• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    half of the video is solely a critique of NordVPN

    I don’t know how good or bad NordVPN is. I have never used it. But I never will. EVER.

    You know why?

    Because they paid so many interesting Youtubers to shill their stupid VPN service, ruined so many otherwise interesting Youtube videos and wasted so much of my time that I swore I would never give them a single dollar of my money.

    I can’t stand advertisement and advertisers, and NordVPN has been truly heavy-handed. They’re not the only ones: Brilliant comes to mind too. They can all fuck off. They’ve achieved the exact opposite of what their ads was supposed to achieve with me: I’ll never patronize them.

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        Actually I use Freetube with sponsorblock on the desktop and Newpipe with sponsorblock on Android. So I mostly don’t see shitty sponsors anymore.

        But my Formuler TV box - which runs Android - has some weird crashing problem with the default Newpipe player, so I have to use an external player (MX Player) which doesn’t have sponsorblock, sadly.

        So whenever I want to watch Youtube videos on my TV, I have to eat some NordVPN shilling - at least a little bit, just time for me to grab the remote and skip it - and I’m too cheap to replace the TV box.

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          7 months ago

          You could try Smart Tube which has built in adblock and sponsorblock and see if that works better on your android tv box

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            7 months ago

            SmartTube works very well. The problem is, it requires a Youtube account to have subscriptions, playlists and the like. That’s a hard no for me.

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            Shout out for Smart Tube, the best YT app on smart boxes/android TVs, never had any issues