Firefox X UBlock Origin X Sponsorblock X Bring Back Youtube Dislike. Thank fuck for those Devs.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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The removal of YouTube dislike is still fucking infuriating to me. I get it: now I have to watch the video to find out if it's a piece of shit, and that's exactly what they want, but holy fuck what a shitty decision designed to waste my time and maximize their chances to flash an ad in my face.
Absolutely. It sucks so much for me to not be able to see that most people DO disagree with a video, and all I can see is the idiots that did. So frustrating.
How to ensure huge swathes of the population will never ever buy your product out of sheer spite
That number is still SIGNIFICANTLY less than those who won't do anything. Us using ad blockers doesn't even account for a percentage of what they rake in from those without them.
Not going to help when you have a monopoly over the user-generated content field like YT and by extension Google basically does.
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Just imagine coming up with shit like this being the only job you can find and not jumping off a building instead.
firefox and uBlock Origin. I don't see ads. Fuck Google and their AI.
Imagine ...
THIS IS SP....
Insert unskippable ad here.
ARTA!
Wow big congratulations to the corporate ghoul who thought this up. Thanks for making our world a shittier place.
Enough is never enough.
Why do you need "AI" for this? That is something that can be done client side on a 30 year old phone without sweat if you already have a list of timestamps and number of engagements for a video?
I was at Google when they announced that only AI-related projects would be able to request increased budget. I don't know if they're still doing that specifically, but I'm sure they are still massively incentivizing teams to slap an "AI Inside" sticker on everything.
considering thier Pixels are heavily devoting most of its resources to AI solely, while neglecting all the other hardware.
30 year old phone
I'd like to see you try:
Done, but the dial up is going to take a while for the reply
This task is not that complicated. You have a list of timestamps with the seconds and the number of interactions for that second. All you need to do is to find the seconds with the most interactions. On a 1h video this would be only 3600 calculations "if currentValue is greater than maxValue". If you store it as a Plain integer array you would need ~14KB of RAM. For comparison, a 1987 homecomputer with a 68000 CPU would do ~7Million calculations per second and have ~512kB of RAM, depending on the options.
Any product that advertises on YT is one I avoid
The actual ads I don't have any strong feelings about, the ones sponsoring creators are the ones I look at sideways.
A guy I know started selling AI push notifications.
Your app signs up for his service, and he uses what's essentially ChatGPT to find the best time slot to send you custom push notifications. That's just his third party service working with limited data and system access.
Just imagine when Google and Apple start selling that as a service integrated to the OS.
Am I the only one still not seeing ads on YT with Ublock?
Same here. Ublock Origin for the win!
YT becoming shittier and shittier with ads is why I've changed to downloaders instead. No ads.
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Eh this needs to go in fuckai
Right when the guitar solo hits
Use Freetube or Invidious, problem solved.
Only Freetube is being actively attacked by Google and Invidious is basically dead.
Use NewPipe or its forks
Why can't they just place the ad at the beginning of the video, Spotify gives you X free uninterrupted songs to listen to after listening to 1,2 adds. Why can't they just follow that model
So I'm sure this will just cause more people to use Ublock and other ad blocking services if that one fails. Maybe this will cause more people to look into making their own Peertube instances. But who am I kidding, normies usually don't like hosting communities themselves...
Maybe this will cause more people to look into making their own Peertube instances. But who am I kidding, normies usually don't like hosting communities themselves...
The "normies" don't even know what that means. I get this platform is full of techy people and out of touch with the typical technology user, but Holy shit this is on a whole different level.
EwTube underestimates a person's primordial instinct to skip ads
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