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You wouldn't want Premium for free, would you? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Some VPNs have adblockers built in. Or you could just install uBlock Origin for free if you don't have a VPN

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    YouTube is remarkably good at circumnavigating a lot of adblocking, my adblocker blocks ads for pretty much every other app on my phone, except YouTube, so this is a pretty interesting trick, assuming it works. Will definitely be giving this a try.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    ReVanced seems to work well.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I've never had a problem with YouTube ad blocking. uBlock Origin + ProtonVPN (NetShield) works just fine for me. I haven't seen a single ad on YouTube since I installed them.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Mhm, I believe ublock does work, but I almost never use YouTube on a desktop browser. PiHole/NordVPN haven't had any success on the iOS app.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You can have firefox+ublock on Android. Idk about iOS though. Since apple is a monopoly and a bitch with browsers.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah.... I assume not as well. Whatever, I'm only on iOS because I can get the phones as family hand-me-downs, and I'm trying to spend less money on devices I'm constantly trying to use less rather than more. If this method works, I'll be pleased, but I'm not too desperate for a solution if it doesn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Reason is because the desktop version of YouTube is (still mostly? I think it's depends on the content) using client side ad serving. On the iOS and Android app, you are getting server side ad serving, meaning the content and ads are coming from the same CDN address. So if you were to block the ad manifest address in Pi-Hole you'd also be blocking the content.

    Pi-Hole only really works in a client side served world. Server side it's harder if not impossible to get around. Server side implementations are more expensive to deploy, so that's why it's not as universal.

    It's not clear to me exactly how New pipe and Vanced get around it, but I'm assuming it's just a browser wrapper?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Litube works pretty well for me. It's a webview app with adblock, sponsorblock and other QoL stuff.

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