You can use an android phone and block all the ads. This is what deterred me from iPhone last time. Greyjay, pipepipe, etc. No ads. Plus uBlock for Firefox. Among other huge advantages.
Weird. I think the last time I tried was circa 2020 iPhone xr and yes, I always use Firefox focus if available. Don't recall it blocking YouTube ads ornahving addon capabilities.
Android is MUCH more flexible, hella agree hahaha. I started with the first Android device, the Dream, and installed uhhhh… Cyanogen? Or that’s the PSP… I forgor @w@
But I did CFW with my Android devices and looooved it. I switched to iPhone after my partner got an iPhone when they couldn’t get an Android phone with a keyboard. Loved it. Big complaint: no adblocker on the 4s. Keyboard was good though!
Focus came out I thiiiink during the iPhone 8? Maybe before, but I’ve been using it for very long. I’ve never had a YouTube account and would never use it if I had to see ads—I vehemently hate ads. But I’ve been seeing vids for the better part of a decade now! If ad blocking stops working, I’ll 100% never visit again. It’s completely untenable.
Really surprised that this is readily available on the app store, tried it out for a bit and it seems to be working. Didn't sign in yet but it looks pretty safe.
Yeah, I was surprised as well. I believe most of these kind of apps get around it by advertising as a RSS Reader or generic Mediathek. But from the Screenshots its hard to mistake it for something other than a YT Client. Guess Apple does dont care about it as much as Google would.
If it works maybe we should keep it on the down low. Also only heard of it by chance.
That's great! I appreciate you posting an alternative, not just shaming those that dare to use an imperfect platform they may already have access to...
Morphe is the way to go these days, the maintainer of Revanced pissed off its main contributors and they went over and made Morphe. Revanced's significant recent updates have been to catch up with Morphe.
It also supports sourcing patches from other contributors directly so there are patches for apps like Chess.com and TikTok on Morphe that aren't available on Revanced.
Thanks for letting me know. YT Music Morphe is s league above YT Music ReVanced, which hasn't gotten any new features in forever.
YT Morphe, on the other hand, only seems to be a marginal improvement. I don't really notice much of a difference beyond minor improvements, even after combing through every setting. Return YouTube Dislike is still broken for Shorts, but at least the ads are gone again.
It's not OP's fault English is a stupid language with words that sound identical but carry different meanings. I'm of the mindset that so long as it's legible it is correct. look at Old English. It was much more phonetic than modern English is. Scribes wrote words as they sounded. Languages like English have so many dumb and unnecessary rules as well. Why the fuck do we need capitalization rules anyway? Latin doesn't have it.
Getting corrected is how you learn. I often spell words wrong, because English isn't my first language, but I don't mind being corrected.
But when to use "your" and "you're" is actually fairly easy to remember. "You're" is short for "you are" and is used when YOU are doing something. "Your" is used when someone else is doing something.
I mean, there's certainly a lot of misuse and poor grammar out there that does use it incorrectly, particularly in the US , but it is incorrect to use "wrong" as an adverb.
I don't disagree but I think you're missing my point. Minor variations of spelling shouldn't matter, so long as it's legible. If someone says dey instead of they, dat instead of that, wader instead of water, why should that be any less correct? I know it's not exactly an apple to apples comparison but I believe language should be more flexible. So long as it's understandable, why should it matter? Especially because English has and will continue to evolve in our lifetime. Why do people think in terms of absolutes?
That's not how language works. Language isn't some absolute. English for example has many dialects, some of which are difficult for other speakers to understand. I disagree with the notion that we all have to agree with changes being made to our language. Zoomers are using words like skibidi, rizz, and fanumtax. Skibidi may fizzle out or it might be adopted by the masses and become ubiquitous a word as water. My point is that if me and enough people decide your is the correct spelling of you're than it becomes the correct spelling.
"And at some point no one can understand what anyone says." Funny, you're (yes, I said you're on purpose) example sentence looks more Germanic than modern English lol.
In conclusion, let's not interfere with the natural evolution of language. It's a beautiful thing to bear witness to.
