https://newpipe.net/
lol, no doubt. i have a friend my age (early 40s), that is too lazy to "figure out computers" so he straight up has cable TV. no streaming device. has a smart TV but won't figure out how to use the streaming apps. we live states away, but when i visit, it's like a time machine to the extremely shitty future past.
"Wanna see what's on TV? I have some stuff on the DVR."
"I don't--- what?"
"Have you seen this episode of Rick and Morty? <gestures to a date of recording> It's great."
<presses buttons on remote, begins fast forwarding through recorded commercials, staring at a screen with flickering images of burgers, boobs, beers, cars waiting for some unknown visual cue>
"This is the most aggressively dystopian way to watch media I have ever seen up close."
"Whatever, dude."Actual picture of me speaking to my dad. How could you doxx us like this!?!?!1
Idk why but I really want a comic of that exchange with those same expressions
lol this is how my 72 year old dad watches tv except replace rick and morty with bill maher
when I was in high school I had a keychain universal TV remote and would just turn off the tv or change the channel when he was watching something dumb, I had it for months before he knew exactly what was going on
it is so brutal to watch. like, my 70+ year old mom knows how to netflix. she watches / falls asleep in front of total junk, but at least it's not like watching some monkey with electrodes in his brain getting his Clockwork Orange on. and, eerily, my DVR friend also thinks bill maher is hilarious.
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I don't even understand how people can use that dogshit site otherwise.
Open video
ad
second ad
video finally starts playing
have to skip the NordVPN/Raid: Shadow Legends/World of Tanks/Audible/Squarespace sponsorshit
ad interrupts your video after a while
don't forget the "creative" and "seamless" segues into a 3-minute ad
"these oven fries are really good... but not as good as being protected by NordVPN! (the best choice for gay pirate assassins)"
lmfao adam ragusea at least his recipes are no fluff, straight to the point other than the ad.
If you leave the video playing in the background, a "video will pause in 5 minutes" popup will appear, if you don't see it because it's in the damn background, then the video will just pause.
flashbacks to me watching microsoft employed tech bros insist that watching youtube through the xbox using the controller to type stuff and watching ads every video was more convenient even though they also had a small "media center pc" also hooked up to the same tv
At least TV had the decency to add an intro before cutting to commercials
uBlock Origin for site adds plus SponsorBlock for ads within the video is a must. I love SponsorBlock, it tells you how many NordVPN and Raid Shadow Legends ads you've skipped. Mine says: "You've skipped 943 segments ( 10h 14.9 minutes )"
Yeah, it's community updated. I delayed trying it for a while because I thought the list would be pretty sparse, especially for new videos or videos with less than a hundred thousand views. But wow was I wrong. I've only ever come across a sponsored video where the sponsored section wasn't reported a few times in like a year of using it, even on videos uploaded the same day I'm watching them.
on the rare occasion that happens, i just add the segment myself, only takes a minute or so to do an accurate one
Jokes on them, with SponsorBlock I've never heard of that!
Sponsorblock is absolutely what made YouTube palatable for me again. I do feel bad taking ad revenue from creators sometimes though I've heard it's a pittance. Never feel bad about sponsorblock though, they get the sponsorship whether I watch the ad or not.
if you truly want the nuclear option, add uMatrix on top of that. you have to set it up for literally every site you visit (for the first time) but it just stops ad domains or other non-site-content-related domains from loading at all
I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube for years, I genuinely forget that’s how most people experience it
I have to use youtube on my work computer during the week in a specific time, and it's so painful
Huh, that looks like it would increase my productivity quite a lot! :anarchy-heart:
I came looking for an alternative android app and you had it ready before I even asked :soviet-heart:
NewPipe is the fucking best. You can rip video/audio tracks to local storage, make queues and playlists, and it never ever plays ads. Occasionally it shits the bed, but that's Google's fault for changing shit. It also supports PeerTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp.
What I want to try doing is setting up a pi-hole and see if that can skip the ads on my shitty smart tv. I ordered an Orange Pi but I think it is literally coming from China on a boat. (boy do I miss the days where I could just drive to the nearest computer store and get the newest raspberry pi for 45 dollars).
You can also slap Firefox on Android and then toss on addons there; from my experience it will play youtube in the browser (and you can keep playing podcast or music or whatever with the browser closed)
I use Firefox with uBlock Origin exclusively on my desktop. But on mobile android I just ran into problem after problem with Firefox. Slow, buggy, etc. So I went searching and it turns out that AdBlock Plus makes their own Chromium mobile browser and honestly it has worked wonderfully for me. Blocks all ads, not just youtube. This might also be a better option for you, u/CommunistBear, and u/PorkrollPosadist,as it blocks all ads, not just on youtube.
Edit: link
As far as Youtube goes, Newpipe solves all the problems in my case (and has more useful features than the official app or website). For the rest of the web, Firefox and ublock origin work fine. Personally, I would rather use Links than anything based on Chrome, but I am not a normal person.
that actually has addons now? last time I used it it was just some low quality hardcoded adblocker
In my experience, Youtube in Firefox on Android stops playing when the app isn't focused. I think this is something Google did to push its Youtube Red subscription service (which imposed the same limitation in the official Youtube app unless you pay them). Ublock Origin still is able to strip the ads though, so it's not worthless.
I haven't tied in a while, but if this is true, it is an improvement from a couple years ago
Maybe it's been updated to allow that then? I've only used it for the last few months, works flawlessly for that
Nah this heightens the contradictions-- revolution in the US within a couple years now I bet
I don't know, the number of redditors I've come across who tell me they feel it is a civic duty to watch ads so that art can continue to exist is very worrying
Anyone who goes on Youtube without some form of adblock are actual unironic sickos.
Yeah, they're trying to find the optimal balance between pissing people off so as many as possible subscribe, and driving away their ad revenue. It's a dumb methodology, but ad revenue is in freefall and subscription services are increasingly under pressure in a saturated market.
The issue for youtube is that it expanded as much as it could a long time ago.
The only direction for it to go in terms of profit-seeking is to permanently deteriorate in quality via ever increasing methods of monetisation.
This eventually results in services destroying themselves by being bad enough for something else to enter the market.
I would once again like to remind everyone that Youtube only has ads if you want it to. uBlock Origin is your friend.
Or my phone insists on opening the YouTube app if I press a notification, instead of like, Firefox Android with uBlock
I'm still surprised they haven't made it so that adblocking makes the videos unplayable
It would require some pretty fucked up intervention on user end, probably illegal actualy. Also Streisand effect, the majority of people don't use adblockers because they don't know how or why, its best to not change that.
Twitch already tried doing that 2 years ago I think and they gave up, or I should say the adblock devs won so it wouldn't work anyway.
