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 - KZfaq'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

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@KnightOfAwesometon 8 ай бұрын

My problem has never been the adverts themselves, but rather the sheer level of intrusiveness, intensity, and disruptiveness of them.

@Rexhunterj 8 ай бұрын

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.

@bradhaines3142 8 ай бұрын

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

@Warfoki 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq, 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 KZfaq than adblocking.

@TrejoDuneSea 8 ай бұрын

@@Rexhunterj You should be looking into who you share your device with, ads are targeted based on your interests.

@angeltensey 8 ай бұрын

Don't know the current situation but back in the days KZfaq 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.

@PaulaTejando-fb7ko 8 ай бұрын

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.

@1439315 8 ай бұрын

"Age of Information" . . . . . . . . .

@RandarTheBarbarian 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Pk2723 8 ай бұрын

no wonder i never noticed any problems with ads despite seeing all these videos, never even seen the warning about blocking the video player

@deensedudevonand4115 8 ай бұрын

shhhh lets enjoy

@TornadoWhirl33 8 ай бұрын

My Ublock stats: Blocked on this page [9,527 (55%)]

@ally_ 7 ай бұрын

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.

@roxannlegg750 7 ай бұрын

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!

@LibbyRal 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Michiganian8 7 ай бұрын

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.

@scottmckinney6328 7 ай бұрын

@@roxannlegg750 I started hating most, if not all of the companies that keep pushing their garbage ads.

@thepope2412 6 ай бұрын

Just use the brave browser. No ads and no constant need of updating ublock.

@doommustard8818 7 ай бұрын

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. KZfaq 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.

@helenel3569 7 ай бұрын

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

@Philip_Taylor 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Raphael-2 7 ай бұрын

We can whitelist certain channels only on KZfaq.

@jd9119 6 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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%).

@KNINESVIDS Ай бұрын

I use to whitelist channels i liked back when og vanced was around... Then the alphabet went and cease and desisted them... The alternatives dont have the function (or have it as easily findable) so they essentially destroyed my 1 personal limit of allowance... Now i dont care and they caused it 😂

@FlyinGuy 8 ай бұрын

The FBI recomends everyone use an adblocker

@rossmanngroup 8 ай бұрын

www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 You're not lying. That is a .gov website, posting a public service announcement from the FBI.

@scrittle 8 ай бұрын

Been seeing this get mentioned a lot, and given how malicious and unsafe KZfaq's adspace is and malicious code in ads across the internet, it would be crazy for them to be wrong.

@mikelee9173 8 ай бұрын

@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?

@truerandomchannel 8 ай бұрын

@@mikelee9173because they suck

@InkaHacker 8 ай бұрын

Network effects. Audience reach, simple@@mikelee9173

@P1nkR 8 ай бұрын

If KZfaq 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.

@BrBill 8 ай бұрын

💯

@reanimationxp 8 ай бұрын

this. use an ad blocker. sincerely, infosec

@opticalbeast4947 8 ай бұрын

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.

@indigetes 8 ай бұрын

And there are inappropriate adds that may pop up while you have kids around watching a fricking disney song.

@NikosPer 8 ай бұрын

@@indigetes even politicians pop up add can make anyone puke at any given moment.

@PaddyMcCarthy2.1 7 ай бұрын

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".

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

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. KZfaq 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.

@malachi- 6 ай бұрын

You do have a skip option, an adblocker.

@scherge 7 ай бұрын

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.

@Philip_Taylor 7 ай бұрын

Yes, without adblock the internet is anti-human in design.

@CoralCopperHead 7 ай бұрын

...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.

@MeowThingy 8 ай бұрын

It speaks wonders when people would rather pay an ad blocker to block ads on KZfaq than pay KZfaq to not have ads on it.

@thornwayne 8 ай бұрын

have you watched the previous video why he stop paying for KZfaq premium? you will understand why hes now rather pay Adblock than having subscribtion on KZfaqPremium (he was a loyal 7years customer for youtube premium).

@TheLumberjack1987 8 ай бұрын

I'd also rather pay a bodyguard instead of just handing my cash to a robber.

@Raffaele222 8 ай бұрын

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.

@muizzsiddique 8 ай бұрын

You pay for one service instead of hundreds for what is effectively the same job.

@flatterkatz 8 ай бұрын

with how youtube treated it's creators over the years, paying youtube is basically immoral.

@SignalRaptor_ 8 ай бұрын

"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

@Yadeehoo 8 ай бұрын

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

@CakePrincessCelestia 8 ай бұрын

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.

@LiosProsum 8 ай бұрын

While I fully agree with the sentiment, I would be careful to identify adblock with piracy. (If you were implying that)

@SignalRaptor_ 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@Zakaker 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq's case, I'd rather support the creators themselves than a company that treats them like shit.

@esmfamil5086 7 ай бұрын

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.

@prplt 7 ай бұрын

I remember on my old phone there was an old version of the KZfaq 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)

@outrider8569 7 ай бұрын

*cough* youtube revanced *cough* Never looked back

@esmfamil5086 7 ай бұрын

@@outrider8569 👀✍️

@meredithnavin1358 7 ай бұрын

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?

@esmfamil5086 7 ай бұрын

@@meredithnavin1358 I'm sorry that's F'ed up 💀

@lezbeehonest0294 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq and caught up with some old shows I've been neglecting. Thanks for getting me back into other platforms, KZfaq!

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

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.

@allashama 7 ай бұрын

i changed my ablock 5 times this December, due to this problem of detection. I will not let youtube tellling me what to do..

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

@allashama try it at a grocery, stel some food, and talk like this to a police officer lol 😄 people are seriously morpns... unbelievable

@mohamedadam5215 8 ай бұрын

No matter how hard KZfaq tries to stop adblockers, there will always be someone who is one step ahead.

@chrishickory7907 8 ай бұрын

I hope so...

@telebubba5527 8 ай бұрын

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'.

@Lebon19 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq: it's most people's online entertainment and there much more dedicated people on YT willing to go against Google than Meta.

@reviewportaladministrator26 8 ай бұрын

I stopped using Facebook and my life is much better now. Facebook is an equivalent of a drug dealer in modern world.@@Lebon19

@havochowl6766 8 ай бұрын

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

@DW11111 8 ай бұрын

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

@telebubba5527 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ekscalybur 8 ай бұрын

I haven't watched ads, of any kind, on KZfaq in 14 years. I'm not starting now.

@HarryNicNicholas 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@drasiella 8 ай бұрын

Bless you, darling.

@ChiTownBrownie89 8 ай бұрын

I would rather pay for an adblocker that works than pay for youtube.

@ROTTENDECOMP 7 ай бұрын

I disabled ad block on KZfaq 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.

@TeeKoon 7 ай бұрын

I sign out to see vid. Ad blocker is working for unsigned and no account holder!

@Earlydoors272 3 ай бұрын

Explain

@StrangerForever85 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq behind forever until my adblocker updated and started working again.

@TheCooperman666 7 ай бұрын

mine never stopped working but then i have AdBlock and AdBlock plus installed together both are the free versions.

@SapunMan 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq and other streaming services is why I use AdBlockers. And will continue to do so. I came here to escape ads, not find more.

@Juan-os4hs 8 ай бұрын

In the late 70s through the 80s, any James Bond movie was a three hour Sunday night on the network TV stations.

@meta-baron 8 ай бұрын

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

@user-vk1lx4eu4b 8 ай бұрын

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

@SapunMan 8 ай бұрын

@Juan-os4hs My issue is not the length of the movie, it's the artificial length caused by the extra ads.

@2011GETUP 8 ай бұрын

I don’t really have a computer how do I get content because KZfaq premium is going up and I don’t think I can justify $20/month for a time wasting app

@toxicdragon323 8 ай бұрын

Ads on KZfaq 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.

@BalboaBaggins 8 ай бұрын

Ads were never tolerable. Never will. Brainwashing should be illegal.

@rodden1953 8 ай бұрын

i follow a few youtubers how dont allow Adds and their videos are being shadow banned

@black_dragon274 8 ай бұрын

@@rodden1953 looool

@dave0smeg 8 ай бұрын

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.

@loke6664 8 ай бұрын

I don't mind adds between my vids but when you breaks in the middle of a short vid, it gets super annoying.

@LibbyKay188 7 ай бұрын

When KZfaq 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.

@P-Likan 7 ай бұрын

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.

@CoralCopperHead 7 ай бұрын

"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.

@P-Likan 7 ай бұрын

@@CoralCopperHead I am on both due to my job, traveling often. KZfaq 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.

@bernhardkaiser9677 7 ай бұрын

@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 )

@malachi- 6 ай бұрын

@@CoralCopperHead Get an open source adblocker.

@mysteriousluck 6 ай бұрын

@@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

@RafaKwiatkowskiKwiato 8 ай бұрын

The biggest mistake google made, was trying to block adblockers and immediately after raising KZfaq premium price. A monopolistic move and creates an even bigger incentive for the user to find alternatives.

@WOKEchair 8 ай бұрын

They're getting cockier

@swancrunch 8 ай бұрын

What alternatives? KZfaq uses monopolistic practices because youtube IS a monopoly.

@_Ekaros 8 ай бұрын

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...

@Levi463 8 ай бұрын

I dont see how this is there biggest mistake, or even a mistake at all.

@rohesilmnelohe 8 ай бұрын

Adblockers are significantly cheaper and overall more beneficial. Who could have seen this coming...

@codyfelts9531 8 ай бұрын

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.

@CBRN-115 8 ай бұрын

They forced our hands. The blame is on them and them only. The people are innocent

@majorpwner241 8 ай бұрын

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.

@gwrgrw4077 8 ай бұрын

the investors want the infinite ammounts of money they were promised and youtube is trying desperately to get it

@izzuddinmnasir4884 8 ай бұрын

In the future, forced people to buy premium. Next would be ads in premium just like Netflix & Hulu

@ladylestranj 8 ай бұрын

Conditioning us to accept fewer choices and less control over everything.

@tuecerprime 7 ай бұрын

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!?!?!?

@markrainford1219 7 ай бұрын

The fact that KZfaq try to detect what is in your computer/smartphone is bloody intrusive.

@Namo-xx1sz 5 ай бұрын

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

@TheHylianJuggalo 8 ай бұрын

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.