Dialects and slang doesn't translate to correct spelling and grammar. Sure, sometimes slang gets adopted in the dictionary, and that is when it is added to the standard we all agree on.
It's really fucking not hard to learn the correct usage. You're: you are, your: something belonging to or being part of you. You're isn't a word, it's a contraction of two words. It's so fucking simple to understand when to use any contraction or similar sounding word that there is never an excuse to get it wrong.
It's also mostly native English speakers who get it wrong and part of that is the American educational system being one kf the worst in the world.
Shit like that used to bug me but eventually I realized it was a waste of time getting set off by incorrect word use or spelling. As long as the message isn't ambiguous, who cares? And even when it's on the border, it's often clear enough from the context what they really mean (though can be fun to deliberately misinterpret it).
It could also be that language evolves with time. If more people use "your", regardless of what the dictionary says than it's correct. I believe there will come a day when you're and your cease to be different.
Capitalization between sentences is needed because the period is so small. Or, the period can be small because we use capitalization between sentences. If we changed the symbol for the end of a sentence we could stop capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.
Maybe that will happen someday, but not soon.
If the point of written language is for the writer to communicate effectively, it's important to follow the current rules, as you have.
Agreed. Back then, dictionaries were basically suggestions and fiction. People only really started caring about modern consistent spelling relatively recently (19th century), but it's assumed that's always been the case. People used to just make up words as it made sense, like colour. Someone just made up that word and now we all use it, but God forbid anyone get creative nowadays! There's been dozens of both successful and failed "spelling reforms". Some people just decided on this one spelling and we all now pretend it was gospel.
Then the grammar Nazis come out of the woodwork, as if they cannot possibly understand anything you wrote, because of this one small error. It's not helpful or interesting behaviour, it's like pointing out a smudge on an artwork.
Most other languages on Earth have an intuitive way of spelling and sounding out letters, with actual rules, to the point where you can understand how to say something just by reading it. English has no such feature, despite some efforts. Every word is it's own unique creature with it's own unique spelling and pronunciation and history.
All the helpful features of English to help you know how to pronounce something have been stripped out to make it "simplified". Ever wonder why they're called "simplified English dictionaries"? Because there used to be other kinds of English and dictionaries. Because it spells it "naive" instead of "naïve". The extra dot on the vowel used to mean that you say the vowels separately instead of smooshed together; na-i-ve.
Fucking dogshit language. It's my first language, but I found my second and third languages easier to learn and more logical and intuitive. Now that's saying something.
Also since you asked, capital letters were actually invented by the Romans, as a helpful optional feature to make things easier to read. They thought it looked cool to have Important Things be different.
Why does everyone freak out about the adds and not the level of brainrot this is. Like how do you actually function in your daily life if you can't stop watching content for a 5min shower? I have ADHD but I feel like I am amateur attention span issues and this is competitive ranked grand master attention span issues
Yes I am judging and maybe even shaming you.
Okay not shaming you because doing so is negative and I genuinely hope you get better if you have attention span issue. Smooches on you
So I dont watch stuff in the shower but I do kinda HAVE to watch something to go to sleep. If I dont I cannot go to sleep or I sleep pretty bad because I kinda just go into a weird depressive mental state. I know its not good and it does need to be fixed. Im just currently NOT in a situation where I can get help on it so I use it to hold it as a temporary workaround for now. I do imagine other people have a worse version of this.
Can I recommend some music like Sigur Ros or something instrumental that involves less bright light in your face hammering the part of your brain that controls the "its daytime, stay awake" response.
I may be biased and ignorant cause I need pitch black and at most a fan one roon away to even run the chance of getting to sleep. Saying that if I have anything caffeinated after about 5pm I'm awake until 1am with my brain trying to make me kms, so I at least know how that one feels.
Thank you. I have tried Sigur Ros actually. I do prefer chiller content and darker if I can. It just needs to be something to distract and give my brain something to gnaw on
The subject matter is less important than the fact it's beaming light into your eyes <1m away.
