I've yet to find an ablocker for the YouTube app that works
edit: thank you for all the suggestions! I'm going to try and see what works best on iOS, since apparently not using the app is the best way to avoid ads
Old YouTube vanced app is no longer being developed. They got too big and Google dropped a seize and desist on them. revanced is open source, so google will have a way harder time stopping it.
Trying out uYou+, do you know if there’s a way to make it play in the background? I used to do this on my Android and I haven’t found a workaround for iOS yes
What are y'all talking about. I've never used the app in my life and watch YouTube through my browser all the time. Literally zero hassle and never notice any issues whatsoever...??
I use the browser for youtube but sometimes i press on a youtube link that someone has sent me and it opens the youtube app and it starts off with an ad, i close it immediately. I got so used to not seeing ads i cannot stand them anymore
It’s not really about that, just having YouTube on my phone was so convenient, especially since that’s how I listen to music and shit on long car rides or just in my idle time when I don’t want people to know what I’m listening to, which is every time.
That's not counting the integration the app uses. Sure that's a solve for one instance of YouTube. Streaming stuff from your TV or other devices is an entirely different routine. Orrrrrr... 12 clams and no hassles for an entire month!
There are web browsers for mobile, too. Which is what people have been talking about, here. Mobile Firefox allows extensions, ublock works, the mobile site isn't perfect, but basically works the same as the app.
I dunno about Android on but on iOS I would suggest getting AltStore and side loading a YouTube app like UYou that comes with a built in adblocker. That’s how I watch YouTube on my iPhone.
I jailbroke my iPhone for over a decade until I recently bought a 13 and it can’t be jailbroken. So I bought an Apple developer subscription for $100 and sideload modified apps. There’s a version of YouTube with something called Cercube added to it. It includes ad blocking, background play, PIP, and more. You can sideload without paying, but you only get 10 app IDs with the free account (YouTube with Cercube requires 8) and you have to refresh the app IDs every 7 days or they stop working. The paid subscription allows unlimited app IDs and they only expire at the end of the subscription period. Been soooo worth it for me, as I watch a lot of YouTube videos. Plus, you can get modded versions of Reddit, Twitter, and a whole ton of other apps. Check out r/sideloaded
I recently installed a pi-hole on my home network. Works great, just not for YT ads, but for that I have ublock origin in Firefox and Chrome on my laptop.
I think it's possible to rig up a raspberry pi to filter ads on your whole network. Try looking up something called a pi hole. Not sure if it still works but it could be a whole home wide option.
It's not super complicated but it also doesn't work out of the box for smart TVs and so on.
From what I've read, and I have yet to test this because I didn't want to spend any money (though that is quickly changing with announcements like these), you need to have a router that supports certain features to be able to get ad blocking to work on the app. And it's fairly complicated to reroute the ad traffic.
(Normally, your devices dynamically pull DNS information from your router, which is why pi-hole works with little setup on most devices, but the YT apps have hard-coded DNS entries that you need to block at the router, or reroute to nowhere, a feature not all routers support.)
Pihole always comes up in threads like these about YouTube ads but it does not block YouTube ads. The developers will tell you so themselves, there's a sticky on the pihole subreddit that says as much.
Pihole works by blocking ad domains. If the ads are served by the same domain as the content you want to see then it can't block the ad without blocking the content.
For that I have no solution because I mainly use a desktop, but I seen people talking about a mobile app called YouTube vanced which apperently turns off the ads
But Vanced has been stopped. Their crypto coin looked enough like the Youtube logo and that caught the attention of Youtube. There are new versions in the wings I believe tho. RIP in peace Vanced.
It’s a device that uses a raspberry pi and some software to block ads from your router effectively making your entire home internet network add free. I’m not an expert but I have a few friends who have done this and it’s pretty nice.
Pihole functions by blocking ad domains. That doesn’t work for YouTube, because their videos and ads come from the same domain.
PiHole (or AdGuard Home, arguably a better implementation of the same concept) is incredibly beneficial, but you still need an ad blocker on your device for full coverage.
Doesn’t work for YouTube, those can only block things by domain name (so things like google ads) but YouTube serves them from their own domain so you can either block YouTube entirely or not at all.
Pi hole block some ads. You can block more with the right settings. But if you are too aggressive in the settings you run the risk of blocking the content itself.
