I have Brave on my iPhone for the sole purpose of watching YouTube ad-free. It works flawlessly.
YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
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There's Cydia: https://cydia-app.com/ And if you have a Mac, you can build and install apps on your own device with Xcode. No Apple developer paid account required. AltStore does something similar by signing IPA files with your personal key: https://altstore.io/ .
The site you linked to (hxxps://cydia-app.com/) is unofficial, links to piracy and spyware sites, and should not be trusted. The official Cydia site is https://cydia.saurik.com/ but it doesn't include much information about Cydia and jailbreaks. To find out what jailbreaks are available for your device, check the r/Jailbreak wiki. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/wiki/ios/canijailbreak )
A better 'how to jailbreak' is https://canijailbreak.com/ which is ran by some well-respected community members https://justapengu.in/about
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#173The battle between ad platforms and users is going to be never ending. For YouTube, the _right_ thing to do is to pay for the premium option which removes ads. Otherwise as difficult as it is to say, you are getting something for nothing and people do make a living from YouTube videos. Ok, maybe you can contribute to a patreon outside of YouTube, but you’re not going to do that for everyone and those videos are not s…
Serving videos without ads was how YouTube's monopoly was built. It became an ad platform later. That created an expectation that YouTube was a library in the public interest. Pre-2010 Google marketing had that public interest and internet stewardship angle to it. Serving content over the web assumes that the content will be downloaded by a browser for rendering. Control over what and how that content gets rendered i…
YouTube only had 100 million users in 2009[0] - not an insignificant amount, but even after introducing ads in the same year[1], they've gained 2 billion+ users.
0: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2009/3/YouT...
1: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/infog....
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Frankly I just hate the idea of YouTube creators getting paid for their work. /s
Youtube shows ads on videos for a section of creators without paying them and also puts ads on creator's videos that do not want ads on them.
That’s pretty strange for a video platform that is completely free to both users and creators. I wonder why they need to put ads on it.
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Some trackers are having people setup CNAME records on their domains, so the tracker cookies appear to be first party: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301
uBlock Origin already performs CNAME decloaking and blocks this approach, it’s pretty cool.
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#176Has anyone used iOS browsers with adblocking built in? How do Firefox and Brave compare to Adguard or 1BlockerX? Any other browsers out there that do a better job?
I’ve been trying Brave this week and unfortunately it performed absolutely uselessly on some busy websites, locking up for *several seconds* every time I open a new tab. It might be a temporary bug, but I moved to DDG as my secondary browser anyway. Safari and DDG handle those same pages effortlessly.
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Some trackers are having people setup CNAME records on their domains, so the tracker cookies appear to be first party: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301
uBlock Origin already performs CNAME decloaking and blocks this approach, it’s pretty cool.
For anyone else who wanted to know more like me, here's a good rundown: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/f8qnpc/ublock...
Note that CNAME uncloaking only works on Firefox; chromium-based browsers do not support the required API.
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This is more of a rant on Pi-hole than related to Youtube ads but... Pi-hole can be fine but it isn't effective if you want it to block not only the lowest hanging fruits which a browser adblocker could easily block too but also stuff that doesn't follow the rules and might use hardcoded DNS IPs if they can't get the reply they want from the DNS server. With some Windows PC's, Apple devices, Chromecasts and Androids…
Last year, I added firewall rules to my router to block: * Any outbound DNS and DNS-over-TLS requests coming from anything other than my Pi-Hole * Any outbound HTTPS requests to DNS-over-HTTPS providers that I know of It's surprising how many hits I got to those block rules. Makes me very worried about the adoption of DoH: all its privacy and anti-tampering advantages also apply to devices that violate privacy, like…
would love to know more about this setup... I'm very worried about DoH
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I use Wipr as a content blocker on both macOS and iOS. I never see ads on YouTube. But I've always felt that it might not be enough some day. Perhaps that day is nearly here.
Adguard requires an electron app(wut?) to run in the background to provide much of its functionality, is Wipr like this too?
No. Wipr is a clean content blocker. I don’t know how it handles auto-updates of the blocklist, but I definitely don’t need to keep the app open nor does it add buttons to the interface like AdGuard does.
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How do I find out what portion of a subscription goes to a creator?
It's not clear to me what you are asking, but if your question has a definite answer and it relates to Youtube as a business, I can probably help answer. Youtube has been my full-time job for years. About Premium generally, if you can afford it and you are considering it, there is no reason to hesitate. I say that both as a channel owner and as someone who pays for Premium every month. You never see an AdSense ad aga…
the amount matters to me
if the creators only get 1c/month from my premium and google get the lion's share I'll continue to block ads and support via patreon/merch instead