Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Renat@szmer.info ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me on (android) TV. On PC I have ad blocker. On TV ads time is between 6 seconds and 1 minute.

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  • n1ck_n4m3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SmartTube for Android gives you adblock and sponsorblock

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    • Renat@szmer.info ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This app is unavaliable on my TV

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  • awake@lemmy.wtf ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Theres also the possibility to use a VPN and log in from Albania (I think) to avoid ads altogether because they’re not legal there.

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    • 42Firehawk@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is Albania. I will say that it’s more correct to say that YouTube chooses not to send ads to Albania, rather than Albania banning it.

      Albanians anti ad laws state that ads are required to be safe for children, with the platform being responsible for failure… So Google is not spending the effort to make the ads safe.

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      • awake@lemmy.wtf ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I didn’t know it is the other way around (Albania ban vs. YouTube not playing ads)! Thanks for elaborating.

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  • Enzy@feddit.nu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Try ReVanced.

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  • sircac@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On TV I silenced them as they start and look elsewhere meanwhile… I find joy in training myself to be unable to consciously recognise at all what is ongoing till the video start

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• Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People with android phones who use YouTube app.

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    reVanced is alive, well, good, and at this point necessary

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    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, Firefox with uBlock works fine!

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I see a link to a potentially interesting YT video, I just send the link to my PC.

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ublock works on Firefox on phone. Can skip the PC step if ya want

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• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone mentioned that their entire google account got banned for 10 years over adblocking youtube. I stopped watching youtube immediately… I’m not about to watch ads, but I don’t want to lose access to my 22 year old personal account… So many accounts are tied to that address, that I can’t manage to move to a different service.

  FML what happened to “do no evil”? Now it’s “make money with the baby grinding machine for all costs”

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Don’t log in on YouTube. Unless you’re uploading, there’s no point.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would be scared as hell to rely on Google like that. You are one automated Ai decision away from losing access.

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