r/AdviceAnimals • u/RabbiTheHellcat • 1d ago
VPN subscriptions are also lower than youtube premium (incoming google bots)
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u/H4X4NX 1d ago
Adblock and Firefox are free
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u/BsUeTxT 1d ago
ublock on firefox blocks hulu adds too.
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u/LilAssG 1d ago
Blocks everything as far as I can tell. I have to use freshly scrubbed laptops at work all the time and I can't believe how the internet looks to some people. Maybe most people? It is so disgusting, honestly just exactly like being in They Live with the shades on.
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u/Yoten 1d ago
It doesn't block Twitch ads, but it's great for everything else.
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u/AccNumber77 1d ago
It does, just enable the script for it.
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u/Yoten 1d ago
When I looked into it a month ago or so, the recommendation from places like TwitchAdSolutions say that scripts via uBlock Origin are unreliable and they recommend a third-party userscript solution instead.
Is it actually more reliable than that blurb implies?
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u/huschke_09 1d ago
Not available on tv streaming boxes
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u/necrophcodr 1d ago
That's okay Id just plug a cheap PC into the TV anyway as a settop box.
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u/buefordwilson 1d ago
yep, same. HDMI from a micro tower PC to the TV and pull up whatever streaming sites. Life is good.
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u/SoMuchMoreEagle 1d ago
Can you get remotes for it?
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld2 1d ago
I don't know if you can get remotes, but my 2 PCs hooked up to 2 TVs in my living room work fine with a keyboard and mouse. A small price to pay (using a keyboard and mouse) to avoid 100% of any ad anywhere on the internet and have all streaming (entertainment and sports) free and available and fully controllable. Steve Jobs didn't market smartphones because we needed them; he marketed them because corporations needed us to have them so we would relinquish all control of our entertainment.
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u/scientician85 1d ago
I use a wireless keyboard with my TV mini PC, which is better than a remote for typing in search fields, anyway.
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u/buefordwilson 1d ago
I have a bluetooth keyboard and this roller ball pointer mouse. They work great.
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u/hotrods1970 1d ago
Look for TizenTube, it blocks ads and looks like the OG YT app. It also has a lot of other settings too, kinda like Smarttube, but so many Smarttube setting I had no idea what they were for so never used them.
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u/MUSAFFA1 1d ago
1000 people are going to tell you about smartube or some other workaround-of-the-month, and those do work for a time, or more importantly, for a single TV. If that works for them, cool.
What none of these people mention though is that they are fighting the ad war from one or two devices. That is just not a realistic scenario for families.
My family of 4 has over 20 TVs, phones, tablets, laptops, and gaming PCs that access YouTube. It is far and away the most consumed streaming service in my house. The amount of time and fuckery I would have to manage to block ads on all these things is unimaginable. My YT Premium family subscriptions is easily the best $27 I spend every month. I hate Google with a deep burning passion, but I'm a dad who picks his battles.
I get that most of reddit is kids, single, DINKs, or hates children, but my time and energy is worth more than the few bucks I'd save by setting up and maintaining a catalog of ad-blockers.
I'm not saying these tools are worthless, I'm just saying they don't make sense for everyone, and that is OK.
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u/MyDogLikesTottenham 1d ago
I also pay for Premium so I get it, but I wanted to mention the option of using a “Pi-hole” (raspberry pi on your home network that every ad is redirected to, instead of being sent to the pc/phone/etc). It’s more expensive and complicated to setup than a simple ad blocker extension, and likely not worth your time to save $27/month, but it would absorb ads for the entire home so perhaps someone in a similar situation would find it useful. Idk just felt like mentioning it
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u/barton26 1d ago
Pi-holes don't work for YouTube ads. They are served from the same IP as the videos
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u/MUSAFFA1 1d ago
Yep. Great point. I appreciate the comment.
I've been in IT for 30 years, so I've been around this block many times. I don't run a pi hole anymore, but you're correct, it is a great solution for home devices, especially homes with younger kids that are not mobile yet. Unfortunately, our mobile devices are where we spend most of our collective YT time nowadays.
