I use two separate third party apps, and YouTube is very diligent with screwing with my favorite of the two.
Which forces me to use the other, which is very diligent at clipping out the sponsor ad.
The link is broken.
After some searching, found it here.So no one else has to do that annoying seach, here is the article text.
I’m sure formatting will be shite. Sorry about that.YouTube is becoming unwatchable for ad block users – thanks to this powerful new crackdown tactic News By Mark Wilson Published May 28, 2024 Videos now auto-skip to the end, ad block users report
A laptop showing YouTube's ad blockers message next to a laptop showing UBlock Origin (Image credit: YouTube / Shutterstock / monticello) Share
The battle between YouTube and ad blockers is heating up again, with some YouTube users reporting that videos are now auto-skipping to the end if they’re using extensions to block advertisements.
The new YouTube tactic has been widely reported on Reddit (via 9to5Google), with ad blocker users revealing that video playback immediately skips to the end of their video. This apparently continues to happen even if the video is immediately replayed.
While Google hasn’t officially stated that this is a new tactic for dealing with ad blockers, it has escalated its crackdown on apps and extensions that remove advertisements in its videos over the past few months.
For example, in April a Google post in a YouTube Community forum stated that viewers who use third-party apps like NewPipe “may experience buffering issues or see the error “The following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch a video”.
This new auto-skipping behavior appears to affect multiple ad-blocking extensions including AdBlock, although there’s some evidence that uBlock Origin has already found a workaround for the issue.
The other solution, of course, is to subscribe to YouTube Premium ($13.99 / £12.99 / AU$32.99 a month), which is undoubtedly what YouTube is pushing users towards with its ad block crackdown. But its tactics are seemingly nudging many towards doubling down on ad blockers, resulting in a game of whack-a-mole that’s likely to run for a long time.
Is Premium worth it? A YouTube Premium menu on a tablet
(Image credit: Shutterstock) YouTube argues that using ad blockers “prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership” and that the site’s increasingly long advertisements “help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service”.
The problem is that, with those advertisements becoming increasingly lengthy and unskippable, many users feel that YouTube is increasingly looking to boost its own bottom line as much as its creators’ income.
In a parallel to Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown, there is evidence that YouTube’s ad blocker is working – back in November, ZDNet reported that Google’s tactics had led to a record number of users uninstalling their ad blockers. And in February, YouTube reported that it had hit a new milestone of 100 million YouTube Music and Premium subscribers.
But with YouTube Premium also recently getting its biggest price hike in years, many are still holding out and using ad blockers and extensions like YouTube Enhancer to preserve an ad-free experience. With YouTube ramping up its battle with ad blockers, though, the game of cat-and-mouse will likely become increasingly hard-fought.
God I wouldn’t mind if the ads weren’t so fucking cancer. Like I have streaming with ads and dumb Liberty Bibberty or whatever is fine.
But YouTube, it constantly runs gambling scams and then rolls into a 90 minute “ad” podcast about some bull shit
I get SO MANY ads for dick pills. So many. How do they even get away with that?!
I just noticed they removed the button to report ads as inappropriate.
I started routing all of my system traffic through Tor recently, which made YouTube nearly impossible to watch. So, my watching time on YouTube has dropped, and I have started watching more Rumble, Odysee, and PeerTube.
How do you find them as replacements?
The day they “win” is the day YouTube is dead to me
PeerTube
Odysee
Internet Archive, to an extentNebula
Floatplane
Vimeo
Patreon videoBitch your content creators to also provide content on other platforms.
The content creators won’t make the effort unless they have some way to monetize their views though.
I’m my opinion the best days of YouTube were before monetization was a thing. There were plenty of creators back then, and it was a lot less corporate than it is now.
People think TikTok took off because the algorithm had some magic sauce the other platforms don’t. Nope. It’s because the content was more authentic because creators couldn’t monetize. It was like YouTube in the early days.
Unfortunately, you need monetization to keep going. If creators didn’t, they wouldn’t have folded to YouTube monetization rules and just kept posting whatever they wanted. Basically, YouTube demonitezes then crrators have folded to just censoring their videos instead of pushing back because of money.
What they are saying tho is that people who want to make actual content don’t care about monetization. They do it for the love of the game. Sure you can get a few to censor swear words and suicide, but the thing that built it was freedom. If you take away freedom then you’ve got nothing. Half the equation is people who watch the content. If people don’t want to watch your shitty watered down bullshit, and other people don’t want to be gagged by censorship, you’re going to alienate the base; that is, actually red blooded humanity. Oh, let’s say between the creators and the viewers its about 60% of your base. It won’t be over night but it will be enough that ther3 will be alternatives to the bullshit. I say bull shit because that’s what it is. Fucking goddamn horseshit. Thank you for glistening.
