YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

Noodleface

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Don't see any ads with Firefox + ublock origin but the ads on the TV are AWFUL. I've never wanted to not pay for a product more.in my life. Fuck YouTube.

Also what the fuck are.they doing with the desktop site. The thumbnails are massive now.
 
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jooka

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toss this into your ublock My Filters:

Code: 
! (1/11) YouTube 5 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages) / YouTube Fix & Customization
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5 !important;)
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 5 !important;)
 
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Noodleface said:
Don't see any ads with Firefox + ublock origin but the ads on the TV are AWFUL. I've never wanted to not pay for a product more.in my life. Fuck YouTube.

Also what the fuck are.they doing with the desktop site. The thumbnails are massive now.
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ROFL you pay?
 
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Noodleface said:
Don't see any ads with Firefox + ublock origin but the ads on the TV are AWFUL. I've never wanted to not pay for a product more.in my life. Fuck YouTube.

Also what the fuck are.they doing with the desktop site. The thumbnails are massive now.
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You may want to look into a Android device like the NVidia Shield if you watch YouTube a lot on your TV and don't want to (or can't) run an HDMI from your PC. You can then sideload the YouTube ReVanced APK, which is supposed to be pretty good for blocking the adds. Or you could try some of the other apps on the following list:
fmhy.net

Android / iOS

Apps, Jailbreaking, Android Emulators
fmhy.net fmhy.net
 
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Noodleface said:
Don't see any ads with Firefox + ublock origin but the ads on the TV are AWFUL. I've never wanted to not pay for a product more.in my life. Fuck YouTube.

Also what the fuck are.they doing with the desktop site. The thumbnails are massive now.
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I just use brave browser on mobile and desktop. It’s free and automatically blocks all YT ads without any additional plug ins.

I tried that new browser Opera, and it is VERY fast compared to Brave and Chrome, but it doesn’t auto block all YouTube ads so I uninstalled it.
 
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I've said it here before, but on my TV I have a Shield, and I sideloaded SmartTube, which is constantly updating as necessary to combat YT fuckery, and is awesome. No ads, even has notifications when they do the whole "like and subscribe" or even in-video ads (like say NordVPN) where you can just press a button and skip to where that stuff ends. Very very rarely it misidentifies stuff and you see those notifications most of the video, but usually not a big deal, and if you really get annoyed by it you can turn them off.

The most you see is the first time you open the app and play a video, sometimes you can get 5 seconds or so of buffering when it is blocking shit, then any video after that plays immediately.

Highly recommend this app, 10/10. I could not stomach YT on my TV without it.
 
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TJT

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YouTube on your phone or the TV sucks.

Firefox + Ublock is fine though. However my god damn job makes me use Chrome and even using and old version of uBlock like bricks the browser now until you remove it.
 
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jooka said:
toss this into your ublock My Filters:

Code: 
! (1/11) YouTube 5 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages) / YouTube Fix & Customization
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 5 !important;)
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 5 !important;)
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That says 1 of 11. What are the other 10?
I've been looking for useful filters for a while now, though I don't know how necessary it is if the Extension gets killed completely.
 
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I got another "Hey...you are using adblocker...turn it off..." warning the other day, refreshed and went away. Still only using ublock origin and no additional fuckery, so strange.

Our house is almost entirely self / local-hosted apps now, so I'm not using any "Baked in" software for shit like youtube or amazon...which has it's benefits and drawbacks..any content on those platforms is limited to 720 / 1080P unless you use their APP typically, so I'm strongly considering a hard return to pirating everything that I own.

I have this on my Phone and it works pretty well:

Grayjay App - Follow Creators Not Platforms

grayjay.app grayjay.app
 
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I only use Chrome for work because I have to. Adblockers work just fine on Firefox and Pale Moon.
 
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What's even gayer is that I'm using UO to unfuck their UI. Monstrous tiles(3 per row on a regular widescreen), no tag filtering, font size too big. I can definitely tell youtube takes longer to load with UO enabled. It's the only website that takes so long that my ADD will distract me to a different tab while waiting for it to load. I opened youtube to distract myself in the first place! So many people double stream to youtube, your subscription page is next to useless without UO.
 
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