Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.

I've been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It's a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer

I've been meaning to check out this "nature" thing, or whatever it's called. It's basically like, just lakes and woods and the sky and all kinda weird shit like that. Supposed to be pretty cool I guess, idk

Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It's basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.

Revanced

there is mv3 version of ubo here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i 'need to' look at a yt vid.

adguard's free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable 'acceptable ads' and ignore offer to 'upgrade' to a paid version) is, too.

"Not as well as uBlock Origin" is the answer to that.

I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox.

I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn't work well last time I tried.

I heard the graphics are really good. And the framerates extremely high. But there are mosquitoes so it's probably not worth it.

The latest version works fine.

I'm still self hosting Invidious... Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube...

I find funny, that after watching YouTube for not over an hour, my ublock icon already says >1k

Dunno, why learn to read, everything is already on the internet

Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox.

️ And it works, I can confirm.

You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯

I have yet to see my first ad on any youtube video.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

testing

Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won't roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!

I watch youtube on a smart TV where I don't have a way to skip ads. I know there are ways to do it, I just never implemented.

The experience with Youtube is getting so much worse. It used to be one ad at the start of the video. Then it was two. And now ads in the middle of the video. They are also so long! It completely breaks the narrative of the video and is so distracting.

All of this just makes me want to watch less Youtube, which is likely not a bad thing.

Link? Or just Google it?