Please for the love of God, use uBlock origin and SponsorBlock to skip all of this automatically.
I also highly recommend turning on uBlocks filter list for cookie banners. Works on YTs cookie banner too.
Doesn’t seem to work on the PS5
That’s what you get for being dumb enough to buy into a proprietary walled garden, I guess. Sorry.
What an awful way to conduct yourself. Try and be better my guy.
Imagine thinking tone policing is more important than getting people off proprietary platforms.
Try and be better my guy
Do you realise that we are the overwhelming minority here hanging out on lemmy?
Cause everyone of us could never use proprietary stuff again and the companies wouldn’t even notice.
The vast majority of people just want something that is convenient and where there friends are.
What consoles even exist that would be a viable replacement to an Xbox or PlayStation as I can’t think of one.
This doesn’t apply to me, I’m a PC gamer who plays two games: Minecraft and Factorio. But I’m not disillusioned into thinking that what I see on lemmy is indicative of society as a whole. I’m also quite confident that you would be using things that other people on here might call you out for.
Finally, read the room dude clearly you don’t have the votes here that people agree with you.
Edit: On further reflection I don’t see a reason for your original comment other than to act superior than the other person. Because if you truly cared about their choice you might have offered some example others. Imagine the person didn’t know about why you might be against proprietary hardware, so you imagine your comment gets them on side or alienates them.
You do get to be the second person on here who I tagged as Asshole with the nice badges in Voyager. So congrats.
I have been polite and helpful about this shit for twenty fucking years and, despite that, the “leopards ate my face” ignorance has only increased. Polite doesn’t fucking work, so now I’m trying shaming.
But by all means, keep clutching your pearls and condescendingly bitching at me about it, because that’s surely polite and helpful!
That is not the right way to treat each other. Playing the blaming game does only benifits such companies to keep us devided and occupied while they continue to enshitify everything.
People have had decades and 5 generations of PlayStation to learn this lesson. If they still don’t get it, that’s on them.
I understand why you said this but you did not need to act like you have some higher moral standard because of it. Some people want to play video games without having to even THINK about the possibility of a game asking you to tweak a config to get the optimal experience, especially if youre a linux gamer. There are no options for people who want a console without a walled garden. Your closest shot is the Steam Deck, but the steam deck is shot in the knee by every company who uses an anti-cheat.
Before you say they just shouldnt play those games, consider the fact that some people aren’t willing to give up things they already have for Something new and unfamiliar they have to spent months to learn and years to master.
It’s funny how y’all are getting all bent out of shape at my slightly abrasive tone, while white-knighting the “victims” who excuse their ignorance and vulnerability to advertising/propaganda (among other forms of exploitation) on the grounds of mere convenience.
But by all means, keep dog-piling on the guy who wants the problem to stop instead of those who want to perpetuate it.
so instead of taking the olive branch and saying “oh I guess my approach to this issue is going to make more people turn away my argument and I should change how I phrase it” what you took away from my comment was “its everyone elses fault and not mine that no one is listening to me”… lol. listen Gru, were not your minions.
I watch primaly on my PS4, is there a network based solution?
Haven’t personally looked at the dev tools too much, but even if they come from the same domain, of the path had a unique pattern when it’s ads vs content you could use a decrypting proxy. I don’t know if the PS4 can install a custom certificate or proxy settings, the intercepted cert would possibly cause problems, but it may be possible.
What are the options for someone watching on a Roku or Firestick?
DNS/piblock
You will still experience ads on devices if you use **only** a pihole. Many content providers (like YouTube / Reddit / Twitch / Spotify / Pandora / Facebook / IMDB / Hulu) now stream/serve ads from the same servers as the content (meaning if you attempt to block the ads using a PiHole you will also block the content).
It’s still worthwhile to use a pihole on your local network. This will be the device that helps reduce the amount of ads and blocks telemetry data on devices (mobile device / streaming box / etc) that you can’t utilize some or all of the traditional blocking methods (hosts files / browser plugins / etc). The Pi can also have additional software installed (I recommend PiVPN) to extend these blocking capabilities **securely** when you’re not on your “home” wifi.
Your best bet for blocking any and all ads/telemetry/etc is a multitiered approach of a PiHole as well as browser plugins: uBlock origin / Privacy Badger / CanvasBlocker on Firefox or Canvas Defender on Chrome / Decentraleyes / Smart Referer / Ugly Email / Pixel Block / other security browser plugins (as necessary) to prevent ads and protect your privacy.
DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won’t skip sponsored segments though, you’ll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they’ve decided to shill.
DeArrow is really good too.
Drink the verification can
That meme was prophetic.
Recently heard about ads that make you take a quiz at the end to make sure you were paying attention, we’re not far now…
in a dystopian future, not so distant they will obligate you have a cam connected all times to track your eyes movement to make sure that you saw the ads
Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head
You won’t even know they’re ads, it will just implant false childhood memories, giving you positive associations with the brand.