@dairiskuznecovs7233 8 ай бұрын

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

@TwoDollarGararge 8 ай бұрын

That's called marketing

@billweir1745 8 ай бұрын

@@dairiskuznecovs7233 The ads of the 90s were the pinnacle of creativeness as well as very entertaining.

@AC3handle 8 ай бұрын

@@billweir1745 flash game ads. Hit the clown, get redirected to this site.

@jonfreeman9682 8 ай бұрын

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.

@fartexplosion4480 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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

@DocOrtmeyer 8 ай бұрын

Sorry man, that’s not fair 😢

@Conqueror25 8 ай бұрын

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.

@kirra6170 8 ай бұрын

GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THAT i went through the exact same thing and god it was the worst

@Ren-bj4xm 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Mark-oe1df 8 ай бұрын

@@Conqueror25man KZfaq 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

@deanmichael1279 6 ай бұрын

Never in my life have I ever been inspired to “buy anything” that KZfaq advertised. And when I need an answer right away and KZfaq shoves three ads in my face I’m 1000x less likely to buy a product.

@elastronaute1198 7 ай бұрын

The thing that KZfaq didn't take into account is there is simply no way that someone will go from not experiencing ads on KZfaq 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.

@eliarice74 8 ай бұрын

I genuinely didn't know adblockers worked on KZfaq until KZfaq's campaign. Gotta thank KZfaq for informing me. Now I haven't seen an ad in weeks.

@CJtheRedeemer 8 ай бұрын

what app are you using?

@gabrielbarnagaud6287 8 ай бұрын

@@CJtheRedeemer ublock works

@zaug1561 8 ай бұрын

@@gabrielbarnagaud6287 Thanks so much dude! I got so use to no ads for so long and hated that I had to watch ads on KZfaq again. I just downloaded Ublock and it actually still works!

@SkaffaS 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@kctaz6189 8 ай бұрын

How do you keep KZfaq from banning you like they say they will if you keep using an AdBlocker?

@Tressym. 8 ай бұрын

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.

@novasiri7809 8 ай бұрын

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

@unclemuir 8 ай бұрын

@@novasiri7809 The same thing has happened to me.

@GeorgeDCowley 8 ай бұрын

Sooner or later, one of those coders (or more likely, a group of them) will make a decent alternative to KZfaq.

@e_x_c_u_b_i_t_o_r_ejiysb7169 8 ай бұрын

@@novasiri7809 download unblock origin makes the blocking of ads work like a charm

@StimulatingPresence 8 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeDCowley There are already a few.

@ryry20002 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq runs while I'm asleep. Lately I turn the laptop off because I feel like a rube when I wake up to an ad.

@WereGreen 7 ай бұрын

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

@eliseereclus3475 8 ай бұрын

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.

@oreiller4184 7 ай бұрын

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.

@ChuckBoriss 7 ай бұрын

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

@Garanon5 7 ай бұрын

#GAYco gecko

@AlexaFaie 7 ай бұрын

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.

@roxannlegg750 7 ай бұрын

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.

@MrSubejio 8 ай бұрын

In my opinion, KZfaq 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. KZfaq 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 KZfaq 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 KZfaq's lunch for the last decade actually starting to gain traction.

@jasonmconnors 8 ай бұрын

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.

@superlad6684 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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"

@DemoniteBL 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq 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.

@MCNeko6554 8 ай бұрын

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. KZfaq 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 KZfaq 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.

@bogdiworksV2 8 ай бұрын

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.

@moorejared 7 ай бұрын

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.

@erikcareswell6768 7 ай бұрын

The word you used that resonated with me the most was... arrogance. KZfaq, 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...

@robertosutrisno8604 2 ай бұрын

Paying for adblock is moot and stupid

@mikko3 Ай бұрын

lol

@Sonar90 8 ай бұрын

This ad-blocking shenanigans made one thing abundantly clear to many. There needs to be a viable alternative to KZfaq 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.

@kilovolt2494 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely. And they are coming in the following years

@johndorber6877 8 ай бұрын

I have been KZfaq blocked several times in the last 3 weeks and I have tried Rumble. That is OK but nowhere near as good as KZfaq as far as content goes. KZfaq 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.

@fonkyman 8 ай бұрын

ublock origins....@@johndorber6877

@darana1142 8 ай бұрын

I assume you want that alternative to be free?

@Faircraft3 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheKatieLea 8 ай бұрын

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

@burnerheinz 8 ай бұрын

My parrents who are incredibly Computer illiterate asked me to make the ads dissapear.

@grantofat6438 8 ай бұрын

It's called brainwashing. Most people these days just accept being annoyed.

@WindHaze10 8 ай бұрын

they have npc mentality, devoid of any curiosity to improve their experience

@tomlxyz 8 ай бұрын

@@grantofat6438wrong. Many people just don't know you can get rid of them, just how he says in the video

@roxaskinghearts 8 ай бұрын

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

@kimxgamer Ай бұрын

I used to not have adblocker and having to deal with the ridiculous amount of ads, then someone told me that I could install a browser extension to block them so I did and it was so satisfying to watch the video all the way with no ads disturbing me at all. Never looking back to the ad-filled adware ever again!

@hootinouts 6 ай бұрын

Louis, thank you for doing what you do in helping folks.

