Can't say I've seen them.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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What ads? My adblocker still works.
Firefox + Ublock Origin
also works on android
Yep, this works! No ads.
What if you only use the apps?
Lookup Grayjay
RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You'll have to side load it yourself, but it's got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don't want to hear shilling during a video.
No idea for iPhone.
Why not just use the original ReVanced?
It had stopped working for me
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"But we can't pay our content creators! We're a starving tech company! Niche stuff no one uses or has heard of! We needed to cut the money so they had to push scams!"
... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
And since they made so much while people are effectively using adblocker, there's no need to fight them back, right?
Right?
It's not about making money, it's about making all the money. Stock holders will pressure to fire the guy that does that.
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I dont see ads a since 2 years, for FREE. Android https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular Android TV https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ For others Brave browser, or Firefox based with uBlock extension.
Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that's much more important for the platform.
Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...
The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
Nope. I was well into negative on Reddit for the same.
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I say this every time the topic comes up, and I’m always downvoted for it but here goes again:
YouTube is going to do this suit because YouTube CAN do this shit. It’s their company. They can enshitify it as much as they’d like. And they WILL enshitify it as much as they like as long as people continue to use it.
How long have they been in existence now? 18-19 years? And with every year they gets worse and worse, while growing bigger and bigger. Why do you think that is?
Could it be because they know that although everyone will bitch about them, complain about them, and write scathing tech articles about them- people will still gobble their shit up regardless.
Don’t like what YouTube is doing? Maybe think about not using it. Because as long as you’re participating- either by creating content or viewing it- you are a big part of the reason they’re getting away with doing this shit.
Downvote away.
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havent seen them. are they any different? i am sure it is the same scam google does with Ads. only boomers see it, but are not the target group and the advertisers are just wasting money.
instead of using piped/smarttube i advise to not use US based services at all.I mean fuck you for supporting the ultragreedy.
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