Then you limited on your options, since you can't installs apps freely. The best option is probably a router that supports VPN connections or a node in your network that acts as a proxy.
i mean i have those hooray! i just, uh, the router is like ten years old i have to use my xp box to log into it. modern firefox gives me this error:
and i'm the website owner i guess. cracks me up. when it stops working i am going to get a new router.
Okay that's fair. I recently dropped brave from my Android and just went back to Firefox. Not like super pleased with Mozilla but I'll take it for now.
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.
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.
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.
don't bother with a broken platform. we all know youtube sucks. there's either a free (as in, actually serves the people) alternative platform or none at all, to me it is.
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.
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.
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.
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Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 44d
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...
Venator@lemmy.nz · 23 pts · 44d
that was during the growth phase, we're in the monopoly phase now...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 44d
just that video of that cool kid doing star wars in his garage.
we all wished we were that free
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 42d
SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 43d
Tbf, the content was different too
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 45d
Invidious + Freetube
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 45d
i don’t think that’s a replacement for youtube on tv
turkalino@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 45d
SmartTube
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 44d
I don't consider smart TVs to be real devices
pathief@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 44d
Use a VPN and choose Albania as a country. No ads.
I've had really bad experiences with alternative front ends, I find using a VPN a much better.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
so like i stream over a playstation
pathief@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
Then you limited on your options, since you can't installs apps freely. The best option is probably a router that supports VPN connections or a node in your network that acts as a proxy.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
i mean i have those hooray! i just, uh, the router is like ten years old i have to use my xp box to log into it. modern firefox gives me this error:
and i'm the website owner i guess. cracks me up. when it stops working i am going to get a new router.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 44d
Jellyfin+ytdl-sub is quite nice.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 45d
https://docs.invidious.io/applications/
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 45d
Stream it from invidious over a phone
Or automatically Yt-dlp favorite channels into jellyfin/plex library.
Espresso_City_Comics@lemmy.world · -45 pts · 45d
Just use brave browser.
scrion@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 45d
Yeah, just no
https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/
gilokee@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 45d
firefox and ublock
Kanda@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 44d
YouTube Revanced on mobile, otherwise FF+Ublock (if someone is an iPhone user, I guess FF+Ublock on mobile too)
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 45d
Chromium is a hard no, host your own DNS resolver and create your own blocklist.
nullroot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 45d
Last I knew DNS blocking isn't able to reliably block YouTube ads
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 45d
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.
nullroot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
Okay that's fair. I recently dropped brave from my Android and just went back to Firefox. Not like super pleased with Mozilla but I'll take it for now.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
just give the scammers your credit cards directly, that way you don't have to worry about them stealing your identity in the future
altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 44d
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.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 44d
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.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 44d
For the record, I was able to uninstall it from my phone.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 44d
How?
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 44d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 44d
Armok the bunny, more like Armok the
liardidn't check their phone before telling us their youtubes were baleeteddogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 43d
I understand system apps not being able to uninstall, but you seriously can’t remove YouTube from an android phone???
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 44d
May I offer you some ADB on this trying time?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 44d
I've been afraid of using that. I guess I should try that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 44d
oh, just like facebook
luthis@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 45d
Grayjay
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 44d
Theon Grayjay stole my costle!
baines@piefed.social · 2 pts · 44d
wiggles hotdog menacingly
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 43d
Laughs in Firefox
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
I'm confused. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in like 7 years.
Bitswap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 43d
What's your method? Some still randomly seep through for me
VampirePenguin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
Firefox and uBlock Origin extension
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 43d
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.
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 44d
Does this actually happen?
VampirePenguin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
If I didn't have adblocked devices I'd probably quit the internet. I don't know how y'all live like that.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 44d
Heey mouths! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 GG!
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 2 pts · 44d
don't bother with a broken platform. we all know youtube sucks. there's either a free (as in, actually serves the people) alternative platform or none at all, to me it is.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 44d
Whats the comic source?
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 44d
by the style its actually made by OP. or the person posting in OP's name
Espresso_City_Comics@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 44d
I'm the artist and poster ☺️
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 44d
Oh thats awesome
Echo5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
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 ;._.
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 44d
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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 44d
pihole won't block youtube ads. youtube ads are coming from the same domain.
what is your TV brand?
Echo5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
It’s a Samsung monitor iirc. Wanted to get something that didn’t require smart TV software to work.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 43d
does it have apps? or are you going to use a computer with it?
Echo5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
Rn I’m just using Apple TV apps. That’s where I folded along the privacy-convenience spectrum.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 43d
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.
krisevol@lemmus.org · -2 pts · 44d
Is this what non premium members deal with?
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · -16 pts · 44d
Not like this if you pay 🤷♂️
You only get the super long ad shot like this after binging on the free plan for hours.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 44d
I don’t get this and I don’t pay lol
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
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.