How do your deal with Youtube's new war against ad-blockers?

[noname223]

I am sick of watching ads. I use it (ad-blockers) everywhere where it is possible. I am a free-rider in many instances. For music of my preference I have to endure ads on Youtube that. They are cancer. I certainly won't buy youtube premium except I win the lottery.

I watch two shows with extremely many ads regularly. Here is my approach to circumvent it. I took a different browser, installed ad-blockers, added the two youtube channels to my favorites pinned them at the start. Now I switch the browsers for these two channels and watch the shows without being signed up in youtube. If you watch as an anonymous person without registration ad-blockers still work and hopefully will.

Hopefully I won't get sued for the hacker tips and tricks on an insane genius 3000 IQ move. A friend of mine watches youtube on his phone with a specific browser where the ads automtically get blocked. I am not a fan of youtube on phones so I don't know the app sadly.

I will exploit the system as long as possible. (and if it is still legal.)

 

[carac]

Hasn't really been a problem for me so far (I use Firefox). When it happened on twitch I simply stopped using it, so if same happens on YouTube and I can't circumvent it I guess I'll just go somewhere else.

 

[Readytogohome]

Brave browser on my ipad

 

[_Broken_alice]

uBlock origin on Firefox. Works perfectly more than 99% of the time. When YT changes things, a quick update and filter reset makes it work again as the people working on it are very fast about fixing it. In the short periods it hasn't worked, we just avoid YT. We wouldn't mind watching limited ads at the beginning and end of a video ONLY and IF content creators didn't get the YT shaft on monetization. We used to run a whitelist for our fav channels and stopped that once YT shafted all but the largest of creators. (When yt started to demonetize channels but STILL running fucking ads on them with the creator getting literally nothing for it.) Also, spotify for music. Yes, it is a subscription, but we get enough use out of it to justify it as one of our only two subscriptions (the other being a vpn). And the audio-quality is so much better than YT with our setup that songs feel flat through YT due to compression.

 

[Skathon]

Haven't even noticed it happening. I only use Piped and Invidious to access Youtube.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

I mostly use YouTube for music. I don't really care about a 8-10 second add. Sometimes I just turn off the volume until it's over. I would never listen to an add for minutes. Usually music adds are short.
At night I listen to sleep music videos, I have noticed few second adds during them if I happen to be awake.
That's irritating. The videos are usually 11+ hours though.

 

[TheSpookyNameGuy]

Ublock origin + Firefox with some filter lists added.

Easy as piss, as alice mentioned above

 

[Dead Horse]

uBlock Origin on Chrome for now, probably Brave after uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome in a few months.

Here's a link with instructions on how to keep uBlock Origin filters up-to-date:

Look for the video under "How to manually update the [uBlock filters - Quick fixes] list - video tutorial".

 

[this_is_it]

Stopped watching YouTube on roku because their ads have gotten so obnoxious, now I just plug my laptop into the tv via hdmi and use YouTube on opera with adblock plus and sponsorblock. Ads on every streaming platform have also gotten too obnoxious so i use fmoviez instead of hulu or anything

 

[Forever Sleep]

Depends on whether I like the creator. If I do, I try to suffer them so that they get paid. If not and if the ad is a longer duration than the video (which sometimes happens,) I skip.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Every other ad is for Betterhelp. You know something is shit in the mental health world when therapists are willing to criticize it.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Currently I use uBlock Origin and uMatrix together. So far there have been no issues when viewing videos on YouTube...

...for now.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I use Youtube on desktop in a browser with adblock and same on mobile in a mobile browser, not the app(!). No ads and no issues so far ... very convenient!

 

[HowLongLeft?]

I just got a new ad block that works better.

 

[R_N]

Nothing we can do about the ads if we are on phones and want to use the app right?

All these companies became so ballsy by seeing what they are able to get away with.

 

[Dead Horse]

Nothing we can do about the ads if we are on phones and want to use the app right?

There's ReVanced. Here are some instructions:

 

[IWishToDie]

I am sick of watching ads. I use it (ad-blockers) everywhere where it is possible. I am a free-rider in many instances. For music of my preference I have to endure ads on Youtube that. They are cancer. I certainly won't buy youtube premium except I win the lottery.

I watch two shows with extremely many ads regularly. Here is my approach to circumvent it. I took a different browser, installed ad-blockers, added the two youtube channels to my favorites pinned them at the start. Now I switch the browsers for these two channels and watch the shows without being signed up in youtube. If you watch as an anonymous person without registration ad-blockers still work and hopefully will.

Hopefully I won't get sued for the hacker tips and tricks on an insane genius 3000 IQ move. A friend of mine watches youtube on his phone with a specific browser where the ads automtically get blocked. I am not a fan of youtube on phones so I don't know the app sadly.

I will exploit the system as long as possible. (and if it is still legal.)

Brave browser. Never get YouTube ads.

 

[todienomore]

NewPipe on Android and Ultimate Media Downloader on the computer. U Block Origin is still working.

Theres also an app called Xtra for twitch. Both of those are on FDroid not Google Play

I forget ads exist