top | item 43324975 (no title) epiecs | 11 months ago Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :) discuss order hn newest gruez|11 months ago https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085 dredmorbius|11 months ago Bypass the YT website entirely.You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:<https://mpv.io/> dredmorbius|11 months ago Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work.Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).
gruez|11 months ago https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085
dredmorbius|11 months ago Bypass the YT website entirely.You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:<https://mpv.io/> dredmorbius|11 months ago Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work.Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).
dredmorbius|11 months ago Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work.Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).
gruez|11 months ago
There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085
dredmorbius|11 months ago
You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.
The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:
<https://mpv.io/>
dredmorbius|11 months ago
Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).