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A comment on Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?.

Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by iconjack on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:33PM (#24820431)
Youtube Premium for $10/month. No ads to break your focus.
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by zuhsetaqi on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:38PM (#24820472)
Or just use uBlock origin which is free
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by scpedicini on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:01PM (#24821100)
Every time YouTube premium comes up, somebody mentions ublock origin failing to realize that a lot of people use devices other than a personal computer to watch videos (chrome cast, smart tv, phone, etc).
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by tasnent on Sunday October 18, 2020 @09:30PM (#24822621)
You could also set up something like Pi-Hole.
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by ornornor on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:12AM (#24877320)
Doesn’t work with the YT ads. Their apps bypass your dns and you can’t tell the ad traffic apart to block it. uBO only works well in the browser.

Pro tip: compare prices for online services across countries. Netflix, YT, etc are 1/10th of the price in places like Argentina, turkey, etc. And the savings are just one vpn connection away to signup (you don’t usually need a vpn afterwards to use it)

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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by dimatter on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:25AM (#24824943)
doesn't work well on youtube ads
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by xiphias2 on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:46PM (#24820517)
It probably doesn't work on the youtube app for iPad Pro / my Android phone, so I also payed for it.

And sure, it feels bad that there are lots of in-video advertisements, but I deal with it

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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by MaxikCZ on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:06AM (#24823696)
NewPipe or Youtube Vanced for android.

Last time I saw an ad on youtube was months ago on someone elses device.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by alpaca128 on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:37PM (#24820458)
An ad-blocker does the same for free. And both methods don't get rid of sponsor ads within the video.
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by shric on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:07PM (#24821140)
The extension "SponsorBlock" works well for desktop browsers, it accepts user contributed segments to cut out sponsorships.
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Re:Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved yo... by benhurmarcel on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:05AM (#24825555)
It's $12, not 10.
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