Streisand effect
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Cry more, google
Umm no, NewPipe is not a website. That would be invidious/piped.
Idk if others are unaware, but there is a simple way to just google a video and not get ads. That is all i will say.
Vivaldi's stock built in ad blocking has still been working for me, have yet to see an ad.
Honestly, Google did this to themselves with not properly vetting the advertisers that they sell space to, and with oversaturation of ads.
If they'd have stopped granting ad space to scammers and malware spreaders, and if they'd have stopped adding advertisements at the line most people find tolerable (which seems to be a single ad between videos... not multiple at a time, and certainly no mid-rolls), they wouldn't have triggered quite the level of ad blocking that they did.
I see this "problem" that they have as being entirely of their own making.
YouTube is like a time killing drug. I'm trying to get rid of it. Any advice?
- go through your subscriptions and get rid of the channels you aren't interested in anymore
- export subs as .json and import them into Freetube for desktop pc and Newpipe for android. Invidious and piped instances such as https://vid.puffyan.us and https://piped.video also allow you to import subs. You can also import youtube subs into RSS feed readers.
- go into your google account settings, nuke and turn off watch hiyostory, turn off targeted ads and anything else you see in there.
- Repeat step 1 every so often and better curate your list of subs. Your feed only contains the videos you want to see first in formost and not what the algorithm wants you to see. When you do have to use youtube itself it will be limited in how much data it can collect off you.
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