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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834

If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.

Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.

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[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I don't see any mention of the YouTube adblock trick, so from the vid:

Copy YouTube URL. Paste it in Bing and search. Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit and click on the thumbnail for the video you searched. It will then play, still in Bing, with no ads.

So if you're on a work or government or w/e computer that doesn't allow installing adblock extensions, there ya go. No downloads or anything, just YouTube and Bing.

...this is the first time I've ever had any interest in using Bing, lol.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Invidious or viewtube are even better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if those are less likely to be blocked on networks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I'm sure all the public instances are on common blocklists.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit

Ah. Still some ads then.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago (95 children)

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

I mean I get that Youtubers have no morals and it's all about money but that seems excessively hypocritical, even for a Youtube "personality".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Add blocking is piracy, but piracy is okay.

[–] [email protected] 285 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

He's also got a generally nuanced opinion of piracy, in that it's justifiable in some situations. If you call it piracy and you're okay with piracy then it's not really a contradiction.

Being willing to talk about it despite working against your interests isn't always bad depending on context.

[–] [email protected] 177 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Breaking news, people on the Internet have no concept of nuance.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago

How dare you make such a direct and personal attack on me!

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Isn't that essentially what it is? Getting something for free through certain means you wouldn't get for free otherwise? Which means no money goes to whoever owns the service you're using?

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't care for Linus these days but respect for that.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Yeah, I got tired of his videos half-assing the work and the failed reviews hurting small manufacturers while Linus doubled down after GN documented their failures.

But this I can get behind.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (23 children)

I have no longer watched their content since the scandal.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which one?

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Probably the sexual harassment one that's when I left. The billet labs stuff was bad too though.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Friendly reminder that pirates didn't usually stole gold. Piracy was stealing shipping goods, then selling them for profit at some port. Digital piracy is thus defined as acquiring, and then distributing for profit, media that you don't own the copyrights of. Ad blocking is categorically not piracy.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I bet they removed it faster than a porn video on YouTube Kids! 😲

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So not at all?

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Well that's a thumbnail I'd never click on

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Their video about thumbnail A/B testing was quite interesting to see. Considering how they have dedicated designers to make these thumbnails I guess that works pretty well, despite your personal opinion on it, with which I agree too.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

don't you know, it's hate speech against corporate profits

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (64 children)

Funny, considering in the past he's gone on big rants about how adblocking is no different from piracy, and is theft.

But then again, its Linus we're talking about, its not like he has a particularly big issue with theft anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Linus didn't say piracy is theft to my knowledge. He pirates a bunch of games.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

Of course de-googling your life is a violation of the terms is service...

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah so its war you want, YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What happened to his hair?

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago (5 children)

D-Brand paid him to bleach it.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

Obligatory Louis Rossmann commentary on the matter. https://youtu.be/qHwP6S_jf7g?feature=shared

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

…to the surprise of absolutely no one who's been paying attention. They got rid of the coalmine canary clause like a fucking decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Didn't he say that using adblockers in YouTube was basically piracy?

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