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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Use newpipe on Android, no ads

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or even better Tubular or LibreTube

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

NewPipe, Libretube, Revanced are the way to go!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love newpipe except for one very annoying quirk: if you pause a video for more than a few minutes it "breaks" and skips to the end of the video when you hit play again.

For long videos this is very annoying, but I'll gladly pay that "price" if it means I don't have to hear 25261516 insanely annoying advertisements a day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is a recent thing caused by the changes YT has been making, at the moment we've been given multiple quick fixes while the community continues to investigate AFAIK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

By the language you used it sounds like you're involved with the project, so thank you!

If it helps at all I've been experiencing this issue for probably 6 months or more. I've just gotten into the habit of adding videos to playlists and closing the video after i know it has been paused for a while. If I open it again from the playlist it picks back up where I was.

Also oddly enough if it skips to the end and I let it go to the next video (not in playlist, but whatever it would have played next) then I hit "back" it will (usually? I haven't tried too many times) pick up where it should have been from when I paused it.

Edit: actually nevermind "we've been given fixes" would imply you're one of us plebs! Thanks for the info anyway lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason New Pipe just doesn't work on my me device

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try pipepipe on f-droid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks I'll give it a shot