Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn’t go through lolol…

(the black square bottom right is probably an ad being blocked.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    5 months ago

    I’ve been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.

    If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I’ll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won’t have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.

      • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        i haven’t used their search in ages. ddg is good enough and doesn’t flood you with ads instead of actual results. still not as good as Google used to be once upon a time, but I’ll take 80-90% quality over the garbage that is Google search.

        but I’m also considering switching to kagi

    • Orfeluh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      You can use some of the alternatives like Piped in web browser or desktop app called FreeTube

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        212·
        5 months ago

        Yes, let’s abuse a country’s poor economy so the service providers eventually raise the price in the region as a direct countermeasure and fuck over the real citizens that needed that cheaper regional pricing.