I know this is still giving money to Google, but I bought YouTube Premium for $1/month by setting my billing address to a random place in Argentina during checkout. I'm sure it breaks the TOS but it's been good for like a year, no ads.
I would use an adblocker but there's no way to block ads when watching from a TV or phone, even with my pihole setup. I would rather not root my phone.
I have that already with the pihole but unfortunately Google is smart enough to work around it. The video content is served from the same domain as the ads which makes the DNS blocker ineffective for YouTube. And in general it seems like there are technology changes on the horizon for DNS that might make DNS filtering impossible.
idk what to tell you, works for me perfectly. adguard dns sucks though i wouldnt recommend it, a lot of addresses are gated behind a paywall. i dont have any ads on any app on my phone, zero rooting or piracy
I know this is still giving money to Google, but I bought YouTube Premium for $1/month by setting my billing address to a random place in Argentina during checkout. I'm sure it breaks the TOS but it's been good for like a year, no ads.
some grandma is paying for your youtube premium :sadness-abysmal:
In what way? I figured it's basically the same as using an ad blocker. Sorry granny :deeper-sadness:
There's no difference in legality or morality than if you just used an ad blocker like the rest of us lol
Edit: Oh wait I forgot that some people watch YT on their phones lmao
Newpipe has no ads and even lets you download videos.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/
Oh, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for actually. Thanks!
I would use an adblocker but there's no way to block ads when watching from a TV or phone, even with my pihole setup. I would rather not root my phone.
you can add a dns blocker on your wifi
I have that already with the pihole but unfortunately Google is smart enough to work around it. The video content is served from the same domain as the ads which makes the DNS blocker ineffective for YouTube. And in general it seems like there are technology changes on the horizon for DNS that might make DNS filtering impossible.
idk what to tell you, works for me perfectly. adguard dns sucks though i wouldnt recommend it, a lot of addresses are gated behind a paywall. i dont have any ads on any app on my phone, zero rooting or piracy
Interesting, I'll look into adguard, maybe they've figured something out or have an additional filter list I need to add
so i think it was the Energized Ultimate list and the Fanboy's Enhanced list
i'll load mine up and find the list i liked though i cant remember which one explicitly stopped it from happening it took a lot of tinkering