Me when ublock origin
If you’re getting ads on videos, you need to get you shit together and install uBlock Origin asap.
How well does it work? On my iPad, Safari Adguard can only black out ad content. (Screen is black during ad, and it displays how many seconds of ad is left)
Maybe try out Orion Browser. It has built-in ad-blocking and reliably gets rid of YouTube ads.
Too add to this, it also supports Firefox extensions, so you can use ublock origin as well as sponsor block for a better experience.
Thanks a lot, will try!!
iPad = Vinegar and Baking Sofa extensions. Get Wipr for the rest of the web while you’re at it!
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Or suck it up and pay for the service if you can afford it.
uBlock Origin doesn’t accept donations. That’s the only product in this conversation worth supporting.
Nebula is a streaming service created by creators as an alternative to YouTube and is absolutely worth supporting. We’re not just talking about products here, we’re talking about the creators that make those products viable.
Wish you could block ads from embedded youtube videos in Discord.
I believe Vencord can do it
I just copy and paste the link into my browser. Lets me make use of sponsorblock that way.
This has never happened to me because I’ve been blocking ads for the last 15 years.
My favorite experience in this regard was watching YouTube on xbox (i know, i know)… They played a 40 minute redbull “ad” on a five minute video. In what sane world should ads be 8 fucking times longer than the content?!?!1?
Why would they even make a 40 min long ad for Redbull?
It was just a documentary that was shoved into an ad space. Something about their aerial stunts/races. Dunno. I got like, five seconds into it because FUCK THAT SHIT.
I never use youtube anymore.
Laying in bed bored = netflix
Up and motivated = steam or work
News = Reddthat
Tutorials = text-based articles, no unindexed untranscribed videos that start with the words “hey guys welcome back”
I had a similar experience on my YouTube TV app, I was watching old history channels in bed, and there was a full length documentary for an “ad”. I could have skipped after 15 seconds or whatever, but I had to INTERACT with the TV before it would resume. I was distracted so it ended up playing like 15 minutes of an hour+ documentary ad.
uBlock or ReVanced
Tubular also works pretty well
i find using freetube keeps Ernie calm.
I wish using freetube kept Ernie calm, but it just doesn’t work half the time. Invidious has the same issue. Which is significantly more annoying than just using YT, which Ernie has uBlock Origin for.
I do update freetube about 1 time a week these days (which is approaching the annoyance level of ads).
I used to have a lot more issues with it when I didn’t update so frequently - or maybe that was just a different stage in the arms race; I’m sure the reliability will vary, and eventually the developer of freetube will give up.
I mean, I wont be throwing out the bat or anything crazy like that.
Or when the skip button appears but only skips to the next ad
People who complain about ads on the internet are such a weird concept.
Why experience ads if you don’t want to?
Because ads don’t ask for your consent.
And you have the agency and ability to either pay for the service or investigate other means of avoiding them. Complaining about them is just annoying.
Ads are a bit mind-rapey
Sure they do, I’ve revoked my consent by installing an adblocker I haven’t watched a video ad in probably 8 years.
but why not say no
Is blocking ads considered a hate crime now?
So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.
You lot are as original and creative as the numpties making comments about the size of the pilot’s balls on aviation videos.
The one that worked in a pun was alright. This is the fediverse crowd though, this is very on-brand.
Nah, not enough Trek.
Oh, this is exactly what I expected. Perhaps not 100% ad blockers, but I was expecting most of them to be like that.
This is a post about unnecessary rage that absolutely noone has to deal with because everyone should use ad blockers. OP may or may not know, but the post suggests the later. I dont see how it is ‘unoriginal’ to comment about ad blockersin that case…
So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.
The fact that almost everyone is saying the same thing is pretty much the definition of unoriginal.
It just shows what the focus lies on. A post full of comments recommending adblockers has far more impact than a single comment making the post seem dead.
Youre technically right that it is unoriginal, but I dont see how originality would matter at all in this case.
You get ads?
Shut your Pi-hole! My daddy had ads on the TV, and his dad had ads on the radio, and his dad had ads in the paper! I proudly allow ads and tracking!
I wish there was a way on Pi-hole to block those ads on TV yt
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Ernie no!!
The wealthy aren’t a protected class, it’s not a hate crime.
Like hell they aren’t. They’re the most protected class.
