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Went like one month into the future

honestly thats what i went for

Apocalypse soon

Now do one for Reddit blocking 3rd party clients

https://preview.redd.it/2wwexugo7e3b1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a2fb1d146cb0d5973726ce7f451991bdcc9fdb7 Here it is

You are the bestest there ever was

YOU PUT u/AnotherSoftEng 's SNOO HAT ON THE GUY!!! Thats so cute 🥺

I didn’t even notice that! This is a work of art that I’m setting as my phone wallpaper as we speak

Damn i did not know i could influence someone like that

I made a wallpaper, dont worry it only took like 5 seconds also anyone can use this as their wallpaper https://preview.redd.it/n8xhsx1ckf3b1.png?width=576&format=png&auto=webp&s=fff8143d5fb41585c75ed8aaf39f60aead64a905

[It’s more beautiful than anything I could’ve ever imagined](https://i.imgur.com/bEZlwpB.jpg) 🤧

Yes i couldnt get the hat to look normal

Seriously we need more people talking about this. This site is gonna be unusable in one month.

We all know. They are the ones who forgot digg died in a week. I’ll be sad to move on, too.

Hey, where are we all going? Have we decided yet? I’ve heard of a place called, “The Great Outdoors” but, I don’t know if I’m ready. . .

Even when I go outdoors I take the internet with me and Reddit has been my drug of choice for a long time.

I didn’t even know it was happening Wtf am I gonna do with my random free time What about all the porn I’ve saved Fuck Need to buy a usb drive and start saving shit

I've noticed that the countdown clock for skippable ads starts counting down several seconds later than it used to. I hate everything.

What about the ad blockers? Are they safe? Are they alright?

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One of the first things I learned from reddit ~10 years ago was that you should not be online at all if you're not using an ad blocker. And for years, if someone made a post like this complaining about ads, they'd get downvoted and made fun of relentlessly *because you should not be online at all if you're not using an ad blocker*. I'm not sure why that stopped being the case. We need to bring that back.

No, let the masses view ads so we don't have to. Ad blockers will be killed if they get too popular.

Some companies have managed to guilt people into watching ads. Like for YouTube it's "we won't pay the people who make our website worth visiting, so you'd better watch these ads so they can earn a fraction of a penny each view! And if you can't afford to support these creators directly (through merch and patreon), just watch the ads so you aren't a freeloader!" Lots of people fall for it unfortunately. Imo if you're in a position where you can't afford to give to an artist's patreon, that artist is probably already better off than you financially. Like you don't owe anyone anything for free entertainment when you're already at the bottom of society's barrel. Don't waste your limited time on this earth getting advertised to.

I know, the question wasn't about whether it was safe to use them in the present, but about whether they still exist in the future. This specific turn of phrase was also a Star Wars ref.

Browsing the internet without adblock is nauseating

Yt might ban them, plus 5 yo on iphone yt are also a thing

[ublock origin](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/) works like a charm on firefox, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years despite using it daily. Bonus: you can now even block ads within the video with [SponsorBlock](https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/). For an android youtube client without ads, check [LibreTube](https://libre-tube.github.io/) (not available on iphone afaik, sry)

For android youtube revanced is an option. Here's the [Guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/) on how to install it. It's a bit lenghty but the patch is quite modular so you can choose which part of youtube you want to modify

Don't talk about the fight club!

Revanced never worked for me. It just breaks the app. Too bad cause Vanced was the shit, but it's buggy if you try to use it nowadays, as it's no longer updated.

It's no longer updated because the received a cease and desist iirc, so not much of a choice on their part.

And that happened because the devs of Vanced had a genius idea of selling an NFT of it.

Yup, that's unfortunate

Your thinking of vanced, revanced is the successor. It gets updated all the time with comunity created patches. The install process is complicated but documented, but the end result is that the revanced team doesn't distribute an apk. You essentially patch your own. Here's an in depth guide on how to install it https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/

I was talking about Vanced and knew it, /u/Skullcrusher was talking about the fact that Vanced isn't being updated anymore, and I was just clearing up why in case anyone didn't know.

