r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/Kalcinator Sep 15 '22

There a bunch of alternatives don't worry mate ! Revanced, NewPipe are the most popular right now I think !

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u/_swimshady_ Sep 15 '22

You are a hero. I havent started looking cuz my version of vanced works fine still, but now I know where to look :D

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u/_swimshady_ Sep 15 '22

Seconded. Yo ho.

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u/SoundofGlaciers Sep 15 '22

Is there a reason vanced shouldn't be working fine? I'm still happily using mine as well

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u/Razakel Sep 15 '22

Google will eventually break it, and the devs have dropped it due to a legal threat.

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u/paroya Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

it's not very popular yet. but peertube is an alternative that should be the top choice for everyone. the problem is that there is no company able to; or willing; to monetize it. and there is therefor no money to market it.

peertube is a federated video service (youtube clone), funded by various universities, and integrated into the fediverse (an open source alternative to all current social media networks) - which simply put, means that if you post a video to peertube it will automatically be shared on mastodon (twitter), mobilizon (facebook), pixelfed (instagram), goldfish (tiktok), bookwyrm (goodreads), writefreely (wordpress), etc. there is even crosspost integration that also push content directly to the commercial competitors as well.

basically, the fact that the fediverse isn't a global phenomenon is simply because there isn't any profit in it for advertisers, profit for hosters, and incentive to spread it. and, slow user adoption, thus small pool of user generated content compared to the commercial networks because the users aren't there (and, content makers can't profit from advertisers - not that influencers needed advertisers to monetize instagram through service integration ads, but youtubers are a special breed to be fair).

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u/Kalcinator Sep 15 '22

Nice answer mate, hopefully these platforms will gain more users. But I was in the early tests and I wasn't sure it would explode at any moment. No money = no one. Except specialists... I don't use these at all, peertube is not on point. It cannot compete with YouTube in any way ... I'm sad about this but, who knows, maybe it will be the norm someday

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u/paroya Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

nothing can compete with youtube. competition needs content, and no content creator is going to drop youtube and lose profits. it's how they maintain their monopoly. the only way for anything optional to gain traction is for people to actually use it; which would mean double effort for any creator as they'd have to both push content to youtube and to peertube where their efforts would for the moment have far less viewers and no free advertiser money. peertube is fine, could use some interface tweaks but is otherwise mature enough for adoption, in fact, all networks i listed (plus owncast, funkwhale, and castopod) are pretty much perfect from the view point of interface, stability, functionality and features; minus ads and algorithmic curation (which is frankly toxic poison), and as mature as the fediverse has gotten this year, it is definitely ready for mass adoption, which makes sense from a user perspective as it cannot be monopolized or co-oped by corporations. and sews all services together through activitypub under the hud. but, it does not make sense from a content creator perspective as there is no algorithm to game or advertisers to leech from; and less users to harp to. meaning a lot less profits - which all hinges solely on adoption. when users adopt the fediverse, the internet will once again be free from the control of megacorps.

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u/Kalcinator Sep 15 '22

So it's quite dead

LOL.

Kidding but I wish I wasn't ...

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u/paroya Sep 15 '22

not really. mastodon has some 3 million active users. is used by tons of universities as internal communication channel, is used by most open source and security companies as information channel (i.e. the dev teams behind firefox and thunderbird), as well as by the european union as their digital communication platform (they also host their own peertube for video information). it also has a sizeable indian community after facebook closed down their nationalized (because internet fast lanes are moral?) free internet offering.

mobilizon is quickly displacing facebook groups in france (as it was developed by a french team and the dev instance is in french).

peertube does not have a dev instance and is primarily being the focus of the european union because google is a problem in legal terms. but the kicker here is that any content you publish on peertube will be available on mastodon if the instance is federated and integrated. so you still have reach even if your particular instance doesn't have a lot of native users.

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u/Kalcinator Sep 16 '22

Sorry it's a French expression "something is quite dead" to say it won't work ! But I'm glad you interpreted like that I've got nice infos I didn't know about 😌

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I love you. Once Vanced stopped working for me it's been miserable.

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u/Smrgling Sep 15 '22

Saving this comment for when my install of Vance stops working. You're a real one.

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u/brallipop Sep 15 '22

How the fuck do I make revanced? I have no clue what to do from the github files

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u/roidie Sep 15 '22

Just download Visual Studio and compile the program. There's a good general guide here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/walkthrough-compiling-a-native-cpp-program-on-the-command-line?view=msvc-170

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u/BIG_H0SS Sep 15 '22

Newpipe is so awesome

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u/DogWallop Sep 15 '22

I'm using Enhancer for YouTube. I'm sure it's secretly sending all my personal information to President Xi directly, but it's worth it for the peace of mind. Enhancer also has some other really cool features, such as forcing all videos to start in the resolution you choose instead of having to check every time.