Youtube... Youtube... Oh, yes, I remember Youtube. That was fun to use half a decade ago or so.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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I don't know how people watch YouTube with ads. Premium or ad blocker, otherwise it's a nightmare.
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That's definitely a different ML classifier than what Gemini is currently doing. Is Google just using the brand Gemini to mean "any ML system provided by Google"?
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Gemini also being forced on me more and more in Android. Seriously considering a linux phone next.
I've been hoping for one for some time, but it wouldn't be a smooth sailing even if everything was perfect. Get a pixel, install grapheneos and see if you can cope with it. I've been running it for a year now - lack of decent map app is my biggest issue that's left. Waze is great for driving, but useless for everything else; it's also owned by google. Most other apps are just reskinned google maps and don't even load without gapps.
And I'm a sysadmin. My degoogling journey began in 2018-2019 with running my own nextcloud for files, photo backup, contact and calendar sync, as well as my own email server. All that to say that I've had it fairly easy to ditch play store on a phone, but that's not what most will experience.
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Firefox + uBlock origin
Willing to bet uBlock Origin will make it so I never see a single one of these ads.
Firefox forever.
And Revanced for android is just 😘🤌 chef's kiss.
I'm a Newpipe man myself but Revanced is also fantastic.
Hey, Newpipe's a banger too, just not what I found first. I fully support anything that takes away from Google's profits
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OK let's all skip to the middle of sponsor segments so the ads cover the sponsor segment. Win win
The ads don't cover anything though, the video continues where it stopped before the ads.
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No one will even blink at ads on most engaging moments in Youtube videos, in Pornhub ones tho....
Because nothing endears your platform to users like throwing ads in their face during the high points of whatever they are watching.
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Migrated away from Google because they're just genuinely useless.
Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can't actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you're looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.
Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.
Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.
Don't even get me started on the shit show that is Android.
I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can't. I'm the furthest away from the big tech corps than I've ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.
I have a Google account specifically for logging into YouTube. I've aggressively used the like/hide channel/not interested in this video options to force it to actually show me what I want. It took quite a while to train it, but my YouTube homepage is actually nice right now.
But every so often I'll go on YouTube logged out and it's like staring into the sun. The top videos that it pushes seem like brain melting garbage.
Strangely I haven't had any issues with Firefox+Ublock+Sponsorblock. The way YouTube interacts with seemingly the same sets of software for different people is baffling.
i dont log into to youtube most of the time, just draws unnessary attention, from other users.
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I stopped using YouTube years ago. Fuck that shit.
I use YT and have not seen an ad in years. I do not understand people who have not disabled ads.
You can use it through chrome without ads sure but it works like hot garbage.
I use it daily on Firefox on Linux and on Windows and on android using Revanced
It works exactly like YouTube but without ads and with sponsorblock
I checked out Revanced and it looks helpful thanks for that info.
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Most of my favorite channels are on nebula now anyway. Just need Technology Connections and Mark Rober (my kids LOVE Mark Rober) to make the jump.
I’ve been meaning to try nebula, that lifetime membership sounds hella great!!
Knew from inception Gemini was shit
Gemini is actually legit the best LLM I've used locally for anything, consistently faster and more accurate than even models taking up about double the resources
Shame it's stupid locked down even in my ollama installation and it's near impossible to get it to do something daddy google doesn't like. Ah well, works really well for checking my garbage config files lol
Long as you like it, let it run. Its only gotten in my way by forcing tabs into my browser and asking if I want to converse with it in my messages app
They don't even need Gemini for this... They are just shoving into everyones face. I am sure data they have on people was watching the video is all they need and doesn't take "ai" to figure it out.