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.

daily motion has way better video quality and a lot less censorship.

They do get they're not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?

https://yewtu.be/

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

when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.

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.

If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come

testing

Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won't roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!

How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?

I just use a frontend to remove ads + Extra Privacy too