You guys get ads ?
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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to the people who read stuff on /c/technology, likely not.
No, why would we? Americans maybe? They love ads, apparently...
American here, I hate ads and haven't seen any on YouTube for years. Well, other than movie trailers and stuff I chose to watch intentionally.
laughs in uBlock Origin
Well currently they're delaying the video start by the time it would have taken the ad to play. It's still better than having to actually watch ads, but blockers are not in the best position right now.
That’s what they say but not what I’m experiencing. Either way, blank screen is better than ads
Actually, YouTube is cracking down on adblockers.
So while you might not feel the pain now, you will eventually.
They’ve been “cracking down on adblockers” for over a decade
Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I'll just waste my time elsewhere.
Same, I low key hope they do it so I'll read more. This might be the only way. 🙃
real maybe I'll actually go through the mountains of DVDs and blu rays in our apartment
When it reaches that point I'll stop watching YouTube. I will never feel the pain they inflict.
There's always a workaround..
Firefox + uBlock Origin has worked well for years.
+1 combo. privacy badger, ublock origin and umatrix for fine tuning. also a youtube specific addon. seems okay
What's a YouTube specific add on?
then theres this yt related thing. don't think it does much
Laughs in
Txt file with favorite channels as input for a yt-dlp download script schedule. Combined with a selfhosted invidious and freetube desktop app for other then favorite videos.
Honestly I am really tired of jumping trough hoops, have to make sure yt-dlp and invidious use a proxy (cloudflare warp) or google will ban your ip for being a bot.
But having to deal with the actual YouTube site or reopening my google account is worse. Its not even (but still also) the ads at this point but pure resentment against big tech.
You got that script handy?
I wont be home till quite a few hours.
But also its general boilerplate enough an ai can help you get you one according to your own preferences.
There are also a number of examples online.
This one looks pretty interesting https://github.com/panchi64/auto-ytdlp
Cracking down just means I don't watch the content, still not getting ads.
I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can't find a workaround, then I'll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it's just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they'll leave.
On your TV?
I mean there are ways, like pihole, but I like the simple option of a really long hdmi cable that I use to plug my computer into the TV, so I never have to use any of the shitty built in TV apps.
Edit: not pihole, apparently.
pihole hasn't worked for years to block youtube ads, no?
Honestly, I've not used it, I just know of it. From a quick search it looks like you're right tho, you'd probably need to use an external device like an android box or something.
I would love to run a long hdmi cable from my pc to my tv, but I have rabbits and they like the spicy hay
Oh no, I feel that, we had an orange kitty who adored his electric spaghetti! We had to run cables through that tube conduit stuff everywhere >.<
Oh the orange ones are the most fun. I had a couple oranges as a kid and they were so sweet and so dumb. I loved them lol
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.
It astonishes me that the shield is still the best of the streaming boxes after all these years.
its still very capable, but best depends. iirc there are certain audio formats the shield doesnt support.
i personally would love a new shield using ~switch 2 soc just so i can move emulation/lower end pc onto it.
There are some options on some TVs. WebOS has an app which can be sideloaded.
I have a script that takes a YT URL on my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to my Jellyfin folder so I can watch on my Apple TV on The Big Telly.
Fuck adverts.
/me chuckles in umatrix
If they just made the ads unintrusive people wouldn't bother installing adblockers. But sure make the ads longer and see what happens.
Also changed how ads are served so they wouldn't be a known security issue. Intrusive or not I will block all of them until security improves.
It's like you don't care about stonks and shareholder value.
If they made ads unobtrusive they wouldn’t be able to charge as much for them.
yt pops up that 'slowdowns? read more...' nag while i'm not watching the ad. make me feel special
The slowdown is becsuse the adblocker had to take an additional 0.002 seconds to block the ads.
Time to donate to Invidious I guess.
What a bad idea.
Nah.
Pure greed.
Thank gawd I learned how to read. Big changes are coming from the corpo nazi sector and my response will be the same. Lets tango nazis..... I mean at this point google is a nazi military contractor so at some point we are going to have to detach from the titty. The world we used to know is gone... They are no longer trying to please us and this is a blessing because we need to detach from the titty. Hopefully moving on to better platforms. Youtube is a boomers website like the dusty turd website for anti social boomers that goes by the name of facebook. I hope you don't use facebook. Anywhooo out with the old in with the new.
Youtube is a boomers website
boomers are still watching TV with channels to zap and a remote.
if a boomer is on fecesbook, that's to look at the grandkids photos.
When was the last time you talked to a boomer?