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Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
A lot of people watch YouTube using their smart TVs.
I would vouch they need money to pay for hosting and everything else, and as a free service perhaps ads are the only way. Not sure how one can expect youtube to host that amount of content for free perpetually. I dislike ads, particularly dark patterns, and shocking I pay for youtube premium. An unpopular opinion but can someone please explain how can all this be hosted for free? Or why do some believe they should?
I would pay, except youtube had these ads that are like, " hate being annoyed by ads? Pay us!" Fuck youtube.
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A lot of people watch YouTube using their smart TVs.
Alternate/hacked YouTube apps exist that you can install on your TV that won't show ads... Also, if you cast stuff to the TV, you only need a modded version of YouTube on your phone - you don't need to make any changes to the TV.
However it uses microG, which has long had an open issue with v2 of Google's Cast API. The issue was recently closed however I don't believe it was solved. However it is still possible to work around this. I ended up writing a quick script on my phone that uses pychromecast to initialize the cast so that it can be passed off to YouTube Vanced.
It's been a while since I've cast anything but are you certain that ads are blocked when casting from an app that blocks ads? In my experience with casting, the video is always streamed directly from the content provider's servers (YouTube) to the cast receiver (smart TV) with ads intact. You would need to mirror your phone's display in order to block ads.
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I would pay, except youtube had these ads that are like, " hate being annoyed by ads? Pay us!" Fuck youtube.
TANSTAAFL
It works be one thing to advertise a service or product, but they just put ads in to literally annoy you into paying. I'm not kidding.
I WAS a YouTube premium member until recently, but dropped it because of crap like this.
I know there's no free lunch, my comment was about the way youtube does business: it's a dick move to annoy users into paying you. How is that worth a tnstaafl reply?
I wonder if the world has passed me by when I think that I'm taking a stand against corporate greed and bullshit and everyone else happily goes along with whatever.
Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
It doesn’t work against in video ads.
Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
It doesn’t work against in video ads.
OK, because ppl are gonna ask, I checked: I'm not seeing ads in the app on my tablet at home, so its the PiHole cutting ads. Ooops, I'm not seeing ads on my desktop when using my smartphone as a hotspot either (no PiHole), so Firefox + uBO + PB also blocks YT ads.
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I have ad blocker. I block all ads at the DNS level. I don't think you can block some of the ads on YT. Is that possible with browser plugins?
I use uBlock Origin and I never see a single ad on YouTube. This is for my laptop though; I still haven't figured a decent solution for my phone.