YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣
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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - People installing better adblockers
00:40 - Rule #1 of the internet - don't tell people what to do...
02:40 - The streisand effect
03:55 - My own channel is filled with people who watch ads
04:30 - CZcams's campaign is educationg normies that adblockers exist
05:52 - People are tired of ads that have gone too far
06:27 - Product comparisons demonstrate that the internet is for ads and affiliate commissions
07:11 - The problem with the ad supported internet
08:57 - I stand by my assertion that youtube is not a profitable company
09:56 - The conflict of interest
11:40 - A better world starts with us
13:00 - The controversial hot take
13:55 - Anti-sponsor spot - Intuit Quickbooks, horrible software - Věda a technologie
The FBI recomends everyone use an adblocker
www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
You're not lying. That is a .gov website, posting a public service announcement from the FBI.
Been seeing this get mentioned a lot, and given how malicious and unsafe CZcams's adspace is and malicious code in ads across the internet, it would be crazy for them to be wrong.
@rossmanngroup this is just a question, so please don't crucify me. If YT is such an immoral platform and you are all about morals, how come you keep posting here vs. Rumble or Kick?
@@mikelee9173because they suck
Network effects. Audience reach, simple@@mikelee9173
Fun fact: Ublock Origin still blocks ads, and every time YT changes the system to make it not block them, Ublock just updates a few hours later.
"Age of Information" . . . . . . . . .
Yep I have premium, but I tested my adblocker in incognito and it threw the flag, switched to ublock origin and it worked just fine. I also have a pihole with all my network traffic running through it and it didn't detect that either.
no wonder i never noticed any problems with ads despite seeing all these videos, never even seen the warning about blocking the video player
shhhh lets enjoy
My Ublock stats: Blocked on this page [9,527 (55%)]
As a kid, and even being a teenager watching cable tv, I remember not being annoyed by ads at all. It was like blissful ignorance until my program turned back on. And that was the case with youtube too. A five second ad is nothing...if it's only one. And I remember those being every couple of videos, not on every single video. The sheer volume of ads they now serve is nuts. I got tired of updating u-block and turned it off. But once I did that I noticed how ugly the website was, and also a lot of the ads were very concerning in general.
I would say for people's well being that they really need ad blockers on. So actually I hope this shit that YT is pulling brings awareness to millions of users.
In the old days, ppl used remote controls on TV daily programs - befor einternet days, to mute the TV as ads were louder and obnoxious. So people developed a hatred for ads 40 years ago. Thhe louder they made the ads, on the idea ppl walked out of the room during ads, to make a coffee etc and they wanted t o make sure you could hear the ad from the kitchen just meant hthey switched off EVERY other viewer who was still watching the tv and the ads. SO they and we would just mute it. Advertisers became their own worst enemy in thier own world!
Recently I couldn't get on Paramount plus to watch one of my favorite shows so watched it on the CBS website instead. I hadn't noticed paid much attention on streaming that my 'hour long' show was only 36 minutes. The ads on network tv drove me crazy. I couldn't finish the show and held out until Paramount Plus was working again.
I was on a site earlier, apparently it detected I had a blocker & asked me to unblock it? I’m like WHAT? I went to the next. I think we can all agree it’s gotten a bit out of control. Even on the apps, this is so way out of control.
@@roxannlegg750 I started hating most, if not all of the companies that keep pushing their garbage ads.
Just use the brave browser. No ads and no constant need of updating ublock.
I always had an adblocker, but I had a bunch of websites whitelisted because the ads weren't intrusive and I wanted to support the website in question.
CZcams used to be one of them and their war on adblock reminded me to go through and re-evaluate weather I thought the ads on the sites I whitelisted were intrusive or I still wanted to support the sites, something I hadn't even thought about in almost 13 years. I've added new sites to the whitelist, but a lot of the old sites (including youtube) I now consider too intrusive.
Same. I like to support the content creators I watch, even if that support is mostly symbolical. The line for me was when I watched two 15 second unskippable ads before a video, then after watching less than two minutes of the video another two ads played. It´s just become too much
Oh man, I've been blocking ads since the start. I use it as a hot-take IQ test in fact -- if they still don't know about adblocking (after 20 years) then I mark them down.
We can whitelist certain channels only on CZcams.
The fact that there are people on here getting more views on their videos than shows on cable TV are getting, but are nt getting paid the kind of money people on cable TV are making tells me that there is no reason to enable ads on CZcams in order to "support" the content creators. For some creators that I really enjoy, I will subscribe to t h e i r p a t r e o n s or give them a superchat (eventhough youtube takes 30%).
My problem has never been the adverts themselves, but rather the sheer level of intrusiveness, intensity, and disruptiveness of them.
My concern is how sexual they are becoming, many are just junk games meant to steal money from you but I also get a huge amount of basically soft-porn ad content on youtube when I dont use a blocker.
RIGHT?! oh no popping up mid video isnt enough, here's this tab thing to completely jump in the middle of the comments you were reading. oh dont wNt that there? just close it. oh wait the video ad is a seperate thing to close. THOSE ?+>$*#3>"?@×
i hate ads
That and the fact that they are not curated at all. Scams, cults, phishing sites, NSFW adult content...you name it, I've seen them advertise on CZcams, because Google does not give a toss about who advertises with them. This was the main driving factor for me when it comes to using an adblocking, and also the reason why I'd rather drop CZcams than adblocking.
@@Rexhunterj You should be looking into who you share your device with, ads are targeted based on your interests.
Don't know the current situation but back in the days CZcams had only one kind of ads: small pop-up on of the bottom of a video and I was OK with that. Wasn't even thinking to get rid of this stuff. Once I faced interrupting pop-ups...adblock.
If CZcams wants to block adblockers, they need to start vetting their advertisers. So many scammers get free reign, using an adblocker is pretty much a first line of security defense.
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this. use an ad blocker. sincerely, infosec
And all those get $300million rich schemes, those trashy mobile games like Raid and those games with a gun in the hand moving down a track, and the If you complete this 2 Yo toddler's puzzle you have 1.00e+42 IQ but shows that the idiots that made the ad cannot complete such a thing.
And there are inappropriate adds that may pop up while you have kids around watching a fricking disney song.
@@indigetes even politicians pop up add can make anyone puke at any given moment.
Louis, you described it perfectly. It's when the add is "forced" upon you and no skip option, that people really are upset with. That is tyranny. You can tell it's tyranny because of the threat of closing down your account if you dont comply, hence the word "forced".
this is their for profit company, you come to them, steal their money and dare to call their response a tyranny?? WTF is wrong with people. You have no sense of what is right and what is wrong. As long as it benefits you, you will find an excuse for every disgusting thing you do, including theft of services in this case. If you don't liek a company - LEAVE. No advertiser is going to miss a broke ass viewer like you, trust me. CZcams doesnt need you, they actually give you the OPPORTUNITY to have access to a platform for FREE. And your kind of people are not even worth to be given to. Still whines and complaints. Go back to reading books or maybe pay $120 for a cable TV then.
You do have a skip option, an adblocker.
Browsing the internet on a device without adblock is wild. Opening some of the web pages that I visit regularly on my PC at home on my work laptop makes me feel like I entered Bizzaro world sometimes, because of how different and confusing everything looks with all the banners and pop ups and autoplay videos and whatnot. What a horrible experience.
Yes, without adblock the internet is anti-human in design.
...Maybe don't visit those websites on your work laptop then? I mean, it's your work laptop. It's for *_work._*
Unless you _need_ to visit those sites to do your job, in which case, talk to your IT department and see if they can find a way to browbeat management into installing adblockers on the machines. Don't bother going to the managers yourself, they'll probably ignore you.
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."
-Gabe Newell
Yup like an algorithm that allows us to discover new channels/music we'd care about instead of gradually bending us back to mainstream stuff
And then Google came and made YT Premium a Spacebar Blocker that also requires you to have an internet connection to watch your "downloaded" content, so users have to use an Adblocker anyways, because having YT Premium, besides making it actually ad-free, also makes it a worse experience.
While I fully agree with the sentiment, I would be careful to identify adblock with piracy. (If you were implying that)
@@LiosProsum no no, just pointing out that people being unhappy with the use experience and finding ways to circumvent it isn't a problem with the users. If the user feels the need to circumvent your limitations you're moving in the wrong direction. Ads are necessary but they've become infinitely more intrusive and obnoxious lately, so people find ways around them. The easy solution is to make the advertisements less intrusive and obnoxious, not plug the holes that people were using to go around what they didn't want to see
Gabe was right but I don't think it applies to this case. Adblockers aren't alternative services with no ads, they literally just take a pre-existing service and take ads away from it. This makes them an upgrade by default, unless the service in question has no ads in the first place, meaning you _can't_ offer a better service. The only way to make people stop using adblockers is to offer a service that they're willing to support by watching ads, but in CZcams's case, I'd rather support the creators themselves than a company that treats them like shit.