Even if you've got it on low blue light mode you're still putting your brain through the kind of thing that was used as psychological torture by shady agencies since the 60s - keeping your brain active and exhausting yourself into unconsciousness instead of allowing your body the time to enter actual sleep is what's making it gnaw on itself :/
Read an actual paper book instead of using a screen, get yourself into a habit of making a warm and sweet but not caffeinated drink so your body gets the signal of 'now is the relaxing time' at a regular time every night, and your mind will catch up to the routine.
Also dont underestimate the power of a decent meal a couple hours before going to bed (avoid eating directly before, because that's a recipe for stomach pain and a bad time)
I mean, I do it, but I also spend at least 2-4 hours outside a day without any input from my phone. It's more like, "I'm watching an interesting video, but I also need to take a shower, no reason to not do both."
I get listening to music in the shower, although I don't. Watching videos while taking a shower? Maybe while taking a bath.
But, really, you can't step away from media for a few minutes a day for some peace and quiet?
Suffering through being alone with your thoughts is the first step toward better mental health. Your issues don't go away if you ignore them, they just get worse. You know this, so make an effort for yourself.
I'm certain this is false. Forgot to install uBlock on a new machine? Use someone else's computer? See a billboard sign? And if you're old enough, cable TV? Sometimes ads are disguised as regular content too. IE burnout paradise city with real ads on billboards. Sports games. Amazon prime is always tweaking shit too, definitely got stopped by a mid show ad a couple times.
I'm using NouTube on Android via fdroid. It has YouTube and YouTube Music together in one app and automatically skips both ads and sponsorship segments. Basically free premium, at least on Android.
For those who play YouTube or other videos in the shower, it is really nice. Make sure it fits your case though. My wife doesn't use ours because her otter box monstrosity wont let the cover shut.
Or just get a water resistant phone. Though I would suggest caution when it's soapy water because that affects the surface tension of the water, which could mean some can slip past the seals that normally keep water out.
Though I have a water resistant phone but have never brought it into the shower with me. It was more of a case of not wanting to be worried about my phone in any kind of a situation involving water. Like going in to one of those 3D movie attractions with moving seats that sprayed water, I was concerned about whether I should be concerned about my phone getting wet. Turned out to be just tiny amounts of water and nothing to be concerned about even if I had my phone out, but after that I wanted to remove that worry from the list entirely.
Heat and steam can also be a factor in a water breach. A phone that can be fully submerged into a pool of water may or may not stand up well to steam at its seams, particularly where those seams have different materials with different expansion rates due to heat, like glass and aluminum. Small gaps may open, even if invisible to the eye, and steam can seap in. It may not even be a problem immediately but get worse later when the steam cools and condensates.
Yeah, though at least pressure doesn't really factor in, which I think is where most cases of steam breaching a water seal comes in to play. But if gases can be exchanged, steam is way higher humidity than air normally and can condense inside.
My guess would be the odds of a soap or steam breach on a water resistant phone is very low, but if you bring your phone in for every shower, you might be tempting those odds.
YouTube premium is over is the best services for the price. I get no ads in my car, my phone, my pc, and i get to give 5 keys to my friend and family to use.
Any streaming company that offers my an ad free plan that is reasonably priced I'll support. I never want to go back to the days of cable where it was a paid service with ads. I'll support the ones that give me the service i want. Ad free.
Also YT might be a soulless big tech giant with highly questionable ethics but they are literally a modern technological marvel with a how-to video on pretty much anything, niche and hobby content that "tv" and streaming would never touch and literally endless pure entertainment...
They are not now nor have they ever been a public service. Frankly its a minor miracle that in this day and age that they have a purely advertising supported option for access.
