS's
Alana, Cable was initially supposed to be Ad Free, you were paying for the service to have ALL the content with no ad interuptions.
Then they get market saturation and need ads. So Streaming Services rise up, and some are still ad free on your purchase.
i have blocked over 300k ads :))))
I get a lot of random Spanish/ Mexican ads because I'm in AZ
Laziness will always choose losing 5 mins on an ad break, over losing 45 mins to trying to learn about or apply a fix even if in the long term it saves them hours before they shift the code and a new fix is needed
And rhats making he huge assumption they can understand the fix instructions. Most people really dont know what theyre doing with tech
It takes like five minutes to install an ad blocker.
The thing about the ublock or brave blocking assets is that you can block the pop up, you can block the screen dim overlay, but you cant easily stop the video from pausing which becomes an indicator that you got the pop up prompt, nor will you be able to scroll to the comments until you 'close the popup'. You might be able to dig into the source code in order to add them to the filter, but really how much effort are you willing to put into it when the add is only around 15s long.
From you earlier reply to my comment to this video, you appear to be a vtuber version of asmon. I'm subbed now and I'm here forever.
Edit: premium is $14 now!! I'm a beta user so I get a discount, but even I thought $11 was a lot.
I've personally never used and ad blocker for the longest time I just sat through the ads and honestly never had an issue with them. I can understand why people want to avoid them they can be annoying no doubt. I've just started to using yt premium though that's mainly for the downloadable videos but I can say I now do understand how nice it is having no ads.
Look, I respect your decision, but honestly after i pay my rent/electric/water, car insurance, phone bill, for my internet, then my respective gaming console(s) online subscription, and my X number of tv streaming services like netflix or hulu, I'm gonna stick to my adblockers like uMatrix and a video downloader.
I don't mean that in an angry or offended way, I'm just still mad when sony quietly slipped in paid online service when they released the ps4.
@@Jakaze_ that's completely understandable my intention wasn't to advocate for yt premium especially as the price is quite steep if you only want it for the no ads.
@@littleboxes9662 I feel you boss, I remember there was once a time I would just buy a thing instead of trying to find a workaround. But nowadays it feels like I'm getting nickel and dimed by every little thing I wanna do. To each their own
Imagine, being a youtube creator and having to pay for a premium account monthly to your employer to make their site less annoying.
Couldn't be me
it happend to me, updated my opera gx, no more ads , also no adblocker block
Rumble's tine to shine :D Granted, my Brave still functions and for now haven't encountered an issue.