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.
I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.
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.
Same... And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I'll just stop watching YouTube
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.
Ublock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.
Edit: Mispelling, fuck autocorrection
I highly recommend creators to upload videos to another site as well.
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.
Youtube has ads?
Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!
I'm not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I'll finally be able to do something else with my time.
Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.
Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.
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
Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.
That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.
Anyone not blocking ads on YouTube needs to start blocking ads and sponsored content on YouTube.
AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.
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.
Jokes on you, YouTube, my Chinese phone rolls their ads over yours!
I should just read a book at this point
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.
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
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 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
Do other services! Like Peertube and then mirror videos on youtube and odyssey so you still get traction
Just cross post to a couple different hosters.
what's a youtube ad?
I'm still self hosting Invidious... Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube...
Oh please no, it's the reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox when watching YouTube
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, "current" affairs stories that are years old, and channels/vids that I have specifically blocked. I curse YouTube daily, but will bless anyone who has a viable alternative....
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