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I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in ages with ublock origin.

Yeah. I got a Smart TV recently and with the YouTube app started seeing ads again. I think I have to just stream from my laptop instead of using the apps :(. Probably better that way though, typing with the remote is terrible!

You should check out SmartTube Next

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/ if its Android TV

have you considered to just pay for youtube? you can add up to 6 people in your family who can also use it and your money goes to the content creators you watch, minus youtube's cut probably. that's what I do.

Interesting... I did not know that you could share your YouTube paid status with other family members. I despise the Ads that YouTube shows me and would do almost anything to remove them from my phone, iPad, and TV. I already use a blocker for Firefox, so at least I have some respite on my computer.

You have to create a google family to do it, but yeah that's the way to go.

The irony of feeding the advertiser rich information for the purpose of reducing ads.

...and SponsorBlock.

I often forget how great uBlock is until I have the displeasure of using a computer with no uBlock installed, but every video I am reminded of usefulness of Sponsor Block

Manifest V3 will take care of that, only 8 months to go.

If you still use plain chrome/chromium then yes.

But most people who use ublock origin use firefox as it is the most effective browser for ublock.

Guess who pays Mozilla foundation salaries.

Google funds Mozilla for plausible deniability when regulators come knocking to talk about competition. They lose that if they start dictating functionality to forks and vassals.

sad that it is not available on iOS

Yattee [1] and AdGuard [2] are two solutions I’ve found that can help.

[1] https://github.com/yattee/yattee [2] https://adguard.com/en/blog/how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-block-y...

Holy cow how have I not heard of testflight installation method with which yattee is being distributed! Reading up more on it, seems you need to be an ios developer to use it. Beh.

Thanks for mentioning yatee, as adguard is severely lacking in that ads are rarely blocked.

You don't need to be a developer for test flight. I am not an iOS developer, but I have installed test flight for access to a few different apps.

it seems Testflight constantly feeds usage data & telemetry back to the app developer

I don’t think I’ve seen a single ad since I bought AdGuard premium and configured it properly. It feels less capable than uBlock Origin but I find it honestly good enough on iPhone

Wow thanks for this. Installed Yattee. Already knew about adguard, but Youtube has managed to beat it on occasion.

https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus

Latest https://1blocker.com does come with the option to block YouTube ads while using the mobile site. Don’t think it works if you use the app though.

If you're up for the risk of jailbreaking, there are ways :)

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