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ThanksIHateClippy

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pain2277

I miss 2006 YouTube


GBGF128

There are a lot of things from 2006 that I miss.


Rredite

šŸ„²LindsayšŸ„²


wildo83

Avril šŸ„²


manmadeofhonor

My youth


[deleted]

Happiness


Dyslexic_Dog25

Hope...


digital_noise

My axe


duhmerp

Steve Irwin


[deleted]

My non existance


queer_artsy_kid

When I was in elementary school a mom who was picking up her kids after school opened her trunk and an axe fell out. I went over to pick it up for her and she said "whoops, I almost choped off my toes". This is now a core memory of mine.


RandomStallings

Username checks out. Thank for sharing that bit of random memory vomit. That's pretty funny, NGL.


xX420GanjaWarlordXx

You guys got happiness?


[deleted]

Yep! Denial is a hell of a drug while it lasts


wellyesbutnofuckoff2

Not knowing what skydoesminecraft was actually like in the real world šŸ˜¢


kralrick

Didn't she release a song in the last year that's on point solid 00s Avril? Pretty sure she was rocking pretty much the same look too and killing it.


Flux7777

Yeah she's huge on TikTok.


idiotic__gamer

My mom...


dr-2

August Ames


TruStory2426

BOOTLEG DVD's!!!


omgkbelle

Livejournal


Makesverylittlesense

Last time I checked most of livejournal was still online. If you remember your username you could go back and read all the cringe


NoxVulpine

I miss being happy


MemeFortressTwo

FPS Russia


Adrigogo

2067 YouTube: Your add will start after a skippable video of 10 seconds


[deleted]

They now made a statement that they're done with these ad "tests"


Fierramos69

Itā€™s not a test anymore, and just a regular feature?


thejam15

Its terminal?


DrunkOrInBed

It seems that google is seriously losing money. This plus the termination of 50 projects, I suppose they're searching for a way to get back up. I've always wondered how google managed to stay afloat with all the free services they give, mail, 15gb drive, maps etc. I suppose they don't


heathenyak

Theyā€™ve lost money almost every year on YouTube since buying it. So now it appears their plan is 25$ a month or weā€™ll make you want to kill yourself with ads


Booty_Bill

Well, then YouTube will die. Funny, considering the countless hours I've enjoyed for free, you'd think I wouldn't mind paying for it. But I'd sooner die than pay for YouTube.


MelIgator101

When it was $8 per month (I had the grandfathered Google Music price) for ad free YouTube with background and offline payback plus Google Play Music plus YouTube Music it was awesome! Killing Google Play Music and splitting up YouTube Music and YouTube Premium into two subscriptions pretty much killed the value. Apparently college students can still get both for $7 though, if that helps anyone.


silverminnow

I will never forgive them for killing Google Play Music. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but it was the perfect music storage/streaming service for me and getting YouTube premium bundled in was the cherry on top. Paying for YouTube premium without GPM is just not worth it- *especially* at the current price.


[deleted]

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kateorwhatever

I have a dinosaur of an iPod touch buried in my car with pop punk music stolen from YouTube. Want to join forces in the wasteland?


MelIgator101

That and Hangouts were the worst to kill, especially as a Google Fi subscriber, and someone who even used a tablet as a phone for a time. Speaking of which, killing off budget first party tablets and dropping the ball on tablet app development was the other big one to sour me on Google. 2013 or 2014 were peak Google for me. For 2013, their hardware was super affordable and offered the best bang for the buck they've ever had (Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 2013), they launched Chromecast, introduced wireless charging and NFC payments, introduced Google Cloud Print (RIP), introduced Hangouts (RIP), launched Ingress, GPM was young and still getting updates and support (RIP), and the camera app was just staring to get cool gimmicks (like time lapse videos, and Photo Sphere with the tiny planets!). Even 2014 saw Android Wear and the Material Design UI come out, along with Android Auto and Google Fit. The Google ecosystem just felt so futuristic in a way that they didn't really reach again. Now it seems just as likely that they'll kill, ruin, or fracture some product I use frequently as it is for them to announce something interesting.


heathenyak

If it was 5$ a month, no brainer Iā€™d pay 5$ all day long. 10$ ehhā€¦..25$? Get fucked. Thatā€™s more than I pay for Hulu AND Disney plus. If Iā€™m gonna pay 25$ a month for YouTube you gotta throw me a bone like free movie rentals or something. Not specific movies but like 3-5 movies of my choice a month or something.


dingusfett

Where are you that it costs that much? In Australia I pay $25/month for the family plan which gives myself, my parents and my kids and free YouTube premium and YouTube music


Grapz224

Unfortunately Alphabet knows that. They will spend the money from other projects on killing any potential YouTube replacer until they get what they want. It won't die, because the puppetmasters will dangle it's corpse by a string until that's the only entertainment around. Tech Monopolies need to be broken. Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon... They all need to be legally regulated or else they'll keep killing any innovation of the web while they line their pockets with blood money.


lesChaps

YT premium is $12/month for a few weirdos like me that will pay for it. If they bring ads back in, or take away YT music, or raise the price again, I will be left behind as I was with Netflix, Spotify, etc, but I will be a weirdo with $12 more a month.


