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YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 23 points 10 months ago (20 children)

I love how this is smug and offers no advice. Peak substack vibes

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    Hi there! You seem to be new to Lemmy. Please wait here, someone will be along shortly to check on your Linux distro choice and tell you that you joined the wrong instance. Have a great day!

    /s for everything except have a great day, which you should have absolutely still have!

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works, or you could make a PiHole

    Edit: Looks like PiHole won't work, still worth setting up for general use though!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    Pihole doesn’t work for YouTube, because they host the ads on the same servers as the videos. Blocking ads would also block videos. And uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole, with YouTube constantly trying new ways to evade the ad blocker.

    Hell, they’ve even started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream if they think you’re using an ad blocker, so it’s all one contiguous video that runs straight from the ad into the video you wanted to watch. Then they just block you from skipping ahead in the video stream until the ad is done.

    So you’re still smug, and offering misleading advice. Peak substack vibes.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole

    No it isn't. Once in a while it stops working for a few hours, but I can't remember the last time that happened.

    They started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream

    That's false. Twitch does it, YouTube doesn't. You can use any alternative frontend like Invidious or Grayjay and verify this quite easily.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I've never had Ublock origin fail. Plus, there's Sponsorblock for blocking in-video ads.

    Alternately, you could use an app that does it for you.

    Finally, I don't know what substack is, but you seem like you're being kind of a knob for wanking so hard over a half-assed joke, even after getting the help you were complaining about.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    they havnt evaded unblock origin so far, its only they have slowed the start of a video for a few seconds. i would imagine theyw ould try to increase the starting time for a video overtime.

    i think that is with twitch only, its very expensive to do, thats why youtube hasnt done it yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    You're probably using a chromium browser.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That's it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. In Android use Youtube Revanced. In Android TV (Nvidia shield, google TV, etc) use SmartTube.

    And don't use the "ads-company" browser in the future if you don't like ads.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    or Brave

    Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don't do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser, even with how Mozilla is right now – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately Firefox is also an ads company now, but still gecko-based browsers are the only good choice rn

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't like the direction they're heading, but Firefox still works just fine with UBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    On my phone I watch via the Grayjay app (I used newpipe before, but it wasn't as reliable). If it asks me to login, I either use a VPN or watch YouTube in a Firefox-based browser with ublock. I haven't seen ads since years...

    On my PC I also just use Firefox and ublock to watch without ads.

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