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Sometimes I get an empty video player for 5-10s before the video starts, still better than looking at an ad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yea I put in the effort and set up my pinchflat quadlet again. Fuck this.
Well, i wont watch ads. If it comes to it i'd rather have a program thats recording videos in real time so i can skip the ad segments later in my recording like in the good old vhs times.
The ads themselves got worse too, not just about skipping them.
I see toooooooooo many ads about Taichi for men over 60. Fml, now it becomes Military calisthenic for men over 40.....
Also those ads with the zombie games....
SmartTube is pretty good on AndroidTV: SponsorBlock, DeArrow, no ads, etc.
At least while we're still able to sideload... 😔
Why are these companies wanting to pay to infuriate me? If I want to watch something and I’m suddenly interrupted by a 90 second unskippable intrusion I’m not going to have a positive relationship with your company.
It's like they want people to block ads holy crap. Next chance I get I'm installing invidious on my parent's roku so they can skip this garbage.
We who use Firefox are very fortunate right now since it still blocks all ads and I hope that will continue forever.
I used chromium to test YouTube without it, and its just completely unusable.
I love revanced so much..
You might want to check out morphe..
YouTube premium is so overpriced for a single user. Family however, dam that shits a deal when you take advantage of it.
Do yourself a favor and never turn on WiFi on your smart TV, get an android streaming box, and install projectivy launcher on it. Then you can sideload smartube the adfree YouTube client with downvotes, dearrow and sponsorblock built in.
Alternatively, a docked Steam Decl with the Grayjay flatpak works pretty well. You can even add it to Steam for easy access through game mode
For everyone using an Android based platform: Just install Smarttube. It don't show ads and has sponsorblock and dearrow integrated