I used to use VPN location settings and ad blockers, but I've got them on quite a few devices and that became a bit of a hit-and-miss ballache. So instead, I subscribed. Of course, they believe I live in India, so I pay about £2 per month. I do not live in India.
how smug of them! how dare they recommend their preferred solution to the ever-increasing creep of corporate advertisement on the website oligopoly that holds the content created by the public. absolute dorks /s
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serpineslair@lemmy.world · 130 pts · 10d
Firefox + uBlock.
smaximov@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 10d
Also Morphe/ReVanced.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d
duckduckgo also and vivaldi
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 10d
Can you do this from an iPhone?
mholiv@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 10d
Yes. The Orion browser on iOS supports both Firefox and chrome plugins.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 10d
You can use an android phone and block all the ads. This is what deterred me from iPhone last time. Greyjay, pipepipe, etc. No ads. Plus uBlock for Firefox. Among other huge advantages.
M137@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 10d
Adguard on iPhone does that, as with android it sets up as a VPN and blocks adds in all apps.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 3 pts · 10d
Does not work for youtube
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 10d
Youtube in browser is what I care I'm not gonna download the app
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 0 pts · 10d
Use uBlock origin on firefox
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d
Last I used iPhone it was simply not possible to block ads. Super annoying.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 10d
I’ve been using Firefox Focus to block ads, including YouTube video ads, for almost a decade on iOS lawl
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d
Weird. I think the last time I tried was circa 2020 iPhone xr and yes, I always use Firefox focus if available. Don't recall it blocking YouTube ads ornahving addon capabilities.
Androids always been more flexible.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 10d
Android is MUCH more flexible, hella agree hahaha. I started with the first Android device, the Dream, and installed uhhhh… Cyanogen? Or that’s the PSP… I forgor @w@
But I did CFW with my Android devices and looooved it. I switched to iPhone after my partner got an iPhone when they couldn’t get an Android phone with a keyboard. Loved it. Big complaint: no adblocker on the 4s. Keyboard was good though!
Focus came out I thiiiink during the iPhone 8? Maybe before, but I’ve been using it for very long. I’ve never had a YouTube account and would never use it if I had to see ads—I vehemently hate ads. But I’ve been seeing vids for the better part of a decade now! If ad blocking stops working, I’ll 100% never visit again. It’s completely untenable.
vogi@piefed.social · 5 pts · 10d
Also heard of https://github.com/fer0n/Unwatched but already switched back to Android before I got a chance to try it out.
hopesfall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Really surprised that this is readily available on the app store, tried it out for a bit and it seems to be working. Didn't sign in yet but it looks pretty safe.
Thanks for the heads up.
vogi@piefed.social · 5 pts · 10d
Yeah, I was surprised as well. I believe most of these kind of apps get around it by advertising as a RSS Reader or generic Mediathek. But from the Screenshots its hard to mistake it for something other than a YT Client. Guess Apple does dont care about it as much as Google would.
If it works maybe we should keep it on the down low. Also only heard of it by chance.
Goose@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 10d
Ublock origin is available as a safari extension now :)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10d
You can also use Firefox focus browser, or Unwatched app.
halloejsovs@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 10d
What amateurs still watch YouTube with ads? Every platform has plenty of easy solutions to bypass it.
tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 10d
Xbox/consoles?
athatet@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 10d
In the shower?
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 10d
Can they run vlc?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 10d
Doesn't work for all but at least for a time firewall blocking of ads worked
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 10d
Roku?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 10d
Roku in shower? Bold I see.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 10d
I listen to it from my bath toaster
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 10d
Bath Toasters are the best Toasters.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 10d
Explain
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 10d
Simply don't.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 10d
Playlet. Not the best solution, though. Roku is a very closed down platform.
https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
Thanks for posting this. I had assumed the closed down nature of roku meant there wasn't anything very useful on its appstore.
Janx@piefed.social · 1 pts · 8d
That's great! I appreciate you posting an alternative, not just shaming those that dare to use an imperfect platform they may already have access to...
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 62 pts · 10d
jesus fuck people still rawdog the internet and willingly subject themselves to ads?
never see another ad again: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
this works on mobile too :3
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 10d
Also, Newpipe for mobile and FreeTube for PC
Edit: Someone in this thread mentioned Pipepipe, a fork of Newpipe with extra features. I had not heard of it, but it's worth investigating
Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
Or YouTube ReVanced if NewPipe is too confusing and unfamiliar to you.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 10d
Morphe is the way to go these days, the maintainer of Revanced pissed off its main contributors and they went over and made Morphe. Revanced's significant recent updates have been to catch up with Morphe.
