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Why I no longer use a VPN (most of the time) and nor should you - YouTube (youtu.be)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock + third party mobile client is the solution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually I use Freetube with sponsorblock on the desktop and Newpipe with sponsorblock on Android. So I mostly don't see shitty sponsors anymore.

But my Formuler TV box - which runs Android - has some weird crashing problem with the default Newpipe player, so I have to use an external player (MX Player) which doesn't have sponsorblock, sadly.

So whenever I want to watch Youtube videos on my TV, I have to eat some NordVPN shilling - at least a little bit, just time for me to grab the remote and skip it - and I'm too cheap to replace the TV box.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You could try Smart Tube which has built in adblock and sponsorblock and see if that works better on your android tv box

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

SmartTube works very well. The problem is, it requires a Youtube account to have subscriptions, playlists and the like. That's a hard no for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Fair enough, completely understandable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Shout out for Smart Tube, the best YT app on smart boxes/android TVs, never had any issues