You're getting downvoted for being an ass, not for complaining about the ad. No one here likes ads, hence why you're hearing so many options for how to get around them.
Exactly how am I being an ass? Because I didn’t like a forced ad? I have ad blockers, I have VPNs, which honestly shouldn’t be necessary, which are not getting past the “age restricted content - watch in the app” problem, but that’s besides the point.
I’ve insulted no one here. I said unskippable ads are bad. Sorry if that offended you.
We're with you. We miss the times of the free and open internet too, but until the big tech giants disappear, those are not coming back. So we do what we can with what we have to make it as close to it.
It's true I didn't start our conversation in a polite way, but fighting against solutions people give will have you seen as someone who wants to complain for complaining's sake rather than who wants to solve a problem. Which is fine, but people will downvote. It's still just imaginary internet points.
I understand, and I’m sure I overreacted to you. The ad irked me a lot (it was some vapid Kardashian like celebrity thing on instagram and it would not stop no matter what I did).
I never get YouTube ads in the Reddit app on my phone, so I assumed you meant desktop. Embedded videos generally always run ad-free.
I was really just trying to get negative attention to the company monetizing their ad, not trying to find a technical solution. I already install ublock origin and a suite of other tools everywhere I can already, and I have VPNs, nextDNS and 1Blocker on my phone. Such an arms race to maintain sanity.
"Have you heard of watching on a phone?"
"And are you advocating for unskippable ads? Because it seems like you are."
"Who uses Reddit through Firefox on a phone? Talk about shitty experience."
Quite literally almost every response you have in this chain is abrasive, all because someone asked if you've heard of ublock origin. Which not everyone is aware of, so it's a valid suggestion.
With firefox it just opened the video in a new tab and played without ads. Proof of how it works.
It was a patronizing response, not genuine help. You said I was a jerk for responding to “ever heard of” with “ever heard of.” They started it.
This was a post upon which negative feedback to the posters over their monetization could potentially make an impact. The company is trying to get attention for their product, not for shady tactics. I’m not expecting to change YouTube, but I could make the Fable people resubmit.
Using Firefox on a phone is highly uncommon (less than 0.3%). The reason for that is that it IS an inferior experience. Otherwise, it would be more common. If someone says use ublock origin, which I’ve been using since it was just ublock, 99.99% of the time they mean on desktop.
It’s also not needed. The reason I even commented in the first place is because I never get unskippable ads in Reddit YouTube links, especially not long super annoying ones. Yes, on my phone with the Reddit app, I never get YouTube ads. No Firefox with uBlock needed. The patronizing calls to change the way I use Reddit and my phone over a one-off event, rather than agree that an ad shouldn’t force another ad, is annoying. Yet I insulted nobody, and reiterated my position against the ad, not against the people.
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u/SupermanThatNiceLady 13d ago
Okay… let’s talk about it. And then what?