I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

    • yboutros@infosec.pubEnglish
      82·
      1 month ago

      Don’t tell him, if too many people get ad blockers they’re just going to keep evolving

      • miridius@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        Is that really how it works? I feel like the whole ad based economy is a sham anyway, I wouldn’t mind if it collapsed and we funded websites through micropayments or gift economy

        • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org
          4·
          1 month ago

          Would it be so bad if we want back to how it was before? Just people making their own sites about things they cared about? For fun or the love of the subject matter?

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldOP
      312·
      1 month ago

      9 times out of 10 the ads have zero effect on my ability to search for things.

      I’m not saying searches haven’t gotten worse but until this specific thing or Google’s ai search it’s been easy to ignore if you know what you’re doing.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
        19·
        1 month ago

        I remember being that guy.
        It never gets better, ads only ever get worse. If you are successfully ignoring ads then they aren’t doing their job, and they will keep trying different ways to get your attention until you get sick of this shit and get an ad blocker.

        You have found a specific thing that would improve, save yourself the hassle and get ublock now to fix this for you as well as a dozen other little things you are “living with” that will be much better when they’re gone.

          • miridius@lemmy.world
            15·
            1 month ago

            Firstly it hasn’t actually happened yet, I guess you fell for the misleading windowscentral headline. Secondly it’s not really kneecapped, but required them to rewrite, which the uBO author decided not to do (as a statement I guess). Other ad blockers however have made new MV3 compatible versions that are comparable to the MV2 ones, so it’s clearly possible. Also don’t forget there are other chromium browsers besides chrome, if you use Brave you don’t even need to install an ad blocker because it’s built in.

            • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              1 month ago

              I’m not going to get into the technical details of manifest v2 and v3, as I think it’s beside the point.

              I think we can agree that given Google has announced the end of v2, recommending uBlock Origin on Chrome right now would be pretty mad, right?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        1 month ago

        Ads aren’t the only thing to worry about. You’re leaving yourself dangerously exposed to malware for literally no reason.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    292·
    1 month ago

    Google knows the answer to this is: “What else are you going to use, Dailymotion?”

    Which is why they’re a monopoly.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        Sure. Not watching your favorite show is always an option. But if it’s your favorite show, that really sucks.

        • gencha@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 month ago

          Yeah. It really does suck. You get over it eventually though. And, who knows, in a couple of years maybe someone releases all episodes in a single download and you’ll be enjoying them on a whole new level.

          If you really like something that is only available on a single platform, and you don’t really enjoy that platform, and you also have zero control over the platform, get out of that situation. It will always end in frustration. Try to gain back control

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    Aside from adblocking making youtube actually usable, there’s been such a notorious increase in enforcement of DRM.

    I couldn’t watch jack anything related to Olympics because NBC got youtube to spam remove practically any footage, as if I’m going to spend cash money on their shitty streaming platform to find a 30 second clip. Same thing for any ICC highlights. Only 360p widened 2 minute videos get past the filter.

    Almost no such thing as public replays, clips, montages, or highlights anymore. It all gets boxed up in some corporate ownership, never to be seen again aside from the live footage.

    • dragonlobster@programming.dev
      3·
      1 month ago

      funnily enough I was able to watch olympic replays on one of my city’s (Hong Kong) official broadcast YouTube channels, specifically HOY TV, but all the commentary is in cantonese. But it’s also region locked (I just tested it by trying a US VPN) so you need a VPN to a Hong Kong server.

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldOP
      122·
      1 month ago

      Because I don’t know how to do all that shit on my phone 😭

      I’ve had several people try to explain but I just can’t fuckin do it. I’d need someone to sit down with me and show me while explaining every action.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        25·
        1 month ago

        Use your app store to install Firefox.
        Install ublock origin Firefox extension.
        Go to Youtube using Firefox.

        • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          1 month ago

          Realistically I don’t use YouTube very often at all unless I’m searching for a video I already know the full name of.

          After all this shit I’m just not gonna be using it at all.

        • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          Everyone is making suggestions assuming OP uses a certain OS but you are asking the real question here.

