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ZorbaTHut  2yr ago (text post)   3691 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 30, 2022

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I usually use Youtube via a heavily uBlocked and uMatrixed Firefox, which means no ads.

Whenever my wife asks me to play a song via the Youtube program on my phone, I almost drop the thing in fright - people actually listen to music or watch videos that are preceded by several advertisements, plus interruptions, plus another round of ads in between videos? It's intolerable. I'd rather not.

Firefox mobile can install adblock addons & play videos in the background.

Can't do the skipping-sponsored-content afaik

SponsorBlock is an extra Firefox addon I found recently that automatically skips over the "first a quick message about our sponsor" sections in Youtube videos.

Use YouTube Vanced for android. No ads, skips over sponsored content and "ring that bell" spiels for any decently sized channel. Can also skip intro music.

The only downside is being the last person in the world to hear important news about RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!

I have just seen someone watch (quite focussed) an entire minute of woke sportswear ads before a song started on their youtube tab in the library. If this is how the average person reacts to ads we are all so screwed

Nice, will try!

Edit: Can't find it.

It's not in Google's app store, you have to install the APK. Hilariously there are YouTube videos explaining how that haven't been banned.

It appears to have been killed a few months back by Google making legal threats. Which isn't too surprising I guess, but is a shame.

Working fine for me. Until Google changes the API to fuck it up I guess.

Well sure, but for new users that isn't much help. :P

Can't you still just DL the APK file? Nothing's changed about how it works, it's just no longer getting updates when Google periodically changes stuff to fuck with people's quality of life extensions.

Sure, but first you need to find an APK. I didn't see one when I did a quick Google.

https://apkpure.com/youtube-vanced/com.vanced.android.youtube was the second search result on DuckDuckGo, haven't installed it to make sure it works though.

For an Android YouTube client I use NewPipe. Doesn't let you skip intos/sponsored content, but no ads, plays with the screen off, can save videos. It's open source, use F-Droid to install/keep updated. https://f-droid.org/

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