It speaks wonders when people would rather pay an ad blocker to block ads on CZcams than pay CZcams to not have ads on it.
have you watched the previous video why he stop paying for CZcams premium? you will understand why hes now rather pay Adblock than having subscribtion on CZcamsPremium (he was a loyal 7years customer for youtube premium).
I'd also rather pay a bodyguard instead of just handing my cash to a robber.
Paying "premium" to a platform that actively promotes censorship when talking about things they dont want you to while promoting scams like "climate crises" ? Nope. F youtube.
You pay for one service instead of hundreds for what is effectively the same job.
with how youtube treated it's creators over the years, paying youtube is basically immoral.
I disabled ad block on CZcams recently and one of the first ads I got was for a discriminatory documentary spreading misinformation that could legitimately get people like me killed. I've never been upset by an ad before (besides being annoyed) but this sent me. I will fight tooth and nail to keep my ad block going, the intrusiveness, abhorrent content, and frequency of ads on this website is frankly incredible sometimes.
I sign out to see vid. Ad blocker is working for unsigned and no account holder!
Explain
I actually liked the youtube app way more than the browser version. However, abt over a year ago I started getting 2 to 3 unskippable 15-30 sec adds back to back. It got to the point where this would happen multiple times throughout a 10 min video. Or maybe I'd tap on a time stamp in the comments and I'd have to watch ads again. If I wanted to play music on my 5 min break I'd have to spend half of that watching ads to finally be able to pick a song i like. I started getting political and sometimes very uncomfortable/ cringy ads and it would play every single time. I had no issues with waiting for an ad years ago but if you're playing so many ads that practically makes the app unusable I have no choice but to resort to other options.
I remember on my old phone there was an old version of the CZcams app where apparently there were no ads yet or at least I never got one 😂 this was like 2012-17, after that it stopped working unfortunately (but I just switched to vanced and revanced lol)
*cough* youtube revanced *cough*
Never looked back
@@outrider8569 👀✍️
I got a ad with Matt Walsh on it. You know, the guy who is a massive transphobe who also tells his audience of hundreds of thousands to ring people's workplace until their target gets fired or send bomb threats to children's hospitals? That guy?
@@meredithnavin1358 I'm sorry that's F'ed up 💀
The main reason I stopped watching TV was that a 1 hour and 30 minute movie would become 2 and a half hour movie due to the sheer amount of commercial breaks. The fact this is becoming a thing with CZcams and other streaming services is why I use AdBlockers. And will continue to do so. I came here to escape ads, not find more.
In the late 70s through the 80s, any James Bond movie was a three hour Sunday night on the network TV stations.
100% agree. Google makes enough money when they track our internet surfing habits or our inputs in the search engine. So: when Google uses our data to make money they should pay us back by making YT totally ad free :-D
I tossed out my physical tv about 15 years ago for this exact reason. I used to be on yt all the time, but the crapton of ads just makes me not use youtube anymore. 1 second of loud obnoxious ad and I just close the entire page. We don't need 30 second unskippable ads for every single 5 second viseo we watch
@Juan-os4hs My issue is not the length of the movie, it's the artificial length caused by the extra ads.
I don’t really have a computer how do I get content because CZcams premium is going up and I don’t think I can justify $20/month for a time wasting app
They're the ones moving the goalposts, not us.
First it was banner ads
Then it was overlay ads
Then it was skippable short ads
Then it was sometimes skippable 30 second ads
Now it's multiple unskippable ads
Greed. That's all it is.
They forced our hands. The blame is on them and them only. The people are innocent
I haven't seen an ad on youtube, at least on my pc, in years now. On my phone I just mute it and have my finger hovering over the 'skip' option.
The smart companies have content creators doing their advertisements - I'll usually sit through that. I'm fine with content creators making a little money. F--- Jewtube/Google.
the investors want the infinite ammounts of money they were promised and youtube is trying desperately to get it
In the future, forced people to buy premium. Next would be ads in premium just like Netflix & Hulu
Conditioning us to accept fewer choices and less control over everything.
When all this started, I just waited until the adblock devs caught up to the prompt (~1 day). Every time the prompt broke through again, I took a lovely break from CZcams and caught up with some old shows I've been neglecting.
Thanks for getting me back into other platforms, CZcams!
lmao, nobody is going to miss you bud, youtube doesnt need a cheap ass broke people who cant even afford a premium. Trust me. What they do is to give an opportunity to poor or greedy people to still be a part of a platform for free. And you all of course dont deserve that - you only complain.
i changed my ablock 5 times this December, due to this problem of detection. I will not let youtube tellling me what to do..
@allashama try it at a grocery, stel some food, and talk like this to a police officer lol 😄 people are seriously morpns... unbelievable
I consider an internet ad free experience a basic right. Nobody should be forced to waste their time watching ads and be spied upon for ads purposes. If i want to support a content creator, I will do it on my own will. Thankfully I have found a way around youtube's latest tyrannical adblocker ban. The day they'll force me to watch ads will be the last day I will ever watch youtube. Thank you for your video, 100% agree.
"Found a way?" Give me a break, just use a browser that isn't Chrome and install an adblocker, done and done. I haven't had any trouble with the Firefox + ABP combo for nearly a decade now. Unless this is a mobile problem, in which case... well, you're on mobile. That's your problem right there.
@@CoralCopperHead I am on both due to my job, traveling often. CZcams had intially blocked me when using ublock origin with firefox on my desktop, so i am not sure it is just chrome, but you may be right now as I didnt experience the issue lately.
@coralcopperhead685
I am using Firefox and various adblockers on my PC since they became available. I did not even know that there were ads on YT before I first watched it on my Android phone. ( silly me ) I was absolutely stunned by the lot of crap I was forced to watch on my phone. Took me a lot of time and effort trying different apps and hacks on Android to get YT ad-free there.
Finally the answer is as simple as on my PC: Use Firefox and any adblocker you like.
Of course the mobile page of YT is not nearly as comfortable as the app and I encounter a few secs of black screen prior to the actual video. But: So what! That's a fair price for some peace of mind.
And finally: I'd rather pay for a good adblocker than for any service provided by the big data skimmers. I donated more money to the open source community than I ever payed MS for exemple. ( And yes I am using Linux )
@@CoralCopperHead Get an open source adblocker.
@@CoralCopperHead I get the latest adblocker bans as well from time to time and I'm not using Chrome. Just because you aren't getting them doesn't mean others aren't lol
The more YT tries to force you to watch 5 billion ads in a 5 minute video, the harder I'm going to work to make sure NO ad gets through
They are actually doing the opposite of what they intend and the funny thing they have done this before. It only results in more users using ad blockers, not less. It happened the last time and it will happen again. I'm starting to thing they are promoting ad blockers instead of fighting them.
I haven't watched ads, of any kind, on CZcams in 14 years. I'm not starting now.
@@telebubba5527 lol, you could well be right. why they want ME to do their dirty work seems to indicate they have NO STANDING IN COURT.
Bless you, darling.
I would rather pay for an adblocker that works than pay for youtube.
Ads on CZcams videos were tolerable at first. But as soon as they started chaining ads as well as making them unskippable, that's what drove me to get an adblocker. Their increased intrusiveness and disruptiveness added more reason to put on an adblocker.
Ads were never tolerable. Never will. Brainwashing should be illegal.
i follow a few youtubers how dont allow Adds and their videos are being shadow banned
@@rodden1953 looool
There was a guy a while ago that allowed all adverts on one of his videos as a test. His 3 minute 20 second video became over 8 minutes with the number of adverts.
I don't mind adds between my vids but when you breaks in the middle of a short vid, it gets super annoying.
My breaking point was a few years ago. I dealt with ads, especially with longer videos. Then, while I was engrossed with Jacksepticeye playing something that kept me really engaged and immersed... Only to be hit with an obnoxiously loud ad that had nothing to do with the game. I was done. I looked up an adblocker and haven't looked back. Hell, I actually considered leaving CZcams behind forever until my adblocker updated and started working again.
mine never stopped working but then i have AdBlock and AdBlock plus installed together both are the free versions.
