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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 181 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Well I guess I'll be mozying over to Rumble now.

20 minutes later

Turns out Jews are aliens directing the Democratic Party and Hollywood to sacrifice babies for adrenochrome. Why is the lamestream media not talking about this???

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

right wing: "JEWS ARE EVIL"

Also, right wing: "Jews in Israel are fighting a rightious war against evil Gazans"

🀨

[–] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don't give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get 'raptured.'

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"I hate you, but I hate these guys even more. Nice job"

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

God I was looking for peertube apps and rumble was advertised in the app store. Boy did I have a surprise when I scrolled through the most subscribed list

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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 123 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists-->uBlock filters-->uncheck the "ublock filters - quickfixes" box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, I use ublock origin and have never had issues on YT.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

They do random testing. I've received one of these a couple of times with unlock as well. Google/yt has not fully committed.

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 78 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane. It's like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 65 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It’s not that bizarre. They don’t have to serve you the content without showing you the ads that make the platform profitable. The freedom goes both ways. I use an ad blocker too, but I don’t think that YouTube is really doing anything wrong here. (Other than possibly ruining their own platform, but that’s their problem that they’re making for themselves.)

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If they weren't a monopoly, I'd agree, they can do whatever they want.

But since they are a monopoly, its a de facto the equivalent of a town square, and they are policing people's speech, and broadcasting annoying public announcements that nobody wants to hear.

[–] Robin@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

A privately owned platform cannot serve the public good. There will always be conflicts of interest. A proper public square should be funded by a competent government (but those are rare) or decentralized.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m imagining a future where you’re not allowed to mute broadcast commercials

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fifteen Million Merits - Black Mirror - 2011

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 73 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I kinda miss when places would host their own videos instead of relying on youtube, but that's the problem of a centralized internet, the majority of people won't want to leave yt/ig/fb/tiktok/twitter/reddit in order to watch or read whatever you posted.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Also self-hosted video often has really shitty players.

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[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People don't want to deal with the heavy costs and load of hosting their own content. That's unfortunately the sacrifice. Google is big enough to house it all, whereas, we'd probably see content from a creator last for a finite amount of time before they end up having to close up shop or beg for donations.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 54 points 3 weeks ago

aggressively refreshes ublock patch list

[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 48 points 3 weeks ago (106 children)

Good joke, YouTube.

Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we've had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don't want and subscribe to services we don't need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just so tired of ads nowadays, ads for cars i can't afford, ads for crap i'm never going to buy, ads for the supermarket i'm going to no matter if they have some discount...it's all useless and a waste of my time and invasion on my peace.

I bought the devices, i pay for the internet connection and i pay the rent on this house, i decide what makes it inside my house.

I don't need this funny clip my supermarket made to market overpriced holiday food 46 times a day that lasts 60 seconds and is only funny the first time i see it. I'm not going to buy a tiny christmas cake that barely feeds a child for €15, realistically it's value to me is €1,50 compared to my wage and amount of food i get in return. I'm buying store brand m&m's and a loaf of bread like i do all year.

If you can't keep existing without shoveling truckloads of ads into my face, then go bankrupt...i don't give a damn. You're not worth €16 a month to me either or whatever the price is nowadays. Just fuck off i'll get my entertainment elsewhere, heck i might dust off that ps4 and buy used dvd's for 25 cents a piece.

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[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 45 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

If you're on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

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[–] Frellwit@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

From the uBO subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2024_08_16_ubo/m31kbkw/

There was just an update to Quick fixes. Please test if it works for you.

  1. Click Here to update the list.
  2. If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
  3. Close all previously opened YT tabs and try in a new one.

Just a reminder: Please always treat disabling lists as a last resort/temporary solution type of thing. Without that list, you won't be receiving important filter updates and will likely encounter ads after a while. So don't keep it disabled forever - verify that it's still necessary (daily?).

[–] Frost752@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

ad blocker detector blocker in filter list go brrr

[–] Grenfur@lemmy.one 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

I just got the same warning on FF with uBlock. Both Freetube and NewPipe seem to be fine though. I guess Freetube it is until uBlock is patched.

Edit: Also, glad I'm not the only human watching Grossi's videos today lol.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

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[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like google needs more broken up!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

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[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Eat shit, Youtube!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

What's the Fediverse YouTube? ooof. that's a tough nut.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 35 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

No one understands the astronomical bandwidth, CPU/GPU intensive calcs, and data storage necessities required to do anything close to what YouTube currently does.

There is no way under this warm sun that a fediverse version of YouTube will ever be feasible, unless someone like literally yourself is willing to pay extraordinary high amounts of money for all the required infrastructure and daily maintenance to run it.

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