@ineffable0ne 8 ай бұрын

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.

@jondoe6608 8 ай бұрын

web integrity api

@henjem14 8 ай бұрын

Peace, at last!

@sinamy 8 ай бұрын

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.

@sznikers 8 ай бұрын

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.

@geckoo9190 8 ай бұрын

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.

@virtualgambit577 8 ай бұрын

I was never bothered to install an adblocker until a few years ago when KZfaq pushed intrusive, long, unskippable ads and doubled up on ads. KZfaq ads have actually done the opposite for me- anything I see in a KZfaq ad I remember to NEVER support the company just because of how intrusive the ads have gotten.

@HarakiriRokku 8 ай бұрын

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.

@virtualgambit577 8 ай бұрын

@@HarakiriRokku Agreed, all I've ever seen is "exposed" videos on popular youtube ads and sponsers.

@ElectricEmpireProductions 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying the things you say and using your platform for something good.

@JohnR-fc7vr 7 ай бұрын

I went through more points. This guy is amazing! He's thought out extremely well many different angles of this problem! Subscribed!

@DarkOmegaMK2 8 ай бұрын

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)

@neonwired4978 8 ай бұрын

it really hasn't though, a bunch of people whining changes nothing

@DarkOmegaMK2 8 ай бұрын

@@neonwired4978 Because a lot of people complaining about something they disagree has NEVER made any changes in history, never.

@shadoeboi212 8 ай бұрын

it could have worked if they cut the price of premium(by at least half) to coincide with the demand

@shadoeboi212 8 ай бұрын

it has increased the number of adblock users ....@@neonwired4978

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse 8 ай бұрын

i love it when youtube tries to play 10-15 second ads on youtube shorts that barely extend past 30 seconds xD

@MegawackyMax 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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 KZfaq, 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.

@paulacruz6239 8 ай бұрын

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..

@alan62036 8 ай бұрын

You are aware that it's the uploader choosing to have these ads, right?

@MegawackyMax 8 ай бұрын

THREE HOURS! Goodness gracious! That's overkill!@@paulacruz6239

@alan62036 8 ай бұрын

@@paulacruz6239 Sounds like you had a virus lol

@darthnocturnis3941 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@m4vr1ck 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for making competition look better Rumble only has 1 ad to skip if one pops up

@voided9593 6 күн бұрын

I first heard about adblockers in an ad lol and I installed it and I loved it now I can’t imagine my life without it

@dr.a.w 8 ай бұрын

I frequently watch/listen to classical music on KZfaq. 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.

@deloller2452 8 ай бұрын

This is unbelievably annoying when I’m listening to dark ambients tracks to meditate

@penelopelgoss2520 8 ай бұрын

Same here. Listening to ocean waves to assist with calming my anxiety and up comes an ad. Grrrrrrr

@rafaelsodre_eachday 8 ай бұрын

That's what made me get an adblocker: ads in the middle of Beethoven. Mind you, I wrote a feedback to KZfaq first, and I was innocently expecting them to fix it.

@proadlekopy 8 ай бұрын

Thats funny

@MurasakiMonogatari 8 ай бұрын

The worst is when you're running and you have to break stride to hit skip.

@Slvt4Bread 8 ай бұрын

The fact that all of this was quietly going down in the MIDDLE of the SSSniperWolf advertiser and money drama just proves that KZfaq 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.

@billpii6314 8 ай бұрын

Actually, they want you to pay for YT premium.

@BalboaBaggins 8 ай бұрын

Just install all blockers man.

@LoLaSn 8 ай бұрын

wow a greedy corporation? Now that's an oxymoron Anyone who thinks corporations aren't just out for the money is a deluded imbecile

@CM0SRS 8 ай бұрын

every one, all of them. blocker. install down to the 7th ring of hell. @@BalboaBaggins

@Slvt4Bread 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@christyb2912 7 ай бұрын

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.

@paraggemini 7 ай бұрын

subscribed. Thanks for keeping it real! Feels like I am around a human today!

@leokimvideo 8 ай бұрын

The adblock war has hammered more nails into my KZfaq channel. Views have plummeted and income has halved. Good one KZfaq, you have effectively destroyed the platform in one greedy move. Spook the audience and their eyeballs go somewhere else

@shrekrecker 8 ай бұрын

you deserve it, your videos are poison.

@breakupgoogle4584 8 ай бұрын

Its also the rampant censorship of independent media channels that is driving people to other platforms.

@primotef8863 8 ай бұрын

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

@infinitesimotel 8 ай бұрын

Lets hope so, becasue the yt monopoly needs a drastic culling. Maybe this will incentivise people to move to better platforms like Odysee

@Whatismusic123 8 ай бұрын

you only recently started uploading infrequently after months of absence, I don't think the blocking of adblockers is at fault here...

@oskarzemcik1548 8 ай бұрын

If KZfaq 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 KZfaq and it worked too.

@desireegoulett69 8 ай бұрын

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

@Ornithopter470 8 ай бұрын

Remember when KZfaq had relatively unobtrusive banner ads on pages? Can we go back to the days of banner ads?

@killerdeamonking 8 ай бұрын

aka 2005 , I too remember this time. This is a time where i started on youtube.

