• Taleya@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 months ago

    Why is tech so hell bent on removing consent. We need to frame this in a way that makes their pr teams shit themselves.

  • ohellidk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Unlock origin + Firefox! The harassment stops. I’d rather donate to the unlock team monthly instead of paying google for a solution to a problem they created.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Pi-Hole + VPN and you can stop mobile ads as well. (You connect your phone to your VPN, whose traffic passes through your Pi-Hole)

      Ublock Origin also works on Firefox mobile for Android, but that only works inside the browser.

      You need the Pi-Hole network-level blocking to block ads in apps.

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Their full screen popups when I first open the app have started to load the subscribe button a second before anything else on screen. I keep catching myself about tap it out of pure reflex and I think they doing it on purpose.

  • icanred@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    Not just Youtube. Google is! Ever try to use Gmail or Google Drive or Google Docs in a non-Chrome browser? That’s another level of harassment!

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
      21·
      2 months ago

      I can’t recall any popups when I use G-Suite Apps on Firefox. I use Keep Notes, Docs, Excel.

      The main thing I notice is the imposed loading time (Gmail animation takes like 10 seconds on FF and seemingly doesn’t exist on Chrome)

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    Imo this should actually be illegal. I’m find with reasonable promotional displays and offers, but there needs to be some legal option to permanently decline. Having to tell YouTube “no” literally hundreds of times is legitimately ludicrous

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Uhm, that’ s just capitalism in a nutshell.

    Everything is just routing around people telling you “no.”

    Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told “no” and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a “yes.”

    I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I’ve seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They’re so far out of touch that they can’t even face small risk.

    Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?

    Gates, Weinstein, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on… Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take “no” for an answer, even if there’s no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 months ago

      I sometimes open the official YouTube app and set it to autoplay and mute while doing dishes, so they can be happy that I watched their fucking ads.

      I fear that at some point the feds will knock to make sure I’m not distracted while an ad plays.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      Invidious or Piped are great options, that also let you hide all the distractions like suggested videos, the toxic dumpster fire that’s the comments section, and so on. Piped even implements SponsorBlock without needing to install the addon.

    • Gregor@gregtech.euOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      Firefox mobile sucks. I use Brave as my browser (yes I know what I’m doing I don’t want a lecture on this) and Grayjay as my YouTube app.

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    2 months ago

    No means no but ask me later means ask me later. You never said no. Source: the option doesn’t exist

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    You don’t get to say “No” to YouTube, Microsoft, or the thousands of websites that ask to you to give them your email. There’s only a “Maybe later”.

    • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I fuuuhuhuhucking hate this condescending, pestering dark pattern that apparently every single designer on the planet is required to use

  • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 months ago

    You go to a coffee shop, you order a coffee, open your laptop and start working. After you’re done with your coffee the waiter comes and asks you whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. One hour later they ask you again whether you would like to pay. You say no and continue working. Two hours later the waiter insists you either pay and leave, or pay for two coffees, and they bring you another one, then you can stay and work. You call the police because you’re being harassed, and post on lemmy about predatory coffee shop practices trying to upsell you a second coffee. The police arrests the waiter and you get 9000 upvotes on lemmy.

    Running a video-on-demand platform is very, very expensive. Just an FYI.

  • daisy lazarus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    $5 a month and you can share with 5 other users. That’s 90c per person. Why would anyone not have YouTube premium?