Submitted 20 hours ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
Here is every single way I can think of to block YouTube ads: uBlock Origin + Firefox NewPipe on Android Libretube on Android uYou+ on iOS FreeTube on *NIX and Windows yt-dlp + mpv YouTube Revanced Invidious self hosting Piped self hosting
And finally, last and definitely least YouTube Premium
Donate to the creators who make content. Google does not deserve a penny of your hard earned money.
Then stop using youtube. It sucks ever since googol bought it. Haven’t used it since.
That is right thinking. I admire that.
I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.
I believe you’re thinking of premium lite, or whatever they call it.
WHY DONT WE HAVE A MAINSTREAM ALTERNATIVE YET
By operating youtube at a loss for many years Google acted anticompetitively to kill competition or stop competition arising. Now that they’ve achieved that they can do what they like. Don’t feel bad using ad blockers against this anti-capitalist company.
Final stage of enshittification, now they are allowing more right wing propaganda than normal on the channel
We do, but you probably don’t like it (TikTok).
You’re right :)
I meant idk something like Oddysse (but a website with actual moderation)
You can skip or avoid ads on YouTube, so meh. What really grinds my gears though, is the stupid, fucking algorhythm, which routinely offers me videos I just recently watched, vids in languages that I can’t speak and channels/vids that I have specifically blocked. I curse YouTube daily, but will bless anyone who has a viable alternative…
Adblocks allow you to not have to skip the ads physically, the algorithm is something else though. Now it starting to push right wing propaganda if your not logged in, and recently they said they are allowing even more now
AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.
It will continue until it overshoots TV and they’re all 3x more ad than vid.
That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.
You weren’t blocking ads before?
Ive been blocking youtube ads for like a year now. But when it was like one or two minutes every 10-20 I didn’t mind watching on an app that didn’t have ad block. It got worse and I got fed up.
Not the previous commenter but on mobile, a good few years ago I didnt block ads i didnt mind something skippable or a short interruption but they were just that very short and not in the way. I started going out of my way to block ads when they abused it
uBlock Origin intensifies
They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.
There’s some A/B testing going on, for sure. My ublock origin on Firefox has never had issues
I have no issues on Firefox or Brave. I never see ads.
I haven’t seen an ad on Youtube in several years, thanks to uBlock Origin.
Same, also revanced on Android
Ssshhh…
I was using libre tube for a while and that broke.
What’s the best link for revanced?
I find funny, that after watching YouTube for not over an hour, my ublock icon already says >1k
Browsing YouTube like the good old dayz
Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me.
I’ve been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It’s a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer
I have seen 2 ads on Youtube in several years because Youtube revanced ad blocking didnt work twice
Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking. 👍
youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.
I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker
Anyone not blocking ads on YouTube needs to start blocking ads and sponsored content on YouTube.
I’m actually looking to start a YouTube channel, but I don’t know if I should even bother since YouTube seems to be going out of its way to try to kill itself
I guess there’s no reason not to post to other sites as well?
Do other services! Like Peertube and then mirror videos on youtube and odyssey so you still get traction
Since you’re already in the Fediverse, I’d suggest looking into PeerTube for your videos rather than going to YouTube as your primary platform.
I currently have a channel, but am going to switch to PeerTube when I have my backlog built up again so I can post in a steady schedule. (Workin’ on it…) The only things I’m going to put on YouTube are videos going, ‘Hey! I have the video up here! Follow the link!’ so that people can actually find it and Words of the Week shorts 'cuz I don’t want to feed their AI bullshit that I can’t get away from with proper stuff and it’s just stick figures and rudimentary drawings with words from the dictionary. Unfortunately, it’s not as user friendly to search for stuff on PeerTube as it is on YouTube. I’m hoping that gets fixed sooner rather than later. It’ll make things better. sigh
Just cross post to a couple different hosters.
Unlock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.
And ReVanced on Android, SmartTubeNext on Android TV.
I think it’s back to just SmartTube. SmartTubeNext was a temporary thing to get SmartTube back on track iirc.
I like Tubular and/or Seal(a yt-dlp wrapper) on Android and don’t use a TV, but yeah, anything but the actual YouTube app is probably better.
How do you unlock origin? I have been blocking it thinking it caused the ads
It’s a typo, they mean the ad blocking software uBlock Origin.
Youtube has ads?
Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!
Blocking ads isn’t a crime .
FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!
Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.
Smarttube on Android TV OS
SmartTube on streaming devices!
Gratjay on desktop Grayjay on Android
Again YouTube ads? What the hell are you people talking about?
Mfers act like forgot about revanced.
Hmmm maybe I’ll just learn to read finally.
The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.
“Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly”
I’ve been meaning to check out this “nature” thing, or whatever it’s called. It’s basically like, just lakes and woods and the sky and all kinda weird shit like that. Supposed to be pretty cool I guess, idk
I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.
You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯
Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet
I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.
Finally subscribed to Nebula a few days ago. Between a third and half the creators I follow are there. I’m planning to move away from YouTube entirely, even if I can pay for premium or block ads I want to make the statement I don’t support their service anymore.
I’m grateful I have a job so I can afford premium 🙏
GrayJay
I yet have to see my first ad on any youtube video.
NewPipe is my friend
I seem to have the right stuff on my laptop, but not on my phone. When I play escape games on the phone I occasionally need a walkthrough video, so I’m switching between 3 apps: the game, my notes (a paint app) and the video. Walkthrough videos typically have an ad at the beginning and maybe one in the middle, and I don’t mind watching 15-30 seconds of ads for the YouTuber’s work.
This used to be pretty seamless, but a couple weeks ago something changed. When switching back to YouTube, it would not return me to the video but to the home screen. I have to go to “You” to get the video I was just watching, and when I click it it plays the ads again, then jumps to where I left off. So now every time I switch away I have to view an ads again when I switch back, which really sucks balls. I don’t think the phone is running out of memory since other apps I have open switch right back to where they left off. So I’d love to get something that will skip all that.
This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand
I watch youtube on a smart TV where I don’t have a way to skip ads. I know there are ways to do it, I just never implemented.
The experience with Youtube is getting so much worse. It used to be one ad at the start of the video. Then it was two. And now ads in the middle of the video. They are also so long! It completely breaks the narrative of the video and is so distracting.
All of this just makes me want to watch less Youtube, which is likely not a bad thing.
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
I’m still self hosting Invidious… Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube…
Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 minutes ago
Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!