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[-] YaksDC@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

I have been using Brave as my browser for years, I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Nor have I ever had any of the issues that have been reported with people using ad blockers.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 228 points 5 months ago

I'm using firefox + ublock origin and have never had the reported issues either.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

I'm leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I'm getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I'm using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago

Shorts are the bane of my ADHD ass

I'm going to have to look into Greyjay for sure just for the no shorts part

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah I hear ya, same here. Fuck shorts.

Grayjay is from Louis Rossmann, one of the biggest advocates for right to repair. It costs 10 dollars, one time payment, but if you don't pay it also works. It's open source. If you have an issue and mail then, they actually respond (fast) to try to solve the issue, or make changes to the app to make it better. It's really great what they do. And YouTube hates him.

https://grayjay.app/

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

TIL Louis Rossmann somehow more based than I believed

[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

I picked up Grayjay so I can actually watch early access videos from creators I follow on Patreon. I honestly love how it seamlessly integrates multiple services around creators. Also supports Nebula, and IMO provides a nicer experience compared to the official app.

Personally I still use NewPipe (Tubular fork) for my daily viewing just because I kind of prefer that UI

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Isn't it only source available, and not open source, due to a restriction on reusing the code?

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Louis said in the announcing video it's open source, anyone is free to do with it what they want, even if they want to exclude the 10 dollar payment in it. He really doesn't give a shit.

He did give a warning though:

"if you dare to put malware in it or any other malicious shit, I will hunt you down and destroy you."

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

On android I use Revanced. It patches the official Youtube app (patches are open source) to greatly expand the base functionality and offer a lot more customization of the UI.

For me the best features are ad block, sponsorblock (skips in video sponsored segments), and complete excision of shorts from all aspects of the app.

It also works on Youtube Music, effectively allowing free premium (just don't get the local downloads of your most listened tracks to help save data, but I have unlimited anyway).

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

They get paid whether sponsored sections of the video are skipped or not though, which is the beauty of sponsorblock. Sometimes the sponsor sections are high effort though and worth watching.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

There aren't many products being sponsored through YouTube creators which are actually worth it imo. I mean, the best VPN providers don't pay loads of money for ads. Same with many other products. Companies focused on mass ad campaigns often have expensive products which are not that great. I did see some which are actually pretty good, but most of it is just average at best.

But I also have a personal hate towards ads in general. We are being overloaded with ads wherever you look. I try to live as ad free as possible. I think sponsorblock is awesome, because the creator still gets payed as no one can see you skipped the promotion part. I also don't like self promotion parts either. I don't like begging for likes and subscriptions. If the video is good, it gets a like. If the creator is good, I'll follow. If it's really good, I'll consider patreon. Many of the best creators do not beg for likes and only slightly mention patreon at the outro.

I understand creators need to do it, don't get me wrong. I just don't like it so sponsorblock is perfect as creators can continue doing it while I can auto skip. Before I had sponsorblock I never clicked any of the links because of what I mentioned before, so me skipping the parts doesn't change anything for the creator.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

That's fair, I hadn't considered that people may actually want to click through on sponsored content to help the creator. I really enjoy not having to see another ad for the usual sponsored brands ever again though (raid, vpns etc) .

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Also firefox + ublock, but for me, it literally makes YouTube unusable. As in videos just flat out will not play in any way. I just get an endlessly loading spinner for the video

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

I have had that happen a few on desktop if I left a video paused overnight, but refreshing the page sorted it out right away.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Sadly, refreshing doesn’t help me either. I’ve tried.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It sometimes happens for me as well

Usually I can get to the vid if I go to the channel and try again. Or trying again a little while later.

It's fuckin annoying when it trips

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I have this problem or it will play for like 3 seconds and then buffer for a bit, play 3 seconds, buffer, repeat for infinity. No matter what I do I have one of these issues with Firefox and any adblocker and it's super annoying.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I used to get that, but now I don’t even get that few seconds.

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Try an extension to spoof your browser agent.

I set mine to spoof Chrome and my Firefox + ublock stopped having any issues with YouTube.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Oh. I hadn’t thought of that. I’ll give that a try!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Do you have uBlock Origin, or one of the fake adblockers that try to ride on its name?

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I verified it and it is the genuine ublock origin

[-] THX1138@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

This is the way.

[-] explore_broaden@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Same, that combination never causes me any problems (I use uMatrix too which is always causing problems, but I get to decide which domains to allow cookies, scripts, and XHR requests from/to).

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