When CZcams started threatening to stop me from viewing videos after being a user of their platform for over a decade! I definitely installed an adblocker. Sometime I was getting 3 ads for a 6 minute video. Ridiculous.
No matter how hard CZcams tries to stop adblockers, there will always be someone who is one step ahead.
I hope so...
This is not the first time they've tried this. They did the same thing several years ago and it only enhanced the awareness of ad-blockers and more people installing them. They know they will lose this 'fight'.
Except with Facebook who is legit the only place I know that actually defeated adblockers. I _never_ found anything that could just block ads, suggested post, etc on Facebook.
However, Facebook, a lot of people can just stop using it. Not CZcams: it's most people's online entertainment and there much more dedicated people on YT willing to go against Google than Meta.
I stopped using Facebook and my life is much better now. Facebook is an equivalent of a drug dealer in modern world.@@Lebon19
the beauty of software programming..no matter how tight your security is, there is always that nerd who can still hack you if he wants to
The problem with ads in the past is that the use of them on the internet have CONSISTENTLY been built on a policy of being aggressive, invasive, and hostile. Early internet advertisement was full of:
1- False locations (multiple "Download' buttons on the same page)
2- page dominance (deliberately taking up the majority of the whitespace, sometimes blocking the content you want)
3 - harassment (constant, invasive background processes, such as sound that could not be easily shut off)
4 - hostile takeover (intentional redirects, or stopping the user from even closing the ad, maliciously controlling the computer)
The internet's history of advertisement has *CONSISTENTLY* been one of (even well-meaning) companies being incredibly, aggressively malicious and invasive, making websites hard to navigate and use, and in worst cases, deliberately damaging your computer or taking away aspects of control.
If advertisements were CONSISTENTLY skippable (or at least short/small) and had no ulterior motives other than trying to sell a legit product, I'm sure most people wouldn't really have a problem with ads.
But it's consistently been a 35 year barrage of relentless aggression and hostility against the end-user, and you have the gall to get mad at US for snapping at this behavior? If you had kept your ads humble, simple, and non-invasive, this arms race NEVER would have started, and people would have been MUCH more accepting of the idea of an ad-filled web.
STOP. PISSING. PEOPLE. OFF.
i also feel like people would watch way more ads if they were actually entertaining/good like some japanese ad where dude karate chops ramen package before putting boiling water together with ramen inside his mouth or something like that
That's called marketing
@@dairiskuznecovs7233 The ads of the 90s were the pinnacle of creativeness as well as very entertaining.
@@billweir1745 flash game ads. Hit the clown, get redirected to this site.
Well it's gotten a lot better but some sites really are aggressive on ads. Short 6 second ads are okay or 30 second with option to skip. The problem is alot of these ads are pertinent and don't generate income for the advertisers anyways.
Me: Totally spot on. Streisand effect makes ad-blockers more common than they were
Louis: I use a paywall blocker
Me: 👀 THOSE ARE A THING!?!?!?
Never in my life have I ever been inspired to “buy anything” that CZcams advertised. And when I need an answer right away and CZcams shoves three ads in my face I’m 1000x less likely to buy a product.
The biggest mistake google made, was trying to block adblockers and immediately after raising CZcams premium price. A monopolistic move and creates an even bigger incentive for the user to find alternatives.
They're getting cockier
What alternatives? CZcams uses monopolistic practices because youtube IS a monopoly.
And dropping Lite level... If they managed to block my adblocker I might have actually considered paying for that level. As I have no interest in youtube music or want to pay for it as part of Premium...
I dont see how this is there biggest mistake, or even a mistake at all.
Adblockers are significantly cheaper and overall more beneficial.
Who could have seen this coming...
I remember being a little kid in Australia with crap Australian internet. The only plan my family could get was 32gb a month. I'd watch CZcams in 144p, but the moment an unskippable ad that defaulted to 1080p showed up, my whole internet would freeze and a big chunk of my family's data allowance would already be eaten up
Sorry man, that’s not fair 😢
ISTG this is so true. I too have a daily data allowance of 1.5gb per day and by the end of my day I usually have around 700 mb left which I can choose to blow over 1 or 2 high res vids or multiple lower res vids. Guess which ones I chose. After watching a few of my fav ytubers in 360p, pausing, screenshotting and zooming in to read small text, yt shows an ad which ignored my data saver option of video playback and switches to 1080p to show a friggin food delivery ad. Saving data on stuff I want to watch and yt destroying my data savings by playing an unwanted ad at 1080p. This happens even when the video you were in the middle of was playing at 360p.
GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THAT i went through the exact same thing and god it was the worst
I remember those time. You watch video in 480p and slow af but the ads streams in 4k at speed like its have unlimited bandwith.
@@Conqueror25man CZcams ads are so garbage countless times on videos less than 10 minutes. There would be unskippable ads before it plays then a ad one minute into the video. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt but if they program the shit that lazily they not getting anything from me. I honestly wouldn’t mind letting them play if it was like pandora back in the day but this shit right now is disgusting
The fact that CZcams try to detect what is in your computer/smartphone is bloody intrusive.
it's most likely illegal in eu actually wich could put an end to this whole shit rly fast (well as fast as eu politic work, but it wouldnt be the first time fine in the B e fall
The thing that CZcams didn't take into account is there is simply no way that someone will go from not experiencing ads on CZcams videos for many years to simply accepting they either need to see the ads, or pay a significant monthly charge for premium. It just isn't going to happen. They are just going to circumvent it any way they can. Now if they brought down significantly the cost of premium in the UK which is like £11.99 or even just allowed multiple users under one account or something like that I'd probably sign up.
My older cousin always says "The Internet was a lot better back when the Boomers were afraid of it". And he's not wrong.
This! The minute old people got on, they found a way to ruin it. Personally, I blame Facebook.
A combo of social media and then the average person being able to use it on a phone really brought the bar down, this is why gatekeeping exists.
I was _never_ afraid of it. In fact, I've been using it since the 1990's, when a lot of the people who love picking on Boomers weren't alive. If you don't like being treated unfairly, don't do it to others.
Yes and before content marketing became a thing.
The day the Smartphone was released was the end of the old Internet.
I want my sweaty neckbeard Internet Back with ftp's and irc Channels that Boomers do Not understand
What advertisers don't realize is that a great many people consciously, explicitly decide to stop buying, or decide never to buy a product just because ads are so annoying and aggravating.
True. Things like Grammarly and NordVPN are on my blacklist. Too many ads is both annoying and even making the advertised products suspicious to me. If they're that desperate to make money maybe their product isn't good at all. At least that's how I view it.
That's how I do it. I stopped buying one product just because their ads are incredibly stupid and one tv ad for computer supply online shop in my country is so annoying that when I was build computer I rather paid much more for competition just so I don't support that shitty company
#GAYco gecko
Yup. The more times I see something advertised at me, the less likely I am to buy it. I've even stopped buying stuff I liked just because I saw one too many irritating ads (it was one, singular, but still one too many lol). I just don't like ads at all.
Yes - this is happening because advertisers are realising that advertising is just not working, or working llike it used to. The megolopolies of this world have sucked all disposable income the average person has left...and we just plain dont need more stuff.
The worse part of the ads is, if you don't skip the short ad, they play you a much longer one. Anyone who's not skipping ads is probably busy, like driving....
Also say goodbye to the 8 hours per night that CZcams runs while I'm asleep. Lately I turn the laptop off because I feel like a rube when I wake up to an ad.
Ads are annoying and this video is so refreshing to see someone speaking genuinely. I miss seeing honest reviews and articles. We need to make a better internet
They're not only inadvertently encouraging and spotlighting the use of adblockers, they're indirectly causing adblockers to be better, and for more people to get into the game of creating, coding, and learning how to make adblockers. Where there is a need, there is innovation.
Not only that, but browsers that intrinsically block ads like that, and people who weren't aware, are being prevented from using the platform and not knowing or understanding why. So when they try to 'turn it off' they can't and have to find a new browser. OR in a case I've seen myself.. I turned OFF my adblockers just to see what happened and the videos were STILL being blocked and unable to view, even after turning the blocker off.
so their whole war is backfiring even more because their so called detection shit is even blocking non blocked browsers. XD
@@novasiri7809 The same thing has happened to me.
Sooner or later, one of those coders (or more likely, a group of them) will make a decent alternative to CZcams.
@@novasiri7809 download unblock origin makes the blocking of ads work like a charm
@@GeorgeDCowley There are already a few.
