155 points

Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.

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I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.

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Doesn’t seem to work on the PS5

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14 points

Can it run Firefox?

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I’m sure it could

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That’s what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.

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11 points

What an awful way to conduct yourself. Try and be better my guy.

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8 points

That is not the right way to treat each other. Playing the blaming game does only benifits such companies to keep us devided and occupied while they continue to enshitify everything.

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I understand why you said this but you did not need to act like you have some higher moral standard because of it. Some people want to play video games without having to even THINK about the possibility of a game asking you to tweak a config to get the optimal experience, especially if youre a linux gamer. There are no options for people who want a console without a walled garden. Your closest shot is the Steam Deck, but the steam deck is shot in the knee by every company who uses an anti-cheat.

Before you say they just shouldnt play those games, consider the fact that some people aren’t willing to give up things they already have for Something new and unfamiliar they have to spent months to learn and years to master.

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8 points

I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?

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PiHole

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39 points

YouTube serves ads from the same domains that serves the video so you can’t block ads with pihole for YouTube

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11 points

Quick google search suggests the ads come from same domain as youtube, so wouldnt be blocked.

Back to muting ads and reading lemmy on my phone

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If you an android based tv or stick you can install smarttube. The sticks are pretty cheap now, worth it.

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You will still experience ads on devices if you use **only** a pihole. Many content providers (like YouTube / Reddit / Twitch / Spotify / Pandora / Facebook / IMDB / Hulu) now stream/serve ads from the same servers as the content (meaning if you attempt to block the ads using a PiHole you will also block the content).

It’s still worthwhile to use a pihole on your local network. This will be the device that helps reduce the amount of ads and blocks telemetry data on devices (mobile device / streaming box / etc) that you can’t utilize some or all of the traditional blocking methods (hosts files / browser plugins / etc). The Pi can also have additional software installed (I recommend PiVPN) to extend these blocking capabilities **securely** when you’re not on your “home” wifi.

Your best bet for blocking any and all ads/telemetry/etc is a multitiered approach of a PiHole as well as browser plugins: uBlock origin / Privacy Badger / CanvasBlocker on Firefox or Canvas Defender on Chrome / Decentraleyes / Smart Referer / Ugly Email / Pixel Block / other security browser plugins (as necessary) to prevent ads and protect your privacy.

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Haven’t personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it’s ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don’t know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.

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What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?

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Playlet for Roku and Clipious and/or SmartTube for android-TV based devices (fire tv)

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DNS/piblock

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You will still experience ads on devices if you use **only** a pihole. Many content providers (like YouTube / Reddit / Twitch / Spotify / Pandora / Facebook / IMDB / Hulu) now stream/serve ads from the same servers as the content (meaning if you attempt to block the ads using a PiHole you will also block the content).

It’s still worthwhile to use a pihole on your local network. This will be the device that helps reduce the amount of ads and blocks telemetry data on devices (mobile device / streaming box / etc) that you can’t utilize some or all of the traditional blocking methods (hosts files / browser plugins / etc). The Pi can also have additional software installed (I recommend PiVPN) to extend these blocking capabilities **securely** when you’re not on your “home” wifi.

Your best bet for blocking any and all ads/telemetry/etc is a multitiered approach of a PiHole as well as browser plugins: uBlock origin / Privacy Badger / CanvasBlocker on Firefox or Canvas Defender on Chrome / Decentraleyes / Smart Referer / Ugly Email / Pixel Block / other security browser plugins (as necessary) to prevent ads and protect your privacy.

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DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won’t skip sponsored segments though, you’ll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they’ve decided to shill.

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DeArrow is really good too.

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Please do not use Sponserblock unless you support that creator in some other way; or you just don’t care about them.

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I’m allergic to advertisement, I’d rather not watch a video at all than watching the ads in it. SponsorBlock for me is just an automation of what I would do anyway pressing forward 5-7 times to jump over this section. I will not buy this stuff anyway it’s just a waste of my time. I go even so far that I don’t mind paying for YouTube Premium because this removes the advertisement, but there is no way to pay for skipping sponsors automatically other than SponsorBlock.

