YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 unskippable ads

Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by Nas808 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:06PM (#32859629)

That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by db48x on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:15PM (#32859707)

I don’t have much sympathy. When you bought those you gave up your ability to run your own software on them. That’s really why they sell them.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by impulser_ on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:18PM (#32859743)

You could just buy YouTube premium.

Cancel Spotify, buy YouTube premium. Get both ad free videos and music on the same platform.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by UpstandingUser on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:32PM (#32860916)

Or I could rip my legally purchased* CDs and give the finger to the leeches and rent seekers that fuck us almost as hard as they do the artists. Yes I support corporate genocide.

* lol

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by colinmhayes on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:15PM (#32868282)

youtube premium is not a spotify replacement. Youtube is in no way built to be a music playback app.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by themelodyfarm on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:46AM (#32876730)

“music playback app”?

YouTube is at least as good as the vinyl record player. It is also the sole location for countless live audio/video recordings of musical performance. It works fine as a “music playback app” and is, to emphasize, an _awesome_ and convenient resource of live music performance.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by Crash0v3rid3 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:46AM (#32877933)

That's why every YouTube premium subscription includes YouTube music which is a decent Spotify replacement.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by timbit42 on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:42AM (#32865935)

On Android you can use Firefox with Ublock Origin. I wish SponsorBlock was available though.

The NewPipe Android app is another option and there is a fork that includes SponsorBlock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by AdamJacobMuller on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:48PM (#32861481)

https://smarttubenext.com/ on Android TV (I use an nvidia shield) works great.

In-video youtube sponsors were some of the last advertising I was exposed to. Glad to be rid of them.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by vgeek on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:29PM (#32859853)

Pihole with ad blocking or an OpenWRT (or really any router) router with ad blocking DNS is an alternative.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by Nas808 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:33PM (#32859894)

The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by vgeek on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:36PM (#32859926)

Can they evade uBo, too? I had a stretch where I was getting them in FF with uBo & Privacy badger, even after updating all rules, but then they started being blocked again on their own.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by colinmhayes on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:17PM (#32868306)

iOS can do DNS adblocking natively. https://adguard.com/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html Doesn't work for youtube because they're serving the ads first party.

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by christophilus on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:35PM (#32859914)

> YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS

Not for me. (Typed from iOS + Brave.)

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Re:YouTube ads appear to be ramping up, with as many as 10 u... by Snuupy on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:13PM (#32859689)

smarttubenext for Google TV

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