I was watching a video on landscape mode on my phone on YouTube. And then when a wild midroll ad appears, the ad thinks it’s a good idea to play a ultrawide-screen video inside a TikTok style vertical phone window, and then puts that in a widescreen video. The whole thing also got smaller to display the CTA at the right.
Which reminds me, I hate how YT ads on mobile try to forcibly cover up the entire screen. It’s like seeing a billboard that suddenly expands to fill most of your vision. They didn’t used to do that, instead they just took over the video portion of the screen, but you could keep browsing comments while the ad plays.
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Use NewPipe x SponsorBlock.
Ah, the joy of not being sold anything.
I’m not really a fan of sponsor block. It’s pretty much the most privacy respecting way of advertising and safe income for the creator. Seems like a win−win. I don’t like watching ads but I’d rather watch a sponsor segment than a YouTube ad
NewPipe ftw though
I see your point, but I really wish we could go back to a more innocent internet, when people make slightly crappy videos as a hobby, rather than overproduced shows as a profession.
I kind of agree but I also kind of don’t.
I thoroughly enjoy well produced content by the likes of Veritasium, Captain Disillusion, Mark Rober, Lemmino, Potato Jet and more. I do see where you’re coming from tho
There still are people doing it as a hobby and some even consider it a hobby despite the high production quality. Those channels are harder to find, though and that is kind of sad. I can’t help but wonder what would’ve been if we hadn’t commercialised the web.
If only phones had a somewhat simple way to view desktop-format video so that not everything had to be done in portrait. If only.
Wow, that’s just as bad as taking a screenshot of a photo of a monitor displaying an image of a painting
Hang on, let me fax you a Polaroid of the printed spreadsheet I’ve been using as a database. I’ll be sending it through an amateur radio repeater with autopatch.
Youtube has ads?
Highly recommend piped.video or piped.kavin.rocks
Both are instances of piped, and is a brilliant front end for YT. Skips ads, but also includes skipping intro videos and mid video sponsors.
This even dumber than accidentally making a bad product.
Just use newpipe
If you minimize a video on mobile ads also fuck up the aspect ratio so when you try to enlarge it to skip it’s harder.
Delete the YouTube app, install Firefox and uBlock Origins, point YouTube links to FireFox, never watch a YouTube ad again.
Or get revanced
ReVanced is proprietary, better LibreTube or NewPipe
EDIT: To be more clear, ReVanced is a mod of the stock YouTube client. ReVanced’s patches are OSS, but Google’s spyware still runs at its core.
What? They literally have the project up on GitHub.
I know i get Downvotes all the way, but just pay for YouTube Premium. I do it a while now and me and my wife use YouTube Music for Music Streaming (wich i like more than Spotify). NewPipe is no Solution for me, cause i watch YouTube on my TV and listen Music on my Smart Speaker.
Well, I use ReVanced so I won’t have to pay a penny and still have all the features from the official app
