YouTube has ads?
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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The article about crappy ads wants me to turn off my ad blocker, lol
It's the year 2026. Irony is dead.
Firefox with ublock origin for desktop and mobile. Grayjay for mobile (integrates Nebula too so you can get both your feeds at once). Android TV with FCast and Smart Tube Next for your TV. Never see ads again.
A/B testing is showing they are going after people with ad blockers: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-apparently-punishing-ad-blockers-by-hiding-comment-section-3320581/ But your specific combo seems good.
They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I've had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google's latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don't spend staring at a greyed out skip button.
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Wait, YouTube's idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?
Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.
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why not have UBLOCK origin.
I have recently had a funny discussion with a husband of my wife's friend. In short, he's not an IT guy but does run ad blockers on each browser and device as he can. He was wondering why people wont use ad blockers since it is trivial to install and even chrome uBO lite works well on youtube (dunno about that fact, I have migrated to FF as soon as they announced Manifest V3)
Normies just wont. It is just not what they do. And they are the majority.
I'm kinda glad they won't. If I tell you how easy it is to install an ad blocker and you don't, you're just funding my leeching through your data and time that you claim has no value.
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I recommend Peertube. There's not much there yet, but myself and others are trying.
Also, did you know you can upload your video to Peertube and have YouTube pull it via RSS? That's what I'm doing!
All of my stuff you'll find on Peertube and I don't have to do anything else to get it up on YouTube.
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It's so fucking funny though. I would love to pay YouTube. But I will never pay a company that abuses my data the way they do.
There's that, but I'd also like to point out, that as a paying customer, you're still force fed that bottom tier slop with no way to filter it other than hoping some combination of reporting/not interested/don't show me this channel again works.
But even if you say, not to recommend a channel, it can still show up. So you get to pay for low grade AI slop videos. Or "content farms" that take 2 videos and just splice them together for some reason (both horizontal and vertical). Or the "I'm just going to stare at the camera and do nothing while I play a video that's from another platform". Like it's endless.
The "shorts" platform is pure garbage. Can I turn shorts off? No I can "show fewer shorts".
So you pay, to not get ads. They sell ALL your data to double dip (since they selling your data anywho) and there's no benefit for the content. They have all this data, all this tech, and the platform is rot with shit.
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All i read is that nobody will be watching all these ads and YouTube will have to shutdown.
I often entirely forget that youtube and most of the internet is plagued with ads. It's a shock to use a family member's phone or laptop that does not have adblock
The Internet is practically unusable without adblock. Rawdogging the web you get a postage stamp sized amount of content bordered by flashing ads and video ads. No fuckin thanks homie
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Yeah thats enough to push me off the main app, I was already annoyed by the ads, the fact they are going unskippable is a end gamer for me
I just wished there was a app i could load onto my tv and play the videos on there ( i have a samsung so suggestions welcome)
While cstom ROMs of Android TV do exist, Samsung does not want you to truly own your device and has locked it down. The only option I see is to use your TV as a dumb TV: hook up any PC to your TV's HDMI ports (I use a Raspi 5 running Ubuntu for that). The PC gives you full control over what you want to install, which may include an adblocker in the browser or free YouTube frontends such as FreeTube.
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Good thing I use the LibRedirect plugin in Firefox to redirect YouTube link to Invidious.
In addition to uBlock, of course.
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Yeah, no.
Not even an acceptable ad. Burn this site.
I set my VPN to Albania. Ads on YouTube are banned in Albania.
On the web, I be Albanian.