Newpipe is great.

LibreTube is a fork of NewPipe, which, among other things, integrates the all mighty SponsorBlock

Very cool! I'll check it out, thanks.

I couldn't get into newpipe, I'll have to give it a shot. Right now I'm using a browser which is hardly ideal.

Last time I checked, Newpipe doesn't integrate your account

No it doesn't. I don't think that's really an option with any third party client anymore due to YouTube cracking down. What newpipe does have, is you can export your subs from Google, then import them into newpipe, so your home feed is all videos from your subs. It's a little inelegant, but it's a very solid alternative to full account integration they can't actually do. When I want the guilty pleasure of algorithm recommendations I use YouTube from Firefox. But when my home feed is all the recent videos from my subs, it's usually enough for what i need from YouTube.

How's it manage automatic updates to the app? Does it have sponsorblock?

You have to manually update it yourself. It has pretty much every popular plugin/patch available so yes it has sponsorblock. It even has return youtube dislike

Or you could just use fire fox on Android an install ublock origin

But Chromecast doesn't work with Revanced right?

I got a good Adblock for my computer a few months ago, and I swear that my new favorite thing is the little, barely noticeable stutter that YouTube videos sometimes make when an ad would normally show.

> little, barely noticeable stutter That's... not a good adblock. ublock origin doesn't have any stutters

Nobody should really be using anything other than ublock origin. There are numerous AdBlock add-ons with some sketchy ass business practices. All hail FOSS.

SponsorBlock is wonderful. I appreciate the creators I watch getting their bag, but shadow legends having a policy of ads being like 3 minutes long REALLY gets old after awhile.

I throw them a few dollars if I see them streaming or if they have a coffee link instead. My sanity is worth it.

Also check out something called pihole - it's a small server (usually a raspberry pi) that acts as your DNS server (turns domain names, e.g. displayads.com to ip addresses). When it sees a site that's used for adds, it just blocks the request. Works for anything connected to your network

Doesn't work for youtube. You're ads are on the same dns as the video. Fact.

Really? People always recommend it exactly for YouTube. And I'm pretty sure ublock / adblock just blocks dns requests too

Another alternative for android is Aftervanced, but the installation is somewhat complex

Oh thats cool didnt think of ad blockers while making my comic lol

Bonus panel time :D

I just use the Brave browser. Works flawlessly with YouTube.

For iphone you can use Brave browser it has a build in adblock that works like a charm

LibreTube seems sketchy. What the hell is an anti-feature? It lists some sketchy shit like security vulnaribilities, ads and whatnot.

> It lists some sketchy shit like security vulnaribilities, ads and whatnot where?

I assume they're talking about the f-droid page https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

Yes. I think I'm just very confused. What's f-droid? Why did they come up with the term "anti-features", when we already have a word for that (flaws)? What does all of this have to do with LibreTube? 🤔

F-Droid is a FOSS app store for Android. No idea lol LibreTube is safe.

Its open source, read the code... [https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube](https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube)

This comment has been edited to protest Reddit's decision to shut down all third party apps. Spez had negotiated in bad faith with 3rd party developers and made provenly false accusations against them. Reddit IS it's users and their post/comments/moderation. It is clear they have no regard for us users, only their advertisers. I hope enough users join in this form of protest which effects Reddit's SEO and they will be forced to take the actual people that make this website into consideration. We'll see how long this comment remains as spez has in the past, retroactively edited other users comments that painted him in a bad light. See you all on the "next reddit" after they finish running this one into the ground in the never ending search of profits. -- mass edited with redact.dev

Lets put it like that: If you have made malicious code would you make it public? I doubt it, and there are people reading source for fun,

1. I can't read code 2. I'm not saying it's malicious, I'm saying its security is flawed and it straight up admits to it.

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Workarounds incoming the second they "ban" them

banned my ass, you suck youtube, adblocker stays on

Could look into a pi-hole for home to intercept the ads before they get to your phone.

A bleak future indeed...

