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[ForAcademicPurposes]

Disgusting.

 

[notseqi]

I have an lg c1. Educate me.

LG specific, first comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/s/gLr96Vfbzu

my mate uses it - works a treat

cc RJMacready73

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Is there a way to block ads on an Apple TV?

Yes, it’s called YouTube Premium.

 

[Rawbutt Jellybean]

well deserved, as much as it gets shit on there is just no better alternative.

Probably helps that they're owned by the biggest search engine.

 

[jufonuk]

Id rather sit through ads that I can skip after five seconds than pay for premium.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Premium

 

[kikkis]

It would be more useful if they showed the expenses as well

 

[Senua]

I couldn't live without my ad free youtube app on my LG C3. Youtube is genuinely unwatchable without adblock and I'm not paying the ridiculous prices they want.

 

[RJMacready73]

Yup they have us by the balls with the TV app, hence why I pay it, it genuinely is unwatchable for me otherwise

 

[Senua]

Yup they have us by the balls with the TV app, hence why I pay it, it genuinely is unwatchable for me otherwise

First comment

 

[Braag]

Excellent so they wont have to put the price of premium up will they...

This only means they have to come up with new ways to make even more money and not lose momentum.

 

[RJMacready73]

First comment

That sounds complicated my dude

 

[Senua]

That sounds complicated my dude

It's piss easy lol.

 

[Laptop1991]

This doesn't surprise me considering the continuing fight to stop them we are having, they literally make youtube unwatchable, and are like a plaque.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

If anyone knows of a way to stop the ads in the LG TV native YouTube app I'm all ears otherwise I'm stuck giving those fuckers £14/mth :-(

Just buy an android box , mine costs about €80 and you can install all apps on it including smarttube and others to get out of the ads.

 

[GymWolf]

Do all of you smartasses have some plugin for chorme without the need of an IT degree to make it work?

 

[nbcjr]

revanced and rossmann for the win.

 

[nbcjr]

If anyone knows of a way to stop the ads in the LG TV native YouTube app I'm all ears otherwise I'm stuck giving those fuckers £14/mth :-(

block them at router level

 

[winjer]

Do all of you smartasses have some plugin for chorme without the need of an IT degree to make it work?

Start by using a good browser. Such as Brave, Librewolf or Firefox.
Then install Ublock Origin. And that's it.

 

[GymWolf]

Start by using a good browser. Such as Brave, Librewolf or Firefox.
Then install Ublock Origin. And that's it.

I'm too used with chrome after a decade.

 

[Idleyes]

Not sure what model you have but I herd on some LG's the uninstall button removes the adds. Afterwards check to see if you can mirror your phone instead.

 

[winjer]

I'm too used with chrome after a decade.

It's not that difficult. Especially if it's Brave, which is also a Chromium browser, but without the Google spyware.

 

[Rawbutt Jellybean]

I'm too used with chrome after a decade.

You can just use ublock origin on there too.

 

[notseqi]

Chrome or derivate browsers and Firefox are improved infinitely by installing uBlock origin. The web looks nice and tidy again. Don't forget to pay the sites you support though, some suffer by blocking ads.

Reminds me, I should pay for this site.

 

[Puscifer]

They spend this much money on ads because ads are effective on the humans.

I mean is YouTube even profitable? From. My understanding after paying staff, creators, maintenance and upkeep "breaking even" is considered a good year.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I mean is YouTube even profitable? From. My understanding after paying staff, creators, maintenance and upkeep "breaking even" is considered a good year.

It's not about YouTube. It's about the companies willing to give YouTube crazy money because they know ads work.

 

[Haint]

That sounds complicated my dude

Just buy the $50 Walmart ONN 4K Pro streaming box, it's significantly faster than the older LG TV's, the C1 is basically molasses at this point. All you have to do is download one of the web browsers in the Play Store that allows side load installs (there are several) and navigate to the Smarttube webpage and click and install link.

 

[notseqi]

I mean is YouTube even profitable? From. My understanding after paying staff, creators, maintenance and upkeep "breaking even" is considered a good year.

It's gotta be. They do 28 Billion dollars without the need to produce anything, Hosting would be the highest fixed cost. Nintendo does 15.

 

[Davey Cakes]

YouTube Premium pays for itself and then some. I’m never going back.

 

[Drake]

As much as I dislike Google as a company they had a really good long term vision for Youtube. They operated it at a loss for a long time. I think it was only fairly recently they actually started to make money on it. I wish more companies had that kind of long term vision as opposed to not seeing beyond the next quarter. Cough, cough...Broadcom.

 

[GymWolf]

You can just use ublock origin on there too.

I already use an ublock plugin but it only work for ads inside sites, not with yt ads, is it a specific version? Link?

 

[Londo]

I already use an ublock plugin but it only work for ads inside sites, not with yt ads, is it a specific version? Link?

I got the classic one at my office -> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?pli=1

I have to use chrome for work, unfortunately, but with this I have no ads on yt, even after the (forced) passage to manifest v3

 

[GymWolf]

I got the classic one at my office -> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?pli=1

I have to use chrome for work, unfortunately, but with this I have no ads on yt, even after the (forced) passage to manifest v3

Nice, i'm gonna try when i get home from work.

 

[nkarafo]

So this whole drama about manifest v3 was for nothing?

 

[Sony]

Ask vendors to pay you money to display ads, ask users to pay to not see ads. Classic tv-operator scheme.

 

[Tertullian]

Who watches youtube on a TV? If I'm gonna drag myself down to the living room, I'm watching a real TV show or a movie or something.

 

[winjer]

So this whole drama about manifest v3 was for nothing?

No, it is a problem for Chromium browsers, as the blocking extensions in V3 are limited.
Though some, such as Brave are committed to have V2 support for much longer.

Remember that Manifest V3 is not to protect the user, it's to protect Google's ad revenue.

 

[AJUMP23]

How much do they spend generating that revenue. I bet they have a giant sales team.

 

[nkarafo]

No, it is a problem for Chromium browsers, as the blocking extensions in V3 are limited.

Ι remember reading how this new manifest will prevent ad blockers completely.

So they still work but in a more limited manner? That doesn't sound so bad. I'm sure the hackers will figure it out eventually.

 

[winjer]

Ι remember reading how this new manifest will prevent ad blockers completely.

So they still work but in a more limited manner? That doesn't sound so bad. I'm sure the hackers will figure it out eventually.

It doesn't eliminate ad blockers completely. No one ever said that.
But it does reduce it's effectiveness significantly, allowing Google to force more ads unto users.