It also supports sourcing patches from other contributors directly so there are patches for apps like Chess.com and TikTok on Morphe that aren't available on Revanced.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Thanks for letting me know. YT Music Morphe is s league above YT Music ReVanced, which hasn't gotten any new features in forever.
YT Morphe, on the other hand, only seems to be a marginal improvement. I don't really notice much of a difference beyond minor improvements, even after combing through every setting. Return YouTube Dislike is still broken for Shorts, but at least the ads are gone again.
But anyway thanks again for telling me about it.
18107@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 10d
Also check out sponsor block.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 10d
not "on mobile", on android
not on ios because all ios browsers are safari wrappers, per apples policy
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 10d
You're*
daggermoon@piefed.world · -35 pts · 10d
It's not OP's fault English is a stupid language with words that sound identical but carry different meanings. I'm of the mindset that so long as it's legible it is correct. look at Old English. It was much more phonetic than modern English is. Scribes wrote words as they sounded. Languages like English have so many dumb and unnecessary rules as well. Why the fuck do we need capitalization rules anyway? Latin doesn't have it.
daddycool@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 10d
Getting corrected is how you learn. I often spell words wrong, because English isn't my first language, but I don't mind being corrected.
But when to use "your" and "you're" is actually fairly easy to remember. "You're" is short for "you are" and is used when YOU are doing something. "Your" is used when someone else is doing something.
You're sleeping vs. your cat is sleeping.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 8d
*wrongly (it's an adverb)
daddycool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4d
Can't wrong also be used as an adverb? Where wrongly is used before the verb, and both wrong and wrongly can be used after the verb?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 4d
No.
I mean, there's certainly a lot of misuse and poor grammar out there that does use it incorrectly, particularly in the US , but it is incorrect to use "wrong" as an adverb.
daddycool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4d
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/wrongly
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 3d
I'm not sure what your point is. That link appears to support what I said. Are you agreeing?
daggermoon@piefed.world · -3 pts · 10d
I don't disagree but I think you're missing my point. Minor variations of spelling shouldn't matter, so long as it's legible. If someone says dey instead of they, dat instead of that, wader instead of water, why should that be any less correct? I know it's not exactly an apple to apples comparison but I believe language should be more flexible. So long as it's understandable, why should it matter? Especially because English has and will continue to evolve in our lifetime. Why do people think in terms of absolutes?
daddycool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Because we have to agree on a standard. Or else we end up with nobody understanding each other.
Yes, language changes over time, but we all agree on those changes.
If we can just use what we each think is close enough we could end up with: water -> wader -> vader -> voder -> vodar -> voda.
An ad sum pojnt no wun kan ondestant vod ani 1 ses.
daggermoon@piefed.world · -1 pts · 9d
That's not how language works. Language isn't some absolute. English for example has many dialects, some of which are difficult for other speakers to understand. I disagree with the notion that we all have to agree with changes being made to our language. Zoomers are using words like skibidi, rizz, and fanumtax. Skibidi may fizzle out or it might be adopted by the masses and become ubiquitous a word as water. My point is that if me and enough people decide your is the correct spelling of you're than it becomes the correct spelling.
"And at some point no one can understand what anyone says." Funny, you're (yes, I said you're on purpose) example sentence looks more Germanic than modern English lol.
In conclusion, let's not interfere with the natural evolution of language. It's a beautiful thing to bear witness to.
daddycool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
Dialects and slang doesn't translate to correct spelling and grammar. Sure, sometimes slang gets adopted in the dictionary, and that is when it is added to the standard we all agree on.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 10d
I'm not blaming OP for the shortcomings of the language they use. Just pointing out a typo.
