YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead.
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Third party apps: "OK. We'll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can't find a workaround."
56 0 ReplyIs there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
1 0 ReplyYears ago I used to use an app called "AdSkip" or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I'd imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
4 0 ReplyYeah I looked and saw there are some Firefox add-ons that skip and mute, but I didn't see any that black out the ads as well.
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not for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
2 0 ReplyPlease don't leave me hanging.
1 0 ReplyI've been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.
4 0 ReplyXtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
3 0 ReplyYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
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no need just yet, so im guessing no
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I think YouTube wouldn't care as long as they got paid
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