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    It wouldn’t be so bad if they actually had ad breaks instead of stopping my video mid sente… SHAVE YOUR BALLS WITH MANSCAPE… nce

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    This presents a good demonstration of what we can expect Alphabet / Google / Youtube to do if ever it should win its war on adblockers, or convince people to watch YouTube without vetting. Any time it promises to compromise and make a tolerable user experience, it will ratchet up advertisement plugs until it becomes intolerable.

    This is why we can’t relent, ever.

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    They have actually started serving ads with a skip button… That only skips to the next ad.

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      That’s been a thing for years now like back before I got premium which was at least 4 years ago the skip button would skip the first ad and then bring you into a timed ad afterward that you couldn’t skip, was obnoxious as hell

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        I got premium

        Don’t expect things to improve after happily paying consecutive ransoms.

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          it’s improved for me, as someone who easily watches 20ish hours of video a week It’s worth it for me to not have to deal with all the hassle of ad block on it. I run a pihole for everything else but the cat and mouse game got old. I currently get my money’s worth, but if it raises much further I’ll cancel.

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            Not “if” but “when”. They have you and million others on the hook and already plan their next step to extract more money from you.

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              yea and when that happens I just cancel, then I can worry about all the ad blocking and stuff, but currently it’s worth it for me

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    Yeah, it’s bad…… I didn’t feel like login into my premium account the other day and it was kinda much…….

    I am hoping we get a Democrat to in office this year. With the balls(Well she technically does not have balls; but you get my drift) to break some FUCKING monopolies up. We need to break up Ma Bell again

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      Harris is married to the brother of an Uber executive. If you were hoping for a trust-buster, you picked the wrong candidate. Those $500k/plate fundraising dinners she hosts are coming entirely out of the Silicon Valley mega-millionaire bracket.

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            I understand that but what would you serve on this plate, an apartment in new york city?

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              what would you serve on this plate

              A piece of paper with only a heading: “Insert lobby request here:”

              And a footer: “Your business is important to us, thanks for supporting Democracy™”

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    Thats why i have a dumb tv with a little linux pc attached to it, so i can open piped and jellyfin in my librewolf browser.

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        Set up a mini PC like a used Lenovo ThinkCentre, install Linux, and add a keyboard with trackpad. Run Jellyfin and Piped on your homelab, then ‘obtain’ media for your Jellyfin-Instance. Enjoy TV without distractions or tracking!

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          Follow ups,

          Whats the trackpad for?

          Any guide on jellyfin setup?

          Also homelab 😂😂

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            Trackpad: Because i decided to not go with anything like kodi, i need a mouse and as i can not use a mouse when sitting on the couch i got a keyboard with integrated trackpad.

            Jellyfin: There are a hole lot of guides on jellyfin. Just put it in to youtube and you will find plenty of stuff. The only thing is ‘obtaining’ the media to fill your library. There are a lot of ways and it depends on what language you need your content to be in to make any decision.

            Homelab: Well if you want to run anything like piped or jellyfin you need a homelab. This could also be just a RaspberryPi. To get Piped with subscription feed running you can use my guide: https://gist.github.com/WreckingBANG/405235949c655cd8246188ba25c42277

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        1. Go to <insert distro>.com
        2. Download iso
        3. burn iso to usb stick (ventoy!)
        4. install on pc
        5. install ublock origin on firefox
        6. done

        also get a dumb tv ofc

        edit: despite what people will say, ubuntu is still a rock solid distro. Alternatively, tumbleweed is brilliant too.

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          You don’t need a dumb TV, just switch the input. If your TV shows ads when connected to other inputs, yeet that TV out of your house today.

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            Disconnect it from your network. Hard to serve ads if it can’t contact the servers it is pulling them from.

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              Got a new TV a month ago. Fucked up and connected it to wireless, no idea what I was thinking. The only way to kill the connection (from the TV side) was a factory reset.

              Windows is like that now. Once you enter an internet connection, you’re screwed. No way out but a full reinstall.

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          despite what people will say, ubuntu is still a rock solid distro. Alternatively, tumbleweed is brilliant too.

          real!! just do the thing to disable snaps and it’s perfect for anyone

          EDIT: actually turns out snaps have gotten really good lately, ubuntu is still great!!!

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            I disagree. Native packages are still a bit more hassle-free, but snaps have gotten really good by now. And you can do some things that debs can’t, like setting up an entire nextcloud installation with a four-words-long terminal command.

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              huh, cool i didn’t know that!! i havent heard much news of snaps except for when they first came out and were kinda shit lmao

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        You could also use Chromecast with SmartTube. Works like a charm. Let me know if you need help with it.

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        Well its just old sony tv and i am looking for a replacement with better quality and it is pretty hard to find anything. I will probably just go with a smart tv and never connect it to the internet. You can hack samsung TVs to jump straight into a hdmi input so i will probably do that even tho i am not happy with it.

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      Are you me? Except I use FreeTube instead of Piped. I am so happy with this solution. Years of discontent of watching services going through the enshittification cycle… everything just becoming so underwhelming. This has given me back freedom over my own media consumption. No ads. No endless scrolling through bullshit content. Just a nicely personally curated selection of movies and TV shows (on Jellyfin) and an ad-free YouTube-experience with sponsorblock and dearrow enabled, and blocking of live chats and shorts.

