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Dear Lord, Youtube. Annoying Ad plays Saaay, we can make those ads go away, for just a little money. It's like paying the mob to make sure nothing happens to

Dear Lord, Youtube. Annoying Ad plays Saaay, we can make those ads go away, for just a little money. It's like paying the mob to make sure nothing happens to your store (by the mob)

dp-hackernews 3y ago
On all Linux PC's I use uBlockOrigin (I never use windows thankfully!) and never see any ads, ever... It may be due to a combination of uBlockOrigin & uMatrix - I've not tested to know. Either way, I just never see ads, ever. I only use NewPipe to watch YouTube on mobile. Then there's the Kodi YouTube add-on - I never see any ads there either...
- nottorp 3y ago
  uBlock Origin works fine on Firefox and Chrome on desktops on any OS so it's easy to have an usable YouTube viewing experience there. Unfortunately that doesn't go for the mobile platforms where it's basically unusable. I wonder if the rules limiting advertising on TV (in the areas that have rules) shouldn't apply to them as well...
  - Tommstein 3y ago
    What are you talking about, I use uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android and it works perfectly everywhere including YouTube.
taude 3y ago
I've used uBlockOrigin in the past for YouTube ads, and it works well on a laptop. What's nice about Premium, if you use it on an iPad, is it lets you download videos, and let's you also play them in the background, etc. I did this a lot for listening to Sleep casts and such.... I'm at a point, though, where I only want to consume YouTube content from a computer, when I'm trying to solve a problem, and not passively consume it like I was for awhile. Also, so much of the content I have has "built in" ads, and it's annoying enough that it degrades from the content for me.
- goosedragons 3y ago
  What's annoying about premium is a lot of the features are things that were free that they made not be. You USED to be able to play videos in the background on an iPad no problem then they decided that was a paid feature for some reason. Fortunately on Android you can easily do it with Firefox and an extension.

Dear Lord, Youtube. Annoying Ad plays Saaay, we can make those ads go away, for just a little money. It's like paying the mob to make sure nothing happens to your store (by the mob)

dp-hackernews 3y ago

On all Linux PC's I use uBlockOrigin (I never use windows thankfully!) and never see any ads, ever... It may be due to a combination of uBlockOrigin & uMatrix - I've not tested to know. Either way, I just never see ads, ever. I only use NewPipe to watch YouTube on mobile. Then there's the Kodi YouTube add-on - I never see any ads there either...

nottorp 3y ago
uBlock Origin works fine on Firefox and Chrome on desktops on any OS so it's easy to have an usable YouTube viewing experience there. Unfortunately that doesn't go for the mobile platforms where it's basically unusable. I wonder if the rules limiting advertising on TV (in the areas that have rules) shouldn't apply to them as well...
- Tommstein 3y ago
  What are you talking about, I use uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android and it works perfectly everywhere including YouTube.

taude 3y ago

I've used uBlockOrigin in the past for YouTube ads, and it works well on a laptop. What's nice about Premium, if you use it on an iPad, is it lets you download videos, and let's you also play them in the background, etc. I did this a lot for listening to Sleep casts and such.... I'm at a point, though, where I only want to consume YouTube content from a computer, when I'm trying to solve a problem, and not passively consume it like I was for awhile. Also, so much of the content I have has "built in" ads, and it's annoying enough that it degrades from the content for me.

goosedragons 3y ago
What's annoying about premium is a lot of the features are things that were free that they made not be. You USED to be able to play videos in the background on an iPad no problem then they decided that was a paid feature for some reason. Fortunately on Android you can easily do it with Firefox and an extension.