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Zummy ,

I am for sure one of the smaller number of people doing this, but I watch YouTube on my TV using the TV app. As a result I always had to watch ads. I wish I could avoid them. I suppose a could watch from an alternative and then AirPlay it to my TV, but that’s about it.

SpookySnek ,

I bought a chromecast with google TV specifically for this purpose, with it you can download “SmartTube” and watch youtube completely ad-free

Miaou ,

Changing your router DNS to something that blocks ads (or a pihole at home) and you’ll never have to watch ads ever again, YouTube or elsewhere

lorkano ,

This doesn’t work for many types of ads

ylph ,

YouTube video ads can’t be blocked with just DNS blocking unfortunately, they are served from the same hosts as YouTube videos.

SendMePhotos ,

Does a network pihole block YouTube ads?

verysoft , (edited )

Not anymore, it used to. Pihole can only block ads that are served from known ad servers. But with the way ads are served on YT, it can't block them without also blocking the entire video.

My pi hole currently blocks around 10% of all the requests made on my network. So its still worthwhile for cutting down on some ads and tracking.

Guajojo ,

Of course this is possible but this involves more than just pihole. I’m running this with a combo of adaway + mikrotik router with port based NATing.

People downvoting you are like the angrycry meme about the low to high IQ gauge.

roofuskit ,

If you had an android device you’d be allowed to install an alternative YouTube app.

cuntonabike ,

Just install smart tube

v4ld1z ,
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Same but with my PS5. But I don’t think there’s any way of getting an ad block on there

Zuberi ,
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User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me

Plopp ,

I wish Mozilla would add the ability to set User-Agent for the different containers they offer in Firefox with their addon. Would be sweet to set it to Chrome in my YouTube container only.

S_204 ,

How do I learn what you’re talking about LoL. Any helpful YouTube channels?

Agrivar ,

Not the person you replied to, but I just searched for “User-Agent changer” and then installed the Firefox extension that it found. When I set it to pretend to be Windows/Chrome my Youtube tabs went back to snappy and responsive.

(link to the one I found: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/uaswitcher/)

CosmoNova ,

Holy smokes that did the trick. Not that longer loading times were bothering me too much, (It’s still less time wasted than ads) but damn it feels nice to load smoothly again.

S_204 ,

Thanks I’ll check that out.

Dehydrated ,

So does Invidious

Appoxo ,
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Problem is, it shows the internet that there id a higher share of chromium browsers.
Which is bad.

Zuberi ,
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You’re showing a google owned website though who cares lol.

Appoxo ,
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Because most people will apply it globally and will forget about it at some point.

EmperorHenry ,
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Only if they can detect that you’re using one.

Wirrvogel ,

I do not care. I only watch 10 channels and these are in my favorites. I do not use the algorithm and thanks to European law the frontpage is deactivated. I also ever watch only one video per day and then do something else, so they can slow down the website as much as they want since I am not scrolling. I click on a channel and on a video, that’s it. If it gets too bad I rather not use Youtube anymore, it is not the end of the world.

LifeOfChance ,

I mean this wholeheartedly and by no means do I mean to be rude or snarky. I’m glad that works for you but unfortunately there is a ton of us who have to use it for a huge list of things. I personally use it to learn how to fix or make things because for me I need a video for it. I use a bunch of work arounds and such but eventually this will become a bigger issue. Soon embedded videos will stop working for news websites and such at this rate.

c0mbatbag3l ,
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They’re shooting themselves in the foot if embedded videos gets disabled.

LifeOfChance ,

I completely agree. Personally the video I saw wasn’t 100% convincing mostly speculation however it shared some other points about how websites will start doing what YouTube is doing so they don’t suffer the wrath of YouTube messing with their videos. I wish I knew how to find the video I saw on tiktok they had a YouTube channel I can’t remember. I hate being THAT guy talking about videos without the link…

foo ,

You tube is a central repository for hundreds of thousands of hours of learning. So while you might know everything is a great equalizer for those who are still learning

UltraMagnus0001 ,

I feel its slowing down Smarttube too, because I have to wait a few seconds for the video to start now. I don’t know if it’s a bug

CatTrickery ,

I’ve noticed the same. Particularly tonight.

duckmilk ,

Can someone create (or does it already exist?) an app that plays the videos in the background, remove the ads and then let you playback the whole video ad-free? Sort of like you did back in the VHS-days…

flying_sheep ,
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github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp allows you to download them and watch them on your leisure

planish ,

On Android, there’s Newpipe which doesn’t run ads, and Newpipe x Sponsorblock which clips ads out from the video. On desktop there is FreeTube which also has SponsorBlock you can turn on.

DreamlandLividity ,

Last I checked, you can just download a youtube video. There are plenty of websites and some apps for that. No need to play it in the bacground.

Candybar121 ,

You can get this same functionality with Youtube Revanced! Free on android! No Ads! Sponsorblock built in! Background playback! And more!

lagomorphlecture ,

Try opening a link from Gmail in Firefox or searching Google for a specific piece of information. SSDD. Fuck Google. At this point they’re in par with the evil Amazon.

Squizzy ,

Ssdd?

KnightontheSun ,

Same shit, different day.

Tronn4 ,

Solid stare dick drive

sugartits ,

I am choosing to believe this is the correct response.

ChunkMcHorkle , (edited )
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ammonium ,

Wasn’t this confirmed to be an AdBlock (Plus) bug? twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

jezebelley ,
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I get YouTube Premium with YouTube Music for $2.60 by using ProtonVPN and connecting to Ukraine. That’s all you have to do. Once you’re connected to the YouTube premium website it’ll display Ukrainian currency which totals to $2.60 USD. You can subscribe to channel memberships in the same manner for $1.60 instead of $5.

I’d say $2.60 is a killer deal for adfree YouTube on everything and a full music streaming service.

linearchaos ,
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How do you pay for it? If I try to use a visa cc for an acct outside the US they demand I have a bank acct in that country and verify a deposit AMT.

I had one in Argentina for ages, until they pulled this trick

jezebelley ,
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I just used my credit card. Worked fine. Checked the statement and I was charged $2.60.

linearchaos ,
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Tried Ukraine, VPN was up, local address there, it just blocked me from paying with my US VISA card :/

jezebelley ,
@jezebelley@leminal.space avatar

Not sure what to tell ya. Worked for me.

CmdData ,

Doesn’t that idea fall apart when you get to the payment method? The payment service knows in which country your bank account or PayPal account is registered that isn’t IP dependent right?

jezebelley ,
@jezebelley@leminal.space avatar

Nope. I just used my credit card. Charged $2.60.

Neon ,

because of People like you, the Services in these kinds of Countries gets more expensive for the People that actually live there.

jezebelley ,
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Is this actually true? I just did a search to find any source stating this, but I couldn’t find anything.

erranto , (edited )

Does it affect Invidious front-end as well?? I have been noticing that for a while now, but I thought maybe it is because the page doesn’t use native yt js code to track video download. the same videos would load battery smooth when accessed through YT.

Behaviorbabe ,

I’m not very tech savvy, my Adblock sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. I’ve been using Firefox with extensions incognito for YouTube or I just avoid the site these days. I really liked it for music videos, since in unwilling to pay Spotify. So far my strategy is working.

swag_money ,

i feel like this has been going on for months now no? or maybe it’s the fact that my laptop is 11 years old now lol

joinmyframily0118999 ,

Never seen the “turn off your adblock prompt” because I never login to Google. Not that hard.

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