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 month ago

        Assuming you’re on android, you can use this download link on your phone to download the .apk for NewPipe. This link is a direct download to install the app. (If you don’t trust my link, you can got to newpipe.net yourself), so if you click it, it should immediately start downlaoading and you can follow the steps to install the app. It’s pretty self explanatory.

        It’s a frontend for youtube that removes all ads. You can’t comment or like, but you can subscribe to channels via NewPipe, just like you’re used to in youtube. But no ads. You do not need to login, it is not tied to your youtube account.

        Youtube doesn’t like ad dodging frontends, so every once in while the app won’t work and you’ll need to go back to youtube (or a different alternative) for a day or two until the folks at NewPipe fix it again. It’s kind of an arms race like that, but with advertising.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          For Android, NewPipe is great. I think I prefer FreeTube now however. Mostly because of the ability to use the Invidious api, built in SponsorBlock, settings coss-compatibility with the desktop version, and a better way to organize and export data (IMO). However, freetube android does has a few rough spots that newpipe doesn’t have, so ymmv.

      • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 month ago

        From my experience, if you’re on iOS then Brave is the only browser I know of that includes a built-in adblocker (although I have my own issues with Brave).

        If you’re on Android, should be able to just install Firefox (or a fork like Fennec), tap the three dots in the app > Extensions > uBlock Origin

        If you’re otherwise using the YouTube app, I don’t have much to add in that respect as I usually use Invidious or NewPipe.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    1 month ago

    i tried to find a clip of that olympics break dancing thing a week or two ago.

    It was fucking impossible. I literally couldn’t find shit, it was all AI generated videos.

    • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      That one is a Olympic copyright issue. Either NBC since they pay so much for the rights or the IOC flag videos immediately so all your left with is low quality videos.

      It genuinely ruins trying to find Olympics content if NBC doesn’t cover that specific event

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        why would you ever copyright video clips of the olympics though, nobody fucking pays for cable or has time to watch streams. And we’re also only talking about like 2 minutes worth of content, I’m pretty certain that would be fair use.

        • demizerone@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 month ago

          The Olympics are less and less about the athletes and what the human body and mind can achieve and more an more about the sponsorship deals. These corps pay big bucks for exclusivity deals.

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            1 month ago

            yeah but that’s all pre broadcast shit, it’s irrelevant to some 3 minute clip being uploaded to youtube containing that segment of footage.

            If you want people to care about it, it has to be accessible, and clearly, it’s not very accessible.

      • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        Thank you for this. I watched the whole thing. It’s undeniable that Raygun can do a lot of things I can’t, but her performance paled in comparison with the other competitors. Three four times I got the goosebumps when the other competitors did truly amazing moves!

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      This is to be expected, Google does the same thing with their search engine; delay providing the most accurate and related results in order to get users to see more ads per search.

    • demizerone@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      Raygun is the best, but I also failed to find it and I have YouTube Red (or whatever Google calls it now). The Olympics was on that feed like hoss on some slop.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        yeah idk i thought some of what she did was pretty good, she demonstrates good control, i think she mainly needs to work on fluidity and transitions though, some of them were awful.

  • Art35ian@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t even use YouTube anymore. I might go there once a month to watch a tute, but only if I absolutely can’t find help from any other website.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    The ad industry is truly one of the most reprehensible and insidious things humans have ever invited unto themselves. It’s beyond dystopian how much of our ability to move through the world is now contingent on us allowing our brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

    I believe conspiracism is the root of all evil. But ads are gaining on conspiracism like they’re Usain Bolt being chased by an angry bee.

    I have to hand it to those soulless fucking devils though, they might have pulled off one of the most brazen but successful mindfucks I’ve ever seen: they convinced lots of people that seeing ads about topics they were interested in was some sort of concession from the ad industry, like they were begrudgingly implementing measures to make ads “relevant” to us, and that we were somehow gaming the system because of it. It was a “win” for us to have the ads being served into our eyeballs and ears be tailor-made for us. “I’m so sick of seeing ads for products I don’t even care about! I wish there was a way to make the ads be relevant to ME” said no cunt ever. But they managed to convinced us that everyone else was saying that, and that we’d won some sort of victory against them to have their advertising have the precision of a sniper rifle, versus what it was before, like some sort of shotgun fired from 150 feet away in the dark.

