Or use revanced or an open source alternative.
Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
sandman@lemmy.ca 5 months agoYou can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.
Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.
JCreazy@midwest.social 5 months ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not Firefox on iPhone though
sandman@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Apple users love having control taken away from them so I never factor them in when giving tech-related advice.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was always an Android but broke down after the thousandth idiot friend told me I wouldn’t have problems if tried iPhone. Let’s be honest though. Android folks don’t have privacy or are tech savvy either. It’s the ones using graphineOS and the other stripped down android OSs that do
Cossty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t need to be in desktop mode for ublock origin to work.
sandman@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Hmm, they may have changed it or I could be misremembering.
Desktop mode also allows you to play a video while your screen is off which is good for listening to music.