You aren’t doing youtube correctly.
PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube
Mobile: revanced, newpipe
FreeTube has an Android fork now that works just as well as the PC version.
https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases
Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
How does one Rick roll people who don’t do YouTube correctly, which is most everyone?
Those people? We don’t interact with those people.
Honestly, I have Firefox + ublock origin in Mobile too
I have all 3 options on mobile as well
Same.
and sponsorblock 👌
Freetube has been failing consistently on all my desktops lately. None of the instances on the main site work. Can you verify it’s till working and maybe DM me the instance you’re using?
I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads.
Wow, a legitimate use case for shorts.
Tenor’s has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
Nice! May I recommend you share that with all of our professional rickrollers? (Or may I share it there?)
I’ve literally rickrolled thousands of people and i didn’t hesitate for a second to click on that link. wow. (﹏;)
Go for it!
Cant you just use a thirdparty youtube ui url?
I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.
And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.
What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.
Fuck u peasant! What are you going to do about?
Pirate Content?
Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
🐸
Even premium isn’t safe nowadays
A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.
Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.
This is just false, I don’t know where you got this idea
I see someone doesn’t understand the definition of Rick Rolling…
Dude… my kid will never get to experience this. I didn’t even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.
What app are you using? The dev clearly knows their shit
LOL! What app are you using to give such a warning?
Sync, it was my reddit client for years
If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.
Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such
I dunno how you sleep at night
Very well, actually. You should check out !SleepTips@lemmy.world, it might change your life!
I hate you
I disagree. This is an important issue
relevant username
You can’t do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?
exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads
Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
you motherfu-
Now playing Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
I know theres a github page. I believe its shatterdisk? When i was in school they firewalled youtube. So i found alternatives to rick roll.
Where there is a rick roll There is a rick way
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If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.
I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
Omg did you just reinvent YouTube?!?
Thank you. I needed this.
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
There was a vociferous but somehow under the radar outcry about this back in 2018 and an incredibly simple solution was widely suggested: demonetize the video.
However, the highly viewed video is a significant source of royalty revenue for Mr. Astley, which, as he well argued at the time in a series of tweets, is only just compensation for the way his image has been turned into a joke literally hundreds of millions of times now.
Mr. Astley implored YT not to bow to pressure and demonetize the video. YT famously replied “don’t worry, we’re never going to give you up, never going to let you down.”
I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
