I rather see a black screen than an ad. Pretty much what I do with twitch, those corpo fuck heads can fuck off with their shitty cringy ass ads that make you loose a braincell everything it plays.
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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Wonder if someone could make a browser add-on that replaces the black screen with something else. Like plays a short song or something.
Some random no context 6s youtube videowould be funny
Or an ad
How are they supposed to attract new customers when they are already a monopoly?
From the beginning of the article:
...in a bid to get users to switch to YouTube Premium
Which is still ludicrous of them, considering how much you pay for how little it offers
Which I've been saying into the void for a while. Ideally in capitalism demand drives supply. If their demand is lack luster (for people upgrading to premium), rather than trying to cajole people through force into buying their product, they should drop the fucking price. Instead, they want to keep it bundled with music, and thus make it prohibitively expensive, while simultaneously competing in two seperate markets simultaneously. Give the people a video only tier, at a truly reasonable price, and begin (read: continue) to rake in cash. It's very frustrating.
Yep on desktop it offers basically nothing if you have an adblock and on mobile you can get everything you want by patching
Just use the website with Firefox mobile, as blocks.
I've been seeing more and more State Farm ads sneaking past Ublock Origin in Firefox since about a month ago. Like OP, I also found that refreshing the page solves the problem. As long as F5 continues to fix the issue, I can put up with seeing 1 second of an ad or a black screen.
0 ads or hickups here with UBO check to see if you have other extensions that give YT extra functionality they mess up UBO
There really was some ads that get through last month, but UBO fixed that last week. Either you got lucky or you are not in that set - Google do A/B updates before.
I had issues prior to removing other extentions that gave premium features. After removing them I've had 0 issues
While that’s certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time
Time not having [corporation]'s advertisements shoved in my face is time well spent
If that's what it comes to then so be it. I'd rather stare at the void than an ad.
Or my ugly mug when the sun is up
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