We’ve gone full circle
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.
For now, of course.
My Adblocker is free
Again, for now.
I think the day an adblocker starts charging people is the day that companies will try to sue them into non-existence with lawsuits they know will fail.
Either that or nobody will pay for it because they’re used to getting adblockers for free. They’ll just move to another one or maybe one that’s FOSS.
They’ll just move to another one or maybe one that’s FOSS.
All the major ones are already open source. uBlock Origin, uBlock, AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and AdGuard are all licensed under GPLv3. If anyone fancied starting another competing one for some reason they’d have plenty of codebases to choose from.
That doesn’t make sense. uBO would just be forked.
Soon you’ll pay AND watch ads. Maybe there will be a free tier with 5 minute ad breaks, and paid tier with 1 minute ad breaks.
I pay for premium and still have to watch all the sponsored crap within the video itself. I block all those channels manually so it’s slowly getting better.
Have you tried using SponsorBlock?
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription)
Well I should bloody well hope so, considering you also get far less than cable.
YouTube is still mostly amateur or indie content, most of it short-form, and most of it frankly just not very good. There’s still stuff on there worth watching, and I know some people really do consume a lot of content on there in the manner of watching TV back in the day, but objectively it really isn’t the same thing as professional studio content. I can watch some random guy in Ohio do a 15 minute review of some niche thing I’m interested in as much as anyone can, but there’s no way I’d consider that worth the same value as a long form TV series or feature film.
Less? I’d argue YouTube gets you way more than cable
There’s a buttload of high quality content
Tbh paying a package deal isn’t actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.
Yes it’s expensive but it’s £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it’s hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it’s not the same.
This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn’t cheaper sometimes.
I got all the sports for €3 from alibaba
How?
Go to alibaba and look up iptv subscription. Usually has loads of flags in the pictures. Ask for a free test for 24 hrs, if the stream works ok then buy it. I had all the sports, price went up and I was still finding games I didn’t have so fuck it now I have them all.
You’ll need an IPTV launcher on your device, I use tivimax on my appletv.
No, full circle would be more and longer ads.
Anyway, I’m a Smart Tube User :)
I certainly prefer fewer and longer ad breaks, over several short ones, but this still sucks.
Why prefer any of it…block em all and tell corporations to pound sand.
Don’t negotiate with terrorists.
so, what? 4-5 minutes instead of 2? yea, that’ll keep people watching…
something else
The problem is: what else?
Pirated and adblocked content
Still YouTube but with an adblocker
Lots of things?
🏴☠️
You’re welcome: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Can vouch. This, revanced and ublock on all my different devices and I haven’t seen an ad in years
Exactly. I keep forgetting yt even has ads until I visit friends.
Anything for LG TVs? WebOS?
Haven’t used it myself but this looks popular at a glance.
Thanks for the tip! I haven’t delved too deep but it’s a shame installing these things seems like a lot of work and with potential for messing things up. Maybe I’m wrong but it’s kind of putting me off. -_-
Now I just need a Roku version.
YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.
I open the vanilla app on someone else’s computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.
Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it’s some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.
Came to YouTube because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that’s just not the case anymore.
The new ads suck. It’s so frustrating to use. I’m hoping a PiHole will get rid of em but I think I remember reading that Google does some nasty shit to dodge that
I use SmartTube on my Android TV and it hasn’t run into any issues so far. If you can install 3rd party apps you might want to give it a try
Yep I have it too. For now it works flawlessly. Hopefully it doesn’t take much from Google’s userbase and they just leave it alone lol.
Kudos to the Dev of that absolute gem. They constantly update and patch that app and have done so for many years.
Google uses the same domain name, pi-hole can’t block that.
Source: current pi-hole user.
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Pihole only works when ads come from a third party add provider. It cannot tell the difference between YouTube videos and ads.
Smart tube is amazing.
You can get rid of any ads right now, you only need the right solution depending on where you see the ads. Smarttubenext for TV, ReVanced for your phone, Firefox + Ublock Origin for your PC. Pihole for the rest and Adguard DNS on my phone just to be sure. I can’t tell you when I saw the last ad in my life.
That’s odd… on my TV there are no youtube ads, and no sponsor messages.
I’ve been using grayjay, it certainly has some irritating bugs but they’ll work out the kinks plus now I can watch twitch and kick with my screen off.
Not for me, 🚫ads + 🏴☠️
They really can’t seem to grasp the concept they what people prefer, if they have to watch ads, is 1 short ad per video.
Not multiple short ads per video nor 1 long ad. Just 1 short (15 seconds tops) ad and that’s all.
They are going in the opposite direction
Oh they get it, there’s no way they don’t, they just want more Ad dollars with for less content that isn’t giving them Ad dollars.They’re looking for that sweet sweet middle ground where they can play more ads and you won’t just stop watching.
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Cool, more reason to use Grayjay or ReVanced
The Monkey’s Paw has curled.
I know of SmartTube for android TVs, but has anyone found a solution for TVs running Tizen?
Yes, Tizen TVs have HDMI ports where you can plugin an android powered device.
I looked around a year ago and I couldn’t seem to find anything. People just don’t seem to develop for Tizen. I ended up buying Google TV and sideloading everything I needed.
The availability of Tizen apps is abysmal
You can pay for premium, I know everyone around here gets mad about that. But I like content creators getting paid myself, and I hate ads. So it works for me.
I wish there was a way to stop ads on Roku. I’d rather watch on my TV, but my phone doesn’t have ads, so I usually use it.
There’s this: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
But I haven’t quite figured out how to use it yet.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s because YouTube is making ads on TVs appear less frequently, but in exchange, you’ll have to sit through longer commercials.
YouTube started testing longer but less frequent ad breaks in September, and now they’re launching across all TVs.
The change means you’ll see an updated countdown timer in the bottom-right corner of your screen that will now show how long you have left until the entire ad break ends or when you can skip.
Just like on mobile and the web, you’ll now see ads in between Shorts that you can skip through using your remote.
While I can’t say I’m too happy that I’ll get ads in between Shorts on TVs, I am kind of glad about the change to ad breaks on regular videos, as I hopefully won’t get as many small interruptions while I’m watching two-hourlong deep dives.
YouTube has had a major focus on ads and getting people to watch them this year.
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So, TV then… 🙄
