• @IratePirate@feddit.org
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    112 months ago

    I’ve read that YT is injecting the ads directly into the video stream, i.e. the source is not ads.someshittycompany.com, but rather videos.google.com (which you cannot block for obvious reasons). The only solution to kill ads is to use addons like uBlock or client software like Freetube, Newpipe and the like that strip out the ads in some other way.

    • @WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      52 months ago

      I don’t know if they actually started injecting it into the video, but even before they did that, they were serving the ads from the same domain.

    • runner_g
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      12 months ago

      uBo on phone and computer, smart tube on TV. haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in years.