@peteryeeterson5766 8 ай бұрын

@@Ornithopter470 Agree, for KZfaq and mobile games PLEASE

@ZratP 8 ай бұрын

This was definitely the best period for us users. But KZfaq 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 KZfaqr. 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 KZfaq 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 KZfaq Music service so I don't have to need Spotify. This su*** but people have to understand that not everything can come for free.

@kencooney1082 7 ай бұрын

This is a great video! I stumbled into you and subscribed 9 minutes into watching this.

@muhammedjameel 7 ай бұрын

This is the first time I see your videos, you got yourself a new subscriber and supporter.

@LendriMujina 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq is._

@slippslope 8 ай бұрын

As terrible as KZfaq 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.

@shupasopni 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@burnburn645 8 ай бұрын

@@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!

@desireegoulett69 8 ай бұрын

I watch lots of porn and KZfaq and can with great certainty attest to the Fact that that is Absolutely TRUE😎

@dragonseatcheese8727 8 ай бұрын

You watch porn because you're horny. I watch porn because the ads aren't so bad. We aren't the same.

@aaronmicalowe 8 ай бұрын

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.

@kevindelandrealty 8 ай бұрын

Yep

@tylerboothman4496 8 ай бұрын

It also shows that "unfixable" can be fixable. Sometimes very easily

@ValueYourTimeOnEarth 8 ай бұрын

True that

@loupgarou1317 8 ай бұрын

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"

@terratenientesalgo2511 8 ай бұрын

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.

@MusicLoverGurl 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq 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.

@maismais993 7 ай бұрын

you're so precious and important. I hope u stay safe and strong! thanks for everything u do!

@sarbe6625 8 ай бұрын

If KZfaq ever succeeds in fully stopping adblockers from working and keeps making their ads worse, I'll just learn to live without KZfaq again.

@nqkoi159 8 ай бұрын

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 :)

@icantcomeupwithnames469 8 ай бұрын

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.

@gibier1724 8 ай бұрын

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....

@rinwhittney5039 8 ай бұрын

I'll get a nebula subscription, it's cheaper then premium

@darc22005 8 ай бұрын

pretty much. everyone will just move away from youtube if they succeed

@oldbloke135 8 ай бұрын

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!!

@jimbeam-ru1my 8 ай бұрын

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.

@frankspeaking 8 ай бұрын

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!

@SlickRCBD 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@goldenegg1063 8 ай бұрын

Haha Me Too ! 😅 . Thats hilarious.... ive download so many scam games Just to give a 1 star Bad review cus of youtube ads . And done the same as you on other irritating youtube ads too . Nice one 🤜 🤛

@r.kolemaistos7788 8 ай бұрын

I mean, that's exactly why ads on KZfaq 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.

@sparky5543 7 ай бұрын

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 $$$

@kitchenworker446 7 ай бұрын

I have been using adblockers for years then KZfaq 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.

@johnsullivan937 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq 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.

@nuassul 8 ай бұрын

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.

@advil000 8 ай бұрын

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. KZfaq 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 KZfaq that get around actually watching the ads. One way or another, KZfaq needs to change revenue models like Louis said.

@virtualgambit577 8 ай бұрын

Ugh, this. Any time I have tried to listen to music on KZfaq while busying myself with something else (doing dishes, making dinner, etc.), I have gotten these long KZfaq 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.

@jimb9063 8 ай бұрын

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!

@ManBat420 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaqr 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.

@iamdavey 8 ай бұрын

This was exactly my experience. I never used adblocker once, until this KZfaq anti-adblocker move took place. They really did just bring this into the forefront of the masses.

@DefaultFlame 8 ай бұрын

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.

@skarloeythomas5172 8 ай бұрын

If you never had an adblocker, what about KZfaq’s new shit prompted you to get an adblocker, since it only targets people who already had one?

@sadasdasda6978 8 ай бұрын

@@skarloeythomas5172 a lot of browsers come with a light-weight adblock build in, that isnt good enough for youtube

@6StimuL84 8 ай бұрын

We had no ad blockers on my wifes computer and it shut her from watching the content.....@@skarloeythomas5172

@E3ECO 8 ай бұрын

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.

@XanderMuze 7 ай бұрын

My dude, this was my first time watching your content and I loved the points made. Dope! Keep it up! Agreed

@normanjin8897 7 ай бұрын

Louis Louis Louis, good to hear that you are back.

@xenicmark 8 ай бұрын

I was in a programming class and asked my classmates how they were dealing with KZfaq's anti adblock . Imagine my shock when they were like, 'You can block ads on KZfaq?' 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.

@sznikers 8 ай бұрын

Da fuq ? O_o

@afuckingnameplz 8 ай бұрын

everyone in that class was a laid off journalist

@OutLanderUSN 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Gandhi_Physique 8 ай бұрын

@@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."

@ma3ve 8 ай бұрын

yeah, I was pretty much the person to teach people around me how to use adblockers AND VPN…

@johnhoran7602 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq started a war that they won’t be finishing…

@vincei4252 8 ай бұрын

We will be there to look at the corpse of KZfaq and all smile knowingly.

@skataskatata9236 8 ай бұрын

streisand effect working for us.

@bradhaines3142 8 ай бұрын

@@vincei4252not any time soon

@stribika0 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Sonny_McMacsson 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq 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.

