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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

SmartTubeNext is what you want on TV platforms. You can turn shorts off. It blocks ads. And it has sponsorblock so it is configurable to additionally skip sponsor segments, self-promotion, intros, outros.

And as others have pointed out, you can also block them in browser with Ublock Origins and with Revanced which covers the desktop and mobile platforms.

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

I might have to look into that. I do wonder how it could know when a segment is sponsored.

I don't care that much about the ads since we already have Premium so we don't see the ads anyways.

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

It's crowdsourced and works quite well, been using it for the last year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Premium doesn't skip the ads in the videos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what 2X speed is for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well this is a passive function.

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

What I want is a YouTube viewer that cuts out ads that I can use on my Mac or my iPhone to use on my TV with a Chromecast.

Chromecast is how I view all my TV content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You'll have to take that up with Apple. They're the ones dictating that you can't use any of the wonderful apps we have on Android.

As for Chromecast, SmartTube Next is what you want

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

Check out https://ghcr.io/nichobi/sponsorblockcast - run it on your LAN, and it’ll use SponsorBlock to clean up any YouTube-Chromecast stream you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And of course the thing I mentioned has now been superseded by https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip