uBlock Origin and Revanced go brrrrr
Gray Jay with Sponsorblock included is the best.
I really enjoy pipepipe and freetube
freetube
90% of the time it works every time (OK, maybe 80), but when it does it’s great. I just let my rss queue backlog until it does. (Not on them, YT is actively rugpulling coz they hate them, which makes me like them more, shame about the electron though). Grayjay is closed, and likely questionable, but a useful backup.
I have pipepipe set as my default app, but use freetube for the subscription feed (which I can sync between pcs and mobile devices via export/import)
Fair cop, shall look at pipepipe, wait, that’s a phone app, I like my vidja on a larger screen, You do you, I’m good :)
I thought Grayhay was open source
You guys are paying?
yeah, but he’s such a total smokeshow now…
I pay nobody to use Firefox with uBlock Origin. 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, I desperately want to but the dev doesn’t want money
Edit: maybe I’ll donate to filter list maintainers instead
Yes…? YouTube wants to get paid. Companies pay YouTube to play ads. You pay YouTube not to play ads. If you do that, then the companies obviously won’t be paying for that. So either you pay or the advertisers pay. Mind blown!
Exactly. Someone has to pay for it. The infrastructure, the bandwidth the creator payouts. That all costs money. A lot of money. We can talk about if the cut Google takes is too big and if they could do with less ads or cheaper premium but someone has to pay something.
Also happy cake day.
Hey thanks, I had no idea!
I just want it to crash and burn
It’s the taking of money for both and only doing one that’s the issue, friend. Breathe.
But they’re only getting paid by advertisers for actual ad views, so premium users don’t make them any money from advertising.
And, you’re assuming that YT isn’t clever enough to cover all the bases? They’re taking money from every side they can think of, and they know damn well that openly talking about ad-blocking inherently risks introducing the concept to new consumers, much less normalizing the whole concept.
YT is clearly juuust fine with money from pretty much anywhere, and I certainly have no delusions that any “premium” service is only temporarily off-limits from that greed. Not just YT’s, either. Netflix & Amazon’ve already done exactly that and completely gotten away with it —to the mildest of whines from the consumer base. 🙄🤮🤷🏽♂️
It’s all smoke & mirrors, and we each have a choice to believe their bullshit or not. You like steak or clarity?
How about I just not pay youtube to not show ads?
YouTube revanced 👌👌 been having premium for 4 years lol
What’s this “we” bit? I’ve never paid them anything, and I still don’t see ads.
You get ads?..
Set your VPN to Albania if you have one, it’s illegal to serve ads on streaming services there.
(I also agree with the other methods this one is just new to me and the more known it is the better.)
The more known it is, the quicker it gets squashed. 🤌🏼
Which makes total sense given that video hosting is insanely expensive, especially at the scale at which YT is operating. I forget the exact number, but I heard that over half of the global internet bandwidth is used for video streaming from just a handful of websites.
That said though, I still choose Ublock Origin.
They chose to go into this business. If they can’t do the job in a way customers like while making a profit and paying fair amounts for labor, fuck em don’t do the business.
What if half of our ISP bill went to subsidy websites based solely on how many megabytes/GBs you’re using towards or from a certain source.
I get the idea, but it seems hardly reasonable to pay companies for the bandwidth they use. Wouldn’t that incentivize wasting bandwidth?
I can foresee a news website sending me gigabyte websites just to cheat the system. This is the part where the system breaks down
Maybe the opposite would work: serve the same content as the competitors with lower data.
Unwatched app for those on iOS
AdNauseam + SponsorBlock works wonders.
isn’t this extremely common though
well… if you put it like that…
