If ads weren’t riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious…
Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer
Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.
Thankfully it isn’t hard to remove with ublock origin. Just enter Element picker mode and select the pop up to remove it. Then do the same for the greyed out background & it’ll work normally.
I’ll be that guy and say this isn’t crappy design and shouldn’t be in this community. We’ve already got posts filling top of all we don’t need more where they don’t belong.
This is when you’re supposed to use the FOSS alternatives
Me personally because I don’t have a Google account nor saw a real gain in getting one (for what I do in my day to day), I just switched to these for subscriptions.
+to that. However I haven’t found proper alternative yet.
- I got so used that dump algorithm that at least 40% of times recommends what I’m actually interested at, that it feels so hard to go back to watch unordered vids
- Newer content is still lacking on alternatives. Like coding tutorials or documentaries etc.
- On the other hand I found many old forgotten internet classics on these alternative sites like old ads and funny clips that we used to watch at 240p back in the day.
This is a long time coming. Who in their right mind thought that a service that allows pretty much anyone to upload gigabytes of videos would be free forever. I get that people don’t like ads, but the amount of outrage is overkill.
Don’t care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.
Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down? Isn’t a degraded add riddled experience better than nothing?
Do you people really think that YouTube can pay five-year-old “influencers” millions of dollars a year because YouTube is losing money?
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down?
Good fucking riddance.