YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

Those will not block YT ads.

They'll block ads at a DNS level, but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

Honestly, it varies. Businesses are starting to get wise to DNS adblockers, and are serving more ads from their primary domain (this is part of why you can't block YouTube ads with a DNS blocker anymore - you can't block them at the DNS level without blocking all of YouTube).

You'll see a noticeable downtick in phone ads from web browsing and ad-sponsored games, but something like a TV or fridge will probably be unaffected because the ads will be served directly from the same host as the content. You'll see fewer ads but far from zero.

Also why are you connecting your smart fridge to a travel router? Do you travel with a smart fridge?

Depends on how they're served but mostly, yes

Not youtube ads, sadly, if they are blocking based on domain names. For YouTube, you can use pipepipe, which do block ads as far as I have seen.

I'm just imagining how spammy it would be to see this reply on every comment that has more than 69 upvotes.

Yup. At one point that number was 69 in order to get to where it is now. Good job.

They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I've had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google's latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don't spend staring at a greyed out skip button.

Wait, YouTube's idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?

Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.

Why would I ever want to see youtube comments? Literally zero impact for me.

Oh, no! Not the comments, those are always so smart and insightful.

Are they really threatening us with a good time? No YouTube comments is a benefit, not a punishment

If I want to see the comment section I use official app, and just pause the ad.

Hiding comment section? Oh no! What will I do?

Unless I'm missing a "freeze pane" option somewhere, scrolling down to read comments prevents me from actually watching the video.

by hiding comments

So using adblockers is even better than I realized?

I mean, I intentionally block the comment section, but sure,

I know they are trying but so far it seems the ad-blockers are winning because I've not noticed any interruptions or problems with comments so far.

Anyone know if theres such an app for LG tv's?

Oh, excellent, I'll be checking that out right away. I have an iPad that I'm stuck with from work and it'd be great to get ad free YouTube there.

Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I've never seen an ad get through it.

Do you have a weird network/Google TV setup? I run it on a stock nvidia shield with no pihole or anything and I've never had any issues with smart tube, it's great.

Yes, just connect a small computer and then install Firefox with unlock origin on there.

Someone else in this thread mentioned TizenTube, that sounds like what you're looking for.

But personally I just grabbed an Nvidia Shield. It works great and if you swap out the default launcher you'll never see a single ad on it (with the right apps). Plus the pro is beefy enough to run some decent emulators too.

Mobile firefox is compatible with desktop addons, so you can still use ublock origin on your phone. I also use pihole to cover my whole local network and wireshark to VPN my phone to my local network when out of the house. If you're on iPhone you're probably just out of luck.

I generally do everything in-browser and do not use any other mobile apps, so no youtube app, etc.

This is the first I've ever heard of following autoplay videos lol

This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot survive off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

Lots of people did it on YouTube for years. Even more on other platforms.

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This book, YouTube's history, and the span of human history say otherwise. You're spouting capitalist rhetoric which is ultimately a lie told to us on repeat to encourage greed, selfishness, and individualism.

The platform you're using right now was built without profit motive, there's plenty of content. PeerTube can achieve the same.

Except for all the people already making unpaid content. I guess if you ignore them then yeah, you’re right. Great job advancing the conversation in a meaningful way.

You obviously didn't experience the early internet

People will create plenty of content for free. Basically every blog, early YT video and all of Wikipedia was made by people who just like creating stuff for free

I'm creating content and YouTube pulls from my Peertube. So I'll never lose it. All of these content creators are leaning on Patreon as none of them can count on ad revenue anymore. So people are already doing it.

And Peer tube will never fully replace YouTube, but also, it doesn't have to. Your local library, school, church, community space, doesn't need ad revenue.

There are already some youtubers linking to their patreon because their content gets demonetized frequently (shiey, gifgas).

I think this could be the way to go. Instead of patreon, liberapay could also be used.

That's true. I guess I would only pay for a YouTube that is actually useful. "People want to block channels. Best we can do is 'I am not interested' and still show them."

On my desktop I use YouTube Enhancer on Firefox and you can make it to where shorts literally never show up.

Now, if only it could filter out the "Buy Premium Now" and "Try Out Our AI Bullshit" boxes that appear...

The “shorts” platform is pure garbage. Can I turn shorts off? No I can “show fewer shorts”.

Once again the pirate version (revanced) of youtube is better than the actual paid version. Revanced and ublock filter take care of shorts for me. Haven't seen them in months

My main point is that if it wasn't a privacy destroying capitalist evil company and website, that it would provide enough possible value for me to want to pay. My data is one of the reasons it isn't, I was merely answering to the article and context here.

SmartTube for Android TV gives you adblock and sponsorblock

Theres also the possibility to use a VPN and log in from Albania (I think) to avoid ads altogether because they’re not legal there.

On TV I silenced them as they start and look elsewhere meanwhile... I find joy in training myself to be unable to consciously recognise at all what is ongoing till the video start

Try ReVanced.

I would be scared as hell to rely on Google like that. You are one automated Ai decision away from losing access.

At least move your mail to a proper company. Jesus.

