• Konlanx@feddit.deEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I have been adblocking on YouTube for as long as I remember. Personally I think it’s unusable without an adblocker. What’s the alternative? Because I am not suddenly going to pay for a platform that keeps getting worse all the time.

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      When ever I see someone using YouTube without an adblocker it looks like some cheap chinese knock-off or something. As someone who sees less ads than 99% of people I’ve genuinely became a bit oversensitive to them. Podcasts are the only thing I keep paying attention to despite them having ads which even then I always skip over. Other than that every online platform I use is ad-free and I don’t watch TV or listen to radio either.

      • Konlanx@feddit.deEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I like to listen to podcasts in the gym and I will interrupt my set to skip sponsors and ads. The enshittification on Spotify is particularly bad as they now play ads in addition to sponsorings for premium listeners.

        • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Yeah I don’t personally use spotify for podcasts even though I have premium aswell. Except for the occasional JRE episode I listen everything else on Podcast Republic.

    • Draghetta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Browser and plugins don’t matter, this is being rolled out in waves. People are getting this on all browsers, with or without ad blockers

        • N4CHEM@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          It doesn’t have to be. This could be how YouTube dies.

          Websites are nothing without users. We have the power to stop using websites that pull this shit and promote new websites that don’t.

          • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Reddit = Text based platform. Text: 1 Character = 1 Byte

            Youtube = Video based platform. Videos: [Error, Not Enough Storage]

            🥲

            Edit: Also, bandwidth.

  • Charliebeans@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Seems like it’s controlled test in different countries and segments. I (Europe) get this popup in Firefox, I also use pi-hole DNS and ublock origin.