Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
You aren’t doing youtube correctly.
PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube
Mobile: revanced, newpipe
For iOS, since there’s no easy app based method to block YouTube ads: fire up a VPN connection to Albania. Streaming ads are illegal in Albania.
How does one Rick roll people who don’t do YouTube correctly, which is most everyone?
Those people? We don’t interact with those people.
Touché
Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
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There was a vociferous but somehow under the radar outcry about this back in 2018 and an incredibly simple solution was widely suggested: demonetize the video.
However, the highly viewed video is a significant source of royalty revenue for Mr. Astley, which, as he well argued at the time in a series of tweets, is only just compensation for the way his image has been turned into a joke literally hundreds of millions of times now.
Mr. Astley implored YT not to bow to pressure and demonetize the video. YT famously replied “don’t worry, we’re never going to give you up, never going to let you down.”
I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads.
Wow, a legitimate use case for shorts.
Nice! May I recommend you share that with all of our professional rickrollers? (Or may I share it there?)
Go for it!
Thank you. I needed this.
Omg did you just reinvent YouTube?!?
I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.
And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.
What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.
Same in UK for Sky. You have to be a Sky TV customer (paying) to use the Android or iOS Sky Go app and it still makes you watch adverts without skipping.
I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/never-gonna-give-you-up/1559900284Oh, oh, oh! Thanks! I think I’ll click on it right now.
Ed. Damnit
Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?
I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
I don’t understand why people have to watch those ads. It’s one websearch that will save you a lot of time.
I use Mozilla for desktop and brave for Android to listen to videos while the screen is off.
Yes but the billionaire got a little more billions, very important
If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
