Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web

Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by rchaud on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:59PM (#30152487)

I feel that there is a generational gap between Youtube users that correlates with whether they will pay for premium or not.

People in their late 20s and 30s who remember Youtube as a catch-all location for lo-fi homemmade videos with few ads may not feel that YT premium is worth it, particularly if they already use adblockers, and don't use it much on mobile (where adblocking isn't possible without modded APKs). This generation also remembers torrents and Limewire, before Spotify made everything super-convenient.

Those who are more familiar with 'modern Youtube' with multiple pre-roll ads, clickbait and and influencers everywhere may be more receptive to paying just to get rid of the constant ads.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by gpas on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:03PM (#30154304)

> on mobile (where adblocking isn't possible without modded APKs)

What's a modded APK?

Firefox and other browsers like Vivaldi have awesome adblocking nowadays. There are alternative frontends like invidious.

Newpipe is an oss app, perfect on Android. Vanced is very popular too but I never tried it.

But with nextdns I don't need any of those. Only newpipe because, besides the ads, having to keep the display on to listen to music while running is just stupid.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by aembleton on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:59PM (#30155156)

Vanced is a modded APK. It takes the YouTube APK and modifies it to block ads and sponsorship via Sponsorblock and lets you run it in the background with the screen off.

NextDNS doesn't block ads on YouTube because they're served from the same domain as YouTube videos.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by gpas on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:00PM (#30156017)

Oh I didn't know Vanced worked that way.

And you are right. Ads are blocked by newpipe, nextdns in this case is worthless.

Sorry for the misinformation everyone.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by fartcannon on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:22PM (#30152818)

Huh? Firefox on mobile supports ublock origin. Or do you mean the app? Don't use the app.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by jmrm on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:02PM (#30153464)

There is also the possibility of using YouTube Vanced and other similar apps (in Android at least) to do the same trick in a more comfortable way.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Enginerrrd on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:48PM (#30154100)

I don't think it works on iOS. Works perfectly on Android though!

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by propogandist on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:48PM (#30156566)

Brave is the only iOS browser that supports ad-blocking on YT

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Dylan16807 on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:02PM (#30156706)

The app works a lot better, though.

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Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by Vrondi on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:17PM (#30153665)

No. Stupidity knows no age limit, and a fool and his money are soon parted.

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