https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834
If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it’s gone. So Youtube being Youtube.
Here’s a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.
Fucking hilarious.
How to “block” ads: Refresh the video multiple times. They will show a few different ads and then give up. It even works on console YT apps which have more ads.
I guess it affects impressions? I figured they would have fixed that, but this still works so whatever.
Oydsee:
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What is the official reason here for removing it?
Funny, considering in the past he’s gone on big rants about how adblocking is no different from piracy, and is theft.
But then again, its Linus we’re talking about, its not like he has a particularly big issue with theft anymore.
Linus didn’t say piracy is theft to my knowledge. He pirates a bunch of games.
He did address this in the video
I think he mentioned it is priacy, but I don’t recall he said it is theft or piracy is inheritly unethical.
He mentioned many time that he pirates stuff, except he would pay for them first.
I don’t understand why people are all pro-piracy but then get offended when someone accuses them of piracy…
He never went on any “big rants”. He’s mentioned it a few times, and he’s right. You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads) to watch the video. LTT doesn’t really care because AdSense only makes up a small portion of their income, which is why he’s shown many different times, many different ways to block/bypass advertising. I could make an argument about how he’s “pulling up the ladder behind him” but I digress.
Regardless “piracy” is a fairly convoluted term with no concrete definition and it’s a dumb argument for anyone to have.
It’s a little bit more nuanced than that. Yes you’re denying ad revenue but it’s not a bad thing.
Invalid claim id when clicking on odyssey link
Reddit is curiously silent on this matter. Their SJWs are usually all over shit like this.
Wouldn’t surprise me if their new deal with Google has some influence on which posts go down the drain, and which ones go to the front page.
SJWs
Ah yes REDDIT. The website that famously does not have any safe spaces for conservatives.
I don’t see any mention of the YouTube adblock trick, so from the vid:
Copy YouTube URL. Paste it in Bing and search. Scroll passed Bing’s sponsored bullshit and click on the thumbnail for the video you searched. It will then play, still in Bing, with no ads.
So if you’re on a work or government or w/e computer that doesn’t allow installing adblock extensions, there ya go. No downloads or anything, just YouTube and Bing.
…this is the first time I’ve ever had any interest in using Bing, lol.
Invidious or viewtube are even better.
I wonder if those are less likely to be blocked on networks.
I’m sure all the public instances are on common blocklists.
are the instances always flaky and laggy just for me?
YT has been combating them, so they have some trouble lately. Others might be having trouble with the increasing amount of people leaving the Google regime.
Yewtu.be seems to be always strong (although you can’t import your subs there sadly)
I run a local instance of invidious and it is…chefs kiss
A local instance can still link your IP to other Google activities, so it’s not really private.
It’s better to run it in a datacenter and use your instance with a few friends afaik.
You mean my VPNs IP
Interesting setup but that works too.
Why is this lengthy process preferable to using ublock on Firefox?
It isn’t. But there are situations where that isn’t an option, like being on a work or government computer where downloading firefox or installing an extension will get you fired. When that’s the case, YouTube+Bing is a “good enough”/“better than nothing” option.
Scroll passed Bing’s sponsored bullshit
Ah. Still some ads then.
But you’re not forced to actually wait through them like on YT - you can just scroll past.
There’s a chance duckduckgo does something similar, but sadly I can’t check at the moment.
Leaving a comment so I remember to try it later—unless anyone reading is willing to do so.
It does indeed.
Makes sense, it’s basically just a Bing wrapper.
Obligatory Louis Rossmann commentary on the matter. https://youtu.be/qHwP6S_jf7g?feature=shared
Friendly reminder that pirates didn’t usually stole gold. Piracy was stealing shipping goods, then selling them for profit at some port. Digital piracy is thus defined as acquiring, and then distributing for profit, media that you don’t own the copyrights of. Ad blocking is categorically not piracy.
What happened to his hair?
D-Brand paid him to bleach it.
i don’t know if this is serious or a joke
Serious
They gave him, quote, “a big bag of money”
Respect. I’d do the same for a big bag of money. Im bald btw. But even…
Hey wait, this is monopoly money!?
One more reason to subscribe to float plane
I’d rather watch ads than this kid.
Op the Odyssey link is broken
It works for me. So I don’t know what to do.
Works for me, and the post was edited before your comment.
Am leaving this site soon am done with google and youtube (Yt frontends and odysee)
