On 2024-06-12, Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?

You could try using the DuckDuckGo browser which has its own YouTube
Player.

<https://duckduckgo.com/app>

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Cheers, Alan

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On 12 Jun 2024, Peter James wrote
(in article <lct4hsFlgo4U1@mid.individual.net>):

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

Stop The Madness, a Safari extension<https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/stopthemadness-pro/id6471380298>, handles this reasonably well. It autoskips the beginning of adverts so you
see a still, but it doesn’t play them.

A slightly alternative way is Floating,<https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/floating-picture-in- picture/id1508833245?mt=12>, which has its own viewer and has been perfect at removing adverts for me.

Cheers,
Ian

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On 12 Jun 2024 at 09:28:44 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN service.

That's poor advice, VPN usage is basically completely orthogonal to YT
ads. A VPN *could* include DNS based adblocking, but that doesn't work
for YT ads that are served from the same content servers as the videos
are.

Followed by various other pieces of software.

I use Firefox as my default browser, and with the uBlock Origin
extension installed I've not seen any YT ads for years.

Checking in Safari, where I have 1block installed, that also seems not
to show any ads.

Cheers - Jaimie
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Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

On 12 Jun 2024 at 09:28:44 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort
of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN service.

That's poor advice, VPN usage is basically completely orthogonal to YT
ads. A VPN *could* include DNS based adblocking, but that doesn't work
for YT ads that are served from the same content servers as the videos
are.

+1. VPN services are mostly useful for watching TV from another country.
They are heavily marketed for other use cases, most of which aren't relevant
to most people.

Followed by various other pieces of software.

I use Firefox as my default browser, and with the uBlock