@BarryBranton 7 ай бұрын

To block or not to block. Thanks for educating the public.

@willlehrfeld457 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Thank You.

@MrSociofobs 8 ай бұрын

When it comes to traditional advertising, there are rather strict regulations every advertiser must follow. Those regulations would prevent, say, placing a huge sign over the freeway and blasting stadium floodlights from it right into driver's faces at night to "grab their attention". As far as I know, little to no such regulation exist when it comes to digital advertising. It can get as intrusive, as loud, bright and disruptive as possible. Adblockers are a must, and a right in such chaos.

@TheUKNutter 8 ай бұрын

The UK has some regulations.

@nickryan3417 8 ай бұрын

@@TheUKNutter Unfortunately Google is a US company and therefore doesn't care. In the UK we don't have to suffer from the endless pharmaceutical adverts, nor adverts for guns, but anything else seems to be fair game. Doubtless the Tory party will remove even these protections shortly.

@Freshbott2 8 ай бұрын

I know for a fact that ads on KZfaq are against regulations in my country, I refuse to believe otherwise. I also turned off personalised ads on my account and I get the full range of ads for every kind of product you can imagine for every different demographic. It shocks me that KZfaq can even be making money from it, most of its vapourware.

@samharris3508 8 ай бұрын

@@TheUKNutterwhat doesnt the UK have regulations on?

@UQuark0 8 ай бұрын

@@samharris3508beer amount limit

@s.o.k.1393 8 ай бұрын

If KZfaq 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 KZfaq without it

@bloodhoug82 8 ай бұрын

Problem is that they don't really work anymore

@cf453 8 ай бұрын

@@bloodhoug82 uBlock Origin is working fine with the occasional hiccup.

@jesseb2389 8 ай бұрын

there are youtube specific ones that still work@@bloodhoug82

@johnmietus4801 8 ай бұрын

they work@@bloodhoug82

@stepheneickhoff4953 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq also likes to insert an ad in the middle of a song, e.g. on Live From Daryl's House.

@niteus4907 2 ай бұрын

Thank you KZfaq for recommending this man and thank you for casually mentioning that paywall blockers are a thing

@logiclust 7 ай бұрын

lol digidesign analogy is spot on.

8 ай бұрын

For years I refused to use adblockers, ads were not intrusive, usually a small textbox somewhere on the page. I have no problem of the creators making money. The small textbox ad was OK for me on youtube too. Then they started to you intrusive ads, which was the turning point for me. They actually made me use adblockers. Congrats. Now a decade or so later, when I see internet without adblocker, I'm shocked

@m1stern00by 8 ай бұрын

Yeah its insane how intruive they are now. Some even open up a new tab page when they start....

@tytanyx 8 ай бұрын

The sites that were littered with ads back in the old days of the net were considered suspicious or just straight up viruses. Now it's unfortunately the norm. Even worse that they killed their own search function for the sake of their own algorithm to push recommended or sponsored content.

@HarveyHirdHarmonics 8 ай бұрын

It started for me somewhere between 2000 and 2010, when on a forum I visited, there was a flu medicine ad with sound which did a very loud "Atchoo!" every time it popped up, giving me a near heart attack. I still didn't use a blocker then, I simply stopped visiting that forum. Then on KZfaq I wondered why sometimes videos are choppy. I then noticed it was every time a Nintendo ad was displayed on the right. Flash was still a thing then and that ad, using Flash, seemed to use up most of my computer's resources. An adblocker resolved that issue nicely. I stopped using the blocker again later and didn't really mind the occurrence of ads before a video on YT, as long as I could skip them. Then they began to show 2 ads, one often not skippable, and more and more ads during the video, often interrupting mid-sentence or during a music video. Also on a lot of websites, ads are switching constantly, making the content I'm trying to read jump up and down randomly. Yeah, full-time adblock user now and very happy with it.

@stuartdparnell 8 ай бұрын

Adware has basically become madware, a variant of malware but one that drives you mad crazy.

@rickgreer7203 8 ай бұрын

@@stuartdparnell ...well, and malware too. My final flip to block all was networks not trying very hard (at the time) to keep out malicious stuff.

@Shigization 8 ай бұрын

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.

@mistermidnight1823 8 ай бұрын

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.

@P1nkR 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Mabra51 8 ай бұрын

30-40% ? You're greatly exagerating.

@froschreiniger2639 8 ай бұрын

And dont forget that 80% of the time the actual text turns out to be ai generated garbage.

@MorbidEel 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Hollowdude15 5 күн бұрын

I like how this youtube adblock situation is interesting for me to watch today and great video Louis Rossmann :]

@jennamatkowski2367 7 ай бұрын

thank you!!!!!!!! omg I didnt know this

@obits3 8 ай бұрын

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.

@mcbean1 8 ай бұрын

you either pay for it with your time of actual money one way or another.

@clumsiii 8 ай бұрын

brave browser is adfree! I couldn't enjoy youtube without it. No add ons needed - Brave! Really tho it's that easy

@jackdarrow3011 8 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq AdBlock war video keep showing to me. ughh fcking weird

@datgoy5509 8 ай бұрын

I think the longest add ive ever seen was 3 hours

@lostbutfreesoul 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@NoFkingUsername 8 ай бұрын

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.