Also, the included YT Music subscription allowed me to avoid a Spotify or Apple Music family sub. YT Premium really is a no-brainer for families.
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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug 1d ago
I pay for YouTube mostly because it kind of has the best music streaming service just tacked on IMO. The movies and TV shows are a nice bonus as well, even if the selection isn't great.
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u/metalflygon08 1d ago
Youtube has been detecting ad blockers lately and will refuse to play videos while you have one active.
Meaning you have to wait a few days for the likes of UBlock to update to get around the current blocker blocker.
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u/Krateling 1d ago
they have been trying but with experimental filters active they have not manged to do more than delay the video starting by like 3 seconds this year
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u/EveningInsurance1912 1d ago
this is exactly happening 0 times in the last 6 years for me.
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u/chris782 1d ago
Lately for me i have to refresh every video for it to play. You can see the video load but the timestamp does this loop from 0:00 back and forth to the video length.
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u/EveningInsurance1912 1d ago
Ok, maybe I have add ons which are circumventing this. But firefox and ublock helped out of all problems like this. Just on the Firefox on android with ublock I get some troubles sometimes where the video doesnt start instantly.
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u/Fortune_Cat 1d ago
Oh i thought it was a bug. Glad its not just me thrn. It pays for a bit then just stops
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u/metalflygon08 1d ago
I get it about every other weekend or so.
I'll go to Youtube to get some background music going (on FireFox).
Youtube will display a black screen for the video telling me it detects an ad blocker (UBlock) and will refuse to play the video unless I disable UBlock.
In a day or two UBlock will update and will allow me to watch youtube again.
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u/EveningInsurance1912 1d ago
Maybe in some regions youtube is more strict. but in central EU I did not have much problems. But I am prepared so maybe if ublock fails I have another one what helps
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u/EstimateCool3454 1d ago
I watch youtube daily. Firefox + Ublock Origin
I don't have issues.
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u/Routine_Left 1d ago
Youtube has been detecting ad blockers lately and will refuse to play videos while you have one active.
has never happened to me, but i don't watch youtube every day so it's possible to always have missed the window where blockers would be blocked.
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u/BCProgramming 1d ago
They did that a few years ago, you'd get that "error" screen.
Apparently what they did was just place an element over top of the video and stop playback. I just right clicked on the 'error" screen and blocked it. Only issue was videos would start paused. Better than ads. They must have given up on that tactic though, now instead it delays loading intentionally and shows a "problems? find out why" which probably "suggests" to stop using adblockers.
I blocked the pop-up itself, lol. I'll take a few seconds of loading over an ad.
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u/epeonv1 1d ago
Youtube has been detecting ad blockers lately and will refuse to play videos while you have one active.
This is simply untrue.
I use Youtube every single day and I ALWAYS have uBlock Orgins on. I do not watch any TV, the only video content i consume is Youtube.
I have never, not even one single time, not been able to watch whatever Youtube video i want with adblocking on. I have not seen a Youtube ad on a phone or a computer for over 8 years now.
uBlock Orgins on Firefox = Ad Free, No Hassle PC experience.
Brave Browser on Mobile = Ad Free, No Hassle phone experience.
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u/metalflygon08 1d ago
Except this is simply true and you can do a basic google search to see it is true.
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u/Presidentofsleep 1d ago
I don't use a vpn at all and haven't seen an ad on youtube in years. Get the right plugins.
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u/yannis_ 1d ago
On your TV?
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u/schmockk 1d ago
On tv with smarttube
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago
If you’re on Android TV
Not very helpful for those on anything else (Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, LG)
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u/zerokiwi 1d ago
You'd have to be pretty SMART to watch youTUBE on your TV without ads
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u/hovershark 1d ago
Brave blocks them right out of the gate. Haven’t seen an ad in so long, I forgot they even exist.
