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by coayer 2100 days ago
Ublock origin blocks YouTube ads, so you don't need to imagine!
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I always forget YouTube has ads until someone else shows me a video on their device and I'm like "Why do we have deal with 2 minutes of insurance sales for a 30 second video of two dogs playing?"
I have tried not to use uBlock because I understand that this is ad supported content, but Youtube is just killing me with the ads now. I don't think I'll be able to hold out. Literally every 5 minutes they break in with two commercials. It's worse than broadcast TV.
YouTube Premium is $10/month and I know I use YouTube enough to justify the cost.

For everything else, there's PiHole

Do you know how content creators are compensated when Premium users watch their channels?
According to LTT (one of the WAN shows), they’re compensated better than people who watch ads
That's cool.

(Safari broke that extension though.)

why are you using safari? genuine question