There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] p000l@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

mpv and yt-dl user reporting in. What ads are we talking about?

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[–] Lemmling@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you! I am making a comment so I can find this thread later.

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

I will gladly accept my usual downvotes to remind people Sponsorblock is only hurting the content creators, not Google, and given there's absolutely no threat of malware or tracking from a sponsored in-video ad, you have no need for it besides entitlement and a disrespect for the people that are already getting fucked over by Google in the first place.

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[–] zeroshift11@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

Ad Block Plus Chrome extension still works perfectly for me.

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