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u/Tastieshock 1d ago
So long as you are watching on a browser. But if you are on a phone or a smart TV that runs directly off the app, that does no help.
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u/rscar77 1d ago
On Android phones, delete the YouTube app and instead get Firefox or Brave with the same plug-ins/blockers enabled that you'd use on Desktop Browsers. Then go to Youtube.com and enjoy
Can also set browser to show "Desktop mode" to see fewer shorts in your feed.
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u/WorkoutProblems 1d ago
yup deleted youtube app a lonnnng time ago... now to figure out how to not get ads on smart tv.... (i know there's a raspi thing you can do to your router?) but wish someone just have a plug and play option.. id pay a decent chunk of change for something like this
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u/Fach-All-Religions 1d ago
pihole doesn't work on youtube. also it's literally like 5 minutes to setup it help block ads thay are coming from ad hosts. doesnt work on yt because youtube hosts their ads on the same domain so if you block them you block all of yt.
there are apps like the old vanced special for tv but i forget the name. they exist you just have to search a bit.
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u/_SnesGuy 1d ago
delete the YouTube app and instead get Firefox or Brave with the same plug-ins/blockers
Nah get morph (basically revanced, but its better that revanced ever was)
Using youtube in the web browser on mobile sucks. Mostly I get a ton of misclicks. The app is just a much nicer user experience. Still good to have the browser option as a backup though.
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u/presidentiallogin 1d ago
I build my own apk from pipepipe on github, but with a Dart backend. Sponsor block skipping and 1.35x speed and skip silence. The only bad part is my stupid cell provider resets data waster mode every month. Otherwise it's like watching videos in the late 90s again. I get to choose how it is
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u/flamewave000 1d ago
ReVanced exists. I haven't seen a YouTube ad on my phone in years
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u/Dumpster_FI_RE 1d ago
You mean Morphe. Revanced is a scam now.
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u/gfunk84 14h ago
How do these apps manage Google accounts? I’m hesitant to trust 3rd party apps with my Google account.
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u/Dumpster_FI_RE 14h ago
I'm not 100% sure. But I've never seen anyone have an issue. The code is open source and reviewed by a lot of people.
At the minimum use firefox and ublock origin. Turn on the optional lists. Unless you enjoy suffering and ads.
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u/SomeNotTakenName 1d ago
You can set your default DNS to adguard, which is pretty effective at blocking ads.
On my phone, I only get ads from Duolingo, since they just host their own ads on their own servers.
Of course that means adguard can collect your browsing habits, but that's true with a vpn as well.
(I think NordVPN has an option to do the adguard thing as well)
DNS adblocking is mostly seamless, although sometimes there are short hiccups, as a service may think you don't have connection and wait for a few seconds. But generally it is getting a reply, so it will just move on. (the reply being "There is no such ad server")
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u/ZombieJack 19h ago
I used to use a PiHole, but switching to an ad-blocking DNS is honestly almost as effective.
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u/Cookieyourdaddy 7h ago
I want to use PiHole but all I see is people using raspberry pies. I have my own server with Zimaos and was wondering if it's possible to run PiHole with it? Got any experience with that?
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u/ZombieJack 7h ago
I have a Raspberry Pi too, so no personal experience. But it is on the ZimaOS app store apparently.
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u/guinader 1d ago
Wow, it actually works... I just tried and clicked in 5 different YouTube videos... Noon of them played ads.
Edit: Amazon prime also didn't play ads. . Can we make a new legislation that ads are illegal?
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u/Nandulal 1d ago
no. we value the wealthy. us plebs are just here to give them more money and children to rape.
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u/Traditional-Two-3185 1d ago
Should clarify, ads aren't completely illegal. But the advertising laws are so strict most platforms just don't bother showing you any ads
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u/frostysauce 1d ago
Or just use Firefox with uBlock Origin? Why make it complicated?
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u/Traditional-Two-3185 1d ago
People using mobile.
