BeepYouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable
The Velour Fog laughs in uBlock Origin
Actually, YouTube is cracking down on adblockers.
So while you might not feel the pain now, you will eventually.
monketman82There’s always a workaround…
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Because they don’t put the effort in.
Add a simple “the video isn’t served until the ad’s length has elapsed” and suddenly your only workaround is to spend 30s staring at a black screen.
Deal.
knightly the SneptaurNah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I’ll just waste my time elsewhere.
🦇SalviaDivination🦇Same, I low key hope they do it so I’ll read more. This might be the only way. 🙃
nikkiLaughs in
Txt file with favorite channels as input for a yt-dlp download script schedule. Combined with a selfhosted invidious and freetube desktop app for other then favorite videos.
Honestly I am really tired of jumping trough hoops, have to make sure yt-dlp and invidious use a proxy (cloudflare warp) or google will ban your ip for being a bot.
But having to deal with the actual YouTube site or reopening my google account is worse. Its not even (but still also) the ads at this point but pure resentment against big tech.
andybytesI wont be home till quite a few hours.
But also its general boilerplate enough an ai can help you get you one according to your own preferences.
There are also a number of examples online.
This one looks pretty interesting github.com/panchi64/auto-ytdlp
GitHub - panchi64/auto-ytdlp: Use yt-dlp to download videos from a list of URLs. It features a user-friendly TUI, multithreading capabilities, and various quality-of-life improvements for an efficient and pleasant downloading experience
Use yt-dlp to download videos from a list of URLs. It features a user-friendly TUI, multithreading capabilities, and various quality-of-life improvements for an efficient and pleasant downloading e...
First I hear of if but a quick scroll shows it mostly to organize an existing collection so you would still need to download.
I put them straight into jellyfin which works fine for me.
Cracking down just means I don’t watch the content, still not getting ads.
Null User ObjectI’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’m running SmartTube running on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.
It astonishes me that the shield is still the best of the streaming boxes after all these years.
its still very capable, but best depends. iirc there are certain audio formats the shield doesnt support.
i personally would love a new shield using ~switch 2 soc just so i can move emulation/lower end pc onto it.
What format does the shield not support that other boxes do support?
I went to go look it up for my old setup, turns out its mainly for the older models, as the codecs are only supported on the newer revisions of the shield tv.
though with the shield tv, one of the missing things that would be nice to have would be AV1 support (as Nvidia only supported AV1 starting with Ampere based gpus)
It’s so versatile. One of the last great products Nvidia came up with before shooting up AI crack.
I mean there are ways, like pihole, but I like the simple option of a really long hdmi cable that I use to plug my computer into the TV, so I never have to use any of the shitty built in TV apps.
dkppunkI would love to run a long hdmi cable from my pc to my tv, but I have rabbits and they like the spicy hay
Oh no, I feel that, we had an orange kitty who adored his electric spaghetti! We had to run cables through that tube conduit stuff everywhere >.<
Look for an armored HDMI cable. They are wrapped in a steel jacket. Conduit is also an option.
So I was watching Forrest Gump and he’s running through the jungles of Viet Nam. All of a sudden he stops running. And I know that’s not right because he hasn’t rescued “him” yet.
Turns out my jerk face rabbit chewed through the Ethernet cable.
Rabbits do love that spicy hay.
You’re correct. Pihole works at the DNS level. Since YouTube hosts their ads on the same servers that host their videos, blocking the ads with DNS would also block the videos. Which I guess it technically works to block YT ads, but that’s a little like saying “set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
What, it works for me?
Put on an 8 hour video while doing chores and had ads every 5 minutes. Filled with rage I installed pihole and no more ads.
Yeah I unsmarted my TV and just threw Mint on an old laptop. FreeTube works great on there.
djdarrenI have a script that takes a YT URL on my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to my Jellyfin folder so I can watch on my Apple TV on The Big Telly.
Fuck adverts.
I haven’t tried it personally, but have heard good things:
There are some options on some TVs. WebOS has an app which can be sideloaded.
I use an Apple TV, but I assume it’s the same as any other streaming box or appropriate smart TV.
The absolute piece-of-piss way to block all YouTube ads on it is to install a VPN like Proton, choose a relevant country (easily googleable), and there will be no ads whatsoever in YouTube.
Google doesn’t serve ads on YouTube in a handful of countries.
Smart tube is GOATED.
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤWell currently they’re delaying the video start by the time it would have taken the ad to play. It’s still better than having to actually watch ads, but blockers are not in the best position right now.
That’s what they say but not what I’m experiencing. Either way, blank screen is better than ads
Same here. They really underestimate how much more annoying ads are