Comment on iPhone vs Android

• pjol@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how are you watching YouTube without ads?

  My way (probably will be downvoted to oblivion) is with Premium to support content creators i enjoy.

  To add to the other options already mentioned. My understanding is Brave Browser and AdGuard with Safari also removes ads.

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  • biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I’d say to support content creators directly if they provide such option rather than through YouTube ads or YouTube Premium. I think that even 1$ one time is more that channel would have earned from like thousand of your views.

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    • NightAuthor@beehaw.org [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      CPM on tech, finance, and health (a lot of what I watch) is often $5-10. And apparently google pays creators even more than that rate for premium viewers.

      Even so, direct payment is likely to be more profitable to creators than just watching ads or having premium.

      But even as a technical person, I’ve never really been interested in finding ways to block ads on my PC, MacBook, iPhone, Android (when I had one), and Roku/AppleTV. And potentially having to keep up with the apparently changing landscape of YouTube adblocker a for each. Sounds like a pain in the ass. I’d rather just pay for family premium, and easily share the benefits with my mom, sister, & wife without having to offer technical support for their ad blocking.

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      • biscuits@lemmy.sdfeu.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, in my case it’s really easy, just like the other commenter said. Some time ago I’ve been configuring new laptop for my mom. I just installed Firefox with uBlock Origin with default settings and I don’t think she has ever seen YouTube ads.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I just use uBlock Origin in Firefox, and I never see ads. There’s nothing to keep up with – it’s been uBlock Origin for a long time now

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• Version@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Safari on iOS supports extensions out of the box. You can just install adguard or something else and won‘t have any ads.

  There are also third party browsers, which yes, use WebKit, but also can block ads.

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• privacyfalcon9899@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  github.com/yattee

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• tux0r@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My understanding is iOS requires all browsers to use web kit.

  Yes, but… - anyway, what exactly would a different rendering engine improve for your experience?

  how are you watching YouTube without ads?

  Vinegar exists.

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