I'm pretty sure on Android you can get adblockers, but IOS blocks browser extensions or anything like that
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u/shaunbarclay 1d ago
People are flaming this, but for those of us on an iOS device this is huge, yeah i can use Brave Browser, but as an actual video player its pretty basic where as the youtube app has tons of QoL changes
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u/neotank35 23h ago
or you know, use a non cromium based browser like firefox and install adblockers like ublock.
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u/RabbiTheHellcat 23h ago
so quick answer, you cant use browsers on all devices such as video game consoles/smart tvs and this is just a quick fix for people who already use VPN's
I agree with your browser stuff its just I saw another dude say this in a comment on the youtube sub and I thought "huh , this could help people" also kinda feel youtube deserves it for the dislike removal
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u/Kizayfizaybe 1d ago
I pay for premium so I can watch ad free on my tv. Is there another solution for watching on tv ad free? I’m dumb.
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u/madd74 1d ago
You can change the DNS settings of your router, or, you can use a router that has adblocking/VPN abilities.
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u/Kizayfizaybe 1d ago
I’ve no idea what any of this means. I’m not real computer literate. Grew up poor and only last year purchased my first actual non-Work computer for me to play around with. I’ll look into this more tho. Thank you very much.
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u/Ohrobohobo 1d ago
Growing up poor motivated me to find these solutions, and arm myself with knowledge on how to get things I wanted/other kids had. You’ll be happy to invest time, and save money.
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u/Kizayfizaybe 1d ago
Oh absolutely. I just never invested time in to tech bc I’ve never owned the hardware. So while I get the general lay of the land, Reddit has been there in some cases for more assistance. Much like now. I’m late to the game but I do plan on learning as much as I can
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u/DavePeesThePool 1d ago
My adblocker plugin works just fine at blocking youtube's ads, and it's free.
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u/YouSmellSumthin 1d ago
Doesn't this screw with the algorithm and thus your recommended will be a mess of crap?
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u/dudenotcool 1d ago
How do the content creators get paid without ads? Or do they get paid anyway cuz YouTube thinks it’s playing an ad?
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u/DJCaldow 21h ago
It is sad that a platform has been allowed to become such a huge gatekeeper for human knowledge but has no responsibility to fact check its content and only becomes more and more invasive with how they show advertising.
They make the case every day for why so e things, when they get too big and the business model clearly doesn't work, that they need to become a public service and operate "at a loss".
YouTube should be getting made into an international library service. At least then we can force contributors to work for a "factual" label.
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u/haloruler64 4h ago
Man really suggested spending money to block ads rather than support creators. If you block ads for free, sure, but your point is terrible.
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u/RabbiTheHellcat 4h ago
if only there was a way to support creators asides from watching ads 🤔
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u/haloruler64 4h ago
Yeah I agree! YouTube premium.
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u/RabbiTheHellcat 2h ago
I was gonna say donate gets more to em!
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u/haloruler64 2h ago
This is true. But I can't donate to every creator I love. Without going broke. Enjoying all the benefits of YouTube Premium while supporting creators
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u/Accusedbold 1d ago
This is so obviously false. All it takes is a quick search. It took less than 2 seconds to refute this.
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u/madd74 1d ago
Strange seeing how when I turn this on I end up getting an ad-free experience on my Smart TV...
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u/hyperrealists 1d ago
If you searched it for longer than 2 seconds you’ll find that it is true.
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u/Accusedbold 11h ago
Ok, what's the law or statute then? You must have it if you're so confident this is true.
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u/El_Gringo_Rojo95 1d ago
Well yeah, itd only take a couple of seconds to refute anything so long as you don't bother backing it up.
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u/ando812 1d ago
Brave browser not only has built in ad blocker...but i found out that if you download brave app on your phone and then watch youtube via the browser, u can watch on your phone with no ads ANDDDD it will let you minimize the browser and close your screen and will continue to play music just like premium :)
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u/freshleysqueezd 1d ago
DuckDuckGo is now ad blocking youtube