Submitted 1 day ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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.
I hope I can be the motivation you need with these super simple steps (will take a few minutes).
Have they made anything like this for Roku yet?
if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube
SmartTube Beta has been a life changer on Android TV. I would just avoid youtube on my tv because fuck ads. But then i found SmartTube Beta, and wow. No more ads!
Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.
This is the most baffling feature ever. Why would anyone want to have titles translated? The video itself is not going to be translated! I guess it’s because of these auto subtitles that are simply not that reliable nor do they make for a good viwing experience if you really don’t know the language.
Even Youtube’s algorithm already doesn’t suggest videos from languages in which you don’t search in! My youtube shows me stuff only in the languages I usually google with.
And the ads with this ai voice… Damn they are weird.
When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a “why am I seeing this ad” page which you can then click ok on then click on don’t watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn’t work if you’re casting a video from a phone, and it doesn’t work on some channels.
I did not know this, and I love it! Thanks for sharing!!!
That stipped working. Now the option it gives you is to block the ad going forward after it finishes
on the rare case that i watch YouTube on tv, if it’s at the beginning, i just quit the video and restart over and over again until i see a 5 sec skip. sometimes it takes longer than the ads would’ve taken but I’d rather do that than take it on the chin to be honest. I’m also hoping others do it too so maybe they get some telemetry data.
and if it’s in the middle of the video i just quit. if it’s important enough i can just watch it on my phone or PC without ads.
You could see if an adblock dns works, you dont even have to set up pihole for that (its just local hosted adblock/whattheheckyouwant dns).
If it makes problems you can set it to default or cloudflare or something
Setting another dns is in most cases just going to the settings and pasting a link
DNS blocking doesn’t work on YouTube ads because they’re served by the same domain of videos.
I’m in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don’t think there are any options for ad blocking.
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
You could put the subtitles for videos in languages you don’t speak. What was much more annoying to me was the automatic audio translation (it’s still available, but it seems YouTube doesn’t select it automatically when you watch a video in another language).
How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?
I don’t think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.
I’m still self hosting Invidious… Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube…
You can even access your instance with playlet on roku github.com/iBicha/playlet
Link? Or just Google it?
docs.invidious.io/installation/
The docker section there is what I used.
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
Future uBlock/NewPipe users
Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️
Their wallets.
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.
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.
Revanced still working great for me.
Will check it out thanks!
Newpipe seems to be working fine.
I think this one’s a winner for me, thanks!
I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker
I’m grateful I have a job so I can afford premium 🙏
Bless your heart
Well we found the average YouTube user.
I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏
I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.
I can afford it too, but I won’t pay for it on general principle when it costs more than Prime and Tidal combined.
Enjoy paying to be fucked by the corpos!
GrayJay
NewPipe or Piped
youtube sucks ever since googol bought it.
youtube sucks
ever since googol bought it.
If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
And thus we say fare thee well - U-Toob
testing
Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won’t roll it out?
Very likely - but that’s not going to happen. Some people will watch less, some will complain but keep watching the same amount, and the majority will just take it as a fact of life and not change their behaviour.
I think we’ve seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it’s not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we’ll see how long YouTube is relevant.
Open it via Duckduckgo, the player will show it without any ads or tracking. 👍
Red’s worth paying for, especially if you dont mind yt music.
It’s not. Alphabet is already making billions off our data. Just use uBlock or ReVanced or whatever and don’t shovel more money into their greedy pockets.
And if they have your data, they didnt steal it, you signed it over or they bought it from someone you signed it over to, personal data is rarely stolen, mostly just handed off and then people act like they put a gun to their head to get it.
Well because an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, i dont base my actions on how poorly someone else has acted. I just try and do the right thing.
What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?
I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.
In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.
Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.
Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.
I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield TV box and don’t ever deal with any ads. It’s appalling whenever I have to use vanilla YouTube for anything.
revolt.
For free?!
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand