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by Nas808 1367 days ago
That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.
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I don’t have much sympathy. When you bought those you gave up your ability to run your own software on them. That’s really why they sell them.
You could just buy YouTube premium.

Cancel Spotify, buy YouTube premium. Get both ad free videos and music on the same platform.

Or I could rip my legally purchased* CDs and give the finger to the leeches and rent seekers that fuck us almost as hard as they do the artists. Yes I support corporate genocide.

* lol

youtube premium is not a spotify replacement. Youtube is in no way built to be a music playback app.
“music playback app”?

YouTube is at least as good as the vinyl record player. It is also the sole location for countless live audio/video recordings of musical performance. It works fine as a “music playback app” and is, to emphasize, an _awesome_ and convenient resource of live music performance.

That's why every YouTube premium subscription includes YouTube music which is a decent Spotify replacement.
On Android you can use Firefox with Ublock Origin. I wish SponsorBlock was available though.

The NewPipe Android app is another option and there is a fork that includes SponsorBlock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases

https://smarttubenext.com/ on Android TV (I use an nvidia shield) works great.

In-video youtube sponsors were some of the last advertising I was exposed to. Glad to be rid of them.

Pihole with ad blocking or an OpenWRT (or really any router) router with ad blocking DNS is an alternative.
The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.
Can they evade uBo, too? I had a stretch where I was getting them in FF with uBo & Privacy badger, even after updating all rules, but then they started being blocked again on their own.
iOS can do DNS adblocking natively. https://adguard.com/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html Doesn't work for youtube because they're serving the ads first party.
> YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS

Not for me. (Typed from iOS + Brave.)

smarttubenext for Google TV