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On my Roku TV I can’t block ads, when they play I mute the TV and look away. I am absolutely the level of autistic that I think I’m “winning” by doing this.
I have adblock on my Mac, but not on the PS5. Whenever I watch YouTube on my TV via PS5, I have to open and close videos sometimes 10 or 15 times before they just play the video I’ve clicked on and not some obnoxious 45 second long advert for some bullshit I don’t want and won’t use. Honestly not sure why YouTube finds it so hard to play the video I clicked on and not random other videos. I also tend to stop watching vids as soon as an ad break happens.
I work with a marketing department full time and they’re exactly as annoying as expected, always pissing about on tiktok or Instagram creating shit that nobody could possibly feasibly care about.
Is there an alternative to YouTube on PS5 that doesn’t have adverts? Or is there some way to get adblocking on there?
Easy fix: HDMI cable from the laptop to your TV to watch youtube.
I believe you would need a pihole, is like a ad block but in the entire network, so you could even use the official youtube app on a tv and not get any ad
I think they serve the ads from the same domain so DNS blocking wont work. And I heard they are testing baking the ads into the actual video.
I was using the pihole from my pc back in the day and it did work, but i totally forget about the ad injection on the videos
I remember life without adblockers. Back when they were not needed, because web sited did not have ads.
pepperidge farm remembers
FDunny, though, that I only know Pepperidge Farm from memes. I assume that is/was an American brand, right?
Those were one of the later plagues, too.
I, too, have a sore back when I awake.
did you use the internet in '92 or something? because even in mid to late 90s the ads were so cancerous that pop-up blocking eventually became a standard feature of browsers before ad blockers were even a thing.
My first contact with the web (I had been in the internet for some time already) was when a collegue at university told me about the Arena browser, and this new system, “like Gopher, but with Hypertext and pictures”. And yes, I’ve seen the CERN website, served from Tim Barners-Lee’s NeXT cube, too.
So yes, I knew the web before there were ads, the internet when services were normally open to all sides, and when people on the internet that were actually much smarter than average.
Up to early 00’ most webs didn’t really have many ads. Some may have abusive advertisement but it wasn’t everywhere like now.
I remember when I first noticed YouTube had ads. They’ve had them a while but before they got ads I had installed an ad blocker. So when I was setting up a new laptop and just testing if everything worked I loaded up a YouTube video and suddenly there was a pre roll playing and I wondered “What the fuck is this … Ah yes still need to install an ad blocker”
Edit: Toni? Who the fuck is he? ;)
Man, took me too long to figure out who Toni is.
lol. Autocorrect
Even better, make a list of the ads you see, and activelly avoid buying the products or services that they promote.
I use an add blocker to such an extent im horrified every time I’m on an unfamiliar device and have to deal with copious adds.
I can’t even imagine raw-dogging the internet like that…
uBlock origin carries my browser ngl
If you click the ad does the company have to pay like a fraction of a cent or something for a click through? Like if I always click on the ads can I make them pay for having waisted my time if it’s only a little bit?
you’ll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum
it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you’re doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:
As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
That’s a cute idea but it completely ignores that it isn’t 2005 anymore. Algorithms are good enough to detect that.
eh, on the off chance they aren’t, why not. I don’t see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one
Might be contraproductive if google earns more with longer adds.
I have been using UBlock and Firefox… I always get mad when I can’t get UBlock for the YouTube app of my phone
I don’t know what everyone else is using, but Revanced works perfectly for me despite the exaggerated claims of its demise.
I’ve been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:
Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you’ll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.
Newpipe is fucking great. Does what I want it to and doesn’t do what I don’t want it to. Favorite thing about it is the ability to easily download video or audio.
Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There’s also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.
I use Greentuber on my phone. Don’t know how to get rid of adds on my fire tb stick.
After going nuclear against ad blockers, at some point google is going to introduce a new “feature” where YouTube uses AI with your phone’s camera to automatically pause videos when you look away from your phone.
Then they’ll make it so you have to buy a subscription to turn it off during ads.
writers of black mirror’s 15 million merits laughing crying maniacally in the distance
Hey, don’t give them ideas.
Camara zooms out revealing a third guy looking down into his face youtube requiring a Webcam so they can track your eyes
I’m convinced Mark Zuckerberg had a wet dream about pupil tracking when he bought Oculus.
He saw that Black Mirror episode and found it to be aspirational.
im convinced his business model if AR/VR ever takes off will involve pupil tracking yes
On Linux or Windows? Firefox + uBlock origin (there’s nothing better than that)
On Mac? Firefox + uBlock origin (worse alternative: Safari + AdGuard, since you might synch browser with iPhone)
On Android? Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin
On iOS? Safari + AdGuard + Vinegar + Baking Soda
On SmartTV it’s different.
Hardest overall solution: Get yourself a Pi-Hole https://pi-hole.net/
For WebOS TVs use this: https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos
Android TVs should get SmartTube: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube#smarttube-old-name-smarttubenext
RokuTVs got either this thing: https://channelstore.roku.com/en-ca/details/840aec36f51bfe6d96cf6db9055a372a/playlet or the open source alternative: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
I look forward to the day apple is forced to allow other browser engines to run on iOS.
Unfortunatly, they were smart. To the average lawmaker, Firefox, chrome, edge, etc all run on ios, so there’s issue.
You should note that Pi-Hole works for YouTube on gaming consoles aswell!
Why use privacy badger on Android?
That would be a point where I would just never use YouTube again.
aint nobody got time for that
- mute
So I have a conspiracy theory around that. Android used to put the volume slider at the top of the screen. At some point they moved it to the right side, and now blocks the skip button on YouTube. I won’t doubt this was done on purpose, so if you lower the volume for an ad, you will be forced to watch more of it.
That is one nefarious dark pattern.
I don’t use an ad blocker anymore but I do pay for a bunch of services and I always pick ad free. I never see ads really.
If I were to use an ad blocker I would set up a pie hole or similar. I had that before and it worked pretty well but with the server side ads on YouTube you would still see those.
