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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Jonnyprophet @lemmy.world 1w ago

YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.

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Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
- Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
  
  I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
  
  I wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
- Sad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
- Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
  
  Lazy, I just recognize the url from getting rick rolled so much.
I give up, this has really let me down.
- Gave you the runaround?
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.
- Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
- Honestly, I have Firefox + ublock origin in Mobile too
  
  I have all 3 options on mobile as well
  
  Same.
  
  and sponsorblock 👌
- FreeTube has an Android fork now that works just as well as the PC version.
  
  https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases
- Freetube has been failing consistently on all my desktops lately. None of the instances on the main site work. Can you verify it's till working and maybe DM me the instance you're using?
I can't believe I'm about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don't have ads.

Such as: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SXHMnicI6Pg
- 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?)
  
  !rickrolltactics@lemmy.world
  
  I've literally rickrolled thousands of people and i didn't hesitate for a second to click on that link. wow. (_⁠﹏;)
  
  Go for it!
- Tenor's has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
If you're seeing ads on YouTube, you're doing it wrong.
Don't click this link
- 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.
- Fuck u peasant! What are you going to do about it?
  
  Pirate Content?
  
  Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
  
  🐸
  
  Even premium isn't safe nowadays
- 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.
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- Nippy Kind Langur
Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
- you motherfu-
Wrong
- I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
  
  It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
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 know theres a github page. I believe its shatterdisk? When i was in school they firewalled youtube. So i found alternatives to rick roll.

Where there is a rick roll There is a rick way
Wasn't there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?
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/1559900284
- Oh, oh, oh! Thanks! I think I'll click on it right now.
  
  Ed. Damnit
- DRM-free link
Just use a different site here
Not true
- I don't know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
Now playing Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Cant you just use a thirdparty youtube ui url?
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
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
A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.

Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.
- If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.
  
  relevant username
  
  I disagree. This is an important issue
  
  Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such
- I see someone doesn't understand the definition of Rick Rolling...
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
  
  Dude... my kid will never get to experience this. I didn't even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.
- This is just false, I don't know where you got this idea
- You can't do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?
  
  exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads

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