• Niquarl@lemmy.ml
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      There are à couple foss on fdroid I think. I used to use Swiftkey tbh but they got bought by Microsoft I think.

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    Just stop watching YouTube altogether.

    Let’s be honest with ourselves. It is not quality time spent. I mean a tutorial left and right ok, but once you get too people having opinions on other people their opinions concerning a third person’s opinion regarding… that kinda bs… nah man I’m done.

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      I guess it’s the same kind of people that mike reality TV that like YT drama.

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      On a browser on my PC the choice is easy.

      On every other device I own there is substantial friction to blocking the ads(by design)

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        Use newpipe it’s great. You can even listen instead of watch. Live streams work too and you can subscribe to your chosen channels and create local playlist. Basically you can’t comment but you can read comments.

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        Android: Revanced, Morphe, Newpipe

        iOS: AdGuard

        Android TV: SmartTube

        WebOS: Youtube-webOS (unfortunately requires registering a developer account)

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        On desktop, Firefox and ublock origin.

        On android, Newpipe.

        I dont see any ads ever.

        I do see them in the official YouTube app so when I Chromecast, I have ads. Im ok with seeing a few ads when I chromecast to tv. Its not so often i do it.

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        Can you give some examples?
        I own no such devices.

        Is it that you use official YT apps?
        And is it worth it vs just not watching YT?

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    My god…

    The internet is truly just TV from the 60s and 70s again.

    Now we have to wade through several decades of advocacy by health organizations to get these removed, etc.

    Fucking humans. Capable of such beauty… And abhorrent baseness.

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    I use Youtube near exclusively with adblockers so never seen anything of the sorts, so I’d like to ask for you to give examples of such ads.

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      There’s an ad that starts out as a regular cig, then it gets coated in black plastic, becoming an e-cig. That’s all there is to it, disgusting.