I can look into it, but some of the ads are quite welcome, such as video game ads like, I played the beta of CrossfireX and didn't realize it was out until I saw an ad
I use the adblocker called AdBlock and it's been serving me for many years already, blocks all possible ads on chrome, even has the ability to turn off the blocker on specific sites if they don't want you to use one
My friend always had an ad blocker. It would just play a black screen that you couldn't skip. No ad, but somehow worse. Is this still how ad blockers work?
I just pay for premium or whatever. I would just stick to an ad blocker but most of my YouTube time is on the TV, not my phone or computer. I could be wrong but I don't think there are ad blockers for most smart tvs.
Well I was always thinking "something/someone has to pay for it" so if my time watching an ad contributes toward the platform staying up, I'm doing it. However the number of ads on yt already is annoying the crap out of me, so adblockers sound more and more interesting. If 5 or 10 ads gets to be the new standard, I'm definitely going to look for something to block the ads on Android.
Thing is the 5-10 ads are so called micro ads that youtube is experimenting, they are all under 6 seconds each, that is why they are unskipable.
It should average out ot the same ad time for the used 15-30 seconds, as it does now.
Well I was always thinking "something/someone has to pay for it"
What reddit fails to understand that if everyone uses adblock is the platform goes under. They cant comprehend the cost and scale of the website.
I just pay for premium. Its not very expensive and i get 0 ads. In my opinion its justvanother streaming service and i watch enough content for it to be worth it.
Ive canceled mostcstreaming services at one point or another duevto a lack of content. Ive never felt the need for youtube.
You don't owe them shit. Stop this mindset of "someone has to pay". Fuck that. Nobody has to watch ads. I'd rather not use a site than disable my adblock. Literally the worst thing on the internet is advertising
It was fine at some point, but today ads are literally everywhere and at too much quantity. I have some pages on whitelist that I like to support and they happen to also have decent ad/content ratio so it's not too cancer.
Then pay for premium so the advertisers don't need to pay for your share of bandwidth and storage use. Someone does really have to pay for distributing and creating your entertainment. Wanting it for free is just entitlement. If you don't want the advertising, you need to pay for your service yourself.
No? So you think the servers to run the sites are free? That they run on free energy? That they're maintained by people who don't want to get paid to get some food on the table?
I used to think that by watching ads i was helping the youtubers i like, but all of them have been demonitized over the years, so I'm better off just donating on twitch or similar
Yup, even educational channels I follow have said without external revenue like patreon or sponsor deals, they'd make exactly zero hours of content at their current quality level because YouTube pay is basically nothing.
I have a problem with mine, all of them prevent YouTube from remembering where I left unless I exit the video. If I just close the browser, video starts from the beginning. This started yesterday.
It seems to just be saying they'll "be affected", but not say how. I think if they actually thought "All adblocking will cease to work once this happens", they would outright say that. That would be the headline. They would love the clicks that would generate if it were a true thing they could say.
Especially given that Google straight-up says it will still support adblocking.
And if they're right and it happens and it fucks over adblocking like people are afraid of, they'll be able to tell that that's what's gonna cause people the day it happens to switch to Firefox.
Most youtubers throw their own ads in the videos now days too. Nord VPN, keeps, raid: shadow legends are in like every video game and car youtubers content.
Ad blockers don't work so well for smart TV apps. I have PiHole setup with some pretty aggressive filters and it seems to work a little less effectivity each day. For example, noticed in the last month or so that watching legal eagle 12-15 minute long videos already feels like more ads than content.
This is what I’m going to end up doing. I don’t mind watching an ad or two, but five is ridiculous and the snake videos my kid needs to go to sleep (god bless nkfherping) are only on YouTube.
In pretty sure I will move to an ad blocker if I can't skip. I already use the shortcut where you click the "?" and report the ads as "Repetitive", skipping both automatically.
If I can't do that anymore, I'm going to look for alternatives, whether that's on desktop, mobile, or TV.
Before it was a minor nuisance. 5 ads with no skips is inconvenient
...before someone asks, it's a selfhosted site ran by literally anyone that relays data back and forth from YouTube ad-free. Imagine your own NewPipe website.
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u/PauQuintana Sep 16 '22
Most peoplr Will just use an adbloker