I genuinely didn't know adblockers worked on CZcams until CZcams's campaign. Gotta thank CZcams for informing me. Now I haven't seen an ad in weeks.
what app are you using?
@@CJtheRedeemer ublock works
@@gabrielbarnagaud6287 Thanks so much dude! I got so use to no ads for so long and hated that I had to watch ads on CZcams again. I just downloaded Ublock and it actually still works!
@@CJtheRedeemer adblock plus works for me, and if it doesn't work it's usually updated within a day or two. when Adblock plus doesn't work i use brave browser to watch youtube.
How do you keep CZcams from banning you like they say they will if you keep using an AdBlocker?
I had no idea so many people felt the same way. I've definitely noticed lately the ads are more upsetting, more intrusive, more frequent, and unskippable. I just mute my device and change tabs/look away until it's over.
The word you used that resonated with me the most was... arrogance. CZcams, originally a FREE service, decided to run ads to gain revenue. Ok. THEN.. they decided to run ads DURING content, as if they had any right to interrupt ANY content THEY didn't make, when they were already bringing in revenue from the existing ad structure. Holy arrogance, batman! And NOW.. they've decided to FORCE us to watch these fking ads OR ELSE! It wasn't enough to have strip ads on the page, nor to have them at the beginning of a vid... no no.. they start running intro ads, then every few minutes into the content.. over and over... MONEY MONEY MONEY NAHM NAHM NAHM! Arrogance. It's a good word. I've also been at war with them lately, and finally landed on a good blocker, for only 12 bucks a year, up to 5 devices.. and IT WORKS! So happy now. But still...
Paying for adblock is moot and stupid
lol
It's always shocking to me whenever using a friend or family member's computer and getting just drowned in ads. I've no clue how people deal with it
My parrents who are incredibly Computer illiterate asked me to make the ads dissapear.
It's called brainwashing. Most people these days just accept being annoyed.
they have npc mentality, devoid of any curiosity to improve their experience
@@grantofat6438wrong. Many people just don't know you can get rid of them, just how he says in the video
yep youtube wants to force ads but also mutes my comments and for what they dont like smart well educated people using hate as a means to fight republicans hypocrisy and their acceptance of their hate while ignoring our own with their own hypocrisy see they keep sending these man children who dont want to debate me they just want to cry about how i butcher their language even tho all english speaking nations dont respect your use of bastardizing of their language
I frequently watch/listen to classical music on CZcams. To have an ad appear during a serene slow movement of a symphony is like going to an art museum and finding that someone has put a bumper sticker across the Mona Lisa.
This is unbelievably annoying when I’m listening to dark ambients tracks to meditate
Same here. Listening to ocean waves to assist with calming my anxiety and up comes an ad. Grrrrrrr
That's what made me get an adblocker: ads in the middle of Beethoven. Mind you, I wrote a feedback to CZcams first, and I was innocently expecting them to fix it.
Thats funny
The worst is when you're running and you have to break stride to hit skip.
Thanks for making competition look better Rumble only has 1 ad to skip if one pops up
i've watched you for at least 5 years. Every single time you are always 100 percent spot on with your topics and mentality, that's also why you always do so well. Your common sense is absolutely insanely good. i truly wish more people were level headed like you are.
I used to accept ads as a means of "well, they're giving me free content, I can deal with this". I never thought I'd use an adblocker. But at some point in time CZcams started to add more ads to the beginning of videos... and then unskippable ads... and THEN people started paying to have their full-length, 10-or-so minutes long gameplay videos (BAD gampleay videos, too) as "advertisement". That's what broke me. I decided to install an adblocker... and I was *amazed* at the difference. Not only in CZcams, but in the entire internet as a whole. No more intrusive ads. No more annoying pop-ups. No more bloated websites. I never looked back.
I can tell you that once I had a 3h.. yes 3h, long add... it was a full concert of some sort... and having shi* music videos from music that I despite pop up in every single video that I watshd, making me just want to shut up asap...for my kid I like to have a playlist with content that I choose, because Yt kids has Alot of bs playing for kids... but the downside is that some times I get adds that he simple can't watch.. I don't mind watching quick an simple adds, but don't trow at me anointing stuff that takes for ever to skip or pass..
You are aware that it's the uploader choosing to have these ads, right?
THREE HOURS! Goodness gracious! That's overkill!@@paulacruz6239
@@paulacruz6239 Sounds like you had a virus lol
@@alan62036 They may choose to have the ads, but they don't get to choose *which* ads or how many ads. Trying to frame this as though the uploaders have "control" is an indication that you don't know as much as you'd like to push back with.
If CZcams ever succeeds in fully stopping adblockers from working and keeps making their ads worse, I'll just learn to live without CZcams again.
By the way, there are sites that clone youtube content and don't have ads as far as I can see, like for example piped (dot) yt. But don't tell anyone :)
If they fully manage to block them in a browser, I'll just switch to yt-dlp and mpv, probably with the yewtube cli tool.
They never going to be able to except if they make a deal with those adblockers company except if they paid them so they stop blocking youtube's ads which has almost no chance to happen. Even if they would end up doing that people would still make make free open source adblock on github, gitlab....
I'll get a nebula subscription, it's cheaper then premium
pretty much. everyone will just move away from youtube if they succeed
I think this is one of the first, if not the first video by you I ever saw. I got about 5-10 minutes in and immediately followed you. Also, I didn't realize CZcams was trying to get more aggressive with ads, because I use an adblocker. What I DID notice was that when I was trying to listen to my youtube playlists, I kept getting ads. So I stopped trying to listen to my youtube playlists, rather than just dealing with the ads, for all the reasons you outlined.
Louis, thank you for doing what you do in helping folks.
People would rather pay for an adblocker than subscribe to CZcams premium 😂
£12.99 for nothing added to you
only to block theirs ads and download videos in browser so you can`t watch them if your PC and account got hacked
I would pay £1 every year to ad blocker not £12.99 where Disney+ and netfilx has cheaper plans
😮! Yes, I would!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Well ad block is all websites so its better vaule
The webbrowser Brave blocks ads in a way that google can't detect.
an ad-blocker functions on all sites, doesn't push useless features, and prevents me from seeing those clickbait ads with the most repulsive images on the planet. youtube takes my data and gives me ads for alt-right podcasts. i think i'll take the adblock, thanks
This ad-blocking shenanigans made one thing abundantly clear to many. There needs to be a viable alternative to CZcams and their monopoly. For me, it's ad-blocking or an alternative service. No middle ground for a company that forgoes your privacy for profit. Double dipping with ads when they sell all your data to advertisers already is such shameless greed.
Absolutely. And they are coming in the following years
I have been CZcams blocked several times in the last 3 weeks and I have tried Rumble. That is OK but nowhere near as good as CZcams as far as content goes. CZcams keeps reallowing me to watch then reblocking me so I suppose they are dangling it in front of my nose. I won't be bullied though and have held out so far. Since Sunday night I have been reallowed .....for the moment I view videos while I can.
ublock origins....@@johndorber6877
I assume you want that alternative to be free?
I don't see that happening unless they go bankrupt or Internet 2 gets released. Most of these monopolies are just too big to fail
I went through more points. This guy is amazing! He's thought out extremely well many different angles of this problem! Subscribed!
To block or not to block. Thanks for educating the public.
If CZcams didn't aggressively inject ads into videos, making them practically unwatchable, people wouldn't install adblocks... I remember the times when there were practically no ads on CZcams and it worked too.
Yeah....and MTV used to ONLY PLAY MUSIC and had ZERO COMMERCIALS.....now there's No Music, Crap Content to Rot the Minds of Kids, and half the programming is all ads....which is why I quit watching years ago....lol
Remember when CZcams had relatively unobtrusive banner ads on pages? Can we go back to the days of banner ads?
aka 2005 , I too remember this time. This is a time where i started on youtube.
@@Ornithopter470 Agree, for CZcams and mobile games PLEASE
This was definitely the best period for us users.
But CZcams was also losing an insane amount of money every year until they introduced ads.
The amount of disk space, computing power for transcoding and maintaining the availability of the website, networking resources etc... is enormous. They HAD to monetize one way or another.
Without ads, you cannot have such a platform open to everyone without having them pay a subscription. Video is heavy, millions of creators upload countless of hours of content per minute. And it's free for them. Hell you could technically upload all your holidays videos as private videos and get some kind of backup hosting of your video content, all for free.
You could make creators pay but then you would also have much less content on the website (this is the approach Vimeo chose for example) because no one wants to pay to upload videos if you are not a professional CZcamsr.
