YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

Same, also revanced on Android

I find funny, that after watching YouTube for not over an hour, my ublock icon already says >1k

Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me.

I have seen 2 ads on Youtube in several years because Youtube revanced ad blocking didnt work twice

Browsing YouTube like the good old dayz

The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.

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

Sorry, pardon?

Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet

☝️ And it works, I can confirm.

And ReVanced on Android, SmartTubeNext on Android TV.

How do you unlock origin? I have been blocking it thinking it caused the ads

Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!

They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.

I read that Google is rolling out some ads on premium so that might need to get removed from your list.

SmartTube for Android TV devices

You should add Brave on iOS to the list. Never seen any ad with Brave.

Then stop using youtube. It sucks ever since googol bought it. Haven't used it since.

I second Freetube. Not a perfect app (think it's Chromium based), but it gets the job done and they're pretty good about updating it pretty quickly whenever YT successfully breaks it.

The enemy of my adblocker blocker is my enemy cuz my adblocker is my friend

I'm using a 3,5 months old version of PipePipe than magically somehow still works 😀

yup newpipe all the way adblocker by pihole no ads on my network 🤩

Smarttube on Android TV OS

Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.

SmartTube on streaming devices!

Grayjay on desktop

Grayjay on Android

I used enhancer but it seems the dev has stopped updating it for Firefox and only updating it for chrome.

Moved to Tweaks for YouTube and am quite happy with it so far; seems to also have more options.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tweaks-for-youtube/

You weren't blocking ads before?

I'm around long enough to have seen them, before blockers were a thing.

Same... And if they ever successfully make it impossible to avoid, I'll just stop watching YouTube

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.

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.

Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.

OK, so a bittorrent tracker site with a video player built in with comments underneath and you can get perks from content creators for seeding. Then of course some kind of voting system and etc. Then a creator can just get a seed box to start hosting their own videos.

People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT's video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?

Why couldn't Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT's viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power...

A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.

We do, but you probably don't like it (TikTok).

It's a very difficult business model to make profitable without an already massive userbase. In fact, I think YT was actually losing money for Google for a while after they bought it. I could be misremembering though.

It will continue until it overshoots TV and they're all 3x more ad than vid.

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.

I hope I can be the motivation you need with these super simple steps (will take a few minutes).

https://smarttubenext.com/android-tv-box/

if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube

When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a "why am I seeing this ad" page which you can then click ok on then click on don't watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn't work if you're casting a video from a phone, and it doesn't work on some channels.

Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.

on the rare case that i watch YouTube on tv, if it's at the beginning, i just quit the video and restart over and over again until i see a 5 sec skip. sometimes it takes longer than the ads would've taken but I'd rather do that than take it on the chin to be honest. I'm also hoping others do it too so maybe they get some telemetry data.

and if it's in the middle of the video i just quit. if it's important enough i can just watch it on my phone or PC without ads.

You could see if an adblock dns works, you dont even have to set up pihole for that (its just local hosted adblock/whattheheckyouwant dns).
If it makes problems you can set it to default or cloudflare or something

Setting another dns is in most cases just going to the settings and pasting a link

Edit: if you set the dns in your router it works at all devices at home

I'm in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don't think there are any options for ad blocking.

Mfers act like forgot about revanced.

Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.

But I'll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I'll archive important content in the meantime.

true

what other sites are there to use?

You can even access your instance with playlet on roku https://github.com/iBicha/playlet

Link? Or just Google it?

I tried Nebula and it's nice, bit it's too US-centric (+ something from the UK)

I'm trying out nebula because I saw your suggestion and honestly a year for $60 isn't terrible at all. But I'm having trouble finding creators (not because the app isn't good but because it seems a lot of the channels I follow on YouTube aren't on Nebula. I have two devices open actively going down the list of channels I follow on YouTube trying to find channels I want to follow on Nebula and so far I am striking out pretty bad. I hope I can get half the creators I follow on Nebula because so far it's pretty decent from what I have seen. App is easy to navigate and pretty polished etc.

Is there a way to view who's on the service (creator wise) before paying for it? Because if not that's the major flaw with it.

Isn't Nebula a paid service?

yt-dlp is the goat

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.

I guess there's no reason not to post to other sites as well?

Since you're already in the Fediverse, I'd suggest looking into PeerTube for your videos rather than going to YouTube as your primary platform.

I currently have a channel, but am going to switch to PeerTube when I have my backlog built up again so I can post in a steady schedule. (Workin' on it...) The only things I'm going to put on YouTube are videos going, 'Hey! I have the video up here! Follow the link!' so that people can actually find it and Words of the Week shorts 'cuz I don't want to feed their AI bullshit that I can't get away from with proper stuff and it's just stick figures and rudimentary drawings with words from the dictionary. Unfortunately, it's not as user friendly to search for stuff on PeerTube as it is on YouTube. I'm hoping that gets fixed sooner rather than later. It'll make things better. sigh

Upload it to multiple platforms. If one dies you have already a plan B.

Future uBlock/NewPipe users

Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️

Their wallets.