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Same here. FreeTube for desktop and NewPipe are all you need though if you don’t want to pay and/or have access to music.

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Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tubular is newpipe + sponsorblock BTW

I use pipepipe but it’s less stable

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- timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I haven’t tried that yet. I think Libretube also does SponsorBlock too & have seen it on F-Droid.
  
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  - Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ya I think you’re right.
    
    I use pipepipe because it let’s you change the ugly red YouTube banner to black (enable eye protection)
    
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towerful@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As a recent YT premium-tryer, it’s amazing how many ads they put in that aren’t obviously adverts.
Not sure I’ll keep YT premium beyond the free trial, until I find more decent content producers. Even then, it’s skipping their paid promotions.
So it’s like paying for a streaming platform to not get ads… But still getting ads

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- timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I agree… however, that is an issue with the content creators relying on using content promotions. I have noticed when skipping ahead in videos that it usually indicates in the progress bar where the promotion ends. If the content producers utilized other ways to contribute and I liked them enough, then I’d do that. YouTube now has a subscriber only feature that should help with this. There are also extensions that are supposed to block sponsors too. I don’t think YouTube has implemented any functions to make blocking sponsored ads more difficult, especially for paying users… who knows though.
  
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