| ▲ | ahofmann 3 days ago |
| I hear this often. My experience is totally different. I've installed ublock origin and I'm using Vivaldi as my blink engine wrapper. I've never seen a YouTube ad since years. I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube. |
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| ▲ | nananana9 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| They often release new "features" in a A/B fashion to a small percentage of users. It's most obvious with UI changes, where a portion of users will get a disfigured version of the site for a month, but it's probably true for their ad-blocking endeavors as well. |
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| ▲ | orthoxerox 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if they're testing the new useless cinema mode on me because I'm running an adblocker. | | |
| ▲ | OkayPhysicist a day ago | parent [-] | | Is cinema mode new? Or did they change it somehow? Last I checked all it did was resize the video to take up most of the width of the browser. That was a pretty happy medium between "video for ants" and "take over my entire monitor in full screen mode" |
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| ▲ | NGRhodes 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't even think YouTube is anywhere near the worst advert offender.
My local newspaper website is stuffed full of adverts. Between a large picture, article heading and advert, you often don't see a signle line of new content above the fold on a 1080p screen. I do not regularly visit such sites. I do unblock websites that I return to often. |
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| ▲ | discomrobertul8 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube. 90% of my YouTube use is on my smart TV. There's not really a straightforward way to block ads there. Used to be many years ago that a PiHole or similar would work, but they clued onto that years ago. |
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| ▲ | zettabomb 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | If it's a Google TV, there's an app you can sideload called SmartTube, which doesn't play ads and has SponsorBlock built-in. I went from often using my laptop just to play videos without being interrupted constantly, to actually enjoying using the TV app. | |
| ▲ | hdgvhicv 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There’s a very simply way to avoid ads on YouTube tv — pay some money. I spend less in nominal terms, let alone inflation terms, for my tv entertainment now than I did 20 year ago, even with Disney, Netflix, bbc, Paramount and YouTube subscriptions. | |
| ▲ | Spare_account 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I have a Chromecast with Google TV, and it allows sideloading of APKs. I installed SmartTube which is a YouTube client that incorporates Adblocking and also SponsorBlock. It periodically has issues loading videos when Google change something, but the app gets updated every time within a day. | |
| ▲ | account42 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you are using an internet-connected smart TV you already decided you don't care about ads. No one is forcing you to make that choice though. | |
| ▲ | master-lincoln 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | SmartTube works reliably for me on the smartTV for years now | |
| ▲ | fragmede 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The straightforwards way is to give Google money to get rid of them. | | |
| ▲ | animuchan 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Paid YouTube still shows some ads, so no, it's just a way to give Google some money. | | |
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