You get ads?
Shut your Pi-hole! My daddy had ads on the TV, and his dad had ads on the radio, and his dad had ads in the paper! I proudly allow ads and tracking!
I wish there was a way on Pi-hole to block those ads on TV yt
If you’re getting ads on videos, you need to get you shit together and install uBlock Origin asap.
Or suck it up and pay for the service if you can afford it.
uBlock Origin doesn’t accept donations. That’s the only product in this conversation worth supporting.
Nebula is a streaming service created by creators as an alternative to YouTube and is absolutely worth supporting. We’re not just talking about products here, we’re talking about the creators that make those products viable.
Ya know, I thought we were talking YouTube specifically, but looking back at the OP it just says video, and I guess my brain just injected the word YouTube on it.
So, fair enough, if you’ve got a media service that isn’t run by a bunch of human shitstains, then yea support their work.
If it’s YouTube, don’t give em a cent.
I paid for YouTube premium family for two years at a discounted rate of $3.60/month, well worth at that price, allowed blocking ads on Nintendo switch. was using the pay from another country with VPN loophole, but they just closed it by requiring payment card from that country. oh well, back to Firefox and ublock origin, the prices are too high to pay normally, I couldnt care less about YouTube music, just make videos affordable.
How well does it work? On my iPad, Safari Adguard can only black out ad content. (Screen is black during ad, and it displays how many seconds of ad is left)
Maybe try out Orion Browser. It has built-in ad-blocking and reliably gets rid of YouTube ads.
Too add to this, it also supports Firefox extensions, so you can use ublock origin as well as sponsor block for a better experience.
Thanks a lot, will try!!
Orion is a pretty nice browser! Quite customisable too. It’s made by the people behind Kagi, the private (paid) search engine.
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This has never happened to me because I’ve been blocking ads for the last 15 years.
Ernie no!!
The wealthy aren’t a protected class, it’s not a hate crime.
Like hell they aren’t. They’re the most protected class.
only if you get caught.
uBlock or ReVanced
Tubular also works pretty well
My favorite experience in this regard was watching YouTube on xbox (i know, i know)… They played a 40 minute redbull “ad” on a five minute video. In what sane world should ads be 8 fucking times longer than the content?!?!1?
because people let it happen, why change?
I had a similar experience on my YouTube TV app, I was watching old history channels in bed, and there was a full length documentary for an “ad”. I could have skipped after 15 seconds or whatever, but I had to INTERACT with the TV before it would resume. I was distracted so it ended up playing like 15 minutes of an hour+ documentary ad.
Why would they even make a 40 min long ad for Redbull?
It was just a documentary that was shoved into an ad space. Something about their aerial stunts/races. Dunno. I got like, five seconds into it because FUCK THAT SHIT.
I never use youtube anymore.
Laying in bed bored = netflix
Up and motivated = steam or work
News = Reddthat
Tutorials = text-based articles, no unindexed untranscribed videos that start with the words “hey guys welcome back”
Haha jokes on you. I’ve been refreshing the website until the ad refuses to load. It just took 5 minutes
i find using freetube keeps Ernie calm.
I wish using freetube kept Ernie calm, but it just doesn’t work half the time. Invidious has the same issue. Which is significantly more annoying than just using YT, which Ernie has uBlock Origin for.
I do update freetube about 1 time a week these days (which is approaching the annoyance level of ads).
I used to have a lot more issues with it when I didn’t update so frequently - or maybe that was just a different stage in the arms race; I’m sure the reliability will vary, and eventually the developer of freetube will give up.
I mean, I wont be throwing out the bat or anything crazy like that.
Me when ublock origin
Wish you could block ads from embedded youtube videos in Discord.
I believe Vencord can do it
Or when the skip button appears but only skips to the next ad
UBlock as others have said. Or on android newpipe works well.
Edit: as a kind user pointed out, uBlock origin, not uBlock.
As another one has said, try tubular! It’s newpipe but with sponsor block integrated.
So it just removes the part in the video that they talk about the sponsor? I’ve never heard of such witchcraft.
It’s a community driven auto skipper. Any video that is not brand new will probably be tagged by someone and you can just enjoy it. If you use it in an actual browser you can also tag sections. It’s great.
Nice. I’ll look into it. Thanks.
So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.
You lot are as original and creative as the numpties making comments about the size of the pilot’s balls on aviation videos.
This is a post about unnecessary rage that absolutely noone has to deal with because everyone should use ad blockers. OP may or may not know, but the post suggests the later. I dont see how it is ‘unoriginal’ to comment about ad blockersin that case…
So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.
The fact that almost everyone is saying the same thing is pretty much the definition of unoriginal.
It just shows what the focus lies on. A post full of comments recommending adblockers has far more impact than a single comment making the post seem dead.
Youre technically right that it is unoriginal, but I dont see how originality would matter at all in this case.
The one that worked in a pun was alright. This is the fediverse crowd though, this is very on-brand.
Nah, not enough Trek.
Oh, this is exactly what I expected. Perhaps not 100% ad blockers, but I was expecting most of them to be like that.
Just out of curiosity, what do yall expect to happen when the only response to an ad supported free tier of something, is to block the ads? I know YouTube/google aren’t great companies, but when you run an ad blocker you also deprive the creators you love watching any revenue from your view. So you hurt the creators. If you can afford it, just sub to premium and stop acting like you’re entitled to everything for free. I despise ads just as much if not more than the next dipshit, but complaining about them, when there’s myriad ways of avoiding them, just makes you sound like a dingus.
Obligatory shout out to Nebula as a cheaper alternative for non-fiction/edutainment content.
