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
Same, also revanced on Android
Ssshhh…
I was using libre tube for a while and that broke.
What’s the best link for revanced?
Best link is to look up the Reddit page to find their links in the info bar. We shouldn’t be posting links here, or we might very well lose the privilege once Google catches on…
You have to patch it yourself, sorry.
Youtube APK: https://www.apkmirror.com/wp-content/themes/APKMirror/download.php?id=8859989&key=ed463ff40f33fca91601472e78686e6bd92bf430&forcebaseapk=true (Download this)
ReVanced Manager: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases/download/v1.24.0/revanced-manager-1.24.0.apk (Patch the Youtube APK with this)
Love libretube but it just wouldn’t play videos consistently. Ended up moving to grayjay
Or newpipe… Or pipepipe.
Or Freetube on pc, a FOSS desktop client
Or Tubular
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
there is mv3 version of ubo here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-homedunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.
adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.
“Not as well as uBlock Origin” is the answer to that.
I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox.
I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn’t work well last time I tried.
Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won’t be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox.
Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn’t discover uBO til later.
Browsing YouTube like the good old dayz
I have seen 2 ads on Youtube in several years because Youtube revanced ad blocking didnt work twice
Again YouTube ads? What the hell are you people talking about?
Mfers act like forgot about revanced.
Hmmm maybe I’ll just learn to read finally.
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
You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯
I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.
Sorry, pardon?
Try it!
💪🤓
The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.
“Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly”
Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet
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).
Have they made anything like this for Roku yet?
I havent tried it yet but i think you cab rub a pihole and use that to fikter at the source
Nah, YouTube serves ads on the same domain as the videos, so DNS filtering is out.
I think playlet is what I used on roku. Not as nice as smarttube as you can’t log in I don’t think, but you can still subscribe and stuff, just doesn’t transfer between devices. Personally didn’t really use it, just set up for my wife.
if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube
SmartTube Beta has been a life changer on Android TV. I would just avoid youtube on my tv because fuck ads. But then i found SmartTube Beta, and wow. No more ads!
I’m in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don’t think there are any options for ad blocking.
Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.
This is the most baffling feature ever. Why would anyone want to have titles translated? The video itself is not going to be translated! I guess it’s because of these auto subtitles that are simply not that reliable nor do they make for a good viwing experience if you really don’t know the language.
Even Youtube’s algorithm already doesn’t suggest videos from languages in which you don’t search in! My youtube shows me stuff only in the languages I usually google with.
And the ads with this ai voice… Damn they are weird.
You could see if an adblock dns works, you dont even have to set up pihole for that (its just local hosted adblock/whattheheckyouwant dns).
If it makes problems you can set it to default or cloudflare or somethingSetting another dns is in most cases just going to the settings and pasting a link
Edit: if you set the dns in your router it works at all devices at home
DNS blocking doesn’t work on YouTube ads because they’re served by the same domain of videos.
When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a “why am I seeing this ad” page which you can then click ok on then click on don’t watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn’t work if you’re casting a video from a phone, and it doesn’t work on some channels.
I did not know this, and I love it! Thanks for sharing!!!
That stipped working. Now the option it gives you is to block the ad going forward after it finishes
Oh that’s sad, it worked the last time I tried it but that was a few months ago.
on the rare case that i watch YouTube on tv, if it’s at the beginning, i just quit the video and restart over and over again until i see a 5 sec skip. sometimes it takes longer than the ads would’ve taken but I’d rather do that than take it on the chin to be honest. I’m also hoping others do it too so maybe they get some telemetry data.
and if it’s in the middle of the video i just quit. if it’s important enough i can just watch it on my phone or PC without ads.
This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand
AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.
It will continue until it overshoots TV and they’re all 3x more ad than vid.
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.
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.
☝️ And it works, I can confirm.
Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave
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.
uBlock Origin intensifies
They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.
There’s some A/B testing going on, for sure. My ublock origin on Firefox has never had issues
Enjoy it!
Whenever that happens, the heroes in the ublock team does push a new fix in a few hours.
I have no issues on Firefox or Brave. I never see ads.
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.
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.
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 highly recommend creators to upload videos to another site as well.
what other sites are there to use?
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