• mhague@lemmy.world
    13·
    24 days ago

    Ads have started to straight up break the internet for me. I can go to websites and they’ll complain about my ad blocker, and the only help I get is “disable your extensions.” I don’t even have any extensions! No ad block! But sites still curl up and die on me.

    Is it because my browser is hardened? Is it Linux? Do I have to fork over private data to use a site and if I don’t they pretend the issue is ad blockers?

  • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
    12·
    24 days ago

    I didn’t use adblockers when they had occasional normal ad breaks. Now when I have to watch on a TV app its just a garbage experience.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    6·
    24 days ago

    Why paying for no longer having an ad free experience, if you can have a really ad free YouTube for free?

  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    22 days ago

    Google can suck the shit directly from my asshole Human Centipede style if they think I’m ever going to pay them for.not using their monopoly to harass me. When I can no longer feasibly block ads on YouTube, I’ll just move to another platform. Thank goodness they’re about to lose Chrome because otherwise they’d soon be injecting ads directly through the browser just like they do in their shitty news app.

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    63·
    25 days ago

    I ended up paying for it because, frankly, expecting Youtube to be completely free and fighting how it could be paid for is kinda crazy. We’re just used to it being free but running Youtube is expensive. I watch hours of Youtube nearly every day and don’t use Crunchyroll nearly as much so why am I ok paying for that but not Youtube?

    Yes, if they do actually start pushing ads then I’m going to wonder what the hell I’m paying for but for the time being I’m ok with paying for a service. I only started paying for it recently, to be fair, but I get it.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      5·
      25 days ago

      It depends how many hours per month you use it I guess.

      I am fine paying for Netflix (it is quite cheap here as well) which I watch probably at least 20-30 hours per month but not for youtube which I use for the music maybe an hour per week or less.

      YouTube frequency of commercials is unacceptable. If they were to play a commercial every half an hour or so, I would say it is too often but I would understand it.

      They don’t, they try to play a commercial every other song start, so every 7-10 minutes. They are taking a piss.

      • no banana@lemmy.world
        21·
        24 days ago

        edit: for context, I have 7000 hours of uninterrupted streaming on YouTube. It’s been well worth the cost to me. But this is with the model being ad-free. If that ever changed I would need to re-evaluate my position, but I do like that my subscription can give support to creators (support which is larger per view than that of an ad user) at the same time.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        14·
        24 days ago

        I don’t get any commercials now and I use it for all kinds of stuff from educational videos to hours and hours of things like D&D streams. It’s all worth it.

        You pay nothing for it and complain about commercials. I don’t want to go shilling for corporations but whining about Youtube paying the bills is just sad, bud.

          • Soup@lemmy.world
            12·
            24 days ago

            You responded to my comment about being ok with paying to not get ads by saying that one ad every thirty minutes would be too much for this service you just expect to get for free. It’s not a necessary utility, deal with it.

            No amount of reading comprehension on my end will make up for the lack of it on yours.

  • ngn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    23 days ago

    i genuinely dont see why would anyone use the official youtube app/website to watch content at this point