I am for sure one of the smaller number of people doing this, but I watch YouTube on my TV using the TV app. As a result I always had to watch ads. I wish I could avoid them. I suppose a could watch from an alternative and then AirPlay it to my TV, but that’s about it.
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If you had an android device you'd be allowed to install an alternative YouTube app.
User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me
Problem is, it shows the internet that there id a higher share of chromium browsers.
Which is bad.
I remember when they first put ads in and people rebelled. Frogs in a pot because it's not like any of you will actually use peertube
I feel its slowing down Smarttube too, because I have to wait a few seconds for the video to start now. I don't know if it's a bug
Can someone create (or does it already exist?) an app that plays the videos in the background, remove the ads and then let you playback the whole video ad-free? Sort of like you did back in the VHS-days....
Try opening a link from Gmail in Firefox or searching Google for a specific piece of information. SSDD. Fuck Google. At this point they're in par with the evil Amazon.