Youtube Depends on Ads to work

Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 262 points –

Seriously launched the app (by accident today) and what is this? They're trying to play the victim from the big bad ad blockers saying all they're doing is trying to show an ad at the beginning of video, and then I see all of this crap.

This was after a non-skippable ad at the beginning followed by a totally real "survey" that it wanted me to fill out, one interruption so far in the content, and now three ads on the screen. That's 45% of the screen dedicated to ads. Freaking ridiculous. "But please turn off your ad blocker".

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I feel extremely uncertain because there are still people who don't use Vanced

Unfortunately ios exists

there is youtube++, haven't tried it because i have an android, but it should have a lot of the features of vanced. And with iOS16 finally (kind of) allowing third party apps, it's not even that hard to install

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