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Why are you viewing ads at all? Not trying to be disparaging or snide, just really want to understand why anyone tolerates them.

• dgellow 6y ago
  How do you avoid ads when watching YouTube on a phone?
  • Ruthalas 6y ago
    Apps such as Newpipe and Vance are one option.
  • Nextgrid 6y ago
    There are third-party apps or proxies like Invidious. If you're comfortable with having a Google Account and giving them your payment details you can also subscribe to YouTube Premium.
  • wincy 6y ago
    The free AdGuard on iOS blocks all YouTube ads for me as long as I use Safari to watch.
  • harpratap 6y ago
    Youtube Premium is ad-free
    • AntiImperialis2 6y ago
      YT premium is free of ads that Google serves. But most YouTube shows are funded by other ads embedded in the shows themselves. I wish Ad Blockers could remove them. How hard would it be to implement an ad blocker browser extention to do it? Query an api endpoint with a video ID to find out start and end times for the ad and automatically skip over it. Allow users to volunteer to submit those ad times to build up the database. It would be limited to browsers, but it would still be something.
      • Nextgrid 6y ago
        SponsorBlock does exactly that: https://sponsor.ajay.app https://sponsor.ajay.app.
  • unicornporn 6y ago
    With a locked down OS like iOS I don't know. On Android there's plenty of choice. NewPipe is a dream[1]. Firefox with uBlock Origin works well. There's Kiwi (Chromium) with uBlock Origin too. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/ https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/