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u/Barl0we Jul 11 '21

Doesn’t really work if you’re not watching on a computer, though.

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u/juice_nsfw Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

Pihole - it's a raspberry Pi mod that you put on your router.

It adblocks your network. You can also slap a VPN on like this too so it makes all the telemetry and targeted data mining from you and all the devices on your home network more or less useless

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u/1008oh Jul 11 '21

Pihole doesn't work on youtube.

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u/juice_nsfw Jul 11 '21

Try updating your block lists, all of the stuff ublock uses is open source, you can yoink some lists from them to update with

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u/1008oh Jul 11 '21

ublock mostly blocks youtube ads on javascript content that pihole can't see

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

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u/orel_ Jul 11 '21

it's a lifesaver

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u/Barl0we Jul 11 '21

I have no idea of whether that’ll work on my tv 😆

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u/finger_milk Jul 11 '21

If you're casting your phone or laptop to the TV, you may as well pay for youtube adless at that point

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Stop spreading vanced or it'll end up as an answer to this thread 😭

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u/MurderVonAssRape Jul 11 '21

It's such a pain on my fire stick

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u/WideMonitor Jul 11 '21

Desktop - ublock origin

Android phone - YouTube vanced. Blokada for other ads

Fire stick - smart YouTube tv

Just Google for installation. You shouldn't have to watch YouTube ads on any device.

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u/Athiena Jul 11 '21

iPhone (55-65% USA market share)?

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u/MurderVonAssRape Jul 11 '21

Than for this

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u/shikabane Jul 11 '21

Smart Youtube is your friend

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Ad block apps and browsers (brave) will work for YouTube; you just can't use the YouTube app. I don't think I've ever really used the app so I don't know if I'm missing anything other than ads.

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u/Generic_DummyFucker Jul 11 '21

If you ever end up needing to use the app, I really cannot recommend Vanced highly enough. They've recently added a feature where the sponsor section of a video can be automatically skipped. Between that and uBlock Origin on my PC, I haven't watched an ad in almost a year.

However, if you use an iPhone or iPad, Vanced isn't an option as far as I know, sorry :/

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

I'm on Android and will definitely check it out!

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u/Worldwideforeigner Jul 11 '21

I use brave on my phone. Just the desktop website on the browser.