Don’t log in on YouTube. Unless you’re uploading, there’s no point.

reVanced is alive, well, good, and at this point necessary

When I see a link to a potentially interesting YT video, I just send the link to my PC.

This is tinfoil hat stuff, but based on the ads I’m shown, it’s almost like they pick ones they know won’t appeal to you since they know anger drives up engagement. Google can probably guess from my search history that I’m trans and asexual, since I’ve asked questions online relating to that. And then the majority of the ads I get on YouTube are porn and anti trans things.

I love when two conflicting conspiracy theories meet online.

and a mutli-hour ad. Who the fuck would watch that, who the fuck would pay to put a multi-hour ad on an 8m video that nobody is going to watch?

People who are hoping to get a captured audience that cant get up and click the skip button for whatever reason.

Yeah, funny people. I personally prefer my ads to be free on free streaming services. Even if it means to wait a few weeks or so before desired content will be available on these services.

Nebula doesn't have the random crap I watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_%28streaming_service%29

It has a bunch of popular YouTube channels.

It doesn't really have a recommendation engine but if you already have a bunch of creators on there it's a cheap way to go as free.

They also have a bunch of Nebula exclusive series, like the guy who makes Not Just Bikes going to cities and trying all their transit in one day.

At least twitch is a bit different than YouTube in that the culture there it's normal for people to pay and donate to streamers. Even though the owners still suck massively, of course

The ability to host that level of video and audio data, streaming, though.

Nebula, means tv, and dropout =/ none will be the next YouTube but it’s nice to have options I guess

I get a lot of value from YouTube that I would happily pay for, and I already pay for online services that respect me but I wouldn't pay a company that treats users like they do. It's not the ads I have a problem with, it's the tracking of users. They could have ads on their website that don't track users. You can subscribe to premium and presumably they don't show you ads, but they still track you. If they didn't do that I would happily pay them.

That used to be a fair deal. We know better now and even have a word for what will happen to us once we're locked into the system, enshittification. Just about every subscription model eventually leads to squeezing as much as they can out of us without a corresponding increase in value.

Hey, if you can find reliable vids on fixing just about anything, it’s in. Bonus if there’s solid journalism and documentaries.

I'm kinda glad they won't. If I tell you how easy it is to install an ad blocker and you don't, you're just funding my leeching through your data and time that you claim has no value.

Normies just wont. It is just not what they do. And they are the majority.

And that's actually a good thing. If 90% of users used ad blockers on youtube, their profit model wouldn't work and they'd stat locking more behind a subscription or they'd double down on cracking adblockers. We can enjoy an ad blocked youtube experience because the majority of users don't.

Don't worry. Those normies are about to cost us the whole open web, and there's nothing we can do to stop them.

This applies to everything 😄😄😄

That's why I install that stuff for the people I know.

And Unwatched for iOS.

I get what you're saying, and these programs are great and all, but the average viewer knows fuck all about these apps or probably how to use them. Most people are turnkey users and basically vanilla. Then there are viewers that are morally conscience who think adblock might be wrong. I'm just saying overall this could knock viewership down a few pegs.

This plus Enhancer for YT are a must have for me. Can't stand the new UI and all the bs they lock down

Isnt that what Floatplane is? I'm broke so I can't find out lol

It has been breaking a lot lately and it’s really sad. I pretty much pull all of my content off of YouTube now through yt-dlp so once that goes, im pretty much entirely YouTube free. I absolutely refuse to use it in the state it’s in now and really wish more creators would offer content on other platforms. Yt-dip is amazing and great but shouldn’t be the permanent solution.

Never seen this, though i'm only a occasionally user, prefer text over video.

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Frustrating but predictable by Samsung thanks.

I do have a steam deck connected so I can look at using that to run a browser

Many Samsung TVs use tizen, a Linux (non-Android) OS.

Grayjay.app

Nahhhh, just use ravens whispering messages to your ear

mpv does something with yt-dlp, that makes youtube detect it and throttle it to hell, while yt-dlp alone is about 5x faster. Any clue what it is?

Only via an iPhone or iPad with an Indian Apple Account and an Apple Card with Rupees from Amazon.in

Don’t even need to log out of your original account on your device. Just need to login in with your India account in “Media & Purchases” and the YouTube app will show the Indian prices.

Or Grayjay

Newpipe is great, been using it for years

Yeah I use tubular or revanced on my phone, for tv it is more difficult

For apple tv?

Albania is a good endpoint as well, laws against YT ads

Wow! You're a champ! Thank you for the detailed info. Gonna give it a try.

Dam bummer. I'm on graph ene os and so far no issued with me.

Analytical data they sell to a very authoritarian government that verges on totalitarian.

I don't doubt that they sell data, but it would have to be monumental to actually fund all their hosting needs.

I feel like a decade or two (damn) ago now DailyMotion really had a chance man even Vimeo there for a min but then its like they just gave up fr.

It was kind if interesting to see people using Pornbub there for a min and it would have been cool for them to try and lean into that more with like a sfw variant of some sort (called something different) because they are probably one of the only companies that have the ability to do it honestly and even then, idk if they could really do it like YouTube does.

YouTube is the one single thing I haven't de googled myself from.