What’s hilarious about this article is that I’m actually getting YouTube premium for free as some kind of bonus to my phone service yet I’m still using ad blockers on it and everything else. I really don’t give a shit. If they want to get better at injecting ads I’m going to place my bets on ad blockers getting better at blocking them. Or just not using YouTube. Cause, quite frankly, most of my favorite creators are on Nebula anyway and I pay for that service.
You can use the brave browser on android. As of now it blocks youtube ads.
Added bonus it saves on your data plan because wouldn’t ya know it, the copious amounts of ads they shove in our faces uses a lot of data… that we already pay for. I’m not paying my cell provider for data just so advertisers can use it to try to get me to pay for more shit I don’t need.
Oh I didn’t know ublock was available on mobile with Firefox! Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to switch since I use ublock with Firefox on my pc and I prefer that for privacy protection
On iOS I have to use some niche app that lets me circumvent YouTube asking me for my ID but if it doesn’t want ID vinegar extension and wipr works for ads. Vinegar replaces the whole player I wonder if it will work for server side ads
Ad blockers are useful for more than just YouTube. So they are not going anywhere. However it will be a bummer if we can no longer block YouTube ads.
On android I have to endure the ads but on desktop I never see them.
I use revanced:
Revanced manager: https://revanced.app/download
MicroG: https://github.com/revanced/gmscore/releases/tag/v0.3.1.3.240913
You also get SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike right in the app (+ many other ui and functionality modifications)
I have premium and still use it just for this.
What’s hilarious about this article is that I’m actually getting YouTube premium for free as some kind of bonus to my phone service yet I’m still using ad blockers on it and everything else. I really don’t give a shit. If they want to get better at injecting ads I’m going to place my bets on ad blockers getting better at blocking them. Or just not using YouTube. Cause, quite frankly, most of my favorite creators are on Nebula anyway and I pay for that service.
Use newpipe on Android, no ads
Or even better Tubular or LibreTube
NewPipe, Libretube, Revanced are the way to go!
For some reason New Pipe just doesn’t work on my me device
Try pipepipe on f-droid
Thanks I’ll give it a shot
I use Firefox and just use the web browser. You can even listen to YouTube with the screen off. Plus Firefox add ons/extensions
If you’re on Android, use revanced
Try LibreTube. Or Firefox Mobile with Ublock Origin. Or one of many other solutions. You don’t need to watch YouTube ads on Android.
You can use the brave browser on android. As of now it blocks youtube ads.
Added bonus it saves on your data plan because wouldn’t ya know it, the copious amounts of ads they shove in our faces uses a lot of data… that we already pay for. I’m not paying my cell provider for data just so advertisers can use it to try to get me to pay for more shit I don’t need.
Firefox with ublock origin also works on mobile
Or another alternative is the app grayjay
Oh I didn’t know ublock was available on mobile with Firefox! Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to switch since I use ublock with Firefox on my pc and I prefer that for privacy protection
On iOS I have to use some niche app that lets me circumvent YouTube asking me for my ID but if it doesn’t want ID vinegar extension and wipr works for ads. Vinegar replaces the whole player I wonder if it will work for server side ads