@kazbah1217 8 ай бұрын

Same. It's becoming similar to the length of commercials on TV. It really burns my toast.

@boopyboops 8 ай бұрын

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.

@jakezepeda1267 8 ай бұрын

I use brave on my phone just to watch KZfaq because the ads have gotten so bad.

@itsTyrion 8 ай бұрын

That and "oh you’re watching in 240p to save data? That must be for me. FULL HD AD"

@themadsamplist 8 ай бұрын

I have Adblock browser on my phone and watch youtube in the browser.

@hvitis 7 ай бұрын

This guy is great. I feel inspired and activated.

@NotHappening-yv2wc 2 ай бұрын

I haven't watched a KZfaq 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!

@straphos5326 8 ай бұрын

My problem is not only the fact that they banned adblockers, but they made the amount of ads you get more frequent and intrusive. For example, most of the ads you get now are 2 ads in a row, and many times I've noticed, the first ad is 5 seconds or less. This way, you can't even hit the skip button, and your forced to watch the second ad. The amount of ads I get is insane, 1 out of every 3(maybe even 2) videos I click on, I will most likely get an ad.

@renatobarreira6505 8 ай бұрын

Just install Brave and you will never have this problem again.

@sbubwoofer 8 ай бұрын

ublock origin

@jonathanbarr9764 8 ай бұрын

I'm probably wrong about this but then again it's been years since I actually had to put up with ads due to how many adblockers I had but didn't it used to be that you would only get one ad for a five minute video but now there's a lot more for shorter videos. A few days ago I was watching a video that was actually shorter then the ad that played before it.

@anthonydelfino6171 8 ай бұрын

Without a blocker, I get two ads every video and an extra two ads interjected within the videos, and then another two ads after the video ends. It's insane the amount they throw at us.

@jonathanbarr9764 8 ай бұрын

@@anthonydelfino6171 another annoying thing is that you can't see where the ads are now, you used to see a little yellow bar in the video progress bar or if you were watching a performer they might say there's an ad coming up but now the ads surprise you.

@Naunet7 8 ай бұрын

The German court ruled years ago that prohibiting users from using an ad blocker on your website is illegal. Despite these court cases, KZfaq 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 KZfaq will lose.

@swish6143 8 ай бұрын

KZfaq doesn't have to provide service to Germany. Users are free to pay for KZfaq premium.

@tehnoob19 8 ай бұрын

@@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 KZfaq broadcasts to free users.

@BQD_Central 8 ай бұрын

@@swish6143Google pays linktax here, so they won't shut down KZfaq here.

@Blackbirdone11 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@toukoenriaze9870 8 ай бұрын

but they still do provide to users in germany so they are inherantly liable @@swish6143

@TrevorDennis100 7 ай бұрын

A huge thanks for the Total Adblock heads up. I've used to Adblock Pluss for a good few years and loved watching KZfaq 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.

@malachi- 6 ай бұрын

LOL... you use Chrome, a spy machine?

@jonathandennerly7472 5 ай бұрын

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

@colejohnson5026 8 ай бұрын

My older cousin always says "The Internet was a lot better back when the Boomers were afraid of it". And he's not wrong.

@magnetdance 8 ай бұрын

This! The minute old people got on, they found a way to ruin it. Personally, I blame Facebook.

@SEEYAIAYE 8 ай бұрын

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.

@YY4Me133 8 ай бұрын

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.

@imrannazir6931 8 ай бұрын

Yes and before content marketing became a thing.

@soundtorial4567 8 ай бұрын

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

@thelogicaldanger 8 ай бұрын

Until a couple of years ago, I purposely didn't use ad blocker, because I wanted to support You Tube and the channels I watch. I was OK with an ad at the beginning, end, and 1 in the middle. I was even willing to tolerate 2 ads at the beginning. But when You Tube starting showing ads every 3 and a half minutes, that was ridiculous. So I put ad-blocker on all my browsers.

@goldenegg1063 8 ай бұрын

Exactly the same as me ! . I could just about tollerate the same, to support the channel . but youtube became unusable with the bombardment of 10+ ads on a 30 min video... with pop up ads on top of the ads taking you to play store or other websites . Then i read comments from alot of channels saying they dont get a penny from the ads 🤷‍♂️ . it wasnt them putting 20+ ads on a 1980s movie . . Its why i stopped using youtube for Along time until i found adblockers

@serge263 8 ай бұрын

WANT A VIDEO WITH YOUR ADS?!

@boiledrat 8 ай бұрын

ad block recommendations please, especially for ios

@goldenegg1063 8 ай бұрын

@@boiledrat i found mine in the play store of all places ! . Some of them stopped working so i tried others . Goto your app store and try some until you find one that works 👍

@sheilajac 8 ай бұрын

i had a 59 minute ad last week. i sometimes like to watch yt the same way i watch tv - while i'm doing something else, like preparing dinner, in which case i have no problem w/a couple of short ads running - but there 30, or even 60 minute ads of some dimwit blathering on about some scam...i used to see ads for some sort of phone relationship psychic that were stupid and way too long too, not sure what happened to those but now it's even stupider/scammier ads. i much prefer walmart or whatever other mega company running normal ads, to these fly by night con artists w/30 minue rambling bs ads. how do they afford to pay for a 30-minute yt ad? does yt not charge normal or standardized ads the way regular tv and print advertisers used to? or do hey have a bunch of clueless trannie wokesters running their ad department? it's bizarre! its a multibillion $ company, they can't do better than that?

