Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.
You weren’t blocking ads before?
Ive been blocking youtube ads for like a year now. But when it was like one or two minutes every 10-20 I didn’t mind watching on an app that didn’t have ad block. It got worse and I got fed up.
Not the previous commenter but on mobile, a good few years ago I didnt block ads i didnt mind something skippable or a short interruption but they were just that very short and not in the way. I started going out of my way to block ads when they abused it
I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield TV box and don’t ever deal with any ads. It’s appalling whenever I have to use vanilla YouTube for anything.
Again YouTube ads? What the hell are you people talking about?
Mfers act like forgot about revanced.
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what other sites are there to use?
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How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?
I don’t think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
It might, if it just blocks YouTube
Can’t view ads if you can’t view videos. Checkmate.
I’m still self hosting Invidious… Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube…
Link? Or just Google it?
https://docs.invidious.io/installation/
The docker section there is what I used.
You can even access your instance with playlet on roku https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.
I seem to have the right stuff on my laptop, but not on my phone. When I play escape games on the phone I occasionally need a walkthrough video, so I’m switching between 3 apps: the game, my notes (a paint app) and the video. Walkthrough videos typically have an ad at the beginning and maybe one in the middle, and I don’t mind watching 15-30 seconds of ads for the YouTuber’s work.
This used to be pretty seamless, but a couple weeks ago something changed. When switching back to YouTube, it would not return me to the video but to the home screen. I have to go to “You” to get the video I was just watching, and when I click it it plays the ads again, then jumps to where I left off. So now every time I switch away I have to view an ads again when I switch back, which really sucks balls. I don’t think the phone is running out of memory since other apps I have open switch right back to where they left off. So I’d love to get something that will skip all that.
Newpipe seems to be working fine.
I think this one’s a winner for me, thanks!
Revanced still working great for me.
Will check it out thanks!
I should just read a book at this point
Occasionally I try the YouTube watch together thing on discord with my SO, and it really shows just how completely unusable YouTube is without an ad blocker.
The only ads I see are on a local sports podcast. The advertisers are all local businesses. From restaurants to local credit unions. And those I’m fine with.
Youtube has ads?
Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!
Blocking ads isn’t a crime .
Yet
I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!
Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.
I would disagree, you’re still directly communicating with YouTube servers without a proxy in-between. Invidious or Piped are the proxies you need, they let you blend in with the other users of their services making data-collection on YouTube’s part difficult.
We need to make feeding the algorithm as difficult as possible.
SmartTube on streaming devices!
Smarttube on Android TV OS
Grayjay on desktop
Grayjay on Android
