Can't say I've seen them.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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What ads? My adblocker still works.
Firefox + Ublock Origin
also works on android
Yep, this works! No ads.
What if you only use the apps?
Lookup Grayjay
RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You'll have to side load it yourself, but it's got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don't want to hear shilling during a video.
No idea for iPhone.
Why not just use the original ReVanced?
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"But we can't pay our content creators! We're a starving tech company! Niche stuff no one uses or has heard of! We needed to cut the money so they had to push scams!"
... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
And since they made so much while people are effectively using adblocker, there's no need to fight them back, right?
Right?
It's not about making money, it's about making all the money. Stock holders will pressure to fire the guy that does that.
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I dont see ads a since 2 years, for FREE. Android https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular Android TV https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ For others Brave browser, or Firefox based with uBlock extension.
Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that's much more important for the platform.
Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...
The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
Nope. I was well into negative on Reddit for the same.
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