in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
Press M for mute. Most adds' sound design is awful.
I usually don't watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.
Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.
I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.
I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?
Haven't personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it's ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don't know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
PiHole
YouTube serves ads from the same domains that serves the video so you can't block ads with pihole for YouTube
Quick google search suggests the ads come from same domain as youtube, so wouldnt be blocked.
Back to muting ads and reading lemmy on my phone
Doesn't seem to work on the PS5
Can it run Firefox?
I'm sure it could
That's what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.
What an awful way to conduct yourself. Try and be better my guy.
Drink the verification can
Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we're not far now...
That meme was prophetic.
Robert Rankin’s “Armageddon” trilogy has something like this, where Actively Viewing pays you rehousing credits, so the main character has developed away to sleep with his eyes wide open, as if actually watching the screen.
Any adblocks x smart TV?
If you need it on tizen os (Samsung TV's) there is tizentube
I now moved to android tv (modified), but tizentube made my Samsung tv at least bearable.
SmartTube if it's an Android TV.
Download and install the APK through Downloader app or USB, only takes a few mins following instructions.
Devs keep it very regularly up to date. SponsorBlock included. Many excellent additional features making it way better at being YouTube than the YouTube app could ever be.
That's not the official site. It has an old version (July 2024) and the file might contain malware. You can safely download the latest version from GitHub and find their updated guide there.
If you don't want to use Github, you can use the site they have linked to which is https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
Don’t connect the TV to the internet. Buy a Shield or AppleTV.
The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button
anyone got a solution for apple tv? found one app but it works through invidious and invidious doesn’t really work anymore. even tried hosting my own at home but nothing :(
I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don't watch a huge amount so I'm happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I've never been able to wrap my head around it.
I’ve honestly just switched to screen mirroring my Mac and using Firefox / ublock / etc when I want to watch YouTube on the tv.
Wow, a DEC AlphaStation computer. That couldn’t have been cheap.
This shit doesn’t work when it’s a two hour ad lol