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[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My YouTube subscription costs 0. ublock Origin.

[–] schnex@reddthat.com 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Unlock origin and ReVanced is great, but it doesn't allow casting to the TV without ads..

[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smarttube Next works great on my TV with FireTV. No ads.

[–] fatboy93@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its the only way we can watch TV in our house.

Im just afraid that they might remove thr ability to install custom apks altogether.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get rid of fireTV and get a true android TV like the nvidia shield. I'm sure there are others that are cheaper too.

[–] fatboy93@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thats basically the plan eventually. Or just download the playlists that our toddler watches, since tv comes under his purview.

[–] ColonelSanders@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Also you can use a browser (I usually recommend Brave but I think the tide of opinion on them recently has turned?) that has adblocking built into it, navigate to youtube, and use that to cast to TV.

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my secret, Cap. I don't own a TV.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I’ve got one! …but it’s only connected to a computer. All of our screens have computers connected. Computers that can install adblocking software and play videos are insanely cheap. I’m astounded anyone uses smart TVs’ rubbish software or a stick of any sort.

[–] Caitlynn@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

If u have an old Laptop colleting dust you can always install a light weight Linux on it and use it for YouTube or even pirated Films or series on your TV

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Best solution is PiHole. If you can find RaspberryPi, but any replacement will work. Essentially local DNS which ignores requests to ad servers. There are also some other DNS servers which filter ads. But I've had less success with them.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my experience PiHole doesn't stop YouTube ads on the mobile app. I imagine that it won't fix on a TV either.

[–] theothermatt_b@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The only solution I've found on mobile without installing security certificates and stuff is to use You tube's website on Firefox with ublock installed there too.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Just found that out. Although uBlock kills those for me. Perhaps setting up a proxy and blocking those URLs could work.

[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pihole won't keep you from watching ads,for what I know its because google uses the same servers to serve the content and the ads.Pihole is great to browse the web though.. I have it at home. For me what gets the job done is newpipe for my android phone and Smartube on my Android TV.

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[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

This is when apple comes in clutch with airplay. Safari + sponsorblock equals casting supremacy. I don't even have the YouTube app installed on Apple.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I run Newpipe on a fire stick. No ads.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They started blocking users with advanced adblockers completely in some places. It's expected they'll roll out that policy in most countries. Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely, watch dozens of ads as well as sponsored segments every couple of minutes (because why would Google pay content creators who make them a huge pile of money by providing content for free adequately, right?) or pay hundreds of dollars a year. Even then they might start showing you some ads because why the hell not? Big tech stole the internet from us and now they're banking in on it big time. Needlesly to say this is not a sustainable business model, but since when did that ever bother mega corporations?

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a cat and mouse game, and history has proven that in this case adblockers will win. Or we'll get ad blocker blocker blockers.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is pretty much the only browser Google doesn't own directly. I'm afraid all of the other browsers will soon malfunction on that front so we'll have to see.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is going to see a lot of new users soon then.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 7 points 1 year ago

Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely

Your terms are acceptable...

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unless they put YouTube content behind a paywall there will always be ways to block ads.

Probably that would be their future take, free 3 minutes of the video, if you want more... pay.

And then will the era of pirating and downloading YouTube videos begin.

[–] automodbeta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no my dns provider broke and it cant resolve the ad servers. Pihole for the win

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Just that the ads and videos come from the same domain

[–] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I never got pihole to reliably block yt ads...

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I like it when the content creators I spend time watching get paid for their work.

[–] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So pay them directly or through other platform. Why would you pay them through Youtube rather than Patreon when using Youtube Premium is going to make them get a lower share of what you paid?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

My resources are limited. I'd love to support them all in more direct ways. And a few of them, I do support outside of YouTube from time to time, as well. But I only have so much money to give, and there's so many creators whose works I've benefited from. It's the most conscientious use of my limited expendable income.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because the platform does actually deserver a share, too?

We'd be living in a very different world if we hadn't grown entitled to free shit because ads, and were actually paying for services that, you know, cost money to provide. The "ad supported" business model is utterly broken, dead, and gone, and was only ever able to support low-cost services like email and social media... But video streaming? By all accounts, it makes no sense.

And on top of that, YouTube's revenue share is by far the most generous in the industry. There's a reason creators ditch twitch, tiktok, etc. for it, even without the sign-on bonuses that other platforms have to resort to.

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[–] AgentCorgi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you cast it to your TV with no ads?

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have SmartTube Next on my shield which requires no casting. No ads and sponsor blocks.

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[–] mangofromdjango@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I cast videos to Kodi on my nvidia shield. No ads.

[–] poofy_cat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This right here. Crazy to me that people would pay for what ublock origin does for free. Especially people defending the need to shell out for the service to "support" a trillion dollar company like Google.