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???
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right wing: "JEWS ARE EVIL"
Also, right wing: "Jews in Israel are fighting a rightious war against evil Gazans"
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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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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
Yeah, don't do that. The most popular content on YouTube isn't bad in the same way it is on Rumble/Odyssey, but in general, it's filled with clickbait/rage bait and is generally pretty awful. It's going to be especially awful on Rumble and Odyssey because it's a refuge for people who didn't like YouTube's policies, so it's going to largely be conspiracy theorists and far right nonsense.
That said, there's some good on every platform. On Rumble, I like Glenn Greenwald, who is a right of center independent journalist who lives in Brazil (also gay, but that's irrelevant). On Odyssey, I like Mental Outlaw (covers hacks, leaks, and privacy related news) and Naomi Brockwell (privacy advocacy). I don't have an account at either, largely because those platforms are full of trash, I just sub through Grayjay so I don't see that nonsense.
I wish a credible alternative existed, but for now, I'll hedge a bit with other platforms.
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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
Yup, I use ublock origin and have never had issues on YT.
They do random testing. I've received one of these a couple of times with unlock as well. Google/yt has not fully committed.
I hope they don't commit. But if they do, I guess that'll be the end of YT for me...
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I didn't screencap it but today on YT I was given a modal that said I was using an adblocker (ublock) and I have three more videos before they require premium. I changed VPN locations and stopped getting the message.
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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.
Itβs not that bizarre. They donβt 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 donβt think that YouTube is really doing anything wrong here. (Other than possibly ruining their own platform, but thatβs their problem that theyβre making for themselves.)
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.
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.
I hate the way theyβre doing it and how they push their silly premium subscription in my face whenever I open the app to look something up quick. Adblock all the way. But youβre right. They have to make money somehow. Theyβre a corporation after all. Itβs naive to think they will ever give up.
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Iβm imagining a future where youβre not allowed to mute broadcast commercials
Fifteen Million Merits - Black Mirror - 2011
Please drink verification can.
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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.
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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Letβs help grow Peertube, then.
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aggressively refreshes ublock patch list
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.
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 β¬15, realistically it's value to me is β¬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 β¬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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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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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.
- Click Here to update the list.
- If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
- 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?).
I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again
ad blocker detector blocker in filter list go brrr
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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Looks like google needs more broken up!
If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.
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Eat shit, Youtube!
Grayjay by futo just released a desktop app.
What's the Fediverse YouTube? ooof. that's a tough nut.
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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Peertube, but it's really not nearly the replacement lemmy or mastodon are.
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