I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google’s data harvesting operations
You can also install ReVanced on Android
On my mom’s apple TV?
The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.
They exist; people just don’t take the time to figure it out and give an answer.
As much as I disagree with their practices, Brave browser on iOS will block YT ads.
The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.
We saw Apple’s closed ecosystem as the trap that it is, and avoided it. Can’t really help you if you’re still inside the cage.
You’re also missing out on a bunch of other cool shit, honestly.
But I get it, it is convenient. I’m not mad. I just also can’t help you fly free until you leave the cage.
“Flee the cage” to another company that’s going to limit what I can and can’t load AND is selling my data at every possible moment?
Who’s the one deluding themselves now?
I didn’t recommend Google and I don’t sit in their cage either.
We early adopters are so far further away than you imagine.
Here’s the starter kit, if you’re ready:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint
- ~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS~~
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrapheneOS
Edit: lol. fuck it, you sound angry, and anger might be what you need to go all the way. Added link to GrapheneOs.
So what company do you recommend?
I just installed ReVanced and it’s full of ads. How do I stop that?
There is a chance that its a knock off pretending to be revanced
I’ll have to look into that, thanks for the heads up.
Gonna catch a lot of “get with the times” but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I’ve never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.
In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.
(which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio).
I disabled them in settings a couple of years ago and have not had issues since.
That switch does not work. It turns off the videos but still plays the video versions, which is even worse. I’m not sure it even knows the difference.
