Wut? I just avoid u toob most of the time - problem solved. Rarely do I have a web search that would be solved by watching a video.
Updating Firefox suddenly fixed this for me. I then later just had my entire google account banned and I had to create a new account. They even attempted to IP ban me as well. Said I was banned until 2036 or something like that.
So you lost access to gmail as well?
Yeah and I had to change my gog and itch.io email addresses.
Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it’s apps?
Please reply to this dorumon
If it’s a ban from the whole google echo-system that is fucked up. I sadly still have a lot of important stuff linked to my google account.
Yeah it was a ban from the Google eco system.
Damn, that’s rough
“Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos”
Seems like a win to me.
uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.
Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT
“No way around it” always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.
Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite
Love to see it
YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscription or watch ads.
Or to let us know its time to quit. I have narrowed down my youtube use a lot. If it is ad only I won’t bother at all.
Won’t miss much frankly.
I mirror my yt channel that feeds my family to peertube for my viewers. No one watches it, but I’ll keep trying.
Please share a link to your peertube channel :)
Thank you! I’ll check them out \o/
For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:
- This only affects some users, not everyone
- The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
- The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
- It affects all videos
- The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
- There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
- It affects Premium users too
edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify
This is why I will never get premium. You pay the motherfuckers money and still have to take it up the ass.
I’ll never get it because first-party ads are only a small part of the problem. Shitty rec algos, Shorts absolutely rammed the fuck down your throat, third-party ads, dislike counters, gaslighting you about the resolution, clickbait blockers, cross platform feed, etc. These are all solved with third party clients.
So my adblocker now also removes youtube comments? That’s more of a feature than a hurdle!
download yt videos and lets reupload everything onto peertube idk
Theres a reason that youtube has no real competitor.
because the amount of data that gets uploaded to youtube every day, every hour, is unfathomable.
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point. Just from a data center/harddrive point of view alone, the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it.
There is no real way to compete with youtube directly.
Only options are things that are not direct youtube competitors, Which are typically much smaller, possibly maintaining a narrow subject focus, and require monthly fees/subscriptions to access
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point.
There is. People just wouldn’t like it. Lowering the resolution and framerates massively to save on space. The nerds (derogatory) would trash the platform everywhere they can have a voice if it doesn’t support 4k 120fps, though.
