• kirk781
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    162 years ago

    Whilst I am sure the article might be low quality ultimately, I still wish to see what other options they are advocating. This is clearly just a screenshot and only the first option for blocking ads.

    • @SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      2. Use a mental block
      Close your eyes for 8s - 25 min, and pretend not to hear anything

      3. What? I can’t hear you!
      Why play one ad when you can play a dozen. Open multiple YouTube tabs at once and let the ads roll at the same time. A few minutes of noise for a whole few minutes of ad-free play

      4. Use AdBlock Premium Plus
      Of course, the best block is not loading the ads. Using the discount code AFFILIATEWHORE you can get a one year Pro plan for AdBlock Premium with six months free for just $169,- per year and enjoy the ad-free experience you deserve.

      ^(/s, of course)

      • kirk781
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        42 years ago

        The last can’t easily be sarcasm. In app adblockers like Adguard do have a premium subscription option(I had one for a year back in the day, yes, stupid me) and I won’t be surprised if in the future some adblocker comes with such an option(should Raymond Hill stop working on uBlock Origin for whatever reason and the community couldn’t pick the development up that good).

    • @rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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      102 years ago

      This is the actual “mildly infuriating” part of this post for me. Criticizing YouTube for pushing subscriptions on its users is 100% justified, but posting rage-baity screenshots of low-quality websites without any sources or context is probably not the way to do that.

      • Franzia
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        32 years ago

        The time for YouTube to ask for more money was before they made hundreds of unpopular decisions and drove away literally hundreds of creators that I liked.

        • kirk781
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          02 years ago

          Where are they now? On Nebula? I stopped watching much YouTube since couple of years, though I had a decent feed back in the day.

          Ironically, I still do use YouTube Music despite it’s failings when compared to Spotify(no third party app support or shitty search results even now) but Atleast it worked for me when Amazon Prime Music refused to play in any web browser on Linux for me.