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    It’s funny because I only hear about ads now from you guys. I never see them myself.

    Using freetube on a Linux media player connected to my TV and Newpipe on the phone.

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      How did you get newpipe to work? It’s been broken for me for like the past 3 weeks.

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        Latest NewPipe 0.27.2 installed from F-Droid is able to play videos for me. But you might also try PipePipe or Tubular, which I mostly use these days.

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        It was broken for a day but there was an update on f Droid. Just installed that and it’s been fine.

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      I like to open multiple tabs on what I’m going to watch next, and Freetube is a bit clunky with the window management (I wish they had tabs!). So far uBlock has been doing an impeccable job…but these days I can see it struggling a bit more. I can see youtube REALLY tries to give me an ad first, sometimes when you open the video, you can see the first frame of an ad instead of the thumbnail while it starts buffering, then it skips to the video. The ad is not shown, but the first frame of an ad sometimes escapes into the video while it buffers at the beginning, for a second.

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        Come on man, you’re breaking the echo chamber. We’re here to shit on Google, not give them more money

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          I’m happy he pays, keeps Google happy enough to not care too much about people who won’t.

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    They’ve even started having “next” instead of “skip” so it just goes to another ad. But the worst is when it gives you an unstoppable 90 second ad roll, comes back to the video for all of 2 seconds and starts yet another 90 second ad roll.

    If I want to watch YouTube on the bigger screen now, I just open it in Firefox on my VR headset.

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      I’ve had it return from ads, make the video playback stutter. I refresh/reload or whatever, jump back in, get more ads, video playback stutter. It’s annoying as fuck

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        I have that issue when watching on Firefox (no matter the device). Always have to reload the video to get the frame rate back in sync otherwise it looks like it’s playing at sub 24fps making even a live action video look like the Spider-Verse movie animation.

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          Oh, this is on android yt app.
          Pixel 8pro, so Google & Google.
          There isn’t any variable that they don’t have control of.
          Video playback after ads skips 500ms, plays 500ms, skips 500ms etc. Changing quality doesn’t fixing it. Play/pause doesn’t fix it, skipping doesn’t fix it. I have to fully quit YT app and restart it to get playback again, and chances are it starts the ads again.
          Never had an issue on FF, w10 or Linux.

          I get that streaming video is expensive for bandwidth. And creators need an incentive to create.
          I don’t expect it for free. I don’t YT enough to warrant a premium subscription.
          The ads literally break the platform for me.
          Makes sense to me to get into one of the alternative clients… But I don’t want to not pay my dues… It’s just not worth the £13 a month: there is no way I’m consuming that much content.

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      i used to do this trick to skip ads on the tv app, where i’d go to the report section and click ‘return to video’ but i abused it too much so they took away the report button entirely for me :[

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    I wouldn’t mind them if they didn’t BREAK MY REMOTE’S PLAY BUTTON.

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      I was casting a video to my shield from my phone and ended up needing to pause for a phone call during an ad roll. Pausing worked fine but the play button on my phone was completely unresponsive after. Thankfully the shield remote still worked, but clearly play/pause during ads is handled differently than during normal videos and something is broken.

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    Honestly looking at the article this seems way less intrusive than pre-roll and mid-roll video ads. If this was to replace them I’d be ok with that. But this is Google so of course it’s just going to be as well as, so my adblocker is staying on for as long as it works

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      I’m just tired of my electronics doing “extra”. I want to pause the video/player, I don’t want that to activate other activities for my device to perform…I just want to pause the fucking video. They’re all guilty of this though, either they show ads or screenshots of what they want you to watch next. I can’t even pause a video anymore to look at something or show something. The amount of times I’ve paused to have a discussion and the distracting shit plays in the background annoyed me to the point I no longer use the “smart tv” to watch anything and only use the tv hooked up to the comp so I can actually control and have a pleasant viewing experience.

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    A bit of a PSA for LG owners running webOS:

    https://www.webosbrew.org/

    I rooted my tv and now have adless youtube, but apparently root is not a prerequisite - there also installation using dev mode. Admitedly, haven’t tried it and it’s probably less convenient to get it set up, but then it should be a one time thing.

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      I’ve got an LG C1 and have been using homebrew with Dev mode for a while now.

      Can confirm it is very easy to do if you have a basic tech knowledge base.

      The only inconvenience is sometimes after updates it will delete the homebrew apps but its a 5 minute job to get them back and ive only had it happen probably 3 times over a year.

      “Youtube no ads” - the homebrew app, works flawlessly as if it were the original app with all of your subs etc but every now and then a tiny banner comes up begging me to subscribe to premium which I actually love because I can keep telling them to fuck off. The frequency of the little banner is probably once every few times you open the app and its non-intrusive.

      Overall the LG dev mode trick with the Youtube No Ads app has been the cleanest and most enjoyable out of the box experience compared to alternative frontends etc.

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      I have an LG with WebOS and have youtube premium and haven’t seen any ads so far (though it may be regional). Cheers for the link, tough. I wonder if it works on Japanese versions