Yo OP, this isn't piracy related
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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Pirated content don't have ads though.
Where else would you post this?
A Boring Dystopia, or the Firefox or Technology communities (any)
Genuinely I'd be fine if someone made a thing that when an ad started a black overlay would go up and the spund would be muted.
Jesus fucking christ YouTube really hates users
Advertising is poison.
We could just ban it.
Switch to 3rd party clients like pipe-viewer (doesn't need api key), it's less likely (though I suppose not impossible) google would roll this out against 3rd party clients as they can't track you for targeted ads.
To people thinking of joining Nebula because their marketing team/shills are currently spamming this thread, see peertube (federated like lemmy, open source)
If they are injecting ads into the actual video stream; it won't matter what client you use. You request the next video chunk for playback and get served a chunk filled with advertising video instead. The clients won't be able to tell the difference unless they start analyzing the actual video frames. That's an entirely server-side decision that clients can't bypass.
To people thinking of joining Nebula because their marketing team/shills are currently spamming this thread, see peertube (federated like lemmy, open source)
Peertube is fine, but like lemmy (but worse), there's barely anything there. Nebula at least got creators from YouTube to make ad-free versions for Nebula. If the channels that a person are subscribed to don't exist in Peertube, that's not an appealing alternative for them.
While I think federated services are a good idea in theory, the unfortunate reality is that they're also privacy and GDPR minefields that nobody has figured out how to make legal yet.
Has any federated service ever been in trouble for GDPR?
I think for that to happen, it would have to be on a server hosted in the EU, owned by a corporation, with a user that just happened to report them for violations.
I miss the times when ads were just annoying gifs on the left or right side of a web page. Then they evolved, abusing javascript, to become pop ups that hid the URL bar and opened 3 dozen different pop ups while you didn't close the mother popup. Then they started clickjacking: that close ad button? Just opens another ad. Ad infinitum.
Now, effectively editing the video to add an ad somewhere instead of serving it as a side file. The advertising industry as a whole feels like the absolute worst villains at a personal level, because they want to target you individually.
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