Of course I would love the ads to be less intrusive in general (like they cannot be longer than a certain percentage of the video length and that kind of rules). But asking for no ads is impossible. Personally I pay the Premium because there is so much educational content I follow on CZcams and I don't. want to waste my time with ads, so I agreed to pay. Also with the sub I get access to all the CZcams Music service so I don't have to need Spotify.
This su*** but people have to understand that not everything can come for free.
There really is no way adblockers can be ultimately defeated. If it really comes down to it, I'm happy to wait through through a 3min ad with a black box covering it and the sound on mute.
web integrity api
Peace, at last!
Make it so, that the video don't play after the Ad and start 2 or three videos. Everything you get the black box and muted sound, you switch the another video for another 2-3 minutes of content before the next Ad.
Within few years we will have AI model trained on ads that will filter whatever feed you provide to it. The only downside will be slight processing lag.
Yea, some one may put the ad blocker in the code of the browser or we can even just open two tabs and silence the one that is running the ad.
I relate to your comment so much about paying for a service and still getting the ads! just like public TV here in Canada, paid by our taxes and yet full of publicity.
The main reason I use adblockers on YT is so I can listen to chill playlists while working. Ads make that totally impossible. I've considered paying premium but CZcams's intrusive and aggressive approach with ads just angered me to a degree where I swore never to pay them a dime. Of course intrusive ads are designed to frustrate you into paying premium but all this did was make adblockers better. CZcams have every right to make their site an ever crappier experience to users who don't pay but this just makes pirates more determined and smarter. In light of this, why don't CZcams just make their platform a pay only service? Just a guess but I suspect the revenue from ads would still be larger overall.
I don't like a grocery so i WILL GO STEAL FOOD FROM THEM EVERY TIME I am there and consider that right. This is exactly the same than what you dais. I have had premium for years now and never looked back. Only greaty experience. If you wnt a product - BUY IT! Dont complain that they dont like you stealing.
@@un-review That's a terrible comparison. I'm not stealing. I'm just making using it a much less shitty experience. I or anybody else using adblockers have done nothing illegal. They should employ you as their sales person. lol
@mayarosexxx yes you are stealing, first of all from people who work hard to create that content for you, and from youtube themselves of course. and because it benefits you, of course you are going to protect your theft,just because it isnt "illegal"? If people had consience, we wouldnt need a law and punishment system, only if. I get i, we all dont like all the large corporations and treir agendas, but if you dont like - dont use, boycott or whatever. But dont come stealing their services and have guts to complain on top of that how our theft should be allowed. How much difference a $12 buck a month does in your life, $6 of which go straight to creators that you watch daily? A cup of shit coffe that is. And I am sure you have that money,you arent in africa, you are just greedy to the extent where you will go around until no avail instead of doing it normal way and just getting premium, if you dont like ads. Again, i will never get that greed, as premium is very reasonably priced service, especially because it includes music too.
It’s more like ‘I went to a park and didn’t want to pay the guy screaming at me to make him stop screaming, so I bought noise-cancelling headphones and made others aware of them.’
The expectation of a grocery store is to pay, the expectation of CZcams/a park is free, with mild inconvenience but not someone screaming at you for money.
@kydiasan21 absolutely off, you are on youtube server, they are not a random visitor, they are the park, they are who built this park, every inch of it, and they are who let you in this park for free, in exchange for ads OR just pay a pennies amount to avoid ads aand use a park to your pleasure. It amazes me how illogical so many people are and not understanding basics. They didnt teach you logic in school, did they?
In my opinion, CZcams is running face-first into the same problem that the movie, TV, and Video Game industry keeps refusing to learn their lesson from: if your product is obnoxious, the consumer will bypass the obnoxiousness. If your response is more obnoxious, they will bypass the heightened obnoxiousness and teach their friends how to, too. This usually takes the form of piracy, or shopping at your competitor.
CZcams saw "People are finding our ads annoying and are upset that they've been getting progressively more intrusive year-by-year, so they're using third party programs en masse to bypass them. What do we do?" Their response, rather than "find a less obnoxious way to display ads" was "Let's take aggressive steps to FORCE them to look at the ads!"
Honestly, heightened adblocker use is probably the best thing CZcams could have reasonably hoped for from this public face-plant. The other alternative is one of the numerous companies who've been looking to eat CZcams's lunch for the last decade actually starting to gain traction.
The Movie (Theater) industry is on a downward spiral as well. I went to see movie last week that had almost 40 minutes of Ads, Trailers, Announcements. And they wonder why folks aren't going more. I don't mind a trailer or two but when you're paying $10-$20/ticket plus any concessions, and trying to make sure you're there on time to make the 7:30 showing for a 2+ hour movie... I'd rather it not start 40 minutes late.
They're not doing this strictly because people are using adblocks, it's because they got caught lying about ad statistics which is just fraud. It's also why theyre being so aggressive with this sudden no adblock policy, they got caught in the cookie jar and now theyre throwing a tantrum and taking it out on their consumers instead of properly reporting their ad statistics because "less ads = less money." Essentially, what CZcams is saying is "its your fault we had to lie about our ad statistics to get more money, so now that we got caught, we're gonna force you to watch them"
CZcams has a very long list of changes that went directly against what their customers wanted. I really wish it didn't have this unbeatable monopoly, because then they'd already be bankrupt or forced to improve.
100% agree. Be less obnoxious and I'll watch the ads. I never used to have a problem with them when it wasn't every video all of the time and to make matters worse, the ads are also at a worse quality than the video that I'm actually trying to watch. CZcams was like a search engine for me, and now I'm going to find alternatives/go back to 100% Google searches, or get a better adblock. I really feel like CZcams needs to figure out a way to embed themselves in other products in the way that Google does instead of relying on volatile ad revenue.
I went to the movies a couple weeks ago. The movie was supposed to start at 3pm. Me and my buddy knew that meant 3:15pm at the very least, due to ads. It started at 5 past 4pm. I've used ad blockers since forever, on the laptop, on the phone. I NEVER ever watch ads, for anything. If I need a product I'll ask around and/or look it up. If YT continues this war I'm going to migrate to whichever site provides a similar experience without the ad war. So far so good, my current blocker is doing its job but I've seen YT trying to sneak ads in.
It's gotten to the point where even actually shady sites, pirate and adult sites who have particularly terrible ads because no legitimate company is willing to pay to be associated with them, _are less bad about ads than CZcams is._
As terrible as CZcams is with their ads, they are far from the worst. Shady websites still force pop-ups with any click on their websites. Fandom and every news article smear ads into every crevice with autoplaying videos that follow you while you scroll.
@@slippslope I prefer fandom. Both are bad, but YT ads actively make it so you CANNOT see the content you are here for and instead must watch ads. They replace your video with BS you aren't here to see.
I don't even look at the Fandom ads. I just scroll right to my content. On YT the content isn't there while the add is playing.
@@shupasopni exactly we learned to recognize/ignore the old style ads. nothing worse than YT spewing those noisy ads thatll play for a whole minute every 8..and the obligatory one when your video ends. and the ads are SO cringe ffs!
I watch lots of porn and CZcams and can with great certainty attest to the Fact that that is Absolutely TRUE😎
You watch porn because you're horny. I watch porn because the ads aren't so bad. We aren't the same.
Thank you for saying the things you say and using your platform for something good.
I'm searching for an ad blocker, in the mean time, when an ad shows, I scroll my screen to only see the line showing the ad playing and MUTE sound. When the ad is through, I unmute scroll back to vid and watch video. It's a hassel, but I refuse to let them MAKE me watch those annoying ads.
CZcams started a war that they won’t be finishing…
We will be there to look at the corpse of CZcams and all smile knowingly.
streisand effect working for us.
@@vincei4252not any time soon
and they started it with an ineffectual first strike. They didn't come up with anything new or innovative that would make blocking it more challenging. They just figured the internet would get bored of this before their intern.
CZcams will run to Congress and if they succeed there, people will put up no real resistance and fall in line with any legal sanctions the bill prescribes just like they always do.
I was never bothered to install an adblocker until a few years ago when CZcams pushed intrusive, long, unskippable ads and doubled up on ads. CZcams ads have actually done the opposite for me- anything I see in a CZcams ad I remember to NEVER support the company just because of how intrusive the ads have gotten.
Aggressive ads are not only annoying but also make me believe the product/service sucks and whoever's pushing it is desperate for sales. It's not helping them at all. If a product is high quality it will speak for itself and existing customers will do the advertising.
