Firefox and ublock origin. I haven’t watched ads in over 10 years
Also add in decentraleyes, privacy badger, canvas block, and ghostery.
Those five extensions together make it so that YouTube has an incredibly difficult time fingerprinting you and blocking you.
Decentraleyes is no longer being actively maintained. Ghostery doesn’t have a good track record. uBO and Privscy Badger are enough. The more you add stuff for anti-fingerprinting, the more unique you become therefore more fingerprintable.
There’s a replacement for Decentraleyes called LocalCDN. Shame that the name isn’t as catchy, though.
I have no idea whether it makes you more fingerprintable, and if it does, whether the fewer CDN connections is worth it.
I also use Noscript and JSHELTER for more privacy.
Or use pornhub instead of yt
Why aren’t you using ublock? Or a third party you tube app?
Cause it’s a PITA on a Shield
They run android, right? Assuming you can enable installing from other sources, install F-Droid (or Droidify, or …) and try one of the many Pipe alternatives. I use PipePipe, but there are several. I forget that Youtube is supposed to have ads and shorts - I never see them.
SmartTube is good as well, with built-in adblock and sponsorblock
I use smart tube next on my shield.
There are ways…
People who complain about ads deserve to watch ads
I never understood this,
As long as you have control over the volume and screen, they can never force you, they just make the experience worse.
Once it gets worse enough, the user leaves
You can skip YouTube though…
They have been testing unskippable ads for a while now. Not everyone will see them
I know it’s slightly a hassle and no one wants to hear it, but if you just close the video three times as an ad starts, it plays the videoon the fourth opening. You may need to rinse and repeat through the video. Cheers.
Was doing that for years, but then they implemented mid rolls, those are annoying.
I know I can avoid ads without paying, but I use Youtube almost daily so I pay for it. Why would I feel guilty otherwise? Youtube would stab me in the face for one US dollar, wouldn’t even hesitate for a second. "Would you stab Mulligrubs in the face for one dolla… STAB STAB STAB
I do read articles without ads just for sanity’s sake, but my website stopped working so I’m sad. This is a hint
YouTube watching me watching ads on YouTube
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Brave browser, no add-ons, no extra anything.
Brave is owned by fascist cryptobros. You really shouldn’t use it.
You can skip them if you pay the evil overlord.
Invidious, Newpipe, PipePipe, yt-dlp, uBlock Origin. Is revanced still a thing? Anyway, don’t watch ads.
Freetube too.
How could I forget! Also SmartTube for Android TV.
Revanced is still a thing but is being outpaced my Morphe right now
You can avoid them entirely if you have a good adblocker.
I dig your username.
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Having a good adblocker is much easier and cheaper than moving to a different country.
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you are the reason more and more businesses are failing right now.
Good. Fuck them corps.
I hope every single one of them fails and goes completely bankrupt. And if I managed to help make that happen, even in a very small way, all the better.
I hope all businesses fail. Fuck capital and fuck capitalism.
Are you serious?
Not all of them, and not for long.
