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You joke but there’s a patent for that exact technology

The next thing after DRM is ARM (Attention Rights Management)

I'm waiting for the time that they turn my volume back up after I mute it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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 day

ReVanced baby 🤘🏻

I already try to consciously not click YouTube links in my primary browser to avoid this. I load them in a backup browser with no privacy tools or, much more often, download them directly for local viewing. Fuck Google and their ads.

Foot the bill

Send feet pics to YouTube HQ

New pipe is pretty cool...

Ads are brainwashing. They sell companies access to your brain case and it's always been a disturbing behavior.

Laughs in newpipe

Eh, too on the nose to be funny.

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