• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    19 hours ago

    Most people using a smartphone use the default YouTube app. And that app does not have any ability to block ads. Most people don’t know they can block ads or even if they did, they don’t know how.

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      4 hours ago

      I use YouTube in Firefox for Android because it has ublock. That’s by far the easiest way. All the other apps wouldn’t work for me or don’t show my recommendations.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      I’ve heard of enough people wanting ads too. And people complaining that they want them back after they were blocked.

      It gets harder and harder to have any faith in humanity these days.

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      Yep. It’s becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.