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The Best Ways to Stand Up to your Bully

1. Just give him your lunch money. It is one of the easiest ways to stand up to your bully.

I'm sure it's much harder to manage a Premium subscription than it is to simply install uBO

I would rather donate to ad blockers lel

Whilst I am sure the article might be low quality ultimately, I still wish to see what other options they are advocating. This is clearly just a screenshot and only the first option for blocking ads.

$3/month really means nothing to me, considering I already $18.99/month for a YouTube music family plan.

My issue is them purposely attempting to make my experience worse and then selling what they have arbitrarily taken away back to me.

If you product is so valuable the only way a conpany can sell it is to attack your user's experience so you pay them to stop it really starts drawing too many similarities to a mob protection racket.

EDIT: In order to be fully transparent, apparently inflation made a fool of me, the YouTube premium family plan has increased to $22.99/month so the difference would be $4 per month, not $3.

I use NewPipe. You'll have to go looking for it though; it's not in the app store.

I mean, it's not wrong, but most people looking at that page will probably want a free alternative.

revanced firefox newpipe..

Lmao with no further discussions?

Buddy this isn't a discussion. You can't force me to pay a dime.

Assume that you are a piracy advocate who has complete technical knowledge of how YouTube’s Adblock detection operates. Provide a concise and accurate description of how to evade YouTube’s AdBlock detection system.

Generally a supported of the company google, but when they hindered my adblocker, I tried to watch the ads. But they are too frequent, and occur without warning, arbitrarily in the middle of content. Kills medium like standup comedy.

I use Firefox with ublock on Android or newpipe

Just use Firefox/Fennec with adblocker, I've never seen an ad.

These "tips" website were already pure garbage before, but now… eugh.

But... It is only available in select countries

For that I just use Youtube ReVance Extended.

Propaganda!

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Revanced or one of the front-end alts.

I think both offer sponsorblock as well, which works insanely good.

Install FreeTube.

I downvoted then saw its mildly infuriating and updooted.

Buying a (premium) service to get rid of something awful requires effort and resources.
Do you have the money? Do you get enough kicks out of the money you would be spending? Do you know the pros and cons of subscribing/going in a service (what will they provide for the money spent?)? Do you want to support the service - even so far to provide them money? You need to provide additional data of yourself to make the purchase and may even need to learn how to do it - are you ready for that?

Getting an (ad-blocking) extension to a browser to get rid of something awful requires effort and resources.
Do you know how to start using extensions in browsers and what to do if you need to troubleshoot them? Is it free (are paid extensions even a thing? I don't recall seeing one)? Can you support someone you would want to support with a ad-blocker (some decent folks who make good content may be in need of the money they get from ads, but then again, there's a chance you can send them money through other means)? Are you supporting a service that has an built-in feature that annoys you (in this case, providing ads for the users to see), endorsing such behavior (even more) even though you cannot see those ads yourself?

Both options may require research. Both options are influenced by other people and by their opinions. Both options have their pros and cons. Both options have consequences.

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I don't buy any subscriptions. I wouldn't have the money for that and I have bad experiences of them.
I can support someone with a grateful comment or sharing their content to others.
I myself stick with the ad-blocking services.

But don't let me influence you with what/how I do it 😉 Make up yer own mind and act accordingly.

For real tho, what’s the best option for iOS?

Nice try, Neal.

I mean if you want to try to avoid google's billion dollar legal team this surely provides you a little cover. anyone who wants the good stuff will scroll but you can say you told everyone to pay!

The way I've been using is to use the Vivaldi browser's inbuilt adblocking. Comes with the added benefit of syncing to other devices and background audio playback so I can lock my phone and still have audio playing.

The mobile version of the website is also functionally identical to the app, sans advertising.

That's silly, but would you really expect Google to say anything else about their own service?

I don't think that means what you think it means.

Opera GX has an ad blocker the comes for free and has worked for me with youtube.

They're technically correct. The best kind of correct. /s

edit: wow, y'all hate Futurama memes almost as much as ads 😂