People watch ads?
If you have a Samsung TV TizenTube is awesome. There is an android version of it too but can’t recall its name colbolt something…
It can be intimidating to try and install on your Samsung TV. But once you figure it out it’s super easy.
Wait, is this real?
Only on my TV, where my family watches youtube through our PS4. Old kids shows and taskmaster and the like. It’s incredibly obnoxious— ads play when you open the video, and if you want to simply restart it move to the correct place it’ll play the ads again, and the ads can be 60 seconds long each time. They also pop these unskippable ads up at the most obnoxious moments in the videos.
The “next ad” button often does bring the time-to-skip down by ten seconds or so, at least. Still obnoxious. But I’m not sure about a better way to access YouTube and Disney+ and Prime Video etc etc on the tv from one device, and, well, I have a 4 year old, so doing without is not much of an option.
Having to use my TV to watch YouTube recently instead of my PC until I can get a new cooler for my CPU, I can confidently say “yes.”
Do you need to ask?
Yes, a sixth plugin against ads. Thanks for the recommendation, we must arm ourselves against the tech overlords.
I just keep hitting next until I get a good ad 💪
The only time I ever see a YouTube ad is when I watch a family member pull up YouTube on their phone. It looks literally unwatchable that way. There are so many workarounds to this issue that I don’t understand how people can tolerate intrusive ads every 2 seconds.
There’s plenty of ways to get around this crap, but there’s vanishingly little on the platform worth watching.
At some point, why bother with the Slop Website to begin with?
but there’s vanishingly little on the platform worth watching.
Incorrect. YouTube has a massive library of special interest videos and very high value channels- but like every other platform their algorithm just fucking sucks at promoting them over other mindless bait videos.
A video or channel you can’t find might as well not exists.
Even past that, I’ve seen my fair share of quality channels die out or sell out or otherwise go sour.
Idk…I’ve found throughout the years that there are increasingly greater and greater amounts of long-form content available on YouTube to watch. Of late, I’ve watched some Louis Theroux documentaries, some documentaries on abandoned facilities, and some real A&E and ambulance emergency shows. There is a ton of interesting content on there if you look for it. I guess I just find the number of streaming services to be too staggering to bother with. So I go with free alternatives like YouTube with an ad blocker and things like PlutoTV and tubi.
As well as removing the thumbs down button on the shorts
And this after they worked for tears to make Invidious unworkable
Newpipe still working well.
Ublock on Firefox is great.
I’m looking forward to DDG browser on mobile
Isn’t just another chromium fork that disables ublock thanks to Manifest V3?
I wouldn’t know
