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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (mashable.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[–] Tygr 243 points 9 months ago (5 children)

YouTube is WHY I have adblockers to this day. I was Ok with the ads at the beginning and end. When they started cramming 2-3 ads in the middle of a 10 minute video, that’s when I started looking for a solution.

Their greed is why they make $0 from me many years later.

I think it’s rich they aren’t happy with people using them when they’re the ones that made the standard viewing experience awful in the first place.

[–] sock 50 points 9 months ago

i remember when ads started rolling out when I was much younger and i was like this is odd but ok then they became longer than skippable then an ad played in the middle of my video and i was like must be a glitch haha.

i cannot even look at youtube without an ad blocker i feel like 13 viruses would be downloaded at a glance

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The only device I use for YouTube is my android phone, because it runs Firefox and ublock origin. For this exact reason.

Google's clever though, they broke full screen video in Firefox in Android 13. Now I have to restart Firefox after putting the first video in full screen, after that the videos still play.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Revanced works flawlessly on android and gives you the native app feeling

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I got this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bimilyoncu.sscoderr. * * vanced is that the one?

Edit: vandalized the URL so search engines don't pick it up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I guess not, it's just some ripoff

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

No, that's a scam. ReVanced will never be in the Play Store, you have to patch it yourself. There's instructions on the ReVanced subreddit and it's easy. And don't download premade versions either

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can use:

Revanced

This patches the official YouTube app with a lot of different options including removing those ads.

NewPipe

This scrapes the website, and is my preferred YouTube app. You cannot log into an account though, which isn't an issue for me. You can also import/export your subscriptions. They are still working on getting comment replies into the app though.

LibreTube

This uses Piped API, and you can choose with instances you want to use. This has comment replies in the app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Have you tried ReVanced? Works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Do you use an iOS device? I have an app that works very well and is on the app store, no side loading

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's stopping you from posting the name? I have an iPad that I used to use for YouTube in the kitchen but now it's only Netflix and nebula.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There's zero chance that Google / YouTube don't already know about the Vinegar Safari extension for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

In general, posting publicly about these kinds of workarounds is a bad idea. It'd be great to share them with the world, but the sooner Youtube finds out about them, the sooner they break. Keeping the recommendations to in-person or at least in private channels helps to maintain the obscurity that allows them to exist.

[–] Stylus2650 2 points 9 months ago

Could I ask more about it? My wife is an iOS user.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 2 points 9 months ago

Would love to know the name if you could DM me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What sucks is that my kitten sleeps on my desk and every single time one of their ear-blasting ads comes on he flicks his ears in discomfort. It's not even that the ads themselves are loud (they are, very very loud) it's that every syllable and sound effect has the Attack turned up to 11. Sometimes i'll be in the other room it will sneak an ad on me and all i'll hear is TKnn TKmm TKTKmm TKTKTKmm mm TKTK mm mm

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 5 points 9 months ago

Standup comedy is the most painful on YouTube. Ads just get thrown in the middle of everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was Ok with the ads at the beginning and end. When they started cramming 2-3 ads in the middle of a 10 minute video, that’s when I started looking for a solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPbpYR_RKY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=vxPbpYR_RKY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.