tomjuggler@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsoleteEnglish
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2 months agoTry pipepipe on f-droid
Try pipepipe on f-droid
Pipepipe on f-droid is kept much more up to date in my experience. It’s a fork so basically the same
As a former Android developer, you can’t just do anything in an android app on a modern smartphone. The system is fighting you for resources the whole time. It makes sense to have something like this running as root on a device that you control.
Not that I’m sold on it, just saying…
AI models get more dishonest if you ask them to respond as if they were a pirate: https://www.circusscientist.com/2023/11/13/i-hired-a-pirate-to-take-orders-for-my-entertainment-business/
Have you tried Minetest? It’s pretty good, and not Java based so a lot more lightweight.
So AdGuard works on the YouTube website. I haven’t been there for some time - I use 2 other methods to watch YouTube ad-free.
Anyone with knowledge of the matter care to comment? So far my YouTube watching is still ad-free.
I also run pi-hole in front of my WiFi. Nothing gets through. Or will it?
I noticed some podcasts these days have random server injected ads - usually the same ad repeated 2 or 3 times, is this going to be my video stream soon?