Crazy that this came out 13 years ago and things are just going more and more in that direction
I got my first ever “YouTube doesn’t allow ad blockers” message on YouTube today. I hit the reload button and my ad blocker caught up and blocked that shit. How’s that approach going for you YouTube? I’d sooner stop using YouTube than watch it with ads.
psst. hey. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
foot the bill directly
I WISH. I genuinely wish they’d let me bid on my own ad break. But they don’t. It’s either pay an insane monthly subscription fee or see ads. If you’re letting advertisers bid on my time, let me! Let me offer to pay the .01 cents or whatever to not see an ad. But they won’t do it. I’m a little surprised I don’t see people talk about this being an alternative.
I swear, YouTube uses the camera on my phone/tablet to detect if I am facing the screen or not. It doesn’t have ‘permission’ to access the camera, but the behavior is too consistent to be a coincidence.
I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep. So I watch YouTube videos while Im tying to fall asleep. I skip every ad as soon as it will let me when facing the screen. Every time, and I mean literally every time I turn over so my back is to the screen, YouTube will start playing one of those long ass ads, ones that will go on for 1/2 hr or more if I don’t turn back over and hit ‘skip’. It’s just too consistent to be random.
The best is when it’s the ad for the stupid ass ‘superhero’ audiobook where the main character is the only person who doesn’t have a superpower and gets picked on, and by picked on I mean they force him to watch as they SA his girlfriend. I have done the thing where you can request they don’t show you that particular ad at least a dozen times now and it never helps.
I already know that guy will get his superpower eventually. I already know that he will get his revenge on his bullies. Its about the most obvious, 5th grade level writing you could imagine. Nothing about it appeals to me, I hate that fucking ad with a passion.
Newpipe
Awesome, thank you. I just installed it and it seems to be working great.
Also signing up for PeerTube as well. 👍
Also invidious and peertube.
I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep.
I have experienced this. Something that helped me is “cognitive shuffling.” Essentially forcing your thoughts to drift.
The technique I learned was this:
Pick a word, preferably one with lots of different letters.
Start with the first letter. Think of as many objects starting with that letter as you can, and picture them. You don’t need to be rigid about this, and don’t waste time trying to come up with objects if you’re stuck, just move onto the next letter. If you finish the word, pick a new one. But I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a word before falling asleep.
The idea is this sort of directed but disconnected thinking helps put your mind into the sort of state that lets sleep come. And when I’m diligent about it, it works like a charm. It’s like a way to actively fall asleep.
Unfortunately because it requires some effort I often don’t do it. But I do recommend it!
I’m convinced social media algorithms show you content you choose not to see because they count “don’t show me this again” as engagement.
and by picked on I mean they force him to watch as they SA his girlfriend.
I guarantee you that’s against YouTube’s ad platform’s TOS too.
I tried flagging it as such when I asked them to stop showing me the ad. Either they are fine with it or the advertiser found some loophole to get around the TOS. It’s possible they edited the ad copy so that the SA is only implied now, I don’t really pay attention anymore.
I also didn’t even mention the bullies SA the protagonist as well, at least they heavily imply it and mention the blood in his underwear. Gross.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I’ve listened to “nothing much happens” podcast for years and years now and it helps me fall asleep faster. If you don’t like this one in specific, there’s plenty of the same genre online for you to try. I prefer sleep specific content because the audio does not have any sudden changes or loud noises. Also screens on while sleeping decrease sleep quality, IIRC
I appreciate the recommendation, I’ll look into it thanks.
There are a few channels like that I watch, one is “History to fall asleep to” or something like that.
I just downloaded NewPipe, and on there you can turn off the screen and just have the audio playing, so that’s awesome.
It’s tricky for me, because if the show is too boring, my mind will wander and I’ll start to get anxious, thinking about things I shouldn’t. Conversely if it’s too exciting, I’ll get too into it and it’ll wake me back up lol
I know, I’m kind of a mess.
To make matters worse most sleeping medicine doesn’t work at all for me, and the only one I’ve found that does gives me dry mouth to the point it gags me.
I hope this one is just the right amount of interesting for you. I particularly like that there are recurring characters and you can keep up with, and “cameo” style apearences and references if different episodes. Easy enough to ignore if you’re not into that. My favorites are the baker and the cat Marmelade. Best of luck sleeping!
I’d rather foot the bill directly. I’d rather pay for shit if it costs something. I’d rather the businesses that I do business with work harder to make their products better rather than work harder to make me click on ads.
The thing is, ads per user aren’t that profitable for them. They don’t make $20/month from you just watching ads, but they’ll demand that from you to stop watching ads…
I’d rather not give them a dime of my hard-earned money.
Unfortunately they seem to make products better until they reach saturation, then they split into tiers, raise prices (and/or lower offerings - looking at you Max) and start introducing ads into paid tiers.
Some industry people are amazingly entitled about your obligation to participate in their business model. Jack Valenti, a former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, once literally called muting commercials or leaving the room during them “theft of programming”.
So im assuming a bunch of people are filming themselves walking out of a room with commercials playing and sending it to him with a big FU in the subject line?
Well probably not, since he’s been dead almost 20 years. He made his statement during the Napster era, when copyright was more in the news.
The are others.
Odysee.com ; Nebula.com ; Peertube ; Dailymotion ; Tubi.com for TV and movies ; Bitchute ; Rumble ;
Kick ; and more than you have time to watch in a dayEvery time I’ve tried to use an alternative it hasn’t had anything that grabbed my interest. If you say I’m not looking hard enough, you’ve missed the point of why I’m currently on a short video platform instead of watching a TV show or movie. If I have to look hard you’ve already lost me.
Odysee is right-wing libertarian circle jerk
Kick is just streamin and criminal activity, no?
yeah, absolutely degenerates rooting for absolute degenerates. it’s like if you took the dumbest people on /b/ and gave them a platform that encourages them to be worse.
Nebula is awesome. But if you’re going to pay for a video service, you could also pay for YouTube Premium and not get ads regardless of your ad blocking setup, AND support the people whose videos you watch (at least a little, certainly more than ad-supported viewers).
(Nebula is better than YouTube for specific genres, but YouTube is of course more broad and contains most of what Nebula has.)
Sure but Nebula is cheaper than youtube premium AND pays it’s creators more because it’s a platform owned by it’s creators.
Oh 100%. I love Nebula. I’m considering doing the $300 lifetime subscription.
Vimeo
The library
New pipe is pretty cool…
Foot the bill
Send feet pics to YouTube HQ
Eh, too on the nose to be funny.
Ads are brainwashing. They sell companies access to your brain case and it’s always been a disturbing behavior.
I love that the algorithm knows that you went to pee
I will never pay for Youtube or accept ads. Yes, even if it would bankrupt them. I am more than willing to let it all burn.
You can have my eyeballs on your ads when you out then from my cold, dead head.
