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Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.
A/B testing is showing they are going after people with ad blockers: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-apparently-punishing-ad-blockers-by-hiding-comment-section-3320581/ But your specific combo seems good.
They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I've had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google's latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don't spend staring at a greyed out skip button.
Pretty sure several engineers from google itself might be contributors to some of them, fortunately.
That genuinely would not surprise me in the slightest.
All you have to do is close the window every time they try that bullshit and that shows up in stats. Get enough people doing it and they’ll back off
Wait, YouTube's idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?
Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.
Please Google don't get rid of shorts! Especially the ones with the wonderful AI voice over and karaoke style closed captioning! Please don't do that! Or else I'll keep using adblockers.
I’m so happy they got rid of dismissing shorts and throw them in a feed more! Please don’t get rid of them!
Why would I ever want to see youtube comments? Literally zero impact for me.
was going to say, shoot I'm gonna install an adblocker just for that feature!
The one thing I like them for is nostalgic songs. Almost always a great vibe in the comments
Oh, no! Not the comments, those are always so smart and insightful.
Are they really threatening us with a good time? No YouTube comments is a benefit, not a punishment
If I want to see the comment section I use official app, and just pause the ad.
If I want to go blind I splash acid in my eyes
I'd recommend using lasers for that 🤣
Good call, a more targeted approach.
Hiding comment section? Oh no! What will I do?
Unless I'm missing a "freeze pane" option somewhere, scrolling down to read comments prevents me from actually watching the video.
So using adblockers is even better than I realized?
I know they are trying but so far it seems the ad-blockers are winning because I've not noticed any interruptions or problems with comments so far.
I mean, I intentionally block the comment section, but sure,
My friend told me recently about TizenTube which is a youtube app with adblock/sponsorblock for Samsung TVs
Anyone know if theres such an app for LG tv's?
Grayjay only supports Android, so let me mention Tube PiP for iOS
Oh, excellent, I'll be checking that out right away. I have an iPad that I'm stuck with from work and it'd be great to get ad free YouTube there.
I run both those and I see ads every time google breaks ublock which is monthly now. Grayjay is broken more than its not at this point and requires like 10+ tries with various ciphers.
I think the day of these ads becoming unblockable is coming soon.
Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I've never seen an ad get through it.
or more accurately: google has made it impossible to make a useful tracker and ad blocker for chrome
Firefox. Google does AB testing so they roll out the anti adblocking changes ot some users. Its usually effective at blocking adblocker for a day or two. Sometimes i have to watch the Ad sometimes i have to sit and stare at a black screen for 15seconds.
Also Brave just straight up blocks ads by default across the browser. And it's a damn good one too
Smart Tube is useless for me. Takes forever to load the video and usually craps in the process. Pass.
Do you have a weird network/Google TV setup? I run it on a stock nvidia shield with no pihole or anything and I've never had any issues with smart tube, it's great.
I tried it on my Sony TV, which runs Google TV.
got anything for samsung tvs?
Yes, just connect a small computer and then install Firefox with unlock origin on there.
ideally something that could be used with a remote control or easily through the phone instead of plain firefox.
Someone else in this thread mentioned TizenTube, that sounds like what you're looking for.
But personally I just grabbed an Nvidia Shield. It works great and if you swap out the default launcher you'll never see a single ad on it (with the right apps). Plus the pro is beefy enough to run some decent emulators too.
i have a couple of options i want to experiment with, but this tizentube thing sounds like a nice to have.