Just install Firefox and Ublock Origin already, seriously its not difficult.
TV ads. Some brands are too annoying to find a fix. The android box thingies I’ve heard of tho.
Smart tube on Android TV for YouTube videos. Had ad block and sponsor block.
So then you add one step: Plug in PC then install Firefox and Ublock. Still easy.
TV ads.
That’s what the mute button on the remote is there for - you improve the ad by 50% right off the bat. Also works well for those times “journalists” think sticking a microphone in a politician’s mouth qualifies as news.
Never watch flow tv or use the smart function on a tv. Hook up a computer to keep your tv dumb and you can control what it wants to show you.
An HDMI cable will solve that
You have a TV? Perhaps right next to your landline phone?
Yes… You got access to my camera or smth lol
Oh dear, I was just joking. I… My condolences.
Doesn’t work for Twitch ads though.
Set your vpn to Albania.
Twitch is really clever about it.
Because you’re watching a live stream, they know you’re less likely to pause or look away, and then because they’re using HLS, they just literally have the next chunk of video load from their ad servers instead of their video servers.
The most clever part? This is done at a point before your computer, so you can’t distinguish which is which as to you, it all looks like its coming from the same source.
Now, perhaps they still give you some information about the stream that they’re in a game of wackamole with block detectors over, maybe for tracking purposes or whatever, but its pretty clever, like dastardly clever but clever none the less.
could injest the stream, play it back at 97% speed, detect scene changes (% of screen change in a timeframe). When you hit an add, hit spacebar, it realizes that you’re asking it to skip and start dumping the video buffer until the next scene change.
That sounds like an awful experience for the end user while relying on the client side for security, which is part of why google has been arguing that you modifying the js on your own fucking computer is “hacking”.
They’ve been failing so far, but given the state of corruption currently in the US and their persistence, they might just win one of these days.
Some call it clever, some call it insidious. I don’t mind though, haven’t been to that shit site since they went mad and showed me the same bullshit, unskipable ad several times in a row, over and over for a week because that’s the only thing they had for my geo location.
So now I boycott both twitch and that shit company that paid money to annoy me a bit, hit the jackpot and annoyed me massively to the point where I took it personally.
Why doesn’t YouTube do this? I’m glad they don’t but it seems like it would be more effective than what they’ve tried so far
I think its simply that its a completely different medium. People dont want to be up to date with a video, and they also aren’t fine with missing a part of the video.
With a stream, you simply never get the parts that were overtaken with ads.
That sounds awful, does the viewer or the streamer get any control over when the ads show? Or could they literally cut out the best part of the stream?
The streamer can trigger ads early to time them, but ultimately does have to show ads. They can also decide on whether there are pre-roll ads.
They have lots of options to make it harder.
They could put the commercials directly into the stream and disallow fast-forward/start at time commands.
They could run drm and change the key/method up so often blockers would need to change on a daily basis.
They could shrink the content into 1/4 screen and run the add at 3/4
Competition would take their lunch eventually.
There’s a balance between keeping your customers happy and making your advertisers happy.
In my experience, using Streamlink will still give you an ad break, but it will just be a screen saying it’s an ad break without any actual ads
Since about a week, with that setup, I can not open replies to comments anymore. I click the “x replies” and nothing. Google says nothing. Do you randomly have and ideas?
I have zero desire to comment on youtube, so unfortunatley I do not have any ideas as I never have done it. But I would start by disabling all extensions and then re-enabling them one by one until it breaks. Another way to trouble shoot would be to reset firefox. When ever websites act wierd for me I will take those steps first and one or the other usually solves it for me.
No issue here. Do you have any other YouTube extensions that might be conflicting? I am also running Enhancer for Youtube.
Not a Firefox/uBO problem.
Check your configs. It may also be a setting on the network you’re using. My workplace’s internet has some sort of filtering system in place that happens to also disable YT comments. Pretty lame, but it’s their network. I just use my phone on 5G if I want to read YT comments or watch “18+” videos (not porn - some videos on YT are actually blocked).
