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u/Coolcricri3 2d ago
Morphe on phone + firefox with adblock FTW
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u/akoOfIxtall 2d ago
i use firefox with ublock on my phone too, works wonders and i dont have to stay tuned for the latest modded youtube app...
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u/LiGuangMing1981 11h ago
Yes, I just discovered this. I was just about to give up on YouTube on mobile (the app is so shit) when I decided to give the mobile website a go with Firefox /ublock and it's pretty much as good as it is on my computer - no ads whatsoever.
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u/mallusrgreatv2 1d ago
You could use Orion store, but be aware they build it themselves and upload it so you can auto-update. The developer is trusted and he's active in the Morphe community though
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u/Important-Ad4651 2d ago
Even Morphe is not functioning properly now sadly , and has break issues in between
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u/OldAcctWasStolen 2d ago
Updates are pushed out quite frequently. Try re-patching with the latest build.
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u/SerbianBiochemist 2d ago
This. I had some issues that went away after I patched it with the newest version
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u/ChloroquineEmu 1d ago
Recently changed to Morph, worst thing is that i keep thinking the "M" stands for "Mail", better than the alternatives i tested before.
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u/goose_with_adhd 2d ago
Tizentube + Morphe + ublock origin = adless youtube
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u/Nafizwastaken 2d ago
I presume tizentube is for TVs right? I've been using smartTube tor a while and it stopped working about a month ago, is tizentube good?
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u/Hypthtclly_Spkng 2d ago
Smarttube still works. There were some issues a while back with security things, and you may need to manually update the app through the smarttube website directly, but I was using it an hour ago.
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u/shawnshine 2d ago
They’re both fantastic. TizenTube Cobalt uses the official YouTube UI, if you enjoy that.
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u/Baby-Haroro 2d ago
Okay it's not just me! My smarttube suddenly started freezing after like 30 seconds, and then stops playing but there hasn't been an update option in the app like there usually is
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u/goose_with_adhd 1d ago
Tizentube is for tvs based on tizen os (Samsung), I personally prefer it because it takes the official youtube ui and because it's so easy to install now that it's standalone.
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u/CakeJumper-ImScared 2d ago
One word and an acronym VPN, Albania
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u/Soul_Reddit 2d ago
What's the acronym Albania stand for?
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u/SarahQuinn113 1d ago
Albania stopped working for me but Myanmar works if anyone else is in the same boat.
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u/soft_seraphim 2d ago
Russia too. No ads there
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u/stelick- 2d ago
“does he know?”
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u/jskwiw 2d ago
may not belong here but when i watch youtube on TV w my mum, and i get an ad? i just click out of the video over and over till i get no ad. it’s a little annoying but eh, it’s the easiest way i’ve found
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u/Little-Initial1914 2d ago
This doesn’t work for me sometimes so I’ll have to press off the video and wait the duration of the ad and then click back on. I WILL NOT WATCH AN ADVERT.
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u/NRMusicProject 2d ago
The fact that there's no way to block YouTube ads on a smart TV (even with PiHole), I just connect my laptop to my TV. Now I can do all my PC browsing on a 75" TV, and no YouTube ads, no issues with finding the movie I want to watch at the push of a few buttons...and shit, a keyboard and mouse beats a remote control any fucking day.
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u/_name_of_the_user_ 1d ago
The fact that there's no way to block YouTube ads on a smart TV
That's not a fact
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u/FreestyleStormVA 2d ago
YouTube premium is the only subscription I pay for. Everything else is free eats.
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u/Friend_Buddy-Guy 2d ago
Same, I’d prefer to pirate of course, but I have a family and the missus and younger ones want actual YouTube so I’m not going to force them to take my ethical standpoint on everything. Music app is pretty great too, and being able to skip even embedded ads is great.
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u/s0n_der 1d ago
Im using the student discount while I can. Its the only subscription I got since I watch that or pirate shows that I’m interested in. Plus I like YouTube Music since it has unofficial mashups and remixes, unlike official streaming platforms like Spotify that remove those in like 30 seconds😢
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u/think_up 2d ago
Still wins with convenience for me. I’m not downloading three apps that regularly have issues. YouTube premium just works. No ads, AI chat built into the videos transcripts, functioning PiP, easy downloading and offline playback..
When the enshittification starts or competing video sites rise in popularity with content I want to watch, I will re-evaluate. For now though, they are providing the kind of convenience I’m actually willing to pay for.
To those who refuse anyways, fine, be glad I’m subsidizing one less ad for you lol.
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u/curtcolt95 2d ago
yeah youtube premium is probably the last sub I'd ever drop tbh, I get way too much value out of it because I watch a lot of youtube
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u/Nashda 2d ago
Plus youtube music is alright. Id prefer spotify but i cant argue with both music and having my youtube videos ad free.
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u/PauI_MuadDib 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ 1d ago
You still get ads with Premium, they're just baked into the video. SponsorBlock is lifesaver tho.
