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Showed a friend how I got a modified version of Youtube on my phone. He did it, and when it came time to re-certify the app (7 days for none paid developers) he couldn’t be bothered to plug his phone in, and let the program (that automatically recertifies it mind you) do it’s thing.
He was showing me a video on the new DBZ Sparking Zero game, and had two whole ads before being able to show me whatever it was he was going to show me. I mentioned, “Man. If only there was a way to prevent this kind of nuisance…” and gave him such a withering look, he just put the phone away and said nevermind.
It is actually fucking insane what people are willing to put up with man…
People on the opposite side of that tolerance spectrum look at us avid ad avoiders like we put in too much effort to do that, so I see it as two sides of the same coin. I started blocking/avoiding ads due to the nuisance, long before privacy and security became even more prevalent attack vectors through advertising. That was just a benefit to the time saved by blocking ads, but not it’s a primary use case.
You seem nice
I do try my best.
You could’ve been a bit more chill about it, if you gave him such a “withering look” that he lost interest in showing you something he was excited about and said never mind, then the issue here isn’t that he didn’t plug in his phone, it’s that you were unnecessarily and unpleasantly anal about it and your friend just didn’t want to deal with your fixation.
Please do not assume a whole entire 6 years of friendship by just this one comment.
I did say it’s okay, and that we can watch it on my desktop, which we then did, and even though DBZ isn’t a favorite of mine, we both got excited. His excitement from DBZ, and mine from his excitement.
He knows how I am, how many times I’ve mentioned how much I fucking hate ads. You, on the other hand, know nothing about me.
Have a good rest of your day.
So is revanced. I haven’t been able to skip an ad in years… 🤭
On the ads I’m not seeing lol
try sponsorblock or uBlock. Or some other third party apps. I’ve decided the inconvenience of watching youtube in a browser (with addons) outweighs the inconvenience of watching several long ads. At least for me.
Grayjay skips ads, and there’s an option to sponsors
ReVanced I like better for Mobile, it’s the app but with sponsor block and unlock built in.
How does it compare to Newpipe?
ReVanced, in conjunction with MicroG, allows youto be logged in to Google while still having an ad block and sponsor block on mobile. Also setting up might be a little more difficult since it needs you to patch a YouTube apk yourself.
I understands this might be the exact opposite of what some people want but it works for me.
Ironic that Revanced, an app that claims to block YouTube ads, injects its own ads.Edit: I downloaded the wrong version.
Maybe you have downloaded the wrong APK, there are some bad actors providing “pre built YouTube Revanced APKs”. Be sure to only download the Revanced Manager from https://revanced.app/ and the unpatched YT APK (version should match the recommended one in the manager) from a trusted source like apkpure etc.
Does it actually? Genuinely want to know. I’ve been using Revanced since vanced stopped working and haven’t seen a single ad but maybe that’s because of other things I’m doing with my phone
I have no idea what that person meant. The only thing that Revanced “injects” are info and updates of the app. The only thing I can think of is if they’ve installed it from a sketchy unofficial source.
That’s a relief, was worried I was gonna have to figure out an alternative again
I did use to use Vanced but stuck with Newpipe as it was lighter (not tried Revanced as I switched before the shutdown).
It’s the original YouTube app but with addons. Revanced actually uses Newpipe to offer downloads. Biggest difference is that you can log in with your YouTube account on Revanced.
And SmartTube on the TV.
Is there also something for roku sticks?
I use playlet on roku which uses invidious, but I recommend setting up your own invidious instance since YouTube has been cracking down on the public instances.
Yattee on iOS works sometimes depending on whether or not YouTube has blocked an instance, but you could also try setting up your own local invidious instance to hook into it as a more permanent solution, though that was too much for me to figure out how to set up correctly.
SponsorBlock is not an ad blocker
It is an ad-jumper!
You’re right. it’s uBlock or some other addition that removes the pre-roll ads. But googling for Sponsorblock is a good start to find such apps. I even got some patched youtube app for my TV… So it’s no ads for me and not even sponsored segments. Not on the computer, not on my phone and neither on the TV.
Fine, I’m hiding the ads on mobile.
…and desktop.
…and downloading the videos I watch more than once.
Grayjay is such a good app to watch not only adfree YouTube, but also twitch, rumble, Odysee, etc. I don’t understand how this app isn’t the standard.
IDK Iwas using NewPipexSponsorBlock, now Tubular since before Grayjay existed.
The second it becomes the standard is the second google looks for ways of nerfing it.
Grayjay is ran locally, so they cant block the datacenter traffic like they did with invidious, but even if they managed to do something I’d probably still use grayjay, since I can follow the same creators on all platforms with it.
They can target the code though. They’ll inspect the code, find ways to break it, and then kill it that way.
The sooner we can get creators off of YouTube the better.
Is Grayjay open source? I can’t find it on f-droid.
That’s odd, I’m surprised Rossman didn’t upload it to that app store. Well, in the meantime you can get it directly from https://grayjay.app/. Should also be the first result in google, if you want to search yourself instead of trusting a randomly provided link.
It is in FUTO’s F-Droid repo that you can add.
I found it there.
I believe you might have added the repo to Fdroid manually (which I think is the official way to update the app).
Yup, I added the FUTO repo some time ago and that has it. Thanks!
Sadly, I see this working quite well. Does Google get paid per how long the ad is shown? Guessing they get paid more for an ad that plays all the way without being skipped.
Iirc the skipped ads don’t generate any revenue
So we suffer and they don’t even make money… Hmmm
That’s actually interesting if true… considering they still have to stream us video, Pay the bandwidth and all but don’t generate any revenue. Makes me almost want to Let the whole ad play but skip it at then last second so it only costs them money.
