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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto

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YouTube is testing a series of new unskippable 30-second ads that will appear far more often for viewers.
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  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I haven’t seen an ad on Youtube in several years, thanks to uBlock Origin.

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      Same, also revanced on Android

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        Ssshhh…

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        I was using libre tube for a while and that broke.

        What’s the best link for revanced?

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          You have to patch it yourself, sorry.

          Youtube APK: https://www.apkmirror.com/wp-content/themes/APKMirror/download.php?id=8859989&key=ed463ff40f33fca91601472e78686e6bd92bf430&forcebaseapk=true (Download this)

          ReVanced Manager: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases/download/v1.24.0/revanced-manager-1.24.0.apk (Patch the Youtube APK with this)

        • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Best link is to look up the Reddit page to find their links in the info bar. We shouldn’t be posting links here, or we might very well lose the privilege once Google catches on…

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      I find funny, that after watching YouTube for not over an hour, my ublock icon already says >1k

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      Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me.

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        I’ve been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It’s a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer

        • adarza@lemmy.ca
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          there is mv3 version of ubo here:
          https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

          dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.

          adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.

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            “Not as well as uBlock Origin” is the answer to that.

            I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox.

            I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn’t work well last time I tried.

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              Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won’t be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox.

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          Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn’t discover uBO til later.

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      I have seen 2 ads on Youtube in several years because Youtube revanced ad blocking didnt work twice

    • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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      Browsing YouTube like the good old dayz

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    Hmmm maybe I’ll just learn to read finally.

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      The neurolinks will patch that loophole soon.

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        “Please keep focused for this brief ad from our sponsor, your information handling session will resume shortly”

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      I’ve been meaning to check out this “nature” thing, or whatever it’s called. It’s basically like, just lakes and woods and the sky and all kinda weird shit like that. Supposed to be pretty cool I guess, idk

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        I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it’s probably not worth it.

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        You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯

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      Sorry, pardon?

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        Try it!

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          💪🤓

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      Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet

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    I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.

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      Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.

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        Just like lemmy, yet here we are. Sometimes we need to waste some time.

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          It’s actually very important to “waste” some time. You can’t be 100% productivity. It’s unhealthy.

          But youtube is actually set up to act as an algorythmic addiction.

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      ☝️ And it works, I can confirm.

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    Ublock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.

    Edit: Mispelling, fuck autocorrection

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      And ReVanced on Android, SmartTubeNext on Android TV.

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        I think it’s back to just SmartTube. SmartTubeNext was a temporary thing to get SmartTube back on track iirc.

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          I am fairly certain SmartTubeNext was a rebrand by the same dev.

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        I like Tubular and/or Seal(a yt-dlp wrapper) on Android and don’t use a TV, but yeah, anything but the actual YouTube app is probably better.

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      How do you unlock origin? I have been blocking it thinking it caused the ads

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        It’s a typo, they mean the ad blocking software uBlock Origin.

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          • gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org
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            I guess I need someone to explain it to me, because they even fixed their typo.

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          I am already blocking origin, i was asking how i unlock it

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            Ask ChatGPT and get back to us with the answer.

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    Youtube has ads?

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      Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!

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        Blocking ads isn’t a crime .

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    NewPipe is my friend

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      The enemy of my Youtube blocker is my enemy

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      I’m using a 3,5 months old version of PipePipe than magically somehow still works 😀

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        The latest version works fine.

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      yup newpipe all the way adblocker by pihole no ads on my network 🤩

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    uBlock Origin intensifies

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      They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.

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        There’s some A/B testing going on, for sure. My ublock origin on Firefox has never had issues

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    FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!

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      Smarttube on Android TV OS

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      Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.

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        I would disagree, you’re still directly communicating with YouTube servers without a proxy in-between. Invidious or Piped are the proxies you need, they let you blend in with the other users of their services making data-collection on YouTube’s part difficult.

        We need to make feeding the algorithm as difficult as possible.

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      SmartTube on streaming devices!

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      Grayjay on desktop

      Grayjay on Android

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    I have yet to see my first ad on any youtube video.

    🤷 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

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      I’m around long enough to have seen them, before blockers were a thing.

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.com
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    This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand

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    That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.

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      You weren’t blocking ads before?

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        Ive been blocking youtube ads for like a year now. But when it was like one or two minutes every 10-20 I didn’t mind watching on an app that didn’t have ad block. It got worse and I got fed up.

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        Not the previous commenter but on mobile, a good few years ago I didnt block ads i didnt mind something skippable or a short interruption but they were just that very short and not in the way. I started going out of my way to block ads when they abused it

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    Anyone not blocking ads on YouTube needs to start blocking ads and sponsored content on YouTube.

    https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube

    https://sponsor.ajay.app/

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    I watch youtube on a smart TV where I don’t have a way to skip ads. I know there are ways to do it, I just never implemented.

    The experience with Youtube is getting so much worse. It used to be one ad at the start of the video. Then it was two. And now ads in the middle of the video. They are also so long! It completely breaks the narrative of the video and is so distracting.

    All of this just makes me want to watch less Youtube, which is likely not a bad thing.

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      I hope I can be the motivation you need with these super simple steps (will take a few minutes).

      https://smarttubenext.com/android-tv-box/

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        Have they made anything like this for Roku yet?

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          I think playlet is what I used on roku. Not as nice as smarttube as you can’t log in I don’t think, but you can still subscribe and stuff, just doesn’t transfer between devices. Personally didn’t really use it, just set up for my wife.

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          I havent tried it yet but i think you cab rub a pihole and use that to fikter at the source

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            Nah, YouTube serves ads on the same domain as the videos, so DNS filtering is out.

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      if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube

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      When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a “why am I seeing this ad” page which you can then click ok on then click on don’t watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn’t work if you’re casting a video from a phone, and it doesn’t work on some channels.

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        I did not know this, and I love it! Thanks for sharing!!!

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        That stipped working. Now the option it gives you is to block the ad going forward after it finishes

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          Oh that’s sad, it worked the last time I tried it but that was a few months ago.

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      Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.

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        This is the most baffling feature ever. Why would anyone want to have titles translated? The video itself is not going to be translated! I guess it’s because of these auto subtitles that are simply not that reliable nor do they make for a good viwing experience if you really don’t know the language.

        Even Youtube’s algorithm already doesn’t suggest videos from languages in which you don’t search in! My youtube shows me stuff only in the languages I usually google with.

        And the ads with this ai voice… Damn they are weird.

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      on the rare case that i watch YouTube on tv, if it’s at the beginning, i just quit the video and restart over and over again until i see a 5 sec skip. sometimes it takes longer than the ads would’ve taken but I’d rather do that than take it on the chin to be honest. I’m also hoping others do it too so maybe they get some telemetry data.

      and if it’s in the middle of the video i just quit. if it’s important enough i can just watch it on my phone or PC without ads.

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      You could see if an adblock dns works, you dont even have to set up pihole for that (its just local hosted adblock/whattheheckyouwant dns).
      If it makes problems you can set it to default or cloudflare or something

      Setting another dns is in most cases just going to the settings and pasting a link

      Edit: if you set the dns in your router it works at all devices at home

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        DNS blocking doesn’t work on YouTube ads because they’re served by the same domain of videos.

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      I’m in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don’t think there are any options for ad blocking.

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    Again YouTube ads? What the hell are you people talking about?

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      Mfers act like forgot about revanced.

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    I’m still self hosting Invidious… Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube…

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      You can even access your instance with playlet on roku https://github.com/iBicha/playlet

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      Link? Or just Google it?

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        https://docs.invidious.io/installation/

        The docker section there is what I used.

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