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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by nalinidash »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #43
BadHumans wrote: post #7

Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads. https://newpipe.net/

I tried using it for a while, but it always took forever to start loading the videos. It was significantly slower to the point of being annoying. I gave up.

Though in some cases it may take little longer time, it is very rare that the video never loads.If an issue like that happens, you can submit a proper bug report in GitHub with details, or from their in-app bug reporting process.

I remember once that the video never loaded.I went to their gh repo to find that the issue is already known, there were some api changes from google side.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by [deleted] »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #50
_fat_santa wrote: post #39

Personally I just pay for Youtube Premium. Yes it's $10/month but I found that if you watch alot of Youtube, it's well worth it. Now anytime I'm at friends house and an ad comes up before a video I'm always like "oh right Youtube has ads"

It's funny; I pay for lots of things, even other streaming services in order to not have ads, but I absolutely refuse to give YouTube a single penny. The difference is that every other service made the deal up front - pay X for content, pay Y for content and no ads, and here's the website and here are some mobile apps - while YouTube started out free for all with some really minor ads that you could block if you want…

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Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by crtasm »

dyingkneepad wrote: post #43
BadHumans wrote: post #7

Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads. https://newpipe.net/

I tried using it for a while, but it always took forever to start loading the videos. It was significantly slower to the point of being annoying. I gave up.

Worth trying again, I use it daily and have never experienced that.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by kayodelycaon »

michelsedgh wrote: post #9
latexr wrote: post #2

> We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service. Ah yes, it’s all about the creators, you see. The money Google makes from it has nothing to do with it, no siree. As we all know, Google’s magnanimity alwa…

Why can’t it be both? You don’t expect them to provide Youtube for free do you? Also if they don’t profit how do you want them to monetize the creators? Don’t get me wrong I hate the ads, but the problem is there has to be some kind of profits for them or for anyone else to run a platform and not just youtube no?

> You don’t expect them to provide Youtube for free do you?

Most people I know do expect that. They don't care about the economics of it.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by stalfosknight »

If you're on Safari, use Vinegar¹ to substitute the YouTube player with a simple tag. Ad-free and much more battery efficient.

The companion app Baking Soda² does the same for non-YouTube sites.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303...

2. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baking-soda-tube-cleaner/id160...

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #53
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny; I pay for lots of things, even other streaming services in order to not have ads, but I absolutely refuse to give YouTube a single penny. The difference is that every other service made the deal up front - pay X for content, pay Y for content and no ads, and here's the website and here are some mobile apps - while YouTube started out free for all with some really minor ads that you could block if you want…

Youtube has had ads since 2007. And complaining about it becoming harder to circumvent ads is silly. Youtube has a clear business proposition, and anyone is free to not use youtube. Not like their is any real competition though, it only takes two second of business analysis to see that users want a video service where you foot all the costs and charge nothing (ads or subs) for it. Read about what happned to vid.me

I don't see the part of my comment where I said they didn't have ads. I did say that the ads were less awful.

Also... if you're free to not use them but they have a monopoly, are you free to not use them? Nobody's forcing you to use Standard Oil; you're totally free to just not have oil.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by hagbard_c »

Don't use Youtube without going through a proxy like Invidious [1] or Newpipe

Don't use {site} Search without going through a proxy like SearxNG [2]

Don't use TwiXXer without going through a proxy like Nitter - this has gotten more difficult lately but it still works as long as you feed the daemon some registered accounts. Video does not work at the moment but that seems to be fixable.

Don't use Reddit without going through a proxy like libreddit [4]

Start noticing the pattern? Maybe it is time to start producing promotional posters:

The only thing to come between you and ADS could be a proxy / ADS. I'ts just not worth the risk

ADS / New rules for a sane net / Sane net protects you, your partner and your community

A proxy here and a filter there, ADS nowhere

The more you tighten your grip, ${site}, the more viewers will slip through your fingers

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

[2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[4] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by hagbard_c »

mikkom wrote: post #33

But uBlock with browser that supports it still does :-) (If you have android, try kiwi browser if you haven't - it's chrome based and you can use regular extensions with it)

If you have Android use Firefox, you can use extensions with it and get real uBlock Origin which does what it is supposed to. Add something like Privacy Redirect pointed at a number of service proxies (Youtube->Invidious, Reddit->libreddit, TwiXXer->Nitter (need a private instance for now), Search->SearxNG, etc) and you're close to ad-free.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by alsetmusic »

fdgjgbdfhgb wrote: post #5

It's one of those things - they are totally in their right to do it, but I still think it sucks. At the end of the day, both parties benefit: Youtube won't have to serve me videos for free and I'll gain back a bunch of free time.

At this point, I download all videos (Downie.app on Mac; it's awesome) and play them locally. The day I no longer have a workaround I will stop watching. I have enough other content to keep me going. Too much, really.
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