I still end up using the Youtube app on my phone sometimes and I'm absolutely floored at the audacity of even making the first video an ad. Total, absolute, utter bullshit.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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I have a Google phone, which has YouTube embedded on it. I can't remove it. I had to disable it, then tell my phone to redirect all YouTube links to my browser. Now I can block ads again!
You can remove it, with adb. Rather simple when it's set up.
Might be simple for you, for me and for many around here, but... anything that involves adb is far from simple to the vast majority of people who use Android
I suppose; however, I usually link a few sites that basically hold a users hand while leading them through it. Including text to copy and paste into the command line and how to open the command line. Pretty much anything that might be a barrier is taken care of.
the command line still spooks many out there nonetheless
Give them a lollipop, then.
You can install Shizuku and Canta then. Shizuku provides the necessary permissions for Canta to run adb commands if you are scared of the command line.
You won't type out even a single command in the terminal, I guarantee it.
...but I'm not scared of the command line, in fact I use adb to remove bloat from my phone from time to time. What I said is that majority of people using android aren't like us. But yeah, it's good that tools like those you pointed out exists, I'm sure there is an audience for them
Oh yeah mb. Misread your previous comment.
You could learn something new.
Or you could just give up without even trying I guess.
They're both options.
And the single video that isn't a "Sponsored" ad is still from Red Bull, and basically an ad.
Fuck the YouTube PMs
They were condescending on the bug with the fourth highest internal ratings that simply requested that shorts could be removed (particularly for children and for mental health). A particular gripe of some engineers was that it couldn't be removed from the subscriptions page. I was impressed they removed the condescending comment after a month but they never really addressed the large volume of employees telling them this was the wrong thing to be doing
If it keeps going past that date, will there be -1 videos on screen?
You have to drag and drop a video onto the page in order to use the site
You jest, but if conservatives have their way, you'll soon have to verify your ID by uploading a video every time you visit the site (if not logged in). Even for non-adult content!
Because the reason for the ID isn't to "protect the children" or anything like that. It's about control. Conservatives want the power to decide what people get to see and ID verification systems are just a small part of that.
My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that's enshittification at work.
Yeah, SCIENCE BITCH!
Jesse adding “removed” to that sentence in that scene is an example of the Mandela effect. Lots of people remember it that way, but he actually says “Yeah science! Yeah Mr. White!”
I have never actually seen it, so I don't know what he says. I just know the meme
Fair enough! Def worth a watch
Doing god's work. 👌
Ah that explains why my subscription page has all the videos I haven't watched at the top and all the videos regardless of watched status right below so the same video is listed twice on the same screen on a slow day.
Now if they could just make sure when I open the app/channel that I land on the subscription screen instead of recommended that would be a real QOL improvement.
I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.
You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.
I assume this is just to hide the fact that there's precious little worth watching on it.
Scrolling to the right is also slow as hell with this. It used to scroll across several videos at once but now it scrolls one per swipe.
I stopped using the main page and started using the subscriptions page, which still has the smaller icons. I’m using YouTube a lot less, though.