• homes@piefed.world
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    3 days ago

    ublock origin light even blocks YouTube ads. It’s perfect.

    Before that, there were plenty of other ad blockers for iPhone.

    I haven’t seen an ad in well over 15 years (except for when I was setting up a new device)

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      ublock origin light even blocks YouTube ads.

      Do you mean the website or app version? Because as far as I can tell the YouTube app is effectively a quarantine zone for ads. The only thing I know that works there is pressing the little info button on ads and blocking them one by one, but that gets annoying pretty much immediately.

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        3 days ago

        Oooooh… yeah, I see what you mean. I don’t use the YouTube app for precisely that reason. That, and better playlist control through the website. I can accomplish everything I want from the website version of YouTube, which usually isn’t much when I’m just using my phone, and if I want anything more complicated, I usually have my MacBook Pro with me, so I just use that instead.

        And that usually is just using AirPlay for videos to my Apple TV, and I certainly don’t use the YouTube app on that, again, because I can’t use ad block on the YouTube app on my Apple TV, which is why I AirPlay videos from my MacBook Pro. And that works great, because the YouTube website offers much better control in creating playlists. So I would probably be using the website on my Mac anyway just for that.

        I guess it really comes down to my particular use case