P.K. Dick’s novels were not an instructional manual, dammit :(
Unlock your long term memory for $696.90 a month!
You’re describing ADHD meds
I’m sorry what? Short term memory issues are an adhd thing?
Dunno if you’re referring to me misreading long as short term memory, or if you actually are asking if short term memory is an ADHD thing.
In the case of the latter, I think so? Most of my siblings have very bad short term memories, so do I. And we all have ADHD. Though medication doesn’t really help a lot for me in that regard, it allows me to concentrate better so I can use my short term memory more effectively.
Note: I’m not an expert, don’t take this as fact 😅
In case of the former option, haha get rekt me lmao
Definitely the latter, i’m sorry for being unclear about that.
If that’s true then it clears up a thing or two for me.
Light speed brand briefs‽ I need to pick up a pair.
Strawberry Mansion movie had something like this
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wait what this is real
Wow is this a clip from Archie’s Weird Mysteries?? I never thought I’d see that online.
Yes, this was in 1984, the TVs that watch you back.
Cars already have this. It will be in tvs in no time
What kind of ads are in your car besides the radio?
w…wait , really?
Not for ads but for looking forward if you take your eyes off the road it cancels the auto drive. They can apply it to looking at ads very easily
ford just filed a patent for an idea similar to this but I’m not sure if its in production yet or if OP is talking about Something else.
That’s some ominous capitalisation you got there
my keyboard just does what it wants
Look at moi, look at moi, look at mooooi
I’ve got one thing to way to you
Ublock origin
Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?
Kath & Kim is one of Australia’s finest cultural exports
I would like to inform you that Canadian gays love 2 shows from Oz; “Kath and Kim”, as well as “Please like me”.
Wentworth is a little extra, but it has it’s camp moments.
You should checkout Black Comedy, from SBS
Ad pauses until your eye tracking shows you are engaging with the Ad. (The future)
Watch me fuck off from the platform at the speed of light - I am already halfway from going full “fuck it, let’s pretend it’s '99” and hanging out on phpbb forums and Neocities.
If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?
How can ya have any Lemmy if yew don’t watch yer YouTube‽
googly eyes on a stick.
Yeah. Unfortunately. This sounds far too likely.
RESUME VIEWING
Cough cough Sony patentAnd yet never implemented! Good guy Sony getting a patent so nobody else will do this
I’m gonna patent a robot that uses Deepseek to identify forece-response ads on the telly, and it automatically responds to the ad in lieu of the human.
Let the arms race commence. I’ve got all day.
That’s when I copy the URL, close the window, and download the video without the ad.
Downie for MacOS or yt-dlp at the command line. When those stop working, and if there’s no alternative, I will stop watching YT videos. I will not be harassed by ads. There’s already more content than I have time to consume.
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
Maybe they’re archiving them for future viewing incase the video is pulled from YT.
uBlock Origin on Firefox
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
I like having a YouTube account because it keeps track of which videos I’ve watched across devices. I’m not thrilled at Google knowing that information, of course, but I hate that every single privacy-conscious YouTube alternative fails to provide for that use-case.
you know freetube/invidious/piped/materialious/tubo/grayjay exist right?
When I’ve tried a couple of them, they were slower or felt unreliable. I’ll give them a shot if my local tools stop working.
Lol I’ve actually done this and muted it too
On my smart tv i set up the custom picture settings profile with the black level set so the only thing visible is the ad timer counter. So when an ad comes on I just switch it to custom picture profile and mute it, then switch back to standard when its finished.
The sheer sense of smug power I feel when hitting the mute button
Literally with any ad nowadays. I immediately tune out all my sensory organs
Damn even your genitals??
Any adblocks x smart TV?
SmartTube if it’s an Android TV.
Edit: Use the link in the reply below. I’ve had it installed for years, didn’t realise it’s changed 😁 Thanks, perfectly_boiled_pizza
Download and install the APK through Downloader app or USB, only takes a few mins following instructions.
Devs keep it very regularly up to date. SponsorBlock included. Many excellent additional features making it way better at being YouTube than the YouTube app could ever be.
That’s not the official site. It has an old version (July 2024) and the file might contain malware. You can safely download the latest version from GitHub and find their updated guide there.
If you don’t want to use Github, you can use the site they have linked to which is https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
If you need it on tizen os (Samsung TV’s) there is tizentube
I now moved to android tv (modified), but tizentube made my Samsung tv at least bearable.
Don’t connect the TV to the internet. Buy a Shield or AppleTV.
My goal is to never buy anything that they ad. I can’t always avoid it, but i largely do.
The only ads Ive watched in the past year were ads from flex seal and tim henson, and those were technically just videos.
If ads were like that I wouldnt mind them as much
Press M for mute. Most adds’ sound design is awful.
