• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Exactly that. It has been ages since I have seen YT ad, and this was only due to a YT link I accidentally clicked on my mobile.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          18 hours ago

          You can also patch the Youtube app with Revanced to add sponsorblock, remove ads, and customize the app (block shorts, remove the option for them), etc.

          Or use a third party app like NewPipe.

          • WigglyTortoise@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            15 hours ago

            Does NewPipe still work? Every time I’ve tried to use it for the past couple years videos refuse to play. I’ve moved to ReVanced (it’s also a big plus that it lets you log in to keep your subscriptions and watch history).

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      19 hours ago

      Hate to be this guy, but in theory Youtube would be get aggressive towards both Firefox users(anti competition) and uBlock Origin users( to raise their revenue and to push for YouTube premium).

      I hope uBlock Origin keep working forever, but I think at at some point YouTube will get more aggressive till adblock users will be unable to use Youtube.

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        16 hours ago

        I am absolutely certain at some point they will give us a well encrypted multiple key change per minute mpeg stream At real time bit rates only. I think that’s their final form. It’s also possible they could just run the commercials on 2/3 of the screen while our streams are running.

        Our final form will be to use desktop apps and comm* skip to take the commercials out of the stream or block them on the picture and picture page and host our own preferred viewership on our own media servers for our own consumption. Or maybe a torrenting community springs up around this and YouTube content is now just torrented.

        Edit dictation did me dirty