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Are there any apps that absolutely definitely kill 100% of YouTube ads?
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Title says it all, really. Are there, if so what are their names, and do they have any issues I should be aware of?
Thanks. Oh, and subscription (other than “lifetime”) apps are off the list for me - best to get that out of the way now.
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I have the paid version of Adguard for iOS, it effectively blocks all the Youtube ads on Safari. I don't know if this extends to the Youtube app.
And no, I will not pay a Youtube subscription, or pay a single dollar to a company with contracts with the US Army.
Eventually, I suppose that I give some money in the form of ads to my favorite content developers, when I watch Youtube on my Android TV.
But in my Mac and in my iPad, they are 100% blocked on Safari.
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I can't recommend this Safari extension highly enough. It replaces YouTube videos with standard HTML5 video tags so you get all the benefits of native video controls, buttons where the hit zone isn't designed to trick you into clicking the wrong thing, no stupid gurning faces appearing all over the video you're trying to watch, no annoying popovers telling you to subscribe. It also just happens to have the pleasant side-effect of removing ads too.
You could actually PAY for YouTube to get rid of the ads (I know, revolutionary concept). You don't actually think they offer their service for free, do you?
https://www.youtube.com/premium
You don't like YouTube because they have some kind of business arrangement with the US Army? Then why do you continue to leech off them for free videos? When you watch YouTube, you still count as a viewer, which contributes to their headcount. That makes their service more valuable to advertisers. You're just rationalizing stealing from them because you still use the service.
Because I like to abuse of the abusers.
Same thing with Spotify, I use an old Mac version with the add and update servers blocked.
In compensation, I made the compromise with myself of spending each month the same amount of a Spotify or Apple Music subscription, paying for one or two releases on Bandcamp.
In this way, the independent artists that I listen will see money, instead of the ridiculous fee that they receive from streaming services.
I use Brave brower and open youtube there.
You're just a thief who is rationalizing what you would be doing anyway. If you want to be consistent, stop watching and using those services or suffer through the ads like the rest of us.
All of the Ad blockers no matter how good will only work if you go to YouTube via their inbuilt browsers but not if you use The YouTube app which I do all the time at least that’s my experience I am always open to learn something new
If they only work with YouTube in browser, that is fine. So, recommendations for any others that work that way are still welcome.
In theory, the Adguard paid app includes a DNS server that you can activate to remove ads from apps. Never tried this so I don't know if it extends to the Youtube app, I don't want to give access to all my navigation data to an external company. Indeed, this defies the purpose of using Adguard, that it's to regain my privacy on internet.
I’ve had no issues since installing this a few weeks ago
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/fytube-youtube-without-ads/id1610668825
I f***ing hate Google’s politics but I pay for a family sub so we have no ads and other things I have no interest in. We use it endlessly so I’ll pay them.
Reading your posts is like stepping in dog shit.
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Hey, no need to insult other fellow user. @NeuM has the right to have his own vision of things and ethics, like I have mine. And we can talk politely each other, without using disrespectful words.
*like slapping a dog
I can recommend wipr using it on all my devices. Blocks YouTube ads and is a very affordable app without any subscription plan. Very happy with it.
Surprised no one else recommended it so far.
https://apps.apple.com/app/wipr/id1030595027
I definitely get what you’re saying but I feel like simply just using the app does the same thing. Either way you’re giving them clicks and views, which makes them more money. I reluctantly pay for the premium version simply because I use YouTube way too much not to. No ads and background play are musts for me.
I really miss downloading films from usenet. Youtube came along only about 15 years ago but didn’t immediately replace that nice feeling of stealing films over usenet – the feeling of paying absolutely zero money to watch the latest films shot from a dodgy camcorder at odd angles in the cinema with people passing by in front of you. All for free. Except for the high volume usage from one’s ISP account, and also subscription to a proper usenet account, and the vast amounts of blank CDs and later DVDs. And a good burner, and maybe more than one, and lots of expensive hard drive space. And…
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The 100% surefire way to stop all YouTube ads is to pay for Youtube Premium.
It doesn’t fit with your beliefs, but does answer the thread’s title.
This! Brave browser works perfectly
Reading back through the thread is like going back 20 years and reading the old audiowarez justification posts…
“Link for Cubase6-fixed PDX plz??”
By allusions, is fun to see the audiowarez argument to defend streaming platforms, specially Spotify.
Spotify was funded by Sean Parker, the same guy that created Naptser, offering pirated music with the justification that the price was too high.
Of course, when he completely devaluated the music market, he created a service with which he considered the "fair" price. With the platform earning much more money than the musicians. And he had this capacity of negotiation because of course, by encouraging the piracy, music was a much less valuable consumable, thanks to him.
This shitty model of distributing the profits has been copied by the rest of streaming platforms.
If you want to support a musician, buy his recordings from Bandcamp. If you consider that a Youtube creator does something that you can't live without, donate money to his/her Patreon. I personally don't donate to any youtuber (and I sure can live without Youtube), by I donate money each year to the selected press media that I read (press compromised with social change), even when all of those articles can be read for free.
And if you ask me, I don't have a single plugin pirated in my computer, and since I moved to desktop this Christmas, I'm investing 200 euros each month, slowly building my virtual studio.
So if you want to talk of the streaming pie and how the money is distributed, don't derail the thread to other subjects, not in a forum in which a majority of users consider to pay 10 dollars for an iOS app is too much. And I don't criticize this, probably, in most countries outside of we American and European privileged people, this can become a high sum.
Where exactly in my post did I defend Spotify or Napster or literally anyone or anything at all?
Great question in a forum where definitely no one relies on ads and ad revenue for their business…
This is so well timed for me. I came to the end of my tether this morning when the song I was listening to stopped for an ad break, 30 seconds in. That's it, for me.
I would love the peace and convenience of an app or extension that blocks it all, I want the creators I watch to get paid. I Just don't want to see them, I don't want to hear them, I don't want to wait for them to finish and i don't want to have to click off them every time they appear.
My solution, going forward, will be to use JDownloader 2. With this, I'll download the content I want to watch. In return, I'll let the video play in a muted tab in the browser (Will probably use a separate browser, just for this purpose). This way, not only does the creator get full playback of the ads they place, but also full playback of the adverts that Youtube now imposes on creators. Moreover, they'll also benefit from 100% watch time).
In the case of music or tutorial videos that I'll likely play more than once, I'll make playlists for those creators. At random intervals, I'll let an entire playlist run, to account for the extra views.
The downside of this idea is that it needs a little bit more forethought and planning of what to watch.
The upsides of this are that it needs a little bit more forethought and planning of what to watch...thereby being able to make more conscious decisions about what's important to watch, and not just wasting time. Also, creators get much more watch-time and ad-revenue from me than they ever did with all the skipping I was 'forced' to do.
The issue with this, for me, is that I don't think the right people are getting paid. I'd pay for a subscription (at least, when i could afford one) if I knew that the money I paid was being split between YT and the creators I watch, with the creators receiving at least 80% of that balance. I'd want to know that that $8 was being split between all the creators I watched that month, and weighted appropriately depending on watch time.
While I don't think YT should offer their service for free, I also don't think they're as important as the creators that populate the platform with content.
This sounds like so much more effort than watching a 30 sec ad…
I found that mobile ios have no ads on start with safari. Probably as they detect a cellular connection and don’t want to risk extra long delays loading. Maybe it’s my rubbish data ?
If on safari. While on YouTube video, request mobile and see if that loads video better.
Doesn’t stop other ads but I agree. It’s become unwatchable on YouTube. I was tempted to use something else like Vimeo.