@@BimmyRee Agreed, all I've ever seen is "exposed" videos on popular youtube ads and sponsers.
My dude, this was my first time watching your content and I loved the points made. Dope! Keep it up! Agreed
I have been using adblockers for years then CZcams stopped me being able to...It drives me mad and now I have seen your video I am going to see how I can get adblockers agiain...I hate being told what to do by big companies, I hate adverts (its why I stopped watching TV entirely- never watch it...) and I am so glad I stumbled on to your channel.
Who could've possibly foreseen that youtube demanding users to stop using adblockers would backfire? It was such an unexpected consequence that no one saw coming! (said no one)
it really hasn't though, a bunch of people whining changes nothing
@@neonwired4978 Because a lot of people complaining about something they disagree has NEVER made any changes in history, never.
it could have worked if they cut the price of premium(by at least half) to coincide with the demand
it has increased the number of adblock users ....@@neonwired4978
i love it when youtube tries to play 10-15 second ads on youtube shorts that barely extend past 30 seconds xD
The German court ruled years ago that prohibiting users from using an ad blocker on your website is illegal. Despite these court cases, CZcams started "banning" ad blockers about a week ago, even in Germany. I hope that there is someone passionate enough to bring this to court. With the previous court cases, I'm pretty sure CZcams will lose.
CZcams doesn't have to provide service to Germany. Users are free to pay for CZcams premium.
@@swish6143 And Germany doesn't have to let it's citizens run the risk of having their devices infected by malware hidden in advertisements that CZcams broadcasts to free users.
@@swish6143Google pays linktax here, so they won't shut down CZcams here.
@@swish6143its not that simple. In theory you can choose your market. But germany is a big county. You dont lose on millions of $ just because some would use a adblocker.
but they still do provide to users in germany so they are inherantly liable @@swish6143
I haven't watched a CZcams ad in years. Thank you to all of the hard-working coders out there that are teaching these arrogant prix that they do NOT have power over us!
I remember initially discovering ad blockers in the late 2000s because youtube started having ads in the recommended video sections that would play extremely loud music over the top of whatever I was watching
I can never understand why sites try to FORCE people to watch ads. If I've gone to the trouble of installing an adblocker, do advertisers really believe that I will view their company in a positive way if I am forced to disable it? I'm more likely to spend ten minutes going on review sites leaving stinking reviews!!
ad companies don't care what you think about their ads. If they can get an ad to stick in your memory by annoying the fuck out of you then that's what they'll do. When you are in need of some product then the first thing that you'll think of is that annoying ad that you hate from people selling that product.
Maybe you would prefer paying a subscription fee to specific channels that provide you with valuable content - instead of ads?
None of us are entitled to valuable content free of charge. Respect the resource!
@@jimbeam-ru1my Yep, and it's on my list of "Definitely not buying this because they use obnoxious advertising methods and I don't want to reward negative behavior." Too bad I can't do the same thing with politicians that use distorted negative attack ads, since they all do it.
Haha Me Too ! 😅
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Thats hilarious....
ive download so many scam games Just to give a 1 star Bad review cus of youtube ads
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And done the same as you on other irritating youtube ads too
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Nice one 🤜 🤛
I mean, that's exactly why ads on CZcams are becoming more and more scammy and ridiculous. Less legitimate advertisers are willing to pay for a business model which essentially uses ads as an annoyance in order to propel users to buy a subscription.
I was in a programming class and asked my classmates how they were dealing with CZcams's anti adblock . Imagine my shock when they were like, 'You can block ads on CZcams?'
This is a programming class with students that supposedly use computers to do things that most people don't do.
So yeah, Louis is very right.
Reminds me of every time Internet's been blocked in third world countries and suddenly everyone knows what a VPN is.
Da fuq ? O_o
everyone in that class was a laid off journalist
This isn't that surprising to me. I know people in their 20's and even their 30's who need help opening Word.
It's mind boggling to me when I meet someone who has grown up in this era who has almost no knowledge of how to perform even basic functions.
@@OutLanderUSN Yeah, someone in their 20's asked me if I knew how to make a sign-out sheet. I was like, "Yeah... you just make a simple table in Excel or Google Sheets. It's pretty easy."
yeah, I was pretty much the person to teach people around me how to use adblockers AND VPN…
subscribed. Thanks for keeping it real! Feels like I am around a human today!
The added problem with CZcams is sponsored ad reads. I paid for Premium for a few months (used the free trial and honestly forgot), and got annoyed that many videos started with an ad or cut to one at some point. Why would I pay and have to watch ads about buying land in Scotland, Japanese knives made in China, raid Shadow Legends, or some other crap?
I wouldn't have much issue paying for Premium if they lowered the cost and forced sponsored ad reads to be clearly marked so they can be automatically skipped. Until then I have my ad blocker and Sponsor Block.
There is a HUGE problem with very long skippable ads and music playlists. I don’t mind a small (less than 30 seconds) ad every few songs, but a 10 minute “skippable” ad while I’m in the shower or doing housework is crazy. Not even radio is crazy enough to go that far.
you either pay for it with your time of actual money one way or another.
brave browser is adfree! I couldn't enjoy youtube without it. No add ons needed - Brave! Really tho it's that easy
actually that not bad. i sometimes i just put off my earphone then just start focusing more. the weird things is how crazy the recommendation to these CZcams AdBlock war video keep showing to me. ughh fcking weird
I think the longest add ive ever seen was 3 hours
@@mcbean1
Incorrect, you OVERPAY with your time.
To make it quick:
The revenue generated by ads, per person, is higher then the 'Prime' fee.
Informing us the service is being overcharged for ad-users.
If CZcams didn't introduce the double ad nonsense and if ads weren't so freaking bad I never would have installed adblock in the first place. Now there's no way I'm using CZcams without it
Problem is that they don't really work anymore
@@bloodhoug82 uBlock Origin is working fine with the occasional hiccup.
there are youtube specific ones that still work@@bloodhoug82
they work@@bloodhoug82
CZcams also likes to insert an ad in the middle of a song, e.g. on Live From Daryl's House.
This is the first time I see your videos, you got yourself a new subscriber and supporter.
Louis, Brilliant Take!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 No crazy conspiracies, the world is the way it is because of us!!!!!
CZcams genuinely has nobody to blame for this but themselves. I've been watching youtube from the very beginning, and for 15 or so years I had no problem with ad's. They'd play for a few seconds, usually allow a skip, or would skip themselves then I could get on with my music video or whatever. But over the past 5 years or so they have gotten so unbelievably intrusive and obnoxious. sometimes multiple 30 second long unskippable ads for a 5 minute youtube video. Sometimes I'd be listening to an album on youtube while working on my car, and would notice after 5-10 minutes I've been listening to some stupid ad yapping on and on and on, I'd have to get out from under my car walk over to the speaker and lo n behold a 45 minute ad about gravel or some shit would be playing. It got to the point where I just couldnt take it anymore. I looked up how to install an adblocker and have never looked back. I had the exact same experience with hulu and other streaming platforms that would subject you to ad's. It got so damn annoying listening to the same 5 minutes of ads 50 times a day that I just figured out how to find free streaming sites on google. They got greedy and devalued their platform so far that they shrunk to obsolescence. It's gotten to the point to where I feel television had far fewer and far less annoying ad breaks than shows do now on tubi or something.
Shit, that thing happened to me too where I was listening to music and suddenly an ad appears that you have to wait for it to finish and continue with your normal life. But you realize that the damn ad never ends and you have no choice but to go to the phone in an annoying manner (I'm a house painter and when I'm at heights I usually leave the phone down there). For those stupid things I installed an ad blocker with anti-tracking almost exclusively for the use of You Tube.
No, broadcast TV was and still is horrid. If you cut ties with ad-infused programming nearly 20 years ago like I did, you really should turn on a broadcast station for just one hour and see what the content-to-ad ratio is. It's so bad you start to wonder if the actual program is even on. Radio is the same. CZcams because of the ability to just jump to another video is sometimes worse now because depending on the video you could hit several in a row in one minute of hopping that have long ads in front. The whole thing is idiotic and I use an adblocker. And when youtube started forcing the blocker when I was logged into my acocunt, I just logged out of my account and started using shortcuts. If I really want to see my subscription list, I log in, check it, log out, and go back to watching with blocker on. OR you can just use FreeTube to manage everything with no ads as long as you don't mind being limited to 1080p. OR you can install one of the advanced scripts for CZcams that get around actually watching the ads. One way or another, CZcams needs to change revenue models like Louis said.