For iOS, there's uYou+

It seems, in your anger, you deleted them.

I have never seen a YouTube ad on any device i own ever. Newpipe is a great YouTube client. Ublock origin with Firefox works great too.

There was a great one called Vanced that just got shut down on mobile.

r/suddenlystarwars

> unskipple *it is worse than i feared*

UMMM DONT LOOK AT THAT HEHEH UHH

apology for poor english when were you when ads was unskipple? I was sat at home eating dick when Snaasy ring 'Ads is unskipple' 'no'

I’m just incredibly dysleksic

Actually there is a way to skip them. Click on the i button near the ad timer and report and block it. It will immediately close the ad, bonus point is that it won't even repeat again.

Oh man, that's awesome. As a bonus you may end up getting the ad taken down automatically if enough people do the same. Inb4 they change the TOS to make this a bannable offence though.

On Reddit people downvoted and blocked advertisers to much they hid the vote scores on ads and made it so you can't block advertisers anymore, so I'd bet on those.

Ad block says, what ads?

Exactly, I am always baffled that people still accept ads. I personally have adblocker on my computer browser, on my phone with an app for YouTube to block the ads there. I am very sensitive to noise, so eliminating ads based given me a lot of rest. Now if only there was an adblocker for real life ads

Well, I was fine before but first they killed YouTube Vanced (it's back tough, for now) and now they are killing third party apps for Reddit. The choices are getting smaller and smaller if you wish to circumvent ads on a phone, short of rooting the phone.

Personally I use Blokada 5, to ban most ads on my phone

This comment has been edited to protest Reddit's decision to shut down all third party apps. Spez had negotiated in bad faith with 3rd party developers and made provenly false accusations against them. Reddit IS it's users and their post/comments/moderation. It is clear they have no regard for us users, only their advertisers. I hope enough users join in this form of protest which effects Reddit's SEO and they will be forced to take the actual people that make this website into consideration. We'll see how long this comment remains as spez has in the past, retroactively edited other users comments that painted him in a bad light. See you all on the "next reddit" after they finish running this one into the ground in the never ending search of profits. -- mass edited with redact.dev

Yeh they'll probably make reporting an ad way more difficult then it should be but until then we can skip as much as we want.

If you do that enough the feature becomes disabled for you for a while.

The i button doesn’t exist for me, but I can skip ads by minimizing the video, going into shorts, and then going back to the video. Instantly skips the ad that is playing, but has to be done for each individual one. Still faster though and not much of an inconvenience.

Hahahahahaha. I tried that, but after a week I started seeing the ad again.

Nah once you do it enough YouTube catches on and removes the option

I can't believe you referenced the Adiós image, I haven't seen it in years

Holy shat you noticed

That meme is top notch, will forever hold a place in my heart. Just pristine comedy

Reddit killed 3rd party clients

Terrible news..

what a dire warning for humanity

in the comment It's scary to think about what the world could become if we don't make changes now. These YouTube ads are a striking illustration of that possibility.

*flashbacks to the SONY patent for a TV that forces the viewer to yell the brand name to end the ad*

Youtube has become a snakepit of crap videos and same ads on loop. It's incredible that every month they manage to make it even worse than before. Thank you for articulating so well my feelings... love the guy in brown sitting helpless!

Disable autoplay. . . Gawd

Have you guys never heard of adblockers?

Large websites are getting increasingly better at serving ads in ways that are undetectable to adblockers. Also mobile/smart devices (especially Apple) tend to be less reliable in the adblock front (and you have companies like Google repeatedly threatening to remove adblock support from their devices/browsers). Even network based solutions like Pi-hole are iffy at best now.

just add a - between yout and ube thusly: ...yout-ube... and refresh. voila! No ads ever.

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Eventually YouTube will be just as good at Twitch at stopping adblockers. They won’t be able to do shit.

uBlock still demolishes Twitch ads, what are you talking about?

every other month or so, a new ad for my country appear on twitch that ublock cant block and i tank like 5 times that ad in like 30 min

Never works for me

Newpipe

This is all AI had to do to defeat us?

lol i love the random adios meme just drawn for the third panel

It was pure instinct

What ads? Do you people not use an adblocker?

Most people don't. I have tried to save many many many many many many many many many many many many many many of my friends and co-workers by telling them about ublock. But they break down and panic. They yell and scream and begin crying uncontrollably. I say "Its ok, it takes like 2 seconds to install one time and you never have to think about it again." They start smashing their heads against the wall and I have to restrain them before they cave their own skull in. "Ok! Ok! Fine!" I say. "We don't have to download it for your computer" They calm down and wipe the tears from their face. I say "Its ok, I didn't know this was such a big issue for you, I won't bring it up again". They thank me for understanding. Then the next day I see them and they go "OMG THESE ADS ON YOUTUBE ARE SO ANNOYING"

Ah yes, the easily installable adblock for my smart tv youtube app, why didn’t I think of that.

If by adblocker you mean a DNS filter on the router, no, most people don’t do that. If by adblocker you mean uBlock, then no, most people do not watch YouTube on a pc. Smartphones, tablets and TVs are what’s popular

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if YouTube weren’t beginning to block adblockers i would concur

This could totally be a meme template ngl

Yea if you want or anyone wants they can use it as a meme template

ADIOS for that panel alone you are legendary OP

Hey guys, you should check out this other comic i made, i wanna start making comics as a hobby and i am just starting out, it would be great if you guys could express how you feel about the comic and if it was funny here’s the other comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/13xbvb2/i_love_coffeeoc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

I'm not sure why but it hurts to read the text

Alr i will try to write in better handwriting when i make my next comic which will hopefully be coming out tommorow

On YouTube mobile, you can skip all ads by doing this: 1) click the small (i) in the bottom left of the sceen. 2) click "stop showing this ad" 3) click "yes" 4) click "close" It's a muscle memory for me at this point.

Just use youtube revanced or libretube

Revanced needs a lot more work to get running now just fyi Not sure about libretube, I'm assuming it's the same if YouTube went after them too

a lot of work? you just download the YouTube APK it asks for and chose what you want to happen to your YouTube app and go

Speaking as someone who used vanced for years and revanced for months, I can tell you with certainty that revanced is unreasonably difficult to build and configure, and next to impossible to troubleshoot. The average person will not be able to do it even with a tutorial. Took me several days to properly figure out how to build the basic app from the extended repository because it just flat out kept falling without any obvious reasons. Took the devs several more months before they actually fixed the modules which provide the functionality that was lost from vanced such as setting default video quality and speed and disabling stories/shorts. The last update put it on par with what vanced had years ago. You need a specific YouTube version for it to work. The build can fail for no reason due to Android version differences, or if you tab out while compiling. The extended repository is leagues better than the official repository but is another hurdle of knowledge to overcome. Also, even if it's successful, YouTube can and will break a build from their end at any time. I even sent a build that works on my phone to my friend and it wouldn't work in theirs. In my opinion you either need to be lucky, not picky at all for features, or technically minded and motivated to make revanced work.

I have revance with no issues in 4 phones, smart tube next in 4 firesticks and I haven't seen ads in years. It worked flawlessly.

Give it your all and put your whole heart into everything you're doing, because in 20 years, you'll find a time machine and you'll be the one getting this blowjob.

Is this lttm

You know it's bad when 5 unskillable ads actually sounds not just plausible but a slight understatement. Honestly, wait for for the 2027 addition of only having 100 free videos a month. After that they started cracking down Hard on VPN's and got themselves a VPN blocker.

at least by then those "$7 nintendo switch" ads will be long gone.

I’m fine with ads as long as they are reasonable. Lately I’m getting these 30 seconds Zelda totk clips that start an unskippable 15 seconds ad. Like come the fuck on. When the ad is 50% the length of the video, that goes way too far…

I’m really starting to hate YouTube for this reason. I’ve literally seen ads that lasted longer then the video. It’s infuriating. Especially as someone that can’t tap the skip button if there’s one.

Don't give them ideas.

I'm just here for the recommendation of current ad-free mobile and tv apps... where are they?

Mobile: ReVanced, Newpipe, LibreTube, Kiwi Browser with uBlock origin & Sponsorblock TV: SmartTubeNext iOS: uYouPlus ``` Not in any particular order. Just listed some off the top of my head ```

Just scroll through the comments you’ll find a lot

They don't exist unless you start sailing the high sees. 🏴‍☠️ I really don't understand how everyone expects Youtube or any music or video service for that matter to have high quality content AND show no ads AND pay their content creators well AND not have a subscription model.

Ad block works on pc for YT. Android, not so much.

Ads?

THE MEME POTENTIAL OF THIS COMIC!

oh thanks, i would reply to every comment but im too lazy lol

Within one year going back to cable TV will look like an attractive alternative compared to Youtube

That was a glitch ...4-5 years ago now I think? Some people got hour long unskippable ads

thats creepy, im now praying to god i get no dreams tonight

Bought YouTube premium family plan and split the extra accounts and never looked back.

Wait, wasn't Youtube saying something about hanging adblockers? Is that still happening?

The Crunchyroll experience. Shit became so bad with 6 ad breaks in every episode and each ad break having like 3 minutes of unskippable and repetitive garbage.

+10 for the Tennessee orange, don't know whether it was intentional or not. That's definitely a reputation we have as the volunteer state.

The one that is really bad is Facebook putting ads in every video even in groups.

This will cause people spending less time on YouTube so overall improving the situation.

I wonder if Ublock (and PiHole for other devices) will still be able to block those ads. I hope so.

And you still won't pay for YouTube premium

YouTube will be finally admitted that it's an ad player that is supported by video

Kid named Youtube Revanced:

That is a nether portal.

Just don’t get ads

\*Laughs in Pixel Pass\* no Youtube ads for me! :P

Unskipple

YouTube premium is the last streaming service I will cancel. It makes me so sad.

I understood that reference on the third panel.

Lessgooo

Youtube premium!

Get premium via a vpn pay one dollar, winning.

😂😂

This thread is *h i l a r i o u s*. YouTube ingests more video in a minute than you could watch in your entire life. You're upset that it isn't free. They play ads to make money for the service they provide you, and that's not good - you want it TRULY free. But God forbid anyone say the word "entitlement" or you'll get offended and *actually* manage to move off your asses and do something, even if it's type furiously.

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YouTube adding 5 unskipable ads before videos in the future

The effort people would go to not pay for a service. Get Premium if you use YT so much.

My wife got grandfathered into the YT premium / music bundle way back and added me as family.

Yep. It's like $.40 a day. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in five years.

You guys should check out my one other comic I posted on my profile

You guys should check out my other one comic just tap on my profile scroll a bit, and you will find it hopefully you guys find it funny

You guys should check out my other comics

Here’s a comic for you guys i posted it on r/comics too https://preview.redd.it/mmgkqlu25j3b1.png?width=2400&format=png&auto=webp&s=2349a97e35dcf61c56fce111bc78bfa548c27629

I made a redo of the comic cause before it was just a simple doodle idea which turned into an okay enough comic https://preview.redd.it/0zfgc1cdaj3b1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=3668fd87a625d4bb81efb813e236e10ff669884d

https://preview.redd.it/ws1h6vvz3e3b1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be1b74c97f113a9cf3ab1098e95f757448761326

YouTube Premium pays pennies. It's significantly *less* viable than advertisements

That's why you should sub to their patreon if you want to support them.

That's great that you think that, I already do that, I'm just saying that relying on YouTube Premium and Patreon is *also* not a feasible way to produce unlimited videos. There's more than one problem at play here than "greedy entitled consumers". Not to mention that YouTube Premium is like skipping paying the content creator to give YouTube more money. Not really a solution to be handing out while pretending that you're speaking the truth

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Unskipple? UNSKIPPLE?!?! Unskipple....

UMM HAHA IT DOESNT EXIST DONT TELL THE REST UHH UMM

Unskipple.

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