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YouTube has gotten beyond out of control. Ad to start, ads in middle. I’m giving up and reading more books, playing more video games. Used to enjoy YouTube, cooking, aquariums and other hobbies. I feel bad for the content creators who are at the mercy of Alphabet.

Seeing prime announce ads broke the camels back for me.

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I use ublock origin on firefox and have never seen a youtube ad. Whenever I enjoy a video very thoroughly, I just donate money directly to the creator's ko-fi or something. It's a much, much smoother experience.

I use an htpc (nvidia shield) so that’s not an option. Either way, I’m sort of tired of going out of my way to avoid a shitty user experience. If it sucks, I’ll do something else.

It definitely IS an option, but at the network level.

https://pi-hole.net/

It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network.

I guess you can dismiss my point, I’m aware of those options and frankly, not interested in deploying them. I have better things to do with my time and life.

Complaining without action is pointless, especially when the action is so damned easy.

So, why complain if you're not going to do something about it?

I do something, it just doesn’t involve YouTube or other streaming services anymore.

Pihole doesn't block YouTube ads on the Nvidia shield. You need to run sponsor block on a separate machine.

https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

I'm running a pihole at home.. but, I definitely still see YouTube ads. I don't see how it's possible with a pihole to block YT as the adds are served from the same domain. I guess you're only referring to the Amazon ads?

This doesn't block YouTube ads though. Not for me anyway.

What if I use the iPad app?

Brave is perfect for ad-free YouTube

on mobile, this is a good option. Would also let you play youtube in background using desktop mode

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