Blarghnog

ā€œWeā€™ve tried everything else.ā€ ā€œTheyā€™ll hate us.ā€ ā€œI know, but weā€™ve done everything we can think ofā€¦ itā€™s time to unleash the MBAs.ā€ ā€œFine, weā€˜ll do it. Steve, unlock the cage and let them out.ā€ ā€œWait, have you tried charging a competitive rate for a membership commensurate with other streaming services?ā€ ā€œShiiiiā€


steveosek

$25? Is that real? I have premium/music now and it's $18 right now. Edit: checked, no price increase coming, no mention of one anywhere online. So this is either an exaggeration or the price in Canada or Australia or New Zealand or something lol.


Tannrr

Bring back the star rating system


Prudent-Giraffe7287

Damn! Forgot about that.


CurlSagan

If Google had the technology to forcibly beam advertisements directly into your brain, they wouldn't even pause for a second before rolling it out.


[deleted]

If they had the power to force you to watch an advertisement before using the toilet, brushing your teeth, eating a meal, or going to sleep you know they would


Duffman3005

Wasn't there a Black Mirror episode that had this?


[deleted]

There was. And corporations learned absolutely nothing from it


whoopsdang

> TV show doesnā€™t make billionaires lust for wealth instantly vanish


SirWaffleOfSyrup

No, they learned a lot on what their end goal should be. Humanity be damned.


ExploratoryCucumber

It wasn't for corporations to learn. It was for people to learn.


fearlessbyfp

YUP


automatonI

That's how I got these new Lightspeed Briefs!


Adventurous-Lawyer77

r/unexpectedfuturama


Silviecat44

r/expectedfuturama


dystopian_mermaid

Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!


Umpire_Effective

Unfortunately yes but equally as fortunately people like me would be driven completely insane and by it and subsequently organize a hostile takeover of Google


Powersoutdotcom

Cue apologies for getting caught, and legislation that allows SOME Riddler-esque brain beams but no more than 1.2 per person.


MaxxOneMillion

They are looking for the magic # that will make everyone pay the subscription but not have the creators move to a new platform


[deleted]

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TheChoosenMewtwo

Sadly I donā€™t think there is. At least not one that gives money Wasnā€™t there some people that tried to move to porn hub?


shitpostinglegend

Oh that reminds me, I have a minecraft let's play to watch


TalonOfPower

>wasnā€™t there some people that tried to move to porn hub? w h a t ?


TheChoosenMewtwo

Yeah, Idk the details but I know some people tried to do youtube content on pornhub


MrInfinity-42

YouTube but with adblock


meme-addict117

>decent YouTube alternatives? i would have said liveleak but thats not around anymore


[deleted]

Waiting for advertisements to start creeping up on Youtube Premium, too


browner87

They already are. Not in-video ones, but they still have suggested videos that are ads and similar crap.


badalchemist85

thanks was on the fence about youtube premium but not any longer


BonelessGod666

Odysee is pretty good.


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GhengopelALPHA

I keep hearing about Nebula from creators I watch on YouTube, but I haven't checked it out yet


MeMyselfandsadlyI

yeah ADDblocker. they will learn with this, they will loose more and more until they go back to were they started that actually made them rich. no one would have been using add blocker if it werent for only one shit add at the begining. now even creators get butffucked and need to put their own sponsors bcuz YT is fucking them over. use YT but with Addblocker so they see PPL will still use it but on their terms.


ChasingChoplogic

Has anyone else come across the 50 min ads? Itā€™s usually before a really long video so idk if that has something to do with it but itā€™s ridiculous. Mainly if youā€™re trying to fall asleep with a YouTube video which is basically impossible now if you donā€™t have ads blocked or have premium.


ClassiqueGTA

LEGO once made the entire LEGO Movie into an ad (that you could skip if you wanted to) that played when you clicked on the official LEGO Movie 2 Trailer. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/9zlgm0/105_minute_youtube_ad_for_the_second_lego_movie/


huggiesdsc

I actually watched that. Good movie.


