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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by jeremyjh on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:34AM (#26329672)
uBlock Origin extension (and I'm sure others) in chrome blocks all youtube ads. I am always dismayed when I see ads in the YT mobile app, which I don't use often because I haven't seen them on desktop in years.
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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by dividedbyzero on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:49AM (#26329932)
I guess mobile is where most people use Youtube (by a very, very generous margin, too); for me, it's on an Apple TV, which also can't run adblockers. On mobile, even with DNS-based blocking, I wasn't able to block Youtube ads in the iOS app.
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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by jeremyjh on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:37AM (#26330765)
Ah, thats a bummer. I'd thought about trying out Pi-hole to block ads on our mobile devices and smart TV.
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