I have yet to see my first ad on any youtube video.
I’m around long enough to have seen them, before blockers were a thing.
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.
Youtube has ads?
Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!
Blocking ads isn’t a crime .
Yet
Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
NewPipe is my friend
yup newpipe all the way adblocker by pihole no ads on my network 🤩
I’m using a 3,5 months old version of PipePipe than magically somehow still works 😀
The latest version works fine.
The enemy of my adblocker blocker is my enemy cuz my adblocker is my friend
I should just read a book at this point
Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking. 👍
If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
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’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.
☝️ And it works, I can confirm.
Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.
Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.
It’s all about doing it in moderation and choosing carefully what we waste our time on. I would rather “waste” time reading a stupid book than go on Instagram or TikTok, where my mind gets trapped in a circle of emotions and algorithms.
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
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 was using uYouPlus+ sideloaded on my phone until it broke recently, now I’ve found using Brave browser for just YouTube is the solution
GrayJay, Vanced, or
PipewireNewPipe is the wayDid you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.
Damn, fixed, I had a brainfart and was installing Arch while browsing Lemmy lol
I meant iPhone :(
I mean, yeah. What did you expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My dude I know, some people need to use iPhones tho. I have a solution anyway and sharing it here for others cos I heard it’s a popular phone….
Haha I’m kidding, it’s good that you share your solution here.
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
Future uBlock/NewPipe users
Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️
Their wallets.
Hmmm maybe I’ll just learn to read finally.
Sorry, pardon?
Try it!
💪🤓
I’ve been meaning to check out this “nature” thing, or whatever it’s called. It’s basically like, just lakes and woods and the sky and all kinda weird shit like that. Supposed to be pretty cool I guess, idk
I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.
You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯
Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet
The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.
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