• LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    11 个月前

    You know what annoys me the most about this?
    I looked up the price of Premium. It’s not great but not too bad either. I hate subscription services so I thought “I’ll just buy the annual plan”
    Google doesn’t offer the Family Annual plan in my region. Only Individual Annual.
    Fucks sake Google! If I’m trying to give you money, the least you could have done is make it easy!

    • Veticia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.

        • Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          23 天前

          Only on Android tho, iPhone users can’t use Firefox extensions, for iOS, I recommend the Vivaldi browser, it has a built in ad blocker with the ability to add custom block lists

      • limerod@reddthat.comEnglish
        0·
        11 个月前

        Yeah, just a second ago. Probably, something to do with Firefox. Anyway, articles these days are becoming superficial. What could be said in a few words takes an entire paragraph for some reason. Writer’s skills are on a downward trend recently. Not liking it

        • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          11 个月前

          We’ll* have ‘AI’ summarising shitty long articles written by the same AI. The future is bright

  • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    11 个月前

    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.

    • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      I would argue that pop-ups like this are an intentionally crappy design meant to be frustrating and get in the way. But, I understand what your saying, this is perhaps not the best suited community for this post.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        I think the difference here is I view “crappy design” as something badly made or poorly executed. What you describe I would consider to be “asshole design”: perfectly well-made, but with bad intentions. I can see why you would have the different definition though, and considering the Reddit subs had a lot of these same definition issues it’s not surprising they continue here.

  • TechAnon@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 个月前

    I saw this, hit the X to close that pop-up and continued on as usual. Just me?

  • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    11 个月前

    I’m somewhat surprised it took so long after they took over YouTube.

    Might cause some surprising competition hopefully

  • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    11 个月前

    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.

  • Teon@kbin.social
    1·
    11 个月前

    I use Firefox and have uBlock Origin installed. I block ALL cookies from YouTube and Google and other Google sites. I am not signed into any Google properties and I have not seen an ad for over 10+years. I never use an app or mobile and use only a desktop on Linux.
    Google will not win over products like uBlock Origin because, it’s NOT an ad blocker, it’s an element blocker. It allows the user to remove annoyances, and that sometimes includes ads.
    The only way Google will get to force ads on people is if they REQUIRE you to sign in to it’s services and force cookies on you. It will have to be a walled garden. Meta, Xitter, bluesky, reddit, will all eventually go to the walled garden because they are greedy. Users will leave and the Fediverse will grow.
    People are fed up with ads and all the “improvements” that sites like YouTube make. Ambient mode, auto play, end cards, notations, all unnecessary. And we block it with element blockers.

    • DarkenLM@kbin.social
      1·
      11 个月前

      I don’t think the Fediverse can really provide an alternative to YouTube. The infrastructure required for the amount of data constantly being served and processed is prohibitly expensive.

      • Teon@kbin.social
        1·
        11 个月前

        Maybe not today, and never at the scale that YouTube is right now (that’s not a bad thing), but never say never.
        5 years ago no one saw a psychopath buying and actively destroying Xitter.
        Technology changes quickly. It won’t be long until 10TB HDDs are standard fare, 8G is everywhere, electric cars are 40% of the market etc.
        Anything is a possibility and humans get smarter and more innovative. I know this because humans can carry a small computer in their pockets.

        • Oka@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          11 个月前

          All it takes is 1 developer to add video support to lemmy, and make videos defederalized, then we could have different videos in different communities, we could have video-only communities, and those would be youtube-like.

          • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            11 个月前

            I don’t think code is the main problem here, it is the money to invest in the server space and bandwidth for it.

      • Teon@kbin.social
        01·
        11 个月前

        I don’t need to watch videos when I’m not home. And I prefer a real screen.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    11 个月前

    Everyone needs to sign out on desktop if you’re using Ublock origin bypass. This whole TOS thing could be grounds to start going after your account they don’t achieve the outcome they’re looking for

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    11 个月前

    If they manage to kill ReVanced I’m done with YouTube. I’ll subscribe to Nebula or something.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      0·
      11 个月前

      Use Invidious! No ads, no username required, no reporting to YouTube, Sponsorblock can be used, and you still get unlimited access to YouTube’s content. There are dozens of instances, but inv.tux pizza usually works for me.

      I know that Nebula has exclusive infotainment, but sometimes I just want to watch people be bad at video games.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        11 个月前

        I feel like this might be blasphemous around here, but I actually like being logged in and getting tailored algorithmic suggestions on YouTube. Unlike most people it seems to know my interests pretty well.

        • DieterParker@feddit.deEnglish
          0·
          11 个月前

          Same. I really like my newpipe, but the sheer amount of unfiltered fuckface influencer bullshit videos ‘currently trending’ on it’s frontpage is more disgusting than any algorithmic youtube bubble will ever be.

          • fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            1·
            11 个月前

            These frontends need to introduce a preferred-startpage feature that enables setting Subscriptions as the default. I’d be interested to know from others if there’s any technical hurdle, because I’m surprised it’s not already available.