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People do nothing but incessantly complain about thing- yet still use thing. News flash folks; You’re never going to win this. YouTube will always be ahead of you on this.

And also… I’ll never understand this. I use YouTube and don’t give a shit about ads. The moment they start bothering me- I’ll stop using YouTube. It’s that easy. Don’t like it, walk away.

If you hate something so much, yet can’t stop using it- you have an addiction. Ads are not the problem here.

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I stay a few steps ahead of them. I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in months.

Firefox with ublock origin on desktop / laptop

Grayjay mobile app

Smarttube on Android TV (also Flauncher customer launcher so I don’t have to see any ads on my TV home screen)

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Hmmm, so what you are saying is that I am just one ad blocker failing away from being productive in life?

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They’ve started serving ads when you skip backwards. Drives me fucking nuts.

I was willing to use the mobile app with ads because the interface is slightly less buggy.

Ad blocking on mobile web it is for me now 👍

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Tubular :)

Had to jump into the ‘name your alternative’ thread hehe.

Tubular because it includes SponsorBlock.

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Tubular feels better, in my opinion.

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Revanced ftw

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newpipe

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PornHub has been doing this. A little popup comes on screen when you pause the video for the first time.

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lol, ads

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Lol, YouTube

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