Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.
I run both those and I see ads every time google breaks ublock which is monthly now. Grayjay is broken more than its not at this point and requires like 10+ tries with various ciphers.
I think the day of these ads becoming unblockable is coming soon.
Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I’ve never seen an ad get through it.
Also Brave just straight up blocks ads by default across the browser. And it’s a damn good one too
got anything for samsung tvs?
Someone else in this thread mentioned TizenTube, that sounds like what you’re looking for.
But personally I just grabbed an Nvidia Shield. It works great and if you swap out the default launcher you’ll never see a single ad on it (with the right apps). Plus the pro is beefy enough to run some decent emulators too.
i have a couple of options i want to experiment with, but this tizentube things sounds like a nice to have.
Smart Tube is useless for me. Takes forever to load the video and usually craps in the process. Pass.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 hours ago
A/B testing is showing they are going after people with ad blockers: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-apparently-punishing-ad-blockers-by-hiding-comment-section-3320581/ But your specific combo seems good.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 minute ago
Oh, no! Not the comments, those are always so smart and insightful.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I’ve had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google’s latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don’t spend staring at a greyed out skip button.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Pretty sure several engineers from google itself might be contributors to some of them, fortunately.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
That genuinely would not surprise me in the slightest.
Archer@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
All you have to do is close the window every time they try that bullshit and that shows up in stats. Get enough people doing it and they’ll back off
archonet@lemy.lol 9 hours ago
Wait, YouTube’s idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?
Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Please Google don’t get rid of shorts! Especially the ones with the wonderful AI voice over and karaoke style closed captioning! Please don’t do that! Or else I’ll keep using adblockers.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m so happy they got rid of dismissing shorts and throw them in a feed more! Please don’t get rid of them!
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Why would I ever want to see youtube comments? Literally zero impact for me.
leoj@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
was going to say, shoot I’m gonna install an adblocker just for that feature!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Are they really threatening us with a good time? No YouTube comments is a benefit, not a punishment
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Hiding comment section? Oh no! What will I do?
Venator@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
If I want to see the comment section I use official app, and just pause the ad.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
If I want to go blind I splash acid in my eyes
Venator@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
I’d recommend using lasers for that 🤣
coaxil@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I mean, I intentionally block the comment section, but sure,