M137@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 10d
It's really fucking not hard to learn the correct usage. You're: you are, your: something belonging to or being part of you. You're isn't a word, it's a contraction of two words. It's so fucking simple to understand when to use any contraction or similar sounding word that there is never an excuse to get it wrong. It's also mostly native English speakers who get it wrong and part of that is the American educational system being one kf the worst in the world.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 10d
Shit like that used to bug me but eventually I realized it was a waste of time getting set off by incorrect word use or spelling. As long as the message isn't ambiguous, who cares? And even when it's on the border, it's often clear enough from the context what they really mean (though can be fun to deliberately misinterpret it).
daggermoon@piefed.world · -1 pts · 10d
It could also be that language evolves with time. If more people use "your", regardless of what the dictionary says than it's correct. I believe there will come a day when you're and your cease to be different.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d
Capitalization between sentences is needed because the period is so small. Or, the period can be small because we use capitalization between sentences. If we changed the symbol for the end of a sentence we could stop capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.
Maybe that will happen someday, but not soon.
If the point of written language is for the writer to communicate effectively, it's important to follow the current rules, as you have.
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 10d
Agreed. Back then, dictionaries were basically suggestions and fiction. People only really started caring about modern consistent spelling relatively recently (19th century), but it's assumed that's always been the case. People used to just make up words as it made sense, like colour. Someone just made up that word and now we all use it, but God forbid anyone get creative nowadays! There's been dozens of both successful and failed "spelling reforms". Some people just decided on this one spelling and we all now pretend it was gospel.
Then the grammar Nazis come out of the woodwork, as if they cannot possibly understand anything you wrote, because of this one small error. It's not helpful or interesting behaviour, it's like pointing out a smudge on an artwork.
Most other languages on Earth have an intuitive way of spelling and sounding out letters, with actual rules, to the point where you can understand how to say something just by reading it. English has no such feature, despite some efforts. Every word is it's own unique creature with it's own unique spelling and pronunciation and history.
All the helpful features of English to help you know how to pronounce something have been stripped out to make it "simplified". Ever wonder why they're called "simplified English dictionaries"? Because there used to be other kinds of English and dictionaries. Because it spells it "naive" instead of "naïve". The extra dot on the vowel used to mean that you say the vowels separately instead of smooshed together; na-i-ve.
Fucking dogshit language. It's my first language, but I found my second and third languages easier to learn and more logical and intuitive. Now that's saying something.
Also since you asked, capital letters were actually invented by the Romans, as a helpful optional feature to make things easier to read. They thought it looked cool to have Important Things be different.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 10d
People. What. The. Fuck?
Why does everyone freak out about the adds and not the level of brainrot this is. Like how do you actually function in your daily life if you can't stop watching content for a 5min shower? I have ADHD but I feel like I am amateur attention span issues and this is competitive ranked grand master attention span issues
Yes I am judging and maybe even shaming you.
Okay not shaming you because doing so is negative and I genuinely hope you get better if you have attention span issue. Smooches on you
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 10d
So I dont watch stuff in the shower but I do kinda HAVE to watch something to go to sleep. If I dont I cannot go to sleep or I sleep pretty bad because I kinda just go into a weird depressive mental state. I know its not good and it does need to be fixed. Im just currently NOT in a situation where I can get help on it so I use it to hold it as a temporary workaround for now. I do imagine other people have a worse version of this.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 10d
Can I recommend some music like Sigur Ros or something instrumental that involves less bright light in your face hammering the part of your brain that controls the "its daytime, stay awake" response.
I may be biased and ignorant cause I need pitch black and at most a fan one roon away to even run the chance of getting to sleep. Saying that if I have anything caffeinated after about 5pm I'm awake until 1am with my brain trying to make me kms, so I at least know how that one feels.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
Thank you. I have tried Sigur Ros actually. I do prefer chiller content and darker if I can. It just needs to be something to distract and give my brain something to gnaw on
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 8d
The subject matter is less important than the fact it's beaming light into your eyes <1m away.