    An entire species of marks.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      brains to be bukkaked with ads that are designed specifically to bypass our rationality and embed themselves in the very fabric of our beings like psychological rootkits.

      and like 90% of people think they’re completely impervious to ads lol

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I have been using adblockers for decades already. And it’s been that long since I had to see ads. Occasionally some site will have some way of it getting through but even then I have the plugin scan and it sometimes can start blocking it. Essentially, my internet has been 95% ad-free and frankly I am surprised when I encounter anyone who doesn’t do the same.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    1 month ago

    What happened is that you forgot to install an ad blocker.

    edit ad blocker won’t help here

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

      yes, but their results are trash now. shows you 5 results, then 10 or things you’ve probably already seen completely unrelated to the search, then random “trending” garbage.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 month ago

      This is not ad-blocking related. The search results on YouTube are literal trash and there’s nothing we can do about it.

      • vga@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 month ago

        Oh right. How amazing that one of my highest upmodded comment is the one where my comment is objectively full of shit

  • QuentinQuiver@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Try invidious or other platforms entirely lol. Newpipe on phones. Also block ads in browsers and on networks as much as possible

  • Xephonian@retrolemmy.com
    6·
    1 month ago

    Same as Google results, they’ve decided we can’t choose for ourselves and are now going to curated results.

    Rumble and Yahoo are far better.

    • Vraylle@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Honest question…I’ve given Rumble a couple of tries. Every visit it seems super right-wing. And I don’t mean conservative viewpoints with which I disagree, but full-blown conspiracy lunacy, hard-right fearmongering titles designed to enrage the conservative mind. That’s all that shows up in recommended/trending when I visit. I don’t have an account and pretty sure it’s not tracking my preferences. Is that just what it is, or have I fallen into someone else’s echo chamber somehow?

      For reference, title at the top of the feed right now:

      • Taylor Swift Worships Satan (my favorite)
      • The Deep State’s New Plan to Steal 2024
      • Why is “Conservative” Fox News Covering for Kamala
      • The Forged Biden Resignation Will Be Exposed
  • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 month ago

    It’s called enshittification:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

    Enshittification is a re-prioritization pattern where online product and service providers experience a decline in quality over time. It is observed as platforms transition through several stages: initially offering high-quality services to attract users, then shifting to favor business customers to increase profitability, and finally focusing on maximizing profits for shareholders at the expense of both users and business customers. This process results in a significant deterioration of the user experience.

    Though the concept had been recognized and labeled with similar terms,[1][2] the neologism “enshittification” was coined by writer Cory Doctorow in November 2022 to describe this phenomenon. The American Dialect Society recognized the term’s relevance and impact by selecting it as its 2023 Word of the Year. Doctorow has also referred to this concept as platform decay, emphasizing the inevitable decline in service quality due to these profit-driven changes.

    To tackle and diminish enshittification, Doctorow advocates for two fundamental solutions: upholding the end-to-end principle and guaranteeing the right of exit. The end-to-end principle asserts that platforms should transmit data in response to user requests rather than algorithm-driven decisions. Ensuring the right of exit entails facilitating user departure from platforms without data loss, which necessitates interoperability. These strategies aim to uphold the standards and trustworthiness of online platforms, placing emphasis on user satisfaction and encouraging market competition.

    • irreticent@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      How does peertube work exactly? If I host an instance do I need massive storage on my server to host all the videos or is it distributed amongst the other instances? Do I have control of what videos I host on my instance? I’d hate to be hosting and helping spread Nazi propaganda (or any propaganda for that matter).

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 month ago

        AFAIK if you open an instance videos are hosted in your instance, and may be replicated in other instances via Federation.

        Also it supposedly can work p2p if mutiple users are watching the same video it distributed the download. In my experience nowadays it always end using http download.

        Moderation an everything about ita users fall into the instance host and moderators. I don’t know if you can do an approval system, I would suppose so, but I’m not certain.

      • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 month ago

        Most peertube instances are isolated from most of the other instances to avoid hosting a ton of videos. Honestly, your instance doesn’t have to federate with other peertube instances since most people leave comments from other fediverse apps