Ugh, this. Any time I have tried to listen to music on CZcams while busying myself with something else (doing dishes, making dinner, etc.), I have gotten these long CZcams ads that last as long as an entire tv program. It's so frustrating to have to stop what you're doing, clean off your hands, and go get your phone just to skip an ad that is 10+ minutes long.
Yep sounds familiar. Never liked ads but accepted them, as long as they were roughly equivalent to the ad breaks on UK TV. In fact I seem to remember YT ad breaks being less annoying than TV when it first started.
Biggest annoyance is the fact you can't leave it to listen to, like you can with commercial radio. Fell asleep once and woke with a skippable EIGHT HOUR advert playing!
Same. I knew about adblock for like 10 years before I started using one. I only started using one when the ads became unbearable and almost every CZcamsr got their own sponsors and have many ad reads on top of many YT ads every video...ads are one thing but ads on top of ads before doing some more ads is too much.
The fact that all of this was quietly going down in the MIDDLE of the SSSniperWolf advertiser and money drama just proves that CZcams is a money hungry, disgusting company.
They hit record profit margins of nearly 40% in their 2021-2022 Fiscal year and their idea to keep the momentum is "Remove adblockers." Which is only going to get more people to use adblockers, for intrusive reasons.
No 6 second meme clip needs a 30 second unskippable ad.
Actually, they want you to pay for YT premium.
Just install all blockers man.
wow a greedy corporation? Now that's an oxymoron
Anyone who thinks corporations aren't just out for the money is a deluded imbecile
every one, all of them. blocker. install down to the 7th ring of hell. @@BalboaBaggins
@@QuantIosi The adblock war has been going on quietly in the background (a few weeks ago, to a month+) since before the Jacksfilms fiasco, it just started picking up more traction after the other news died out.
This is a great video! I stumbled into you and subscribed 9 minutes into watching this.
Once they started throwing multiple ads on one video, I was done. They'll always find extra room for another advert, it's nauseating. *adblocked*
i have no idea how people have gone this long without ever using an ad blocker. i simply cannot fathom how they comfortably use the internet that way.
most AREN'T comfortable. they just don't know how easy it is to get an adblocker nowadays. they think it's like deep-web shit, or its malware. they don't know that something that good CAN be free, too. i was that way once, too.
lol 6 download buttons on one page without adblocker 🤣🤣🤣dangerous
Some people really think it's better using the app or the premium services...
... People I don't understand.
@@ariabritton9669 the gap of technological literacy is crazy like it’s as simple as the chrome web store 😭
I just the CZcams app most of the time. No adblockers, but I've found a couple of ways to reduce the ad time. Like closing and reopening a video until I get a 5 second ad. Even if there's 2 ads in a row, once that first one is played, you can close the video and reopen to no ads. I also skip to the end of the video to remove all the midroll ads(doesn't always work).
I've also found that opening and closing youtube shorts while an ad is playing can interrupt the ad and let you go back to the video.
The reasons why showing people how to fix their own device led to more of them paying you to do it for them is: 1) it showed how competent you are, 2) it showed your work ethic, 3) it showed people how involved it was and a lot of people don't want to get that involved, 4) so they appreciated what you did more, which 5) made your services more valuable.
Yep
It also shows that "unfixable" can be fixable. Sometimes very easily
True that
Agreed, like myself being a mechanic, rather teach how to notice and do a fix , makes my work easier because they know when something is wrong, not just ....well, it's making a "noise"
i often end up tryng to fix my own stuff to a degree, but when i gotta pay for help i always try to at least know the professional a little bit and vice versa so he understands that the thing they got paid to fix has face and a reason because even today is rare to encounter stores that make videos to be known.
I'd like to add to this that it's hilarious to be told by CZcams I am breaking their ToS while they are not confirming to actual EU law with their advertising..
A huge thanks for the Total Adblock heads up. I've used to Adblock Pluss for a good few years and loved watching CZcams ad free. The three strikes and out warnings definitely put the wind up me, so I have been putting up with one ad after the other since this bollocks came to be. I've had Total Adblock installed with Chrome and no ads, and no warnings. I am a very happy camper.
LOL... you use Chrome, a spy machine?
This was exactly my experience. I never used adblocker once, until this CZcams anti-adblocker move took place. They really did just bring this into the forefront of the masses.
I didn't start using an adblocker on the internet until website ads started getting too obnoxious years and years ago.
I intentionally didn't use an adblocker on youtube in order to support creators, until youtube started putting ads on creators and videos that weren't monetized and putting multiple long ads on videos so short that the ads had a longer playtime.
I was willing to watch ads knowing a percentage went to the creator. Now when youtube is demonetizing people's videos for completely arbitrary reasons while still putting ads on them and deleting people's channels for no reason, and other such asshole behavior I will not support them.
I haven't looked back since.
If you never had an adblocker, what about CZcams’s new shit prompted you to get an adblocker, since it only targets people who already had one?
@@skarloeythomas5172 a lot of browsers come with a light-weight adblock build in, that isnt good enough for youtube
We had no ad blockers on my wifes computer and it shut her from watching the content.....@@skarloeythomas5172
I do use an adblocker, but I found I couldn't bypass youtube's censure. The internet taught me to use incognito mode with adblock enabled. It works not only on youtube, but also on other sites that had popups asking me to support their site.
The entire reason I started using an adblocker over a decade ago was because the main site I checked in with everyday became a wall of advertisements. I was already supporting them by regularly buying their overpriced low quality merch.
The modern internet is insufferable. You try to view a recipe or a user written article and only 30-40% of the screen is readable text with the rest being autoplaying videos, large banners leading to dodgy websites, or fake news article etc. I don't understand what these people were expecting.
I've also had to start googling things and watching trailers etc in incognito mode because everything google related spams me with spoilers for anything it knows I have even a tangential interest in. Every time I watch Critical Role I get blasted with Baldur's Gate spoilers until I hit 'not interested' and 'don't recommend channel' enough times to buy myself a reprieve.
It feels like "not interested" and "don't recommend channel" don't actually work, because I keep getting recommendations from channels I've told the algorithm I don't want recommended.
Agreed. I finally started using one a couple of years ago, when one of my favourite websites got so stuffed with heavy ads that my old computer could not cope with it anymore.
30-40% ? You're greatly exagerating.
And dont forget that 80% of the time the actual text turns out to be ai generated garbage.
@@mistermidnight1823 "Don't recommend" does seem to work. No idea what "not interested" is actually supposed to accomplish so it is hard to tell if it is having any effect. One problem with "Don't recommend" for me is that there seems to be an infinite number of channels reposting Joe Rogan clips.
“Don’t be evil” turned into “be as evil as possible.”
Hello, fellow traveler! This is the first video of yours I've seen, though I feel like I might've seen you interviewed somewhere, and I wanted to let you know that I haven't even watched the anti-sponsorship yet but just based on the first part, I'm subscribing. I'm doing this *despite* the fact that every single day is a huge struggle for me to get through my subscriptions with a modicum of time left for non-internet stuff. I respect what you said in the first half that much.
Never forget to look at the state of advertisements in traditional media like TV and radio. Nearly 33% of any broadcast time can be solely for ads. And this is what they're doing to people who are paying for expensive cable packages! Never give an inch to these greedy corporate scum. If you pay $12.99 for CZcams premium this month next year you'll be paying $19.99 a month but with pre-roll ads. Internet media is likely going to fully replace radio and TV within our lives and if we're not staunch on preserving the values that made it great it will become the anti-consumer shithole cable TV is.
It's why I did away with my television. I'm not going to pay to receive ads. Never!
As for CZcams and ads, they've tried this several years ago and it only led to more people installing ad-blockers because of more awareness of the issue. They know they can't win this.
I think the advertising pie is now being split too many ways between traditional media and social media so the companies putting ads out on the traditional media are not as plentiful as they used to be as on TV you sure notice a lot of repetition and a lot of advertising for their own shows or future shows - advertising is likely dying on these traditional platforms as well.
This.
Look at streaming.
-You pay for Prime Video. They increase the price.
-You continue to pay for Prime video. They increase the price.
-Prime video then starts running adverts, OR you can pay the new price.
How about no. You had my business, then you got too greedy.
If adverts were reasonable, fine. But when you have 6 adverts for a 3 minute video and often in-video ads too. It's just too much.
YT is already too expensive for what it does.
You can try to replace yt with other apps and websites, whenever possible
My biggest gripe is CZcams allowing ads that are straight up scams.
