YouTube starts showing ads when you pause a video on TV

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• Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That shouldn’t be a problem for adblockers, should it?

  Speaking of which, Youtube also planned embedding ads directly into the video stream, rendering adblockers useless.

  I haven’t seen that so far… Have any of you?

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not too familiar with different TV OS, but even just DNS blocking would still work for that.

    If they start embedding ads into the stream, then it will have to move to SponsorBlock style community blocking, but technically still viable.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As I understand it, DNS blocking does not work for any YouTube ads as the ads are hosted on the same servers as the videos.

      Certainly, my pihole - which has successfully blocked many ads - does not do anything for YouTube.

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Smarttube still works for me, but you’ll need android/google TV for it.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who pauses during the Matt Damon Hot Ones episode?

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ublock origin with Firefox handles that fine.

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  • jasep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article mentions this is happening on the TV Youtube app. You’re running Firefox on your Android TV?

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. I run firefox on my pc. Which is plugged into my TV.

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