I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
    19·
    3 months ago

    I’ve got about half a dozen plugins in Firefox specifically for YouTube to make the front page even remotely usable.

    Without them YouTube isn’t even worth it.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        Behind the overlay

        ClearURLs

        Click bait Remover for YouTube

        Disconnect

        Return YouTube Dislike

        SponsorBlock for YouTube

        uBlock Origin (with WaterFox web browser - cannot stress this combo enough.)

        Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts

        YouTube High Definition

        Privacy Bager (also super important)

        If you get any of these, you block origin with waterfox is a very powerful combination for YouTube and general browsing on the internet. Couple all that with privacy badger and you’ll be relatively okay.

        There are a lot of other stuff out there. Just browse through the Firefox extension plug-in store or whatever it is and they’ll all be there.