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| ▲ | yndoendo an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I find _yt-dlp_ to be the best ad-block solution for Youtube. One can watch it offline and archive it if value has been found. Web Brower with ad-blocking setup can still have advertisements leak through. When it does and it still does after three refreshes, I just don't watch and move on. I will always be a sunk-cost for Google. | |
| ▲ | massysett 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | YouTube is tolerable with ads. If I found it intolerable, I would pay. Or not visit. | | |
| ▲ | tornikeo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Humans are just so damn different in their tolerance to wasting time. I can't take feeling like I wasted 10 seconds of my time on an ad even when watching an video for recreation. | | |
| ▲ | noman-land 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If an ad isn't blocked, I fast forward through it. If I can't fast forward, I mute it. If I can't mute it, I'll mute my computer and change tabs for the duration. If it's a page in a magazine, I flip it quickly. If it's a billboard I'll avert my gaze. If it's in an airplane I take out my headphones and cover the screen. I find being advertised to so annoying there's no way in hell I will spend my limited time on this planet willingly consuming an ad. | | |
| ▲ | 1718627440 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, why should I watch your content? If you want me to watch your crap, please pay me. Otherwise it's my time and attention, you expect to get for free. | | | |
| ▲ | massysett an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or you could not consume the content. |
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| ▲ | shakna an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If modern ads weren't built to be intentionally manipulative to the nth degree, whilst also extracting a huge amount of private data of the viewer, I might be more tolerant of them. | |
| ▲ | ndriscoll 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's doubly crazy to me that someone would let a machine take their time like that. An inanimate object, and they give it any amount of respect instead of fixing it to do what they want. |
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| ▲ | Ylpertnodi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 'Rainbow Dome Musick', by Steve Hillagr..glorious soothing music, then 30 mins in, a Barilla pasta advert.
Sorry, youtube - I tried. |
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| ▲ | NeutralWanted 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | YouTube premium is one of the best subs you can buy if you watch a lot of YouTube. Plus you get Music. | | |
| ▲ | Krssst 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | YT Music would be be better if I did not have to double check every of its suggestion for AI generation. Some accounts to make their AI use public which is nice but there's no way to see their channel info in YT Music to look for that. | | |
| ▲ | layer8 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You can actually tap on the channel name and scroll down to see the About section (at least on iOS). I never had genAI tracks being suggested on YouTube Music. Though it might be a factor that my account predates genAI music. | | |
| ▲ | Krssst an hour ago | parent [-] | | I use the web version and when clicking an artist's name I only see a description for well-known ones. Other channels don't show any description even though the YouTube side has one. I assume one requirement for getting genAI tracks is being initially fine with hearing music from random channels and also hearing music produced after 2022; if one only cares (for example) about pre-2020 very well-known music they're probably going to be safe. | | |
| ▲ | layer8 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I regularly listen to recent music, but often tracks I explicitly search for, and autoplay based on those I “liked”. My “Liked Music” playlist has several thousand entries, so I suspect that heavily steers what I’m presented with. |
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| ▲ | NeutralWanted 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Cant say I've ever heard any AI generated music on YTM before | | |
| ▲ | hnuser123456 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | This probably depends on if you've used it enough to make some playlists and give it an idea of the real music that you like. |
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