Even if you've got it on low blue light mode you're still putting your brain through the kind of thing that was used as psychological torture by shady agencies since the 60s - keeping your brain active and exhausting yourself into unconsciousness instead of allowing your body the time to enter actual sleep is what's making it gnaw on itself :/
Read an actual paper book instead of using a screen, get yourself into a habit of making a warm and sweet but not caffeinated drink so your body gets the signal of 'now is the relaxing time' at a regular time every night, and your mind will catch up to the routine.
Also dont underestimate the power of a decent meal a couple hours before going to bed (avoid eating directly before, because that's a recipe for stomach pain and a bad time)
Speaking of recipes
Potion of go the fuck to sleep
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 10d
Considering the phone is out of reach, it's probably to listen to a podcast or music. Shower radios have existed for decades after all.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
I mean, I do it, but I also spend at least 2-4 hours outside a day without any input from my phone. It's more like, "I'm watching an interesting video, but I also need to take a shower, no reason to not do both."
Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 10d
Agreed. Also taking your phone to the toilet is gross and using it at the dinner table is kinda rude
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 10d
i feel like way more people should learn to meditate because this level of brainrot addiction is disturbing.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 10d
Why are got guys watching ads?
Seriously, I don't get it.
You don't have to watch ads on YouTube. Not on your TV, not on your phone.
laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 9d
most people have no technical capacity. also on ios you cant really do shit. android at least has firefox
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
AdGuard for iOS
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 10d
I get listening to music in the shower, although I don't. Watching videos while taking a shower? Maybe while taking a bath.
But, really, you can't step away from media for a few minutes a day for some peace and quiet?
Suffering through being alone with your thoughts is the first step toward better mental health. Your issues don't go away if you ignore them, they just get worse. You know this, so make an effort for yourself.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 10d
I don't want to be going through therapy while I'm lathering up my asshole. I wait for the weekend to do mushrooms about it
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 10d
Is it really impossible for people to just watch their dicks (or equivalent) for a few minutes a day?
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10d
I mean it can be dysphoric for some but I assume that is not the reason this person needed a distraction.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 10d
or you can use adblock on a browser, and not use the app.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 13 pts · 10d
There are levels of brainrot I hopefully never achieve. Though I noticed it's become difficult to just brush my teeth in the evenings..
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 10d
Laughs in Firefox.
webp@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 10d
Laughs in pipepipe
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 10d
Laughs in practicing mindfulness and exploring the vast worlds of my imagination
(jk I don't do this, I mostly feel anxiety instead)
webp@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 10d
(it's a nice thought)
dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 10d
Ah, yes. Maladaptive daydreaming 🥰
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 10d
use invidious ffs
and use ublock too
cally@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 10d
Why would someone watch YouTube in the shower??
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
For me, I listen. A lot of long form content is more like a podcast than a video.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
It's nice to watch something while doing chores. I have a TV and keyboard in my shower lol
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
The bathroom computer is truly the pinnacle of luxury
lena@gregtech.eu · 9 pts · 10d
Grayjay works perfectly and has adblocking built-in.
uuj8za@piefed.social · 9 pts · 10d
😭 <- me when someone uses ad-infested youtube.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 10d
Invidious
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8d
There are so many ways to watch youtube without ads. So. Many. Ways.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 10d
newpipe
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 10d
PipePipe
bobbbu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 10d
Used to be on newpipe, but since updates were taking forever at times, switched to pipepipe. Hows the project now?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 10d
I never got an ad in my life. Praise be unlock origin. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d
I'm certain this is false. Forgot to install uBlock on a new machine? Use someone else's computer? See a billboard sign? And if you're old enough, cable TV? Sometimes ads are disguised as regular content too. IE burnout paradise city with real ads on billboards. Sports games. Amazon prime is always tweaking shit too, definitely got stopped by a mid show ad a couple times.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 1 pts · 9d
It might have been hyperbole. Might
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
I'm using NouTube on Android via fdroid. It has YouTube and YouTube Music together in one app and automatically skips both ads and sponsorship segments. Basically free premium, at least on Android.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 9d
Have you been getting any error recently? Im on PipePipe and got this error 3 times today.