AFAIK, it’s still possible to upload content that can be demonitized if you really don’t care about monetization. The video will not be deleted, it will just be demonitized. However, creators don’t want to get demonitized so they bow down. There is still freedom just as long it’s not some extreme stuff.
From what I understand (very limited knowledge here, might be BS) YouTube actually pays creators more than pretty much any other platform.
Maybe add Bilibili, TikTok, Facebook, and Dailymotion to the list. Yes, they also have ads but they are not that strict about ad blockers.
Fuck tiktok, Fuck facebook.
But they are the only plausible alternatives with enough funding to operate
Once thousand percent 💯
I do but they usually bitch right back
invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/feed/popular
I haven’t been able to get invidious to work reliably for a year or more.
I’m not asking for a how-to. I’m happy enough with freetube on the desktop.
That’s a privacy overlay like nitter for twitter, not a hosting platform.
NewPipe
That’s a privacy overlay like nitter for twitter, not a hosting platform.
Works better than invideous though.
Is the article 404ing for anyone else?
Yep
For me as well (in germany)
You guys, Mr YouTube worked really hard to make and produce all those videos quit stealing them!!
On android use a firefox fork with ublock I’m sure there is an equvalent on ios as well. It’s much easier than playing whack-a-mole with an app.
On Android, the DuckDuckGo browser and AdGuard both have ad-blocking video players.
Ublock works in normal mobile Firefox on android
Firefox integrates AI bullshit these days therefore I would never recommend it.
While I share the sentiment, they do have a master toggle to turn all of it off.
Does the ublock addon also do the cat and mouse game with Google when google patches ad blocking with ublock?
As of recently the offical block list doesn’t because they gave up but there are many others maintained by folks that still do.
I have yet to have an issue like that. I’ve been watching YouTube through ironFox with ubo for over a year with no issue I disabled the mobile yt app
I haven’t tried yet so i am asking. I currently only use brave because I know they patch whatever google does to evade adblock
Try Unwatched
It even have sponsorblock built in.
Thank you so much I have looking fr something like this for nearly a year now.
My pleasure.
It can be finicky sometimes playing videos but a long press of the play button would give you the option to reload the player.
Bonus
pipepipe is fine. Install direct from github. It alerts you when theres an update.
Vinegar works really well on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
$1.99?
No thanks. But thanks though.
It’s an Apple app so be thankful it’s not $29.99. I’m not endorsing the price and haven’t even had an iPhone in years but it did work well, even on such a locked down platform
I’ve probably watched thousands of hours of YouTube over many years. I honestly don’t see what people have against paying for the service in stead of watching ads. It’s not like you never heard of YouTube premium, you know it exists.
I paid for it for a while, but the price kept going up way faster than inflation (and even faster than my salary). I just play for Nebula and Dropout instead.
Paying them not to stuff annoying bullshit into your content still doesn’t stop them from slorping up every possible facet of your personal data. So long as they’re double dipping, I’m not giving them a dime.
15 years ago I would have agreed with you, but it’s not just ads any more.
These companies track everything you do, share data with eachother, and create profiles on everybody.
If I were to follow you around keeping track of everything you do and share that info with my buddy who does the same thing, you would probably feel unsafe, and it’s illegal. It’s called stalking.
So why is ok for a corporation to do these things?
Some people don’t really watch it as much to justify a subscription. I watch it everyday and listen to yt music daily as well, so my sub is pretty worth it. Otherwise i’d just get Nebula
Ads require streaming. I prefer watching already downloaded videos so I don’t need to worry about having a stable internet connection.
But I’m watching through RSS feeds, yt-dlp + VLC player, so browser adblockers aren’t really relevant to my use-case.
And a lot of people already pay for spotify, so they could switch to YouTube premium and have music and ad free videos
Some of us don’t base their buying off of stupid ads. Why can’t we just be left alone. At this point I’m just basing on if I have any money left after going to the gas pump.
That’s not the point. Youtube doesn’t want to sell you anything. They want to sell you to the companies that want to sell you something. Doesn’t matter if you buy anything, as long as you give them some attention.
Yeah, it’s really annoying how ads have become “Mr. Beastified” too. I can’t even turn a TV on without some attention sucking advert coming on that demands your full and centered attention. What was a chill afternoon feels more like a tax.
Newpipe’s been relatively solid for me on Android. I think I have more subscriptions there than on Youtube at this point.
Yep, Newpipe and PipePipe which is a fork of Newpipe are both working just fine for me.
What differentiates PipePipe? I really liked Tubular, which was NewPipe+SponsorBlock, but it quit getting updates
“Page not found” but the post is upvoted this much? Is the article taken down perhaps?
It’s probably upvoted because fuck Google.
Guess that explains why GrayJay stopped working.
When Gemini recommended SmartTube I made the switch.
