I know I’m being advertised to everywhere still but the small amount I’m able to block by not watching commercial free-to-air and having ublock-origin installed everywhere along with using newpipe already seems to make a huge difference.
Assuming I understand how SponsorBlock works, I don’t mind the sponsor reads from the handful of channels I follow. If I had kids or had to setup access for kids or perhaps other groups of people who are easily influenced by advertising then I’d consider going the extra step. I imagine the sponsors on other channels are more obnoxious and exploitative. As it is all I hear are shoutouts for Nebula, GroundNews, Patreon etc.
U van whitelist channels u want to see sponsor segments for. U can also have it skip intros, outros, filler, like subscribe reminders, etc etc. Its all customisable u can also have it give u an optional popup to skip certain categories etc. I have it skip pretty much everything plus i whatch yt and 2.5 speed coa efficiency.
I didn’t realise how bad the ads were until I used a browser other than Safari.
I kept on being told I had Adblockers enabled on every website I went to, and they refused to show me the content.
I then disabled the privacy protection features of Safari and realised that most of the websites had so many ads that they were completely unusable. It was easier to get the content using Safari Reader Mode than the unblocked website with ads visible.
The new “hide distracting items” feature does make a lot of pages readable to the point where you can realise that the published content is all shit.
It’s so jarring when you have to interact with a platform full of advertisements after running that sort of setup too.
I occasionally open a link or two on my work phone that doesn’t have all the blocks, and it’s mind boggling how bad web pages and YouTube has become. Anyone who suffers through that would be brought to mental illness.
I know I’m being advertised to everywhere still but the small amount I’m able to block by not watching commercial free-to-air and having ublock-origin installed everywhere along with using newpipe already seems to make a huge difference.
Ive been doing that for the last 10years and cant imagine ever going back. I only ever see ads in person now.
Btw u can use tubular (its a newpipe fork) to add sponsorblock and bring back yt dislike.
Assuming I understand how SponsorBlock works, I don’t mind the sponsor reads from the handful of channels I follow. If I had kids or had to setup access for kids or perhaps other groups of people who are easily influenced by advertising then I’d consider going the extra step. I imagine the sponsors on other channels are more obnoxious and exploitative. As it is all I hear are shoutouts for Nebula, GroundNews, Patreon etc.
U van whitelist channels u want to see sponsor segments for. U can also have it skip intros, outros, filler, like subscribe reminders, etc etc. Its all customisable u can also have it give u an optional popup to skip certain categories etc. I have it skip pretty much everything plus i whatch yt and 2.5 speed coa efficiency.
I didn’t realise how bad the ads were until I used a browser other than Safari. I kept on being told I had Adblockers enabled on every website I went to, and they refused to show me the content.
I then disabled the privacy protection features of Safari and realised that most of the websites had so many ads that they were completely unusable. It was easier to get the content using Safari Reader Mode than the unblocked website with ads visible.
The new “hide distracting items” feature does make a lot of pages readable to the point where you can realise that the published content is all shit.
It’s so jarring when you have to interact with a platform full of advertisements after running that sort of setup too.
I occasionally open a link or two on my work phone that doesn’t have all the blocks, and it’s mind boggling how bad web pages and YouTube has become. Anyone who suffers through that would be brought to mental illness.