Anybody have any tips for Roku on the television?
Dont use it? /S
I really dont know but depending on your model and OS Im sure there is someone who could help. A Pi-hole might do the trick if you configure it properly.
Pi-hole will block Roku’s homescreen ads. The various streaming apps you may have on your Roku all implement ads their own ways, though. Pi-hole only blocks ads that come from a different domain name, which is why it does not block Youtube ads. Because Youtube serves ads from the same domain as normal content.
The last time I tried that, the sports bar staff kicked me out.
The 0 second skippable ad:
Me using uBlock Origin and Firefox so they don’t win:
Me, just using (re)vanced for 10 years and not seeing a single youtube ad in that time.
Who, in 2025, doesn’t either use a PiHole, adblocker in browser, and/or just mute and change out the window while the ad is playing?? It’s crazy people still voluntarily want to be exposed to consumerist propaganda.
Most people, actually. Crazy, i agree.
My primary media device is a PS4, so while a pihole might do something, I can’t add anything to the device itself.
I just mute and look at Lemmy on my phone till I can skip the ad.
Ultimately you can still control your own perception, so that’s good to mute and ignore if that’s all you can do. Of course eventually they’ll develop technology to not continue playing your show until they see your eyes are looking at the ad and it’s unmuted, like in Black Mirror.
Do you have a link to Pihole on router instructions?
No, the internet is so easy these days though
Amazing reply.
“PEOPLE SHOULD JUST DO THIS, IT’S EASY”
“Do you have a resource to help me with the easy thing?”
“NO FUCK OFF”
That’s not what I said. I don’t have the resources in front of me nor do I want to go find them again. In the time it took to make that comment you could just type into google and get the answer.
Most people, or we wouldn’t be able to exist.
I accidentally fired up YT on my unused (and non-ublocked) Vivaldi browser a few days ago and… holy crap.
I don’t see how people can actually stand that shit.
One of my coworkers uses youtube without any adblockers. I’ve tried convincing him, even showing him how to install one.
He says “too much effort”.
I don’t bother anymore.
I normally open links in a streaming service instead to stop the ads, but one time I was having to watch youtube on my phone browser without any ad blocker. Every two minutes, another two minutes of ads. Shits unwatchable.
On Android, you can use uBO on Firefox. On iOS, you can use AdGuard.
They give up and pay
Google isn’t getting a cent from me.
Ads make me boycott products. Unfortunately I’m still a consumer because I use Ublock Origin and Firefox…
Because? How does UbO warrant a “because”?
I use UbO so I don’t see any ads, so I don’t boycott as much as I should 😂
Everyone advertises. It’s marketing. Some ads are fine, like those found in stores, a “I’m at the store to buy things, show me what you got” kinda thing.
The real problem is intrusive ads. Unskippable ads on videos. Ads in a paid service. Ads in paid apps. “Tech” companies tracking every single thing you do on every website. Etc, etc…
I know what ads and marketing are, and they can both fuck off. I don’t want ads on my youtube. If you’re ok with ads, good on ya, enjoy lies about products you don’t really need. And no, not everyone advertises. In fact there are brands and entire product lines even that avoid advertising. Club-Mate is a shining example off the top of my head.
The worst part about youtube is that it TRIES TO LIE TO YOU by suggesting that ANY AND I MEAN ANY problem is due to your adblock (its not) it literally puts a little shitty caption that thanks god gets swatted with the fury of a thousand gaping black holes by UBLOCK ORIGIN GET IT DOWNLOAD IT SPREAD ITS SHINING SUN LIKE GLORY
Youtube put in an ad-blocker-blocker so UBlock Origin made an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker.
Is that a The Big Hit reference?
The escalation is almost to a head. Very soon, they’re going to start encrypting and changing it up often. We’ve seen tests of this knocking people out here and there.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually do something that changes often enough to make the blockers unreasonable. We’ll end up going back to commercial detection and comskip.
We’ll end up going back to commercial detection and comskip.
Sponsorblock does this, kinda. It’s crowdsourced.
