don’t bother with a broken platform. we all know youtube sucks. there’s either a free (as in, actually serves the people) alternative platform or none at all, to me it is.
Gather round kids…
YouTube used to not have any sort of video ads whatsoever.
None. Zero.
Not even “sponsors”.
I just don’t want people to forget how it once was…
that was during the growth phase, we’re in the monopoly phase now…
just that video of that cool kid doing star wars in his garage.
we all wished we were that free
Do this
You can’t delete it because that’s legal. But you can totally disable it and it will definitely not run accidentally in the background. It’s just stealing your battery power and storage.
A thousand thousand people have said it before me, but it is still fucking insane to me that OEMs can just mandate what is installed and not installed on your device.
I had gone from a Galaxy S5 to a J7 Pro, to a Pixel 4a and now to a 7a. All of them only ever had custom ROMs while I owned them, so I completely skipped out on both this shit, and all other OEMs locking you out from the bootloader.
oh, just like facebook
For the record, I was able to uninstall it from my phone.
How?
Never mind, I just checked the pull up menu and didn’t see it so I just assumed it was uninstalled, but no it’s just stopped.
Armok the bunny, more like Armok the
liardidn’t check their phone before telling us their youtubes were baleeted
May I offer you some ADB on this trying time?
I’ve been afraid of using that. I guess I should try that.
Whats the comic source?
by the style its actually made by OP. or the person posting in OP’s name
I’m the artist and poster ☺️
Oh thats awesome
Is this what non premium members deal with?
Invidious + Freetube
i don’t think that’s a replacement for youtube on tv
I don’t consider smart TVs to be real devices
SmartTube
Jellyfin+ytdl-sub is quite nice.
Use a VPN and choose Albania as a country. No ads.
I’ve had really bad experiences with alternative front ends, I find using a VPN a much better.
so like i stream over a playstation
Then you limited on your options, since you can’t installs apps freely. The best option is probably a router that supports VPN connections or a node in your network that acts as a proxy.
i mean i have those hooray! i just, uh, the router is like ten years old i have to use my xp box to log into it. modern firefox gives me this error:
and i’m the website owner i guess. cracks me up. when it stops working i am going to get a new router.
Stream it from invidious over a phone
Or automatically Yt-dlp favorite channels into jellyfin/plex library.
Just use brave browser.
just give the scammers your credit cards directly, that way you don’t have to worry about them stealing your identity in the future
Yeah, just no
firefox and ublock
YouTube Revanced on mobile, otherwise FF+Ublock (if someone is an iPhone user, I guess FF+Ublock on mobile too)
Chromium is a hard no, host your own DNS resolver and create your own blocklist.
Last I knew DNS blocking isn’t able to reliably block YouTube ads
No, but Invidious instances can. That was my response to “Just use brave browser”.
Invidious + Firefox + Managed DNS Resolver yields similar results to YouTube + Brave and is open source.
Okay that’s fair. I recently dropped brave from my Android and just went back to Firefox. Not like super pleased with Mozilla but I’ll take it for now.
Does this actually happen?
Grayjay
Theon Grayjay stole my costle!
wiggles hotdog menacingly
Heey mouths! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 GG!
I don’t know anything about this so maybe someone could enlighten me, but how would/could YouTube have a sustainable business model? Server maintenance costs money right?
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
Youtube was always operating at a loss. Fueld by Google advertising money.
This means they killed almost every competition.
Now they want to leverage their monopoly and make it profitable. This means you must have a subscription. The ads aren’t going to cut it. This will not pay the servers and shit. Only a subscription will do. However youtube aims for much gains so be ready to pay much more than needed.
The ads they now aggressively show of course pay some shit but the main goal seems to be being as annoying as possible to get people to pay for the subscription.
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
pihole won’t block youtube ads. youtube ads are coming from the same domain.
what is your TV brand?
It’s a Samsung monitor iirc. Wanted to get something that didn’t require smart TV software to work.
does it have apps? or are you going to use a computer with it?
Rn I’m just using Apple TV apps. That’s where I folded along the privacy-convenience spectrum.
Not like this if you pay 🤷♂️
You only get the super long ad shot like this after binging on the free plan for hours.
I don’t get this and I don’t pay lol
