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I uninstalled the app and just watch videos on the Firefox mobile browser now. Not only does uBlock Origin block all the ads, but the interface is less buggy, and it can play audio through the lock-screen (a basic feature that Google inexplicably locks behind a paywall). There are a few drawbacks, like playlists not auto-playing, but generally it's a much better experience than the official app or chrome.
I don't know why anyone would willingly pay a penny to a power hungry corporation like Google.
My preferred method is a python script that takes a YouTube video in my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to a folder that my Plex server watches.
There are easier ways to achive this, but I like the manual approach. It means I don't vegetate on the sofa, scrolling through everything. Also, it means my hard drive doesn't fill up with videos I'll never get around to watching.
I use a similar approach but i subscribe to channels with pinchflat and it downloads them to a folder for jellyfin. I like that i only get my channels and cant keep "exploring".
NewPipe on Android works pretty well most of the time.
Firefox + uBlock Origin = no youtube ads
No longer working for me. Only way it now works if I'm not logged in to YT.
Don't log in to youtube
Add SponsorBlock and Enhancer for Youtube and you will have (some) peace. There are also addons that remove suggestions, but you can do that with UBO anyway
DeArrow, from the SponsorBlock creator, fixes thumbnails and titles of videos too.
If youtube premium added a feature that filters out AI created slop, it may be worth paying for. I don't know what happened but the amount of it on youtube now is unbelievable.
If YT had a simple ad-free tier that was £10 a month for a family, I would gladly pay for it. But as it stands, they want £20+ just so my wife and I can watch videos on Apple TV without having to tolerate a ridiculous amount of adverts.
So fuck 'em. She watches on her PC with a bunch of adblockers, and I download what I want to watch into my Plex folder. And they get sweet fuck all out of me instead.
This sounds like a problem I'm too PipePiped to understand.
...my wife has a youtube subscription while i don't; the contrast between our experiences is profound...
I've never had any youtube subscription.
Why would I pay for that garbage?
Glad you got away from it.
I definitely don't want to watch ads but would still like to support the creators I enjoy. And apparently views from Premium users pay quite well compared to ad plays.
Then join their patrion or whatever service most youtubers have, and you kbow the money goes directly to the creator
So watch the ads/deal with YouTube being slower with Adblock, and sign up for a lot of Patreon subs?
I’d rather pay the subscription.
No, fuck youtube and support the creators directly, revanced all the way
Consider nebula.tv
(Re)vanced ftw!
I've pretty much exclusively use Revanced (and the original Vanced before that) to watch YouTube over the last 10ish years. 0 ads, sponsor block, remove UI elements I'll never use like the upload button, force a preferred video resolution instead of 'auto' never working (seprate ones for wifi/data).
Vanced never once failed on me; Revanced has failed to play videos twice in 5 years, right after YouTube updates, but reinstalling the latest version immediately fixed that both times.
Thank you! I can't get ReVanced to work on my phone and this is a good alternative
Revanced v19.something stopped working a while ago but I was just using newpipe. Just patched 20.13.41 and its working great.
You're welcome!
I also tried Revanced and I just didn't feel like bothering with the hassle. It's probably more seamless though.
I pay for it but don't use on anything but the TV...
Higher bit rate is worth the money
But god dam. I hate paying Google for it
I pay for a YT subscription, but I use ReVanced on top of that. I can't stand the ad's on top of sponsored segments on top of the shitty, non-customizable, UI.
Other options include the only stable invidious instance, nadeko.net (please create an account if you use it regularly), and installing u-block origin or ad-nauseam.
*I also use NoScript, but I don't think it can do much about ads, on youtube at least.
It's disgusting how something people need to survive is being commercialized and, wait, hold on, you're talking about an online video app.
so what?