Sponsorblock is awesome, and it will continue to work well if they keep the commercials in the same spot in every video. If they go through the rest of the full DRM, I can’t imagine they’d leave that alone.
Just turn the device off. They don’t have customer support, but they sure as fuck have metrics. At the start of the ad, turn the device completely off.
Ultimate ad-blocker: touch grass.
Oh, don’t worry. They’ve made sure to plaster ads everywhere outdoors too. Bus stops and the buses themselves, billboards, walls, everywhere you look there’s likely an ad somewhere. It’ll only get worse.
There are analog ad-blockers but they take some time to set up. You need spraypaint, a hammer, wheatpaste, posters of your own, possibly even a ladder.
Advertisers hate this one easy trick!
At one point, Google toyed with activating the front-facing camera during ads. They were going to detect that you were watching the ad to make it count.
I suspect they’re still using it as a tracking mechanism. No reason not to collect this kind of data if you can.
It’s a constant war between adblockers, the browser, and youTube at this point. This morning once again youTube started lagging and stuttering in one browser, turn off adblocker, the lag is gone.
I deal with the lag just to spite them.
Couple seconds of artificially induced “lag” or 30 seconds of advertisement, I made my choice
PiHole, UbO, etc. FTW
Do it while it lasts, they’ll make it proper hard at some point. They keep inching toward proper dynamic DRM.
Yeah, that’s gone great so far.
Obviously, then, we shouldn’t worry about it, everything will always be fine.
Duh. 😅
/s
Because it has to be said: PIHOLE DOES NOT, NEVER HAS, NOR EVER WILL, BLOCK YOUTUBE ADS
uBlock Origin does, though.
YouTube isn’t the only website on the internet and pihole does more than block ads
or should I put that in caps
I’m aware. But well-meaning people still often recommend Pi-hole to those looking to block YT ads. Since it’s DNS-based, it can’t block YT ads as YT serves ads from the same domain as the normal content.
But it’s really good at blocking a lot of other shit.
I put my fingers in my ears, close the eyes and go “allallallalaala”.
Stubbornness is a feature, not a bug.
I hit mute and find something else to do, often I forget about the original video I was trying to watch anyway.
TBH these days when I get a Youtube link, unless it seems important, I just ignore it. I don’t have time for 2 ads every time a friend thinks I should see some stupid thing.
Just… use an adblocker…
Every time I make the mistake of clicking on a YouTube video I exit the second an ad comes up. And remember: oh yeah. This is why I don’t go to fucking YouTube.
mistake dog
Poor li’l bugger doesn’t even know he’s ugly. 🥲
Fixed it thanks!
May the rest of your days free from the mistake dog’s shadow.
Aw, but s/he’s so l just so earnest & genuinely adorable in such a unique way. I don’t mind the shadow so much. (Beats the myriad other darknesses orbiting on the regular, anyhow. 🥰)
Ublock Origin for desktops, RVX for Android phones, SmartTube for AndroidTVs.
You can setup each one in two minutes following the instructions on the download pages.
I use unblock on Firefox mobile. What are ads?
Queue insufferable comments…
just install the insufferable comment blocker
This is my favorite comment on the internet
Your feed must be mostly crickets…
Cue*
No, people are queuing up to post the same comments about adblock.
That’s not how that works.
(Sorry, you asked for it, and I was next in line.)
Pot and kettle
4 of the 5 top level comments basically saying the same thing. It’s a circlejerk at best.
See, I understand that, but the original post is the circlejerk, not the comments. OP knew when they posted this that all the top comments would be about adblock. Its absurd, laughable even, to not use adblock today.
Its like if I posted a video saying “I don’t understand why it’s not working” and im throwing water into a tub with a huge hole in it. It’s not even good bait, when people tell me im an idiot and theres an obvious hole, i don’t get to act all surprised. The top comments would of course be predictable.
It is a blatant separation of this particular subculture, but our stalwart membership isn’t exactly flourishing under the relentless corpo onslaught against factual knowledge, personal privacy, consumer empowerment, etc., so… 🤷🏼♂️
