on the go I use the mobile app, so many ads and popups its starting to feel like malware.
you always get 2 in a row and each ad is 15 - 30 seconds till you can skip.
And if you cant access your phone to skip the runtime of the ad can be hours!!
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In general any time I’m not behind my pihole I’m amazed at how shit the internet experience is and that people just tolerate it.
If YouTube ever wins the cat and mouse ad block game I’m just gonna quit watching anything hosted there.
Can you block youtube adds with pihole? I thought they were embedded with the video?
No, pihole is just my default layer of defense and it makes browsing general sites on my phone actually possible when I have the need or want to do so. If I’m browsing in like the doctor’s office or whatever it’s a miserable experience.
For YouTube I use Waterfox+uBlock Origin, and that does work for now.
You can also use Firefox and ublock on your phone no?
Newpipe
I do appreciate the advice in threads like this but because we can (for now) evade ads we shouldn’t let it escape our analysis that the profitability margins of big tech are in crisis and they’re “walling off” the internet to sell every second of attention and byte of consumer data. in a way that’s good (rate of profit tends to fall) but the fact the majority of the population is getting locked into closed propaganda-boxes tighter and tighter is going to have a heap of anti social effects.
im just saying when people start shooting up applebees because 1/2 their screentime is ads for them and sports betting we shouldn’t be that surprised
I forget it has ads
Someone showed me a youtube video on their phone the other day and i legit felt like i was in a black mirror episode.
Just use it in a browser with uBlock or install Newpipe
Bad news: NewPipe is dead. Not yet! False alarm.Patching the YouTube apk with Revanced Manager still works on Android.
My newpipe works fine?
Weird! So it does! But this notification in it says it shouldn’t be working. That’s weird, but good
You have to keep it up to date. Occasionally YouTube updates and it messes up all the Foss alternatives for a day or two. Newpipes generally really good at being back to working within a day.
I know. They were pushing this warning for months about end of life
This notice is not related to youtube, it’s a google embrace-extend-extinguish move effecting all sideloaded apps.
why are you browsing without ublock? just install it already damn
iPhone Firefox doesn’t allow it
Use Firefox Focus, it blocks YouTube ads by default. You can also use ublock origin or Wipr 2 with Safari (everything on iOS is Safari under the hood, anyway)
Focus’ blocking breaks occasionally but it’s always been updated quickly to work again!
yoooooooo I didn’t know it worked on YouTube! Used to use focus a lot but never tried it on that. My work day just got so much better thank youI’m so happy I could spread this little trick! It’s the best way I’ve found so far, and you can even play background but it’s janky. Maximize the video, swipe up to go to Homescreen, and pull down your… system tray? From the upper-right. Hit play on the media widget thingy, and if it doesn’t work, retry. Sometimes that’s fussy too, but the important thing to me is not seeing any ads!
I had a good app that that muted and autoskipped ads but youtube changed something and it stopped working half the time last week
Newpipe, pipepipe, tubetube whatever they’re called just use one of those.
You get the free video popup player, and you can close your phone and the video plays in the background. So if its a podcast you can listen.
Two things you should know though. You’re going to need a VPN because you can get IP banned. When you switch to picture in picture mode, or back ground player it reloads the video. When you reload the video like 3 times at different time stamps YouTube thinks that’s bot like and temporarily bans that IP for 3-6 hours.
Also you only see what you’re subscribed to, and that makes YouTube feel slightly depressing when you open it up and don’t see endless new content. You will just adapt to that and feel disgusted whenever YouTube tries to recommend you something in the future.
I really wish the community mental health center would take the hint and install ublock on all the employee computers. They use Youtube a lot!
Chat with them about it. It’s not often something that institutions consider, but having to see ads has a profound negative impact on mental health.
I’m the type that would print out a stack of abstracts from PubMed on the subject but that’s usually not necessary. You just have to talk to whomever is actually in charge of the center.
I have. Stuff with IT departments and all that though.
Firefox mobile with ublock and sponsorblock is a dream. Unless you’re on apple, I guess?
okay im usually pretty tech inclined but im gonna be honest here, I forgot you can watch thru the browser on mobile lmao
I’m something of a Pipepipe guy myself.
On android I use Morphe Manager to patch youtube.
Morphe is great. I wish i could cast, i use grayjay for that. The biggest problem with morph is that i can’t really recommend it to most people, because you have to patch it a lot. Like twice a week sometimes. I don’t really care at all, but i feel like most people somehow ratger eat ads.
Really? I’ve gone at least a month without patching with no issues.
I wanted to like Grayjay but it not being FLOSS kills it for me, also I remember the people behind it being kinda problematic I think
If you are ok watching with a web browser and not the app, just replace youtube.com with inv.nadeko.net in any video’s url.
Or.just use firefox + ublock origin
works on Android phones too!
No reason you can’t do both. I use LibreWolf and uBlock Origin. But replacing a word in a domain is generally simpler than using a new browser and installing a plugin.
Also, if you just use Firefox and uBlock, you’re still having to interface with the awful youtube UI, you’re still getting tracked by youtube-google, and you’re still feeding your preferences into their algorithm. All of that including ads are gone when using a frontend service.
uBlock + libredirect
I’ve been using NouTube recently, and it’s been decent. Allows background play/screen locking and has a built in adblocker. It’s on F-Droid. Just make sure you disable battery optimization for the app on the OS level or it’ll kill it eventually in locked mode.
There’s also just using m.youtube via Firefox with ublock origin, but that won’t give you bg play.
There’s also Newpipe or Pipepipe which has sponsor block integrated as well as regular ad blocking. You can get those via F-Droid as well.
If you switch to a short video during the ad, then switch back to the original video, the ad will be gone. You can do it each time there’s an ad.
Pressing the “Create Post”/“Upload Video” button works too.
I’ve been meaning to add AdBlock to my own recursive DNS setup. Does it really work well with things like YouTube, letting you skip ads like with ublock origin? Or is ublock doing clever things in JS, not just blocking domains?
Yeah ublock blocks js scripts and html elements. DNS level ad block wouldn’t work for youtube specifically, I believe
Thanks for the info!