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Creators don’t get money for you watching their sponsorship, only if you click through and do something with it

If you don’t plan on interacting with the sponsorship we then blocking it just saves time

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The Tuber already got paid by the sponsor. And sponsors look at click trough and conversion rates not views. If I’m not going to buy what they are selling me I might as well skip the ad. I don’t need NordVPN or Squarespace or whatever shit they are trying to push on me.

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If you want to support a creator, give them a quarter and block the ads. Seriously. That quarter is worth more than any ad revenue they will ever get from you watching their videos.

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uhm yeah just as I said in the comment.

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7 points

Please do not try to shame people for exercising their property rights (i.e. their right to control what their computer displays, or doesn’t display).

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I legit hate this take. YT was started as a way for everyone to share videos with each other, not be a corporate pusher for those that want to ‘go big’. The fact that YT even offered profit sharing is awful.

Yeah, go ahead and support who you like. But don’t sit there and be like “you’re hurting them if you don’t pay them and you don’t want their bullshit ads”. Get the fuck out of here with that shit. “creators” who “make a living” from YT are the reason YT is a cesspool of dogshit now. If you aren’t on YT because of a genuine desire to simply share videos, without expecting monitary kickbacks to support your life, gtfo. The support should come naturally through other avenues.

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you could have just saved all of that when you read my comment. “unless you support that creator in some other way” you know, like your mentioned natural other avenues?

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If anything it should be the other way around since sponsor spots don’t make money per person watching them.

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They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they’re big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they’ve chosen to sell doesn’t affect them financially.

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sponsorblock lets you unskip things so you can watch any sponsor you like. it also helps skip all sorts of non content, not just ads so it’s useful either way. you can set it to auto skip, no skip, manual skip prompt, only marked for any type of content (intro, intermission, filler, sponsor etc) not using it is just stupid.

with all that said, I don’t think sponsorblock affects creators at all. I highly doubt sponsors look at how much specific sections of a video has been watched. they only care about how popular a creator is, who their audience is and what they say during the sponsored section.

even if they decide whether to continue sponsoring based on how well the previous sponsored video did, the important metric would be the view count of the video, not how many people watched or skipped an ad section specifically.

if that were important creators wouldn’t split their sponsored sections in time codes they provide because they know it’s an easy skip. more importantly regardless of the creators, the sponsors would simply ask not to do it as part of the agreement. (inb4 legal requirement: I’m not talking about disclosure; I’m talking time codes specifically)

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48 points

Drink the verification can

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That meme was prophetic.

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Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we’re not far now…

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in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads

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Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head

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You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.

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P.K. Dick’s novels were not an instructional manual, dammit :(

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Light speed brand briefs‽ I need to pick up a pair.

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7 points

Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!

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3 points

You’re describing ADHD meds

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Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this

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🏴‍☠️

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wait what this is real

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Wow is this a clip from Archie’s Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I’d see that online.

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Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.

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Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time

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What kind of ads are in your car besides the radio?

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w…wait , really?

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2 points

ford just filed a patent for an idea similar to this but I’m not sure if its in production yet or if OP is talking about Something else.

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2 points

Not for ads but for looking forward if you take your eyes off the road it cancels the auto drive. They can apply it to looking at ads very easily

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I usually don’t watch YouTube on my playstation but yesterday I did and every 10 minutes it played a 2-minute unskippable ad and I simply turned off my TV. 10/10 very effective.

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That’s been my experience going to some of my friend’s houses. It’s despicable that Google thinks this is acceptable.

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I swear I don’t understand how people without adblock can stand any website these days…

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Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi

I’ve got one thing to way to you

Ublock origin

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Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?

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Kath & Kim is one of Australia’s finest cultural exports

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I would like to inform you that Canadian gays love 2 shows from Oz; “Kath and Kim”, as well as “Please like me”.

Wentworth is a little extra, but it has it’s camp moments.

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You should checkout Black Comedy, from SBS

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