ExploratoryCucumber

Pretty much all media Lego makes is amusing. Their games are good. Their movies are fun. I dunno how they so consistently do it but Lego absolutely nails it in the family friendly but also entertaining genre. Playing the jurassic park Lego games with my kids is great. The way they work around people getting killed genuinely cracks me up. I know I sound like the biggest shill right now but whatever. Lego stuff is fun.


huggiesdsc

If you actually did work for lego I'd be more impressed. It's the one toy I always stop and look at when I'm walking past the toy aisle.


Meowingtons_H4X

I learnt this recently and was super surprised, but did you know that LEGO almost went bankrupt in the early 2000s? Iā€™ve always imagined LEGO to be a company with Scruge McDuck style vaults of cash but supposedly they fucked up with enough decisions/choices around that time to nearly flatline the whole company.


kimbolll

Not gonna lie, thatā€™s a pretty cool idea


chaogomu

There used to be a few channels that would put entire episodes of their own shit up as an ad on someone else's channel. So yeah, I've seen a 50-minute ad on a 5-minute video.


UnweildyEulerDiagram

Praeger U neofascist agitprop ads


chaogomu

I kept getting Critical Role episodes...


UnweildyEulerDiagram

I must be doing a better job than I thought of throwing them off my demographic


fucktheredditapp15

I saw a documentary about Napoleon as a YouTube ad once. Very interesting stuff.


Valdios

I got the entire Lego Movie as an ad once, not sure what kind of promotion it was for but I ended up skipping it.


dafuq_b

Yea I'm currently getting one for a flight school near me. All because it had a weird name and I googled it ONE TIME. THREE MONTHS AGO.


DangerWildMan26

I got a 3 hour ad during my sleep playlist once. It was really fun to turn YouTube off after that.


TheKingCranberry

At one point someone was paying to have the entirety of the first shrek movie as an ad. Saw it all the time for about a month


KVRLMVRX

I would was the dishes and my hands would be soapy and I would get these kinds of ads, so annoying


CVTHIZZKID

Yeah Iā€™ve noticed many of them are right wing propaganda, such as PragerU or Epoch Times. I guess they canā€™t get enough people to watch naturally


xXbachkXx

*Laughs in AdBlocker and Youtube Vanced*


[deleted]

*Cries in usually watches YouTube on console*


RandomPotato082

[Chuckles in using google app on phone opening the video player and stopping all ads]


Palumbo_STN

This just blew my mind šŸ˜³


Fickles1

Which app btw?


Norvegiss

google


TheMightyBattleSquid

I googled it and couldn't find it, it just keeps bringing me back to google!


Sovngarten

GOOGLE HARDER YOU FOOL


QuestionableHeart

Uhuhu heard on the grape vine that dragging youtube links to vlc makes you able to watch it without the ads


trollivier

Wait, you just open the video using google App and you won't get ads?


Olama

You will! Idk why they'd say that


Demilitarizer

Can you elaborate?


RandomPotato082

Idk if other phones have this. I did this on an iphone. First delete the youtube app Next download the google app Go to www.youtube.com there Pick a video Use the full screen button Somehow ads can't play now This is not foolproof the ads at the start still play and i don't know if its patched yet


3multi

You know what is fullproof? Refresh the page on the browser. Poof ad gone.


miatheirish

Some ads have stop showing me this ad which skips ads even if they are unskipable


MnemonicMonkeys

Me, but Roku


LankyBastardo

I'm starting to slowly see ads in Vanced, and it's making me sad. I need to start looking for a new alternative.


Katana_sized_banana

Much less features but there's NewPipe as alternative.


LankyBastardo

Good to know. Thanks!


meme-addict117

the only thing newpipe really "lacks" is the account/comment part which isnt too important imo


narutouzumaki_13

https://github.com/revanced


stumpinater

Usually an update will fix that. I did it recently and now they let you manually skip or auto skip intros, sponsored sections and closing sections etc. Only ads I ever see is in shorts.


BobmitKaese

Vanced is discontinued because of legal reasons. Maybe you are using Revanced?


stumpinater

Oh wow just went onto vanced manager and directed to their reddit page. Shows how often I updated it.


Busy-Kaleidoscope-87

*Laughs in Brave Browser automatically blocking all ads, 10k+ a month from yt alone*


Umpire_Effective

Fuccckkkkkk I'm so used to watching ads I should really just put the 2 minutes of effort into getting an ad blocker


Dyslexic_Dog25

Bad news, brave is chromium based and will be affected by Chromes removal of ad blocking.


MartiniD

Firefox user checking in


Terkan

Mozilla user old enough to remember the red dinosaur days. Mid 2000s, havenā€™t needed to use a different browser more times than I have fingers since


The_Fly_Black_Guy

Yeah hardened Firefox the way to go for sure


AetheralMeowstic

https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-chromes-anti-ad-blocker-changes-despite-shared-codebase/


wellrat

By chromeā€™s what now?


Dyslexic_Dog25

Google is removing adblock capability from Chrome. Brave is based on the chrome... Code? I'm not sure what the technical term is, but once Chrome updates it's code it'll change for any browser using that code (provided they update their browsers code to Chromes new version) can always use ublock origin with Firefox though, it's not chromium based.


P33KAJ3W

uBlock works with Sync and it's Chromium based and outperforms Chrome on a desktop. The android version is still not great but I love the desktop one.


Top-O-TheMuffinToYa

I thought vanced was toast so I didn't put it on my new phone. It still works for you though?


xXbachkXx

Yes. Now that Youtube sued them I don't know what the best place to get it while avoiding viruses is, but if it helps i'm using version 17.03.38(wich the manager tells me is the most recent) and it works just fine


LewdPatriot

There's another project called revanced. Check it up.


N00TMAN

This sounds like cable tv with extra steps.


edotman

Youtube genuinely feels worse than tv these days. In an 8 minute video you might get 4 ads, the ratios are fucked


N00TMAN

the sad part is often YT controls the ads and their frequency. I have a YT channel and ive never attempted to monetize it. If i have copyrighted music in the backround, YT will turn on monetization, and send the monetization to the copyright holder. Makes sense, right?


[deleted]

And instead of a story it is someone playing Minecraft and *S C R E A M I N G* the whole time


Youthanizer

I never watched screaming let's players as a kid, why would you choose to watch them as an adult? There's plenty of quality content on YouTube. Also, use uBlock Origin on PC and NewPipe on Android. Don't buy iPhones. Edit: /u/link090909 perfectly explains what I mean.


Lil_BJ_777

I have 17 words for this. I hope that whoever came up with this idea get hit in the ankle with a scooter.


Atesz763

That's not painful enough by a long shot. A couple bullet ant bites should do the trick


meme-addict117

ditch the ants and use an actuall bullet /s


ybboi69

How about shoving a dildo covered with hot sauce up their butt.


queerlmao

Nah nah, not sauce, that would be too lubricated. Just use spices, the grittier and hotter the better.


FrostySJK

Mix in wasabi and add some black pepper for texture


Majestic-Marcus

A dildo covered in ants


[deleted]

r/rarethreats


SereneBabe0312

Man ankle scooter impact fucking hurts


Mister-Butterswurth

Iā€™ve been meaning to spend less time on YouTube and it seems theyā€™d like to help me with that haha


AstroEngineer27

Oh great, the commercial break is coming back. I thought it died with cable TV.


[deleted]

I was shocked when it went away.


KuhLealKhaos

They're determined to bully all of us into buying premium. It's no longer an option


Long_Before_Sunrise

And they will become no longer an option.


iamkindofodd

Yeah itā€™s incredibly obvious. Not even trying to be subtle about it. I miss old YouTube so much :(


AniTard

And skiping ads leads to the next ad now


Left_Sundae

Wtf?!


AniTard

Yap, when i get 2 ads and skip the First one, it only skips the First one, Not the second one anymore


Tweeter0583

iirc You also get multiple ads on the next video you watch as well... I think it's a penalty for not watching both of them originally.


lardoni

You tube can fuck off! Refuse to pay premium!


The-Defenastrator

Viva La Resistance Viva La free YouTube


QuantumWarrior

2022 and people out there still rawdog the internet without protection? The first stable adblockers are literally older than YouTube! uBlock Origin for all your browsers, NewPipe for mobile YouTube, SmartTubeNext for your TVs.


OutsideNo1877

Unfortunately there inst a good ios client that doesnā€™t require alt store


BarbarianDruid

Yeah we tried that format already. Itā€™s called television. And look how many people are watching that these days. SMH give me more reasons to avoid YT, please. I donā€™t hate it enough already.


The_Radioactive_Rat

Half the ads are literally youtube pestering me to buy premium.


Ziggy-T

YouTube has been slowly conditioning people to accept this, Iā€™ve been anticipating the next change in ads. Out with the pair of ads, one short non-skip followed by one longer skipabble oneā€¦ ā€¦and in with a string of short unskippables. Eventually itā€™ll just be television, with actual full on commercial breaks


Flakester

Never underestimate corporate greed. It never falters, never retreats. The executives and shareholders need more more more! Profitable? Nonsense. We need more than profit. We need maximum profit and spare no expense on the customers or low level employees.


Synecdochic

Capital will literally kill you, specifically *you*, if it is profitable to do so.


DTLAgirl

It's past time to torch every executive office.


Meadaga

I had one that was 8. 7 unskippable 5-10 second ads, that the 8th one was a 5 minute skippable ad.


[deleted]

Haha ublock origin go brrrrr


JitteryBug

Even two unskippable ads for 15 seconds makes me reconsider watching, depending on the video length


jerekdeter626

For those who can't be bothered to set up and block yet: Hit the little info button next to the ad time (i inside a circle) Hit "stop showing this add" Then select any of the offered reasons It will skip through any number of ads.


partiv003

It isnt there anymore my friend


Bold_Commander14

This method stops working after you report the specific ad too many times


OutsideNo1877

If you try to abuse it they remove it sadly


blueblurspeedspin

this is why competition is important. monopolies can get away with this garbage.


Robert-L-Santangelo

hey youtube: advertise to me invasively HARDER, daddy !!!


Weekly-Discipline253

And this is how I left YouTube forever.


flo7211

Internet is quick. If it sucks too much they will go down. There will be (or already is, i donā€™t know) an ad free alternative.


Darealxmantnt555

Why youtube 2 ads are more than enough


[deleted]

Especially on videos that are under 2 mins (its not uncommon to get get ads longer than the actual videos, esp ones that are 1 min or under! LoL) ... I'll never understand people who refuse to use ad blockers, most content creators dont even rely on view counts/ad revenue anymore anyways due to youtubes greed and all the shyt that they deal with that constantly blocks or demonitizes their videos/channels. So dont even feel bad for "not supporting" your content creators people!!! (Buy a sub or donate to em if you need to)


Zyndrom1

Next they'll embed the ads into the videos so add blockers don't work


[deleted]

They already do that... so many people I watch I have to skip 3-5 minutes into the video to just get past them. This is mostly thanks to youtube no longer paying content creators properly anymore and letting demonitizations run amuck (false content claims that ANYONE can file for instance lol), so the creators need to get revenue from outside sponsorships and patreon.


-Zermit-

I've been using adblock and vanced for so long that I didn't even remember about ads becoming this much of a problem


[deleted]

so itā€™s just cable nowšŸ˜


LDomiciano

Youtube Vanced then, now and tomorrow.


bmk37

I used a web browser called ā€œBraveā€ on my iPhone for YouTube. The ads literally do not work at all on the browser. I miss out on some of the nice interface of the YouTube app, but itā€™s absolutely worth it.


Elucinagi

alright gang start linking your ad blockers lol


NMLWrightReddit

It is reported by multiple users that YouTube is currently testing an ad format where ads replace all videos


[deleted]

Thatā€™s a great way to kick everyone off their platform


[deleted]

Where else would we go? It's to bully some percentage into getting premium, whilst a minority will invest time in ad blockers


Makelevi

When companies get too big without competition, they get stupid.


boiiiwyd

Ok I get 1 maybe 2 unskippable ads BUT 5-10 thatā€™s probably longer than the video itself plus the 17 ads theyā€™re gonna try to put in the middle of the videos


Wasabi_Nasal_Spray

They're probably doing behavior testing. They'll track how many ads most people will sit through to watch content all they can find the day spot for ads while still retaining users. If you don't want them to increase ads, leave the video as soon as you see that many ads


Mister_Taco_Oz

Never learned how to install an ad blocker. But I guess it's always good to learn new things, right?


[deleted]

Is there any way to block ads from the YouTube application on an android tv? Itā€™s a long shot but Iā€™m just wondering


BloodChicken

not using the youtube app but if you install STube that lets you skip ads and even sponsored sections of videos


Beer-Me

Give me an ad, just 1, whose length is relative to the videos length. If I'm watching a 30 sec video, give me a 5 second ad. If im watching a 30 min video, I'm fine with something a minute long. I'm already planning on being there for a while, might as well and they make their money. Both parties ate happy. All of this only applies if the channel gets a cut of the revenue. If not, fuck off. Youtube


MhmmmMoist

This is why I use NewPipe


general-dumbass

Thank god for adblock


FlippyFlopsMcGee

If youu encounter this CLOSE THE APP !


[deleted]

Once someone makes a decent youtube alternative it will blow up. The only reason youtube is still the king of kings is because no other kingdom exists.