Laughs in Firefox
If I didn’t have adblocked devices I’d probably quit the internet. I don’t know how y’all live like that.
I’m confused. I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in like 7 years.
What’s your method? Some still randomly seep through for me
Firefox and uBlock Origin extension
Firefox, ublock origin, adblock plus, privacy badger, and pihole.
when google was really hammering home on their anti-adblocker bullshit the UX was shit. so, I just opened several dozen tabs on a windows device on my network and had them spam refreshes every second for weeks. eventually either by my own hand or by the devs at one of the solutions above, the UX went back to normal.
Gather round kids…
YouTube used to not have any sort of video ads whatsoever.
None. Zero.
Not even “sponsors”.
I just don’t want people to forget how it once was…
Tbf, the content was different too
that was during the growth phase, we’re in the monopoly phase now…
just that video of that cool kid doing star wars in his garage.
we all wished we were that free
Do this
You can’t delete it because that’s legal. But you can totally disable it and it will definitely not run accidentally in the background. It’s just stealing your battery power and storage.
I understand system apps not being able to uninstall, but you seriously can’t remove YouTube from an android phone???
A thousand thousand people have said it before me, but it is still fucking insane to me that OEMs can just mandate what is installed and not installed on your device.
I had gone from a Galaxy S5 to a J7 Pro, to a Pixel 4a and now to a 7a. All of them only ever had custom ROMs while I owned them, so I completely skipped out on both this shit, and all other OEMs locking you out from the bootloader.
May I offer you some ADB on this trying time?
I’ve been afraid of using that. I guess I should try that.
For the record, I was able to uninstall it from my phone.
How?
Never mind, I just checked the pull up menu and didn’t see it so I just assumed it was uninstalled, but no it’s just stopped.
Armok the bunny, more like Armok the
liardidn’t check their phone before telling us their youtubes were baleeted
Invidious + Freetube
Just use brave browser.
firefox and ublock
YouTube Revanced on mobile, otherwise FF+Ublock (if someone is an iPhone user, I guess FF+Ublock on mobile too)
Yeah, just no
Chromium is a hard no, host your own DNS resolver and create your own blocklist.
Last I knew DNS blocking isn’t able to reliably block YouTube ads
No, but Invidious instances can. That was my response to “Just use brave browser”.
Invidious + Firefox + Managed DNS Resolver yields similar results to YouTube + Brave and is open source.
i don’t think that’s a replacement for youtube on tv
SmartTube
Whats the comic source?
by the style its actually made by OP. or the person posting in OP’s name
I’m the artist and poster ☺️
I don’t know anything about this so maybe someone could enlighten me, but how would/could YouTube have a sustainable business model? Server maintenance costs money right?
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
Youtube was always operating at a loss. Fueld by Google advertising money.
This means they killed almost every competition.
Now they want to leverage their monopoly and make it profitable. This means you must have a subscription. The ads aren’t going to cut it. This will not pay the servers and shit. Only a subscription will do. However youtube aims for much gains so be ready to pay much more than needed.
The ads they now aggressively show of course pay some shit but the main goal seems to be being as annoying as possible to get people to pay for the subscription.
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
pihole won’t block youtube ads. youtube ads are coming from the same domain.
what is your TV brand?
It’s a Samsung monitor iirc. Wanted to get something that didn’t require smart TV software to work.
does it have apps? or are you going to use a computer with it?
Rn I’m just using Apple TV apps. That’s where I folded along the privacy-convenience spectrum.
on smart TVs and such Youtube ads are blocked by using a special youtube app. there is SmartTubeNext for AndroidTV, NewPipe for Android, there is an adfree patched version of the normal youtube app (only available through the Homebrew Channel app catalog, or via manual install). there’s probably something like that for Samsung too. but maybe you could also use Freetube through the PC, or the youtube website with uBlock aorigin on Firefox.
Not like this if you pay 🤷♂️
You only get the super long ad shot like this after binging on the free plan for hours.
I don’t get this and I don’t pay lol
Same, I don’t even adblock (I know I know but idc), but yt has never paused what I was watching to ask if I was watching it. It will change the caption selection after an ad break sometimes, which is annoying. And they’ve definitely been getting trickier with their skip button timer.
Grayjay
