The only time I ever see a YouTube ad is when I watch a family member pull up YouTube on their phone. It looks literally unwatchable that way. There are so many workarounds to this issue that I don’t understand how people can tolerate intrusive ads every 2 seconds.
Their sacrifice is our gain, if everyone was on Adblockers all the tech companies would make sure to block all Adblockers, even harder than what they are trying right now
There’s plenty of ways to get around this crap, but there’s vanishingly little on the platform worth watching.
At some point, why bother with the Slop Website to begin with?
Idk…I’ve found throughout the years that there are increasingly greater and greater amounts of long-form content available on YouTube to watch. Of late, I’ve watched some Louis Theroux documentaries, some documentaries on abandoned facilities, and some real A&E and ambulance emergency shows. There is a ton of interesting content on there if you look for it. I guess I just find the number of streaming services to be too staggering to bother with. So I go with free alternatives like YouTube with an ad blocker and things like PlutoTV and tubi.
As well as removing the thumbs down button on the shorts
Every time they push some right wing bullshit into my feed, I would downvote it and laugh at how it only had 100 or so likes while every other video in the feel had thousands. Then they got rid of the downvote button. I think the fascists whined about getting ratio’d even if the number wasn’t posted. It is only a matter of time before they stop showing the number of likes to hide their lack of support.
Laughs in yt-dlp
Wait, is this real?
People watch ads?
YouTube has ads? (No, I don’t pay for their bs subscription, either)
If you have a Samsung TV TizenTube is awesome. There is an android version of it too but can’t recall its name colbolt something…
It can be intimidating to try and install on your Samsung TV. But once you figure it out it’s super easy.
