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I like the game grumps and Lex Fridman. The documentaries are cool, but I have to watch them in a different container or YouTube will start feeding me 30 minute ads or rants that sound reasonable but are super bigoted and flawed when you actually think about it
Reddit meant more to me than anything else I do online, and I committed to leaving it behind even before I found Lemmyā¦ YouTube is barely worth it even without the ads. And Iāve got a whole fediverse of video content to investigate
This is why I would not want to pay a subscription to YouTube. I donāt trust that they would ever truely work out all the ads
For Android TV you have Smart Tube Next
Do you happen to know of a replacement for Youtube Vanced? It stopped getting supported due to cease and desist, and now it only works like half the timeā¦ (idk why youtube doesnāt create a version check and make it not work all the time, but w/e lmao Iāll take what I can get)
Iām also a premium YT subscriber and if I see this or they kick me off for using PiHole, Iāll cancel my account and just set up some automation with YT-DLP to Plex or Infuse for channels I like watching. If youtube decided that itās their turn to get shitty like the rest of the popular internet, Iāll be beyond upset.
You can actually set up firewall settings to block any traffic coming from the ads, the only way they can stop that form of ad block is to block the personās IP address.