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Their website is so laggy and slow I didn’t realize it was intentional
So much malicious code going on to piss us off and force compliance. And normies have no idea this is a thing.
I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I’m avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.
I have ad blockers on my PC, use Smarttube on my Firestick, and ReVanced on my phone. And when someone sends me a youtube link in a group chat or something and I click it, it’ll open the standard Youtube. 1/2 ads, 30+ seconds long, can’t skip them… I just don’t even bother watching what you sent me.
why dont you just an adblocker on the browser on your phone?
Google:
Don’tbe evil
If you put a “-” between the “t” and the “u” in your video link, (www.yout-ube.com) You will get it advert free
That’s not a hack, it’s just a third party service that will eventually become shitty too because nothing in life is free especially not bandwidth.
just use uBlock Origin
What interruptions, Youtube? Literally nothing changed other than the fact there aren’t ads playing.
It’s like Internet Explorer on Windows. If you rip it out the whole system does not work anymore and there is no way to make that work. /s
Thanks for the detailed guide to fix windows.
The interruptions supposedly caused by my adblock are tiny compared to the interruptions when I turn it off.
Yeah no shit. “Experiencing interuptions,” nope I’m not actually thank you very much. Youtube has gone down enough in quality to where I would probably just dump it if they manage to hamfist the ads back in. The algo is straight up terrible at keeping me engaged. You watched one video about Y? Whole feed is now about Y for the next week. I find better videos browsing incognito sometimes.
On the other hand, you watched a bunch of videos of X consistently,but skipped the last 3 we recommended? You’ll never see that topic again.
Me: Searches for a very specific video that I know exists because I have seen it within the last three months.
YouTube: Nope, sorry, just can’t find it. Don’t know where it went. I don’t think that video ever actually existed. I’m not even gonna show you results that contain your search terms because of how stupid I think you are.
In my case, it was looking for a specific video of pulling a 4.2 liter Jeep engine out of a CJ7. YouTube responded with dozens of videos on CJ5’s and Wranglers, and the 4.0 liter engine, but not the 4.2 CJ7, and not the video I was looking for, and unfortunately it’s not the Jeepin with Cool Guy video.
Although, in one scroll, they did offer to show me the exact same video three different times.
Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.
Have you seen google photos ? The search function there is shockingly bad. Even when I know a photo exists of xyz, searching for xyz or words related to xyz finds either nothing at all, or unrelated images.
I had an 01 Cherokee sport and that 4.0 was amazing though. Spin the tires on pavement no problem even with the automatic transmission.
I’m yet to experience them. As far I have only experienced that warning.
I’ll load a video on my PC and it’ll “buffer” for about 5-10 seconds, then play the video. I’ll get that little pop-up of “experiencing Interruptions?”
If I have to wait 10 seconds to watch a 30 minute video ad free, I’ll take it. Sure as hell beats the 30-60 seconds of ads before the video, and the in-video ads that you’ll stick in the middle of a fucking sentence so I lose the context of what someone is saying.
I tried to watch a video on my phone’s YT app today, and ouch!
The ad is not only in the middle of a fucking sentence, but it also doesn’t pause the video and hijacks the volume. And it interrupts all the fucking time, there were at least a dozen ads in a 1-hour video.
And also, the “rewind 5 seconds” button is not there anymore. And YT won’t let you use another application while the video is running anymore. And if you move from the YT app for too long, it jumps right to the end of the video.
Yeah, I’m willing to use that shit while my ad-blocker unfucks it. The moment Google is successful in breaking that, I’m out.
firefox mobile + ubo + disable YouTube app. years of YouTube on my phone and not a single ad.
Why people would watch vanilla YouTube without a privacy front like invidious, newpipe or SmartTube is beyond me. No ads, no algorithm, sponsorblock, no click bait thumbnails and convenient download options
As much as the algorithm can be annoying and awful. Something the scope of YouTube with out an algorithm at all is fucking stupid.
It is literally humanly impossible to sift though YouTube with out some form of algorithmic assistance.
Newpipe has an algorithm and an incredible search function. It breaks every now and then, but it’s great otherwise. It says it’s going away after google crashes sideloading though.
Please remember where this road leads: DRM. Law, not technology. We need to prepare our collective infrastructure for that eventuality now while we still can.
I’m using Firefox with Ublock Origin, and it’s really funny that youtube videos open without any problems or delays, but still, the questions about interruptions appear. They failed to ruin my user experience, but still fucking hope they did.
Ah yes, experience a <15 second loading buffer…
Or watch potentially multiple entire minute long, unskippable adverts.
Honestly part of me has considered paying for YouTube premium - but aside from not having to fight off ADs, I don’t care about the other perks, and am more than happy to just give to the creators directly without Google getting a cut.
Same, any creators that I seriously follow on YouTube also get a Patreon sub from me.
I considered paying for it but the cost vs benefit just wasnt there.
To prevent a few ads playing vs blocking those ads anyway for free.
yeah nah.
The number of videos I watch on YouTube amounts to maybe 3 hours a week.
At best.
On average maybe 20-30 minutes.
I’m not willing to pay
$13$9 a month for that.What? 13? a month?, wtf is Google thinking 🤔, I’m really surprised of the price, I have been blocking add for years and it’s been long since researched for the price, damn.
My bad. $9 a month.
Still too expensive.
1 dollar a month would be a great deal, we are getting to the point that the private data they are gathering from us is not enough to pay for the services.
The problem with YouTube Premium is that it’s not differentiated from NewPipe or Vanced.
You don’t get a better algorithm. You don’t get higher quality. You don’t get faster speeds.
You literally get a service that is provided by third party apps.
Until they start baking in ads with their content, YouTube Premium is essentially a paid service for people who don’t run adblock or don’t want to use a third party tool.
YouTube is probably 90% of our streaming consumption.
Combine that with the music streaming, background play, video downloading, and ability to access it on hotel smart TVs.
Plus it supports the creators I like.
Really makes YTP a no-brainer for us.
You can get background play via using FireFox, video downloading with extensions or other programs, and play anything on hotel TVs with a video cable from a laptop or any other device. All without paying the great beast.
I’m not going to implement multiple workarounds on our android and apple phones and plug a laptop into a tv every time I want to watch YouTube on it. YTP is well worth my few dollars a month.
I’ll close and reopen a video multiple times until it goes straight to the video before I watch an ad.
ProTube is solid, and the SponsorBlock extension is also nice.
Per view, YouTube premium pays more then add supported ones. How much exactly I dont know.
But it’s all relative. For example Patrion would be a much better way of supporting a creator
I just have to make sure to be a bit patient and not hit play the second i can - if i wait until the video controls are loaded and use those, i never had any “interruption” except of that laughable popup
On mobile i use grayjay, and this reminded me that i gotta test the new desktop versions.
No YouTube I’m not experiencing any interruptions
The only interruption I’m experiencing is your asking me if I’m experiencing interruptions!
“We got it. We’ll remember that.” and other lies the devil tells you.
I just started copying and pasting everything into invidious
Oh dont worry I actually do pay for the “convenience” of premium and I still experience interruptions, youtube either refusing to load the video list for minutes at a time or severe buffering issues watching a stream with left leaning content, usually losing a second out of every five unless I turn the phone screen off and just listen to the audio. I’m expect it will only get shittier too
We watch a ton of Youtube and have had premium for years. Twice now over maybe the last month, we’ve gotten errors stating “account in use at another location” or thereabouts, so we’re waiting for them to cancel the old family plan that lets us share an account with separate profiles.
At that point she’ll probably keep the account and I’ll go the hack route to get sponsorblock, since premium only skips half the ads anyway with everyone doing promos mid video anyway.
premium only skips half the ads anyway with everyone doing promos mid video anyway.
Fwiw with premium if you hit fast forward once during the promp theres usually a “jump ahead” button that appears that allows you to skip to the promo’s end
Huh, I will have to try that… Thanks for the tip!
I’ve found the jump ahead button to skip the promo spots can be hit or miss. It usually pops up if I press skip forward once though. Whatever the button that jumps a few seconds ahead is, depending on the device I’m using.
Same here. I still have issues with interruptions, weird loading issues, etc. even on my desktop where it’s a wired gigabit+ connection and plenty powerful for a basic video stream. Not sure if those are just Youtube in general, if it’s Youtube deliberately breaking randomly because I’m not using Chrome, or just other issues like Comcast being a piece of crap randomly.
I pay for premium for a few reasons:
- Not having to futz with adblock on every different device I try to use, especially oddball devices like TVs or when using devices that aren’t mine.
- Premium views pay creators several times more than regular views.
- Youtube Music streaming included instead of having to pay for a separate subscription like Spotify.
Not having to futz with adblock on every different device I try to use, especially oddball devices like TVs or when using devices that aren’t mine
I haven’t had to update my adblocker in over a year. I installed Ublock and sometimes I just forget it exists. I downloaded Smarttube on my Firestick and got it working in 5 minutes. Revanced on my phone took some fiddling, maybe a half hour or so, and now ad free on there too.
Imagine being so lazy that sending Google $15 a month instead of taking 30 minutes of your time to accomplish the same result.
Premium views pay creators several times more than regular views.
So does patreon, or whatever subscription service they use. Google pays them pennies for the dollars they keep from you. Not to mention sponsor skips still trigger their ad revenue, so even though you skip the ad block, they still get money. Neat, huh?
Youtube Music streaming included instead of having to pay for a separate subscription like Spotify.
QoBuz is just as good and you’re not feeding money into dystoptia.
Just admit you’re okay sending money to the problem instead of being a solution.
I found that opening several videos in different tabs and letting the tabs load in the background minimises YouTube’s deliberate slowdown of videos.
I get captchas if I open multiple tabs.
