I should just read a book at this point
I highly recommend creators to upload videos to another site as well.
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Ive been using adblockers, piped and other tools for so long that i dont even remember what the last time was when i saw a youtube ad.
Hard to do if you watch directly from your TV using some dongle and don’t know or can’t modify your router to block ads.
SmartTube is on AndroidTV
Kodi can be installed through the play store, you can transfer files over smb and ftp and move the apk using it.
You’re welcome.
Excuses:
I use a Roku or Roku TV
Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.
I use AppleTV
Don’t, buy a $25 Android TV box from walmart.
FTP? SMB? Apk? What are these, words?!
These terms can be searched for and learned about.
Why not just use Kodi?
You’re ahead of the game, find a plugin pack and enjoy
Same… And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I’ll just stop watching YouTube
I was using uYouPlus+ sideloaded on my phone until it broke recently, now I’ve found using Brave browser for just YouTube is the solution
GrayJay, Vanced, or Pipewire is the way
Did you mean NewPipe? Pipewire is the Linux audio/video framework.
I meant iPhone :(
Occasionally I try the YouTube watch together thing on discord with my SO, and it really shows just how completely unusable YouTube is without an ad blocker.
The only ads I see are on a local sports podcast. The advertisers are all local businesses. From restaurants to local credit unions. And those I’m fine with.
daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.
I forgot about that site. I knew it just as the host for TV series streams back in the day
Oh please no, it’s the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
Laughs in Ad Blocker. Still going strong.
what’s a youtube ad?
Stop using it. I did and now I only use unofficial ways of watching the videos I want. And I download the ones I wanna watch again.
I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.
yt-dlp is the goat
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.
It might, if it just blocks YouTube
Can’t view ads if you can’t view videos. Checkmate.
They do get they’re not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?
That’s why they have to spend so much time trying to force you to watch all the get rich quick schemes, gambling, and expiring legal claims videos. What quality ad pushers they work with.
Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave
