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>YouTube premium was probably the best decision I did. Amount of time saved on ads alone makes it worth it.

Why do you get ads? I don't understand how there are people on Hacker News that don't use content blockers. Is is because of principle?

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I barely visit sites with ads. And on my phone I have 1Blocker that blocks all the sites. I used to be very tech savvy and solved a lot of problems with coding/software etc, no I grew up and switched to Mac and iPhone and if there is a problem (aka YouTube ads) that can be solved with money then I buy it. I used to torrent movies but now I value my time more than money and happily pay or overpay to save any time that is wasted.

I don't use a blocker because the arms race leads to bad outcomes. I'm doing my part to postpone that as much as possible.

I've lived my whole life, just about, with an ad blocker in my browser, and I have yet to see the prophesised arms race. Maybe a dozen sites have refused to load the actual content, and of those only a couple asked me to subscribe (pay) for an ad-free experience (they were newspapers IIRC).

Blocking ads on the youtube mobile app (or even a mobile browser) is much more difficult than on desktop.

Ads can be blocked on mobile devices with NewPipe[1], or Invidious[2], alternatively Firefox which supports uBlock[3] on Android.

[1]: https://newpipe.net/ [2]: https://invidious.io/ [3]: https://ublockorigin.com/

It's not, FireFox or ReVanced does the trick

Use Brave Browser. It blocks ads for YouTube. You can even lock the screen and it’ll still play in the background (iOS).

Uses the app on iPhone maybe? There's probably an app that bypasses ads though.

Ah. I was forgetting people use locked down devices where content blocking isn't possible, or a hassle.

Yeah. I use iPhone. There is 1block but I am not sure if it blocks YouTube ads since I haven’t tested.

It blocks them in safari (since it's a safari extension) but not in any other app

I just watch from the Brave browser, built in ad-blocker

I think that's biggest issue in this thread. People locked down into their devices not even realizing there's relatively free-er world outside their locked-device bubble.

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