"Youtube forces us to wait 2 seconds before continuing playback."
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Getchu one of these.
For those who play YouTube or other videos in the shower, it is really nice. Make sure it fits your case though. My wife doesn't use ours because her otter box monstrosity wont let the cover shut.
alanjaow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Or if you're a poor high school student like I was, chuck it in a ziploc and set it on the caddy.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 10d
Or just get a water resistant phone. Though I would suggest caution when it's soapy water because that affects the surface tension of the water, which could mean some can slip past the seals that normally keep water out.
Though I have a water resistant phone but have never brought it into the shower with me. It was more of a case of not wanting to be worried about my phone in any kind of a situation involving water. Like going in to one of those 3D movie attractions with moving seats that sprayed water, I was concerned about whether I should be concerned about my phone getting wet. Turned out to be just tiny amounts of water and nothing to be concerned about even if I had my phone out, but after that I wanted to remove that worry from the list entirely.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d
Heat and steam can also be a factor in a water breach. A phone that can be fully submerged into a pool of water may or may not stand up well to steam at its seams, particularly where those seams have different materials with different expansion rates due to heat, like glass and aluminum. Small gaps may open, even if invisible to the eye, and steam can seap in. It may not even be a problem immediately but get worse later when the steam cools and condensates.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
Yeah, though at least pressure doesn't really factor in, which I think is where most cases of steam breaching a water seal comes in to play. But if gases can be exchanged, steam is way higher humidity than air normally and can condense inside.
My guess would be the odds of a soap or steam breach on a water resistant phone is very low, but if you bring your phone in for every shower, you might be tempting those odds.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 4 pts · 10d
"watching"
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
this is why i switched to audio books now. better content. no ads. And speakers are water proof these days
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d
Morphe
krisevol@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 10d
YouTube premium is over is the best services for the price. I get no ads in my car, my phone, my pc, and i get to give 5 keys to my friend and family to use.
Any streaming company that offers my an ad free plan that is reasonably priced I'll support. I never want to go back to the days of cable where it was a paid service with ads. I'll support the ones that give me the service i want. Ad free.
Delphia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
Also YT might be a soulless big tech giant with highly questionable ethics but they are literally a modern technological marvel with a how-to video on pretty much anything, niche and hobby content that "tv" and streaming would never touch and literally endless pure entertainment...
They are not now nor have they ever been a public service. Frankly its a minor miracle that in this day and age that they have a purely advertising supported option for access.
alexquiniou@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 10d
Newpipe lover here.
ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 10d
Yet another reason to use Grayjay.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me · 3 pts · 10d
Wtf, YouTube had 15 minuten ads? Pieces of shit.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 10d
If I saw that I just close the tab and move on with my life. Lol.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 10d
I've if the last time I ever saw a YouTube ad on my TV, it was like 4 hours long
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 10d
Who the heck is watching yt in 2026? ;_;
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
I got one of those phone cases thay you glue to your shower wall. Its waterproof and still works with my phone touchscreen. 10/10 can skip any adda
cosmos8188@leminal.space · 1 pts · 9d
The FBI agent looking through the camera be having a field day.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9d
poor guy lol
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 2 pts · 10d
Morph
laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
Buggy af.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 1 pts · 9d
Moved over from revanced a month ago and I haven't run into a single one.
It was also insanely easy to install.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10d
Morphed
YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
I used to use VPN location settings and ad blockers, but I've got them on quite a few devices and that became a bit of a hit-and-miss ballache. So instead, I subscribed. Of course, they believe I live in India, so I pay about £2 per month. I do not live in India.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · -14 pts · 10d
There are going to be so many smug dorks in the comments section telling everyone what systems they use to avoid ads.
dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus · 17 pts · 10d
how smug of them! how dare they recommend their preferred solution to the ever-increasing creep of corporate advertisement on the website oligopoly that holds the content created by the public. absolute dorks /s
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 10d
Ya fuck those people, I watch all my ads!
inari@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 10d
OP is complaining of a problem that has been solved