>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today.
Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros. I haven’t tried using those features though. It also blocks some audience-measuring redirects.
>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today.
I have an overcast next chapter action triggered by a Siri shortcut called “skip ad” — so I can just say “Siri, Skip Ad”. It works only if the podcast pervasively chapterizes of course, but thankfully most of mine do.
Would love to see some ultralight version of this that I can just run directly on my router.
Unfortunately I don't think it's possible. The router can only intercept as far as DNS goes, and DNS Blocklists are already incapable of blocking YouTube ads.
Sponsorblock is one of the best things I have ever used in the last 5 years. "You've saved people from 1,927 segments ( 16h 56.3 minutes of their lives ) You've skipped 5,500 segments ( 1d 9h 19.3 minutes )" Absolutely ridiculous how much filler youtube is filled with to hit the 10 minute marks! I hope they never go down, it's a great free service. On mobile phones we use vanced, on my nvidia shields we use smarttube…
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On the other hand, youtube is trying hard to stop adblock use in general on browsers.. down to the level of having to update ublock lists hourly, get popup mssages, and playlists stopping playback after three videos. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
After disabling my adblock for YT I noticed the video player has gotten much worse. I always saw preroll ads still but now all of them are completely jarring. My previous player seemed to play them inline whereas now they load separately, jump abruptly, much more annoying.
On the other hand, youtube is trying hard to stop adblock use in general on browsers.. down to the level of having to update ublock lists hourly, get popup mssages, and playlists stopping playback after three videos. https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
After disabling my adblock for YT I noticed the video player has gotten much worse. I always saw preroll ads still but now all of them are completely jarring. My previous player seemed to play them inline whereas now they load separately, jump abruptly, much more annoying.
i can almost nod my head in acceptance for a :30 ad before a new piece of content. at :45, i'm starting to get annoyed. at :60, i'm wondering if this is really worth it. then, youtube steps up to the plate, points to the fences, and serves up a 2minute30second (i've seen longer) short film on some clearly fake as fuck scam type of 4am paid programming type of crap. on top of serving some mind bendingly annoying long ad break, they don't even attempt to prevent serving clearly malicious ads. if you're going to be heartless and force ads, don't be soulless and at least vet the ads from obvious scams.
Would love to see some ultralight version of this that I can just run directly on my router.
Unfortunately I don't think it's possible. The router can only intercept as far as DNS goes, and DNS Blocklists are already incapable of blocking YouTube ads.
Routers run operating systems like everything else does though. What would make my OpenWRT router running this any different from another device on the network?
For some reason I feel a lot worse about the idea of automatically skipping sponsor sections of YouTube videos than I do about blocking web ads.
Yeah, sponsor sections of content is usually done respectfully of the audience. There's no javascript being run on my machine, the sponsor is usually tangentially related to the content, and the creator has an incentive to deliver it in either a humorous or relevant manner.
>Yeah, sponsor sections of content is usually done respectfully of the audience.
I literally just LOL'd and spit water at my screen reading that. They are the most condescending over the top waaaaay too long of a segment. Even in the 1950's, sponsors were just mentioned along the lines of "This segment is brought to you by Ovaltine. Remember to drink your Ovaltine!" and then moves right the fuck along. But nooooo, youtube sponsors took the SNL idea of play it until it's uncomfortably long, then keep going until it's just funny that they haven't stopped, but then continue until you just feel like a sad sap for continuing to have this product/service talked about like it is the second coming. Respectful. As. If.