Money does not smell for them ;-)
no more temu ads ffs. Just learned to IP block and maybe getting a pie hole sorted. Sod ads any more from anyone
Like FB, every FB ads are scams or darn right illegal in my country. Like tabaco ads or controlled substances
@@Mountain-Viking Where do you live that Tobacco is illegal ? Also controlled substances, Like ? I have never seen ads for controlled substances. The only ads I get are TEMU ones and ads for anime based mobile games. Ads are usually personalized unless you opt out of that shit so maybe that's saying something about you.
And comments! So many spam comments. How tf can a single account spam "it's finally here!" "Translate my comment!" And just nonsense +*"-+S C A M - U R L*"+-*+ garbage like that and nothing happens to them. I've reported some accounts for scams 20 times and I'll still see them spamming my favorite channels months later. F CZcams! They only care if it loses them money and that's it.
The feedback I submitted to youtube basically included my complaining about people being paid to bypass software we've invested in to defend ourselves from abuse, we are expected to let people into our devices, screens, minds, lives, realities, etc, because youtube has been paid by them. They don't follow any standard as to what is acceptable repetitions, volume, conduct, most of the time, i don't even know what they're trying to sell, it's a disgusting culture ran by human traffickers and I'm sick of it.
Exactly! Hence me dropping quickbooks about 8 years ago!! I did love it many years ago, but I got tired of re-learning some sections year after year, when I HAD to upgrade via $$$
Having grown up in a time when just clicking on the blank space on a website had the potential to unleash pop-ups and maybe even some malicious automatic software downloads. I see ad blockers as not just an annoyance and inconvenience blocker, but an additional veil of protection when surfing the web.
Only sites i get this on now are movie pirating sites and p**n sites
@@AllenLantz Maybe so. I just had such a bad experience as a kid that it kinda freaked me out for life.
Same.@@psycholuigiman
I got a ransomware virus on a work computer from an infected ad on a trusted weather site years ago, and ever since then adblockers have been my first line of defense since even antivirus software can be thwarted fairly easily these days, as evidenced by the sheer number of malware that can get past antivirus software via ads.
@@AllenLantz I've been using uBlock since I was 15 in October 2021. I've blocked almost 30 million items in the course, and over 14 million this year, alone. I don't regret doing this.
One of the reasons I would block CZcams ads despite knowing it takes money away from my favourite creators is that CZcams ads seem to be competing for which can be the most loudest and annoying. I could have my volume set to 10 on a fairly quiet video and the ad will still blast my ears out, and on top of that it is often some game ad filled with incredibly annoying, repetitive and highly suggestive sounds and visuals that would most certainly violate CZcams's definition of "advertiser friendly".
Should also note that ads don't give creators much money to begin with, if you want to support them you're better off supporting them. Most Ad money goes straight to CZcams.
Meanwhile, I would be sat there looking at the literal years of complaints from creators about how CZcams was fucking them over with ad revenue, or because copyright claims flag their videos without actual proper cause and suddenly all the ad money of that video is either blocked or goes to that claimant.
i block ads due to google not moderating them... 18+ ads and malware injected stuff... it has happened before where ads tried to inject stuff or when older or ignorant people click a ad... and get sent to scamsites, ransomwaresites, etc, etc... so yeah. Every pc i get my hands on magically get 80% easier to use according to people who know me.
your favourite Creator gets more money in a month than you in a whole year!
Yeah, that mentality of creator support is just a propoganda to not use ad blockers.
Great content. I like the repairs best. My research revealed 40% population uses adblockers. You are correct Rossmann, when the other 60% realize they too can have adblockers and realize they don't need to watch youtube commercials. Most people never even new you could block ads let alone do it on youtube's page.
been using adblocker as long as i can remember.
when they wouldn't let me watch a video unless i disabled my adblocker, i just wouldnt watch videos that day
The part that angers me more than anything is the sheer arrogance and entitledness of advertisers. We're utterly bombarded with ads daily; online, on TV, on billboards, bus stops, benches, clothing, it's EVERYWHERE, and you have the gall to tell me I'M in the wrong for not wanting someone to try and sell me something at all times? Go to hell. I spent $1,200 on this computer, I put it together myself, I'm gonna use it how I want.
I love how this is written. Also just the fact that it's 100% truth
Well ain't that the Fucking Truth!!!! I'll be damned if i have to deal with ads filled with malware or spyware etc!! Fuck out my face with that shit! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️😡
this is a very true comment, I'd rather use adblockers than premium adblocks are free
you should be a writer bro
I agree wholeheartedly, and would add the fact that I've never once made a purchase from one! I've seen what, 10,000 commercials and billboards and whatnot in my life and not one has led me to a purchase. I say this as a guy with a lot of disposable income (still won't buy youtube red though lol)
Despite being a tech person and being fully aware of adblockers (I use brave for almost everything), I watch a lot of videos without an ad blocker, because I watch them on my phone and can't be bothered to install a third party app. I also know that watching the ads supports the creator and I am (for now) willing to endure the ads. That being said, I've noted recently that: (1) the ads are getting much longer and unskippable and (2) the volume on the ads is often (significantly) louder than the audio from the video. Those two things combined are starting to make me reconsider.
Same. It's becoming similar to the length of commercials on TV. It really burns my toast.
Supporting the creator is tough because of course, some money is better than no money, especially for independent creators. But at the same time, this kind of support should not come at the detriment of actual viewership which is what an independent artist and their content needs in order to thrive.
I stopped watching twitch on my phone because of this. Enter a live stream, get hit with ad. A lot of creators post their vods on youtube.
Support the artist? Donate to their patreon / membership, buy their merch / works, spread their content.
I use brave on my phone just to watch CZcams because the ads have gotten so bad.
That and "oh you’re watching in 240p to save data? That must be for me. FULL HD AD"
I have Adblock browser on my phone and watch youtube in the browser.
Back in the day, ads were still pictures to the side of the content i was accessing on the internet, and I didn't block ads.
Then ads became animated images next to the content i was accessing, and I didn't block ads.
Then ads started flashing bright colors to bring attention to them, and I didn't block ads.
Then ads started playing music, and I wanted to, but I didn't block ads.
Then websites started allowing ads to execute code directly in the browser to create interactive ads, and less honorable people realized they could use this to spread malware without needing the user to even click on anything. And I started blocking ads, because at this point it was a security risk not to.
Considering this entire development was before adblockers got really popular, why would I today trust any website enough to be shown ads, when they have shown that they will abuse that privilege by attempting to execute malicious code on my computer?
you're so precious and important. I hope u stay safe and strong! thanks for everything u do!
2 things youtube did for me with their "anti adblocker" campaign:
1. i watch less youtube to prepare myself for the actual case they somehow win their loosing battle, also i have been watching unhealthy amounts of youtube before and wanted that to change, so thanks youtube for giving me the right incentive to basically quit
2.continue to use the same adblocker as before after clearing its chache.
Please elaborate on #2 ?
I just cleared my ublock cache to watch this video. And I will do this every day if I have to.
@@bernardtsuddens8336what does that do?
@@papazypeit updates the adblocker
@@papazypepurge caches and update
I personally drew my line when I got an ad showcasing a literal infant urinating in the mouth of an adult man. I instantly reported this to both CZcams and Google, but got the response that "This ad does not violate our content policies, so we won't remove it."
I was so baffled at how this couldn't be breaking any of their policies, so I instantly installed an adblocker because I never in my life want to see something like that again.
😂 - sorry I laughed
They frequently have ads that clearly violate the advertising policies (and would get content creators banned), but they don't care. I've yet to see anything done about the overtly sexual ads for all sorts of products ranging from dating apps to video games to marijuana (which isn't legal everywhere, but someone YT can still advertise it?)... They don't care as long as they get paid. The content was a big push for our whole family to install adblockers and tracking blockers and when YT tried to lock out my teenage daughters account, I wrote a nasty letter about how they don't have the right to control the content my child is exposed to and she got her account back a week later. I'd rather just leave YT altogether than pay for this nonsense because we'd be paying for other people to see these same types of ads and that's just gross.
bro what?
What? Excuse me what?
That might actually fall under the FCC if you're in the US or something lol talk to them if you remember the company and also of course tell them about it being on CZcams.
The first time I installed an ad blocker was when a certain gaming community forum got a specific ad that was overflowing the container it was in and making the site unusable.
Spot on brother, alot of us see and feel what you feel and see. The modern internet is woke and will go broke