@DexLuther 7 ай бұрын

The added problem with KZfaq 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.

@robertthompson2282 6 ай бұрын

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.

@meowmow._. 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ariabritton9669 8 ай бұрын

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.

@TehObLiVioUs 8 ай бұрын

lol 6 download buttons on one page without adblocker 🤣🤣🤣dangerous

@Delightfully_Bitchy 8 ай бұрын

Some people really think it's better using the app or the premium services... ... People I don't understand.

@meowmow._. 8 ай бұрын

@@ariabritton9669 the gap of technological literacy is crazy like it’s as simple as the chrome web store 😭

@WanderTheNomad 8 ай бұрын

I just the KZfaq 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.

@psycholuigiman 8 ай бұрын

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.

@AllenLantz 8 ай бұрын

Only sites i get this on now are movie pirating sites and p**n sites

@psycholuigiman 8 ай бұрын

@@AllenLantz Maybe so. I just had such a bad experience as a kid that it kinda freaked me out for life.

@tactical-crash 8 ай бұрын

Same.@@psycholuigiman

@Dargonhuman 8 ай бұрын

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.

@motherchuckair404 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@brgulker 2 ай бұрын

“Don’t be evil” turned into “be as evil as possible.”

@firesong83 7 ай бұрын

Sir, you have earned yourself a new subscriber.

@ChaseddiHondo 8 ай бұрын

Louis' willingness to not only condemn youtube ads, but to also being able to switch perspectives to youtube's side on how they're doing intrusive ads because we the internet like free stuff the most is a beautiful show of clarity of mind. Honestly I should've subbed to you since long ago

@rossmanngroup 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I think about this a lot more as I get older. Most of why the world sucks is a reflection of us. How we got here is simple... companies realized people will go to the ends of the earth to not spend $15 on art/media/software, but would happily take it for "free" if the cost were their data or their privacy. If the reaction to gmail in 2004 was *"FUCK. THAT. I am paying for my email hosting, storage, software, & interface before I **_EVER_** let you fucks look through my email to advertise to me"* , maybe we'd live in a different world. Same with music. *"DRM sucks and you won't provide me what I want the way I want it even if I pay!"* is a good argument, but for every time I saw that, I saw 20 other people arguing that $15 for a world class album was a "ripoff".... they listened... they heard we were willing to pay for nothing, but the only thing we valued less than our opinions of them, were our own time, data, & right to privacy... thus, the ad supported models were born.

@MadocComadrin 8 ай бұрын

And to flip things around one more time, Alphabet likes free stuff too. Recaptcha has taken in hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours of labor for free by unduly coupling the generation of training data for ML models that they can profit off of massively.

@blessedstealth3611 8 ай бұрын

@@rossmanngroup Brave browser has been working great blocking youtube ads.

@zachreads 8 ай бұрын

If you want an ad blocker just get premium, it's worth it and helps the creators more! I haven't seen an ad in years guilt free.

@Zygorg 8 ай бұрын

@@zachreadswhy pay when im using ublock origin? KZfaq pays little to creators. If you want to support creators, just pay them directly offsite.

@Smulenify 8 ай бұрын

Some years ago (7-8 years ago I think), the Norwegian Consumer Council had a live stream where they read the terms and conditions of the apps installed on an average phone (in Norway at that time) out loud. It took 32 hours. No one has the time to read every word of terms and conditions, and they specifically use manipulative design to trick people into giving away their information. Even if you know about it, you're still likely to slip up sometimes. I've heard a lot of people say things like "when it's free, you are the product". But really we are the test subjects in the hands of these massive corporations, and they keep getting away with horrific things because they're too large and powerful to be stopped without serious consequences.

@ghb323 8 ай бұрын

oh and dark patterns

@numbersix9468 8 ай бұрын

horrific things like ads?

@jattikuukunen 8 ай бұрын

The problem is that the opposite is not necessarily true, i.e. "when it's paid, you are not the product". There's no guarantee. They might have the exact same terms and conditions.

@treelineresearch3387 8 ай бұрын

@@jattikuukunen Now with crap like phones you're often paying quite a lot for the privilege of being a data collection endpoint for some corpo.

@H8RSAPPRECIATE 8 ай бұрын

They do it all the time I believe Facebook got sued for something similar but it’s nothing too them since they can make the money back the next day

@mayarosexxx 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq'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. KZfaq 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 KZfaq just make their platform a pay only service? Just a guess but I suspect the revenue from ads would still be larger overall.

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

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.

@mayarosexxx 7 ай бұрын

@@VladOnEarth 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

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

@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.

@kydiasan21 7 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq/a park is free, with mild inconvenience but not someone screaming at you for money.

@VladOnEarth 7 ай бұрын

@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?

@frankzatout6789 7 ай бұрын

Mister Rossmann, thank you for sharing all that knowhow for so many years, probably saving countless devices and saving money for so many tech users worldwide. People can call u what they want, you are a true modern day hero, thanks!