Evolving wrote:Yes, but not the range of classical music that YT has.

True dat. But there's a bunch of caveats for me.

While I am happy supporting real creator's work, I don't believe very much of my support paid directly to YT would go towards channels which aren't essentially just reproducing other peoples' work for free (as it the case with a lot of music vids) - and typically, music I like I've already purchased on some other format - playing it off YT is convenience more than anything.

I don't listen to music on my desktop, which is where I most frequently view YT. I tend to play it downstairs on the family TV while we're having dinner or something.

Advertising is at its most outrageous and obnoxious - downright offensive even - when it interrupts a musical moment... paying to remove something that obnoxious that they've expressly implanted feels like a damn protection racket!

Essentially, they're making people pay to cure a disease they've intentionally built in to make people seek out the cure. Advertising doesn't need to be inserted into videos, it doesn't even need to be in video form. Unobtrusive advertising is a necessary evil, but YT has weaponized advertising to a level I think is reaching for dystopia.

Evolving wrote:The translation scene is legendary! (seen it many times as a standalone clip)

"What did he say?"

I don't easily laugh out loud - just doesn't happen often for me. But I can't watch that scene without laughing.

Evolving wrote:I don't want to listen to classical music at all on YouTube if it's interrupted by ads. They have no shame: they start the ad right in the middle of the piece, don't even wait for it to end. (At any rate, they did the last time I listened without an ad blocker, which is quite some time ago.)

Yes...

Tis one of the few times I am heard swearing by my family. It's brazen. Were it another age, it would be pistols at dawn.

The_Piper wrote:I'm a desktop user as well, and like to play news and educational videos while I'm working, doing chores, driving, and laying down to sleep. Basically all the time some days. And all manner of subjects, music, etc. I have a watch later list over 500 videos long now lol! I am dealing with the commercials now. I have never had to subscribe to any streaming sites, cable tv, etc. YouTube is the best thing to happen to my media consumption since VCRs.
TLDR, I use YouTube a lot.

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Would you / do you pay USD17 a month for it, though?

Speaking of alternative sources of music:

I've just received a notifcation in my iTunes, on my phone, evidently wanting me to sign up to Apple Music again. I used it for a little while some time ago, and cancelled it, because while their range of rock music and the like may be impressive, its selection of classical music is simply pathetic.

But that's not why I mention it. The notification started with this: "On vous a manqué."

You've missed us.

That is so cheeky, I wonder whether it was just an inept automatic translation of "We've missed you", by a programme that doesn't realise that French turns subject and object around in that phrase.

Had you asked me to write 'we missed you' in French - I would've written that, so maybe just an inept French speaker?

Install ublock origin .
Then go to my filters and copy paste :
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

click on apply changes

Problem solved !



PS : If you still get the annoying pop up, which I doubt you will, restart your pc.
Should you have any other adblockers do not forget to remove them.

THWOTH wrote::smoke:

Tangerine Dream wrote:
Should you have any other adblockers do not forget to remove them.

If you don't do this step, you'll discover a new meaning to "The Dark Web".

Cito di Pense wrote:

Tangerine Dream wrote:
Should you have any other adblockers do not forget to remove them.

If you don't do this step, you'll discover a new meaning to "The Dark Web".

Only in your wildest dreams

Tangerine Dream wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:

Tangerine Dream wrote:
Should you have any other adblockers do not forget to remove them.

If you don't do this step, you'll discover a new meaning to "The Dark Web".

Only in your wildest dreams

I sleep the sleep of the just. It's dreamless, and would be boring if I were awake.

Spearthrower wrote:

The_Piper wrote:I'm a desktop user as well, and like to play news and educational videos while I'm working, doing chores, driving, and laying down to sleep. Basically all the time some days. And all manner of subjects, music, etc. I have a watch later list over 500 videos long now lol! I am dealing with the commercials now. I have never had to subscribe to any streaming sites, cable tv, etc. YouTube is the best thing to happen to my media consumption since VCRs.
TLDR, I use YouTube a lot.

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Would you / do you pay USD17 a month for it, though?

Not solely to remove ads, but being able to shut the screen on my cell phone while videos continue to play, or make "play next" ques on the cellphone might be enough to make it worthwhile for me. No plans for that now though.

It also stops tour kids being exposed to inappropriate ads.

THWOTH wrote:It also stops tour kids being exposed to inappropriate ads.

I know what you mean, but "tour kids" actually has a snappy ring to it. I love the QWERTY keyboard and this is one reason.

THWOTH wrote:It also stops tour kids being exposed to inappropriate ads.

Having witnessed how perfectly benign views gets slowly converted to ever less appropriate content on t'tube, I am not sure that advertising matters so much comparatively.

My son likes to watch animal videos. Search, click, view.

Oh, you like animal videos? Here are some funny animal videos. Click, view.

Oh you like funny videos? Here are some funny memes. Click, view.

Oh you like funny memes? Here are some try-not-to-laugh meme videos. Click, view.

<By this point, half the suggested videos have busty women scantily dressed as their thumbnail.>

Oho, well as you like that, then here's some you-laugh-you-lose videos. Click, view.

Then obviously, you must also enjoy these edgelord intend-to-offend videos making light of the Holocaust, Nazis, black lives matter, etc.

I hard reset the app every couple of weeks, but the pathway there is totally benign just caused by a kid looking for some laughs on YT.

My ad blocker's working again, thank goodness; for the moment anyway, it's an arms race, isn't it?

In general, I don't mind ads, I accept they're the price I have to pay for free stuff on the internet, but YTs ads are so annoying, if they were at the beginning of the vids, or if podcasts and things had designated breaks for them, I wouldn't mind, but having your podcast interrupted mid-sentence, or the song you're listening to stop mid guitar solo, or whatever is just too much.

I must say, Hot Fuzz took an unexpected turn about two thirds of the way in.

Animavore wrote:I got that message too a couple of weeks ago. I found a clever script that opens YouTube as if in an iframe (ie. embedded).

https://www.reddit.com/u/pir0zhki/s/8n5YkstNKr

But then Ad Block Plus updated the other day and now it blocks ads again.

YouTube has gotten around Ad Block Plus's new update so I've reverted back to the script.

ETA: DISREGARD WHY OH WHY didn't I check to see if someone else had posted this. WHY?

Saw a post on Reddit with the following recommendations

Reddit thread source. I haven't tried myself as I haven't had to yet. But the comments were positive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/commen ... o_sign_up/

(IMPORTANT Turn off all browser extensions and remove all ad blockers then restart your browser)

install browser extension Ublock origin (uninstall and reinstall if already installed)

goto ublock settings interface

goto tab My Filters

copy and paste this code

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youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Just use Brave browser.