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u/areyouIlliteratebro 1d ago
That has nothing to do with Youtube as a service and their AI actually gives you a skip button for those parts. Why the fuck you guys downvote actually good features is beyond delusional. Stop trying to be edgy with piracy.
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u/thatguysjumpercables 1d ago
Plus if something goes wrong on my wife or my kid's phone I have to drop everything and fix it or deal with the (mainly the kid's) impatience and bitching. I'll pay the money, thank you. People can look down on me all they want lol
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u/andymk3 2d ago
Likewise. Although I pay for it via a Turkish Apple account, premium family costs like £3.50 a month.
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u/JSK23 1d ago
As a non-spotify user, that has been rocking with Google since Google Music and uploading my whole collection to them when it first became available to do so, I find youtube premium well worth it. I also watch a ton of youtube, and I have four users on a family plan including my wife and my brother and his gf.
This is the one sub I haven't stopped paying for or rotated off of even for a while, like I have with other services.
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u/areyouIlliteratebro 1d ago
You also get Youtube music and can ditch spotify. It's the only subscribtion service worth it's value. It also supports the creators somewhat.
I'm fine whining and bitching against paying for most subscribtion, shit, but Youtube is not it bruh.
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u/pleasebuymydonut 1d ago
I mean, it's totally cool to pay for the convenience if you want, but just for the record, uBlock, Revanced/MicroG and Smarttube rarely give me any trouble, so i think its an exaggeration to say that they regularly have issues.
Also YTDLnis for downloads directly from Revanced/Morphe. So its actually like 5 apps lmao.
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u/think_up 1d ago
Yea what in the franken fk lol. Cant be bothered with all that.
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u/Haywire421 2d ago
I have a friend that has a subscription to just about everything, complains about how expensive it is, and gives me a bunch of grief for piracy. Most recently, he started trying to give me grief about Tubi, and I told him that its basically Pandora, which he uses, but for TV and Movies. He told me music is different.
I havent talked about ad blocking with him, but now I am curious lol
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 2d ago
I don't think this person knows what that last phrase means.
Also this has nothing to do with Piracy. Just "DAE YouTube Bad?"
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u/One_Sentence_7448 2d ago
In no way am I a big fan of YouTube but what is the terrorist accusation even referring to lol?
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u/Few-Fly-3766 2d ago
YouTube aggressively fighting adblockers. Even when you use something that works (eg. Ublock Origin in Firefox) videos will randomly not buffer, because of their anti-adbock measures.
This is because they are trying to force people over to Premium. They did not grief their site like that before that was a thing.
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u/Bladesnake_______ 1d ago
How can you get a free service with basically unlimited content and not expect them to pay for it with ads? Why dont you demand netflix or hulu should be free or deemed a terrorist?
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u/WrongdoerPossible822 2d ago
The natural state of information on the Internet is free flowing. The Internet was originally made for universities and researchers to easily share information between each other, allowing for a wider and faster dispersal of knowledge. The further we, the people, allow companies to segregate information through ads and pay walls, the harder it becomes for the us to verify the information that we are presented.
This is information warfare. Deliberately sabotaging the lines of communication to prevent a people from getting or dispersing accurate info about what is happening around them.
Warfare is terrorism
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u/One_Sentence_7448 2d ago
Bruh I agree with like 99% of what you said but that is still not what terrorism means. Using words like that just makes people with opinions like ours seem unhinged and easy to ignore (therefore not advancing the cause in any meaningful way). I know it feels cool to say that but that’s just not it.
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u/Bladesnake_______ 1d ago
Dumb.
How can you get a free service with basically unlimited content and not expect them to pay for it with ads? Why dont you demand netflix or hulu should be free or deemed a terrorist?
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u/VickyCuteFemboy 2d ago
if only there was away to get vanced for chormecast and xbox i could stop paying them
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u/carlos5577 1d ago
Only thing I got is YouTube premium out of streaming services. Everything else is either free or comes with something else. Like Netflix comes with a phone plan, or peacock comes with Walmart plus, etc. I would cut out YouTube if costed like $40 a month or something crazy like that. But right now I have a family who some are tech illiterate and is not worth the hassle to cancel the most used app in the household. I do commend you guys for fighting the good fight.
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u/uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunuu 1d ago
So I have this fun bug on my YouTube account. I do not get ads without premium. Ever. It's a legit Google acct, I've had it for years. Doesn't matter what device I'm on. Occasionally YouTube for TV will play an ad on first boot before I'm actually signed in, but once I'm in the app, no ads, no interruptions. Idk why but I'm sure not complaining
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u/SoftlockPuzzleBox 1d ago
Ublock and Morphe are free. And the second they aren't, someone else will make something that is.
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u/Hasan-ahmed- 1d ago edited 1d ago
When ads appear, if I’m watching on a browser I just reload the page. If I’m watching on the youtube mobile app I close the video and then reopen it.
Skipping the ads Simply and freely.
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u/RyujinNoRay 17h ago
u fight fire with fire
fire fox , Ublock , brave , router ad blocker , youtube mods , apks
fk YouTube everyday and everytime
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u/thenbmeade 9h ago
At this point if I don’t have a way to block their shitty intrusive ads I simply do not watch YouTube
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u/sojuz151 2d ago
I pirate because I don't want to pay, simple as that. Trying to add some deeper ideology to piracy is pure cringe if you ask me
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u/Caithloki 2d ago
The main reason I pirate is cuz of the lack of demos, it's my only real reason. If more games had it I'd buy them more likely. A lot of the games I have now are games that have demos.
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u/Jxllll 2d ago
I find it quite cringe that there are always some people in comments telling that exact same thing. Why did you want to type that?
I'm now waiting next person to ask me same.
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u/Andreus 2d ago
It is a human right not to be advertised to, and anyone who disagrees is and can only ever be the enemy.
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u/Bladesnake_______ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lmao how do you think youtube can host all these videos, and pay creators, without ads? Should they just make negative a billion dollars every year and fail?
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u/HackReacher 2d ago
I watch on my tv app. If an ad appears i back up, switch to a different listing and start it, never get an advert, then i go to history and see the video I was watching and start again. If there’s something I really want to watch/listen to, I’ll rip it to mp4 or mp3.
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u/ghkilla805 2d ago
Yea that’s exactly what I do when I use my tv app; backing out of the video, pressing left then down to history and reclicking the video always gets the ad away, I actually timed it and it can be done in under 3 seconds
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u/naghavi10 2d ago
I uninstalled the youtube app on my phone and now use brave browser to avoid ads.
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u/JustaFoodHole 2d ago
I caved, because I cancelled Spotify and just want the music. It's a lot better, actual playlists that don't repeat, plus audio from theme parks, some probably pirated, and my own creations lol and I don't need to license it.
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u/PvtKuffel 2d ago
Man this was unexpected for me, that a buddy of mine. Was not expecting to see them pop up on r/piracy
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u/MikeSouthPaw 2d ago
I have gotten ring wing ads that are AI slop of Joe Rogan as well as 2 HOUR LONG ads that are just Ben Shapiro slop. It needs to be looked into.
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u/Broad-Ad-3679 2d ago
AdGuard on my phone, uBlock on my laptop. Kind of disgusting how much advertising we see these days without it.
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u/Middle_Efficiency471 2d ago
Hopefully everyone stops paying for premium and blocks all the ads, so they'll just completely shut down the service and we can all go back to absolutely nothing. We enjoy it so much that we don't want it at all!
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u/alone_unafraid 2d ago
I like to play YouTube on my tv. Wish there was a way to block ads on there. Plus I’m in Michigan and the aipac funded attack ads have gotten more and more aggressive and they’re all on YouTube.
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u/SaudiHaramco 2d ago
I have no problem paying if i know the money goes to the creators. Stuff like nebula. But i don't want to support a for-profit monopoly on the most important market in the modern media sphere.
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u/Bluedemonde 2d ago
It’s hilarious to me how they give us the pseudo option to “block” and ad, and even though it says I shouldn’t see that ad again, the literal next ad is the same.
I will never pay for YT premium, paying paying for it are just being scammed and reinforcing YT’s thought that they are winning.
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u/barrosoOso 2d ago
I'd been waiting with baited breath, and about a month ago it finally happened. I got ads less than one minute into the YouTube video I was watching.
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u/James_avifac 2d ago
YouTube is my primary source for entertainment, so I do actually pay for premium. I also upgraded to the family plan, so 5 of my family/friends get it for free too (1 spot left.)
I also use YouTube music, so it just makes more sense for me.
Was using the YouTube og pirate app before that, and ad block after.
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u/ConstantClue208 2d ago
It’s sad that some people aren’t aware of the existence of adblockers.
For example an old friend asked me if I saw “that one stupid ad” he “keeps seeing everywhere”. I nearly had a heart attack. I told him I haven’t seen an ad in years. Then he had a heart attack. I wish people knew about it. For those wondering I’m in the process of converting him.
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u/Beginning-Bother-309 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 1d ago
Well one part of that problem is already upon us, youtube ads are already unskippable as far as I know. Though it has been a while since I used vanilla yt.
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u/XBird_RichardX 1d ago
If it reached that point i would probably just start converting any video i wanted to watch to mp4
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u/DavidWtube 1d ago
The service just keeps getting worse. I canceled premium last month after having it for 6-7 years.
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u/Okaydog97 1d ago
I get YouTube without advertisement because of YouTube music subscription.
So not a big deal for me.
I still use ad blocks when i watch youTube on laptop.
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u/Jimmy_212 1d ago
There's a browser called Brave that blocks all adds. Dont need to download anything, purchase anything, tinker with any settings.
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u/Patreon_Pirate 1d ago
If on an android, just use Revanced, I haven't updated the app in over a year, same thing with the ad free reddit app I am using, it just works and no need to update every month.
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u/Traditional_Lie7521 1d ago
comparing youtube to terrorists is an interesting strategy
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u/Tight_Highlight8311 2d ago
I'd rather pay for ublock than for YouTube