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I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in several years, thanks to uBlock Origin.
I find funny, that after watching YouTube for not over an hour, my ublock icon already says >1k
Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me.
I've been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It's a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer
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Hmmm maybe I'll just learn to read finally.
The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.
"Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly"
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? 🤯
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I'm not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I'll finally be able to do something else with my time.
Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.
Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.
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Youtube has ads?
Ublock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.
Edit: Mispelling, fuck autocorrection
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NewPipe is my friend
I'm using a 3,5 months old version of PipePipe than magically somehow still works 😀
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The enemy of my Youtube blocker is my enemy
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FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!
SmartTube on streaming devices!
Smarttube on Android TV OS
Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.
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I watch youtube on a smart TV where I don't have a way to skip ads. I know there are ways to do it, I just never implemented.
The experience with Youtube is getting so much worse. It used to be one ad at the start of the video. Then it was two. And now ads in the middle of the video. They are also so long! It completely breaks the narrative of the video and is so distracting.
All of this just makes me want to watch less Youtube, which is likely not a bad thing.
I hope I can be the motivation you need with these super simple steps (will take a few minutes).
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This sounds like a problem I'm too third party client to understand
I'm still self hosting Invidious... Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube...
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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.
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.
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Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads:
uBlock Origin + Firefox
NewPipe on Android
Libretube on Android
uYou+ on iOS
FreeTube on *NIX and Windows
yt-dlp + mpv
YouTube Revanced
Invidious self hosting
Piped self hosting
And finally, last and definitely least
YouTube Premium
Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.
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Ive been using adblockers, piped and other tools for so long that i dont even remember what the last time was when i saw a youtube ad.
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WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET
By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they've achieved that they can do what they like. Don't feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.
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If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
When ads get in the way I simply don't watch the videos. It's not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.
Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.
But I'll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I'll archive important content in the meantime.
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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.
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