If youre using a browser to watch YouTube just use Firefox with uBlock Origin. No ads
And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.
The duckduckgo week browser comes with its own YouTube player which is ad free.
Do people not know of ad blockers anymore
I thought I had Unlock and it doesn't work anymore
Guessing you are using Google Chrime as your browser. If so switch to Firefox and ublock origin works.
Oh. You are right. I didn't realize that's what my daughter had opened... For some reason I just assumed YouTube won the war. I would edit to resolved but I am still curious about a simple Bluetooth button controller.
Also, freetube app on pc will bypass ads and other bs
The war is only beginning, my friend.
Also, FWIW Ublock Lite still works and blocks YouTube ads in Chrome. But it's also stripped of features compared to Ublock Origin in Firefox.
I'm planning on getting a Rii Bluetooth controller for the computer on my tv. It seems well thought out, with a keyboard and mousepad on it. It's not a simple few buttons though.
I do unlock origin on Firefox (or a Firefox fork) + sponsor block. The combination gets almost everything
I use a dedicated video player instead of a browser. Quite a few desktop and mobile video players can directly play YT videos if you just feed them a URL.
You could just use uBlock Origin on FireFox and they won't exist at all to have a need to skip anything.
Yes, but that seems like over engineering a solved problem?
And it would be rather tricky. The button would be simple; even a pair of Bluetooth headphones could do it. The tricky bit would be in figuring out how long the ad is and pressing the 10 second skip key the correct number of times and then pressing the skip ad button if required.
Easier (and more secure) just to use an ad blocker.
Or is there a way to make it somehow auto skip?
uBlock Origin and Firefox
My suggestion is to not watch YouTube videos.
You mentioned you were still interested in a button.
How are your programming skills, and what's your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?
On desktop Firefox+ ublock origin+ sponsored block.
On mobile: Tubular.
You won't see a single ad not only no YouTube but also everywhere
to add to this thread I use RVX (YouTube re-vanced extended) on mobile.
I also use Seal (ytdlp UI) to download videos on mobile.
I've also tried greyjay but it kept erroring out like every other week and id have to re-login every time. Also I'm not very interested in other platforms than YouTube.
On desktop i use your recommendations, but I use Parabolic (ytdlp UI) to download also.
You may move to a newpipe or fork like tubular or pipepipe. On revanced, you are still running Google binaries. I don't know how grayjay is for YouTube, but I use it for Odyssey. Pipepipe has some extra platform by the way.
I thought RVX was dead? Did they bring it back? I've been using the normal ReVanced and it works great.
Freetube is great too. Its like newpipe for desktop. Lets you subscribe, have view history, and save playlists locally. Has sponsorblock and dearrow and is accountless.
Sometimes breaks so have to go back to using firefox + ublock while waiting for update tp fix wharever youtube does.
I also use freetube btw
Just use an ad blocker.
Pay up.
OP: Can I get a button?
Everyone in this thread: Use adblock
This guy: GIVE GOOGLE MONEY!!!
I answered the 2nd part of the question.
If you use Firefox, try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-disturbance/
I've given up on uBlock for YT because frankly I was annoyed at having to update every two days (and whitelisting channels never seemed to work). Silencing ads is good enough for me.
Been using uBlock for like 10 years.
Very occasionally, like once every 2 years, youtube acts funky. I don't even update. I just deal with it, and a day or two later it goes back to normal.
Idk, it kept breaking the site for me because of the arms race between YT and adblockers.
Something is off with your setup then, the past breakage was a few years ago, it's working fine since. Do you have any other extension installed that could be detected? And you were using uBlock Origin?
It's entirely possible that there was some interaction between addons that I was unable to find back then but I'm fine with how it's working now and uBlock Origin (yes, that one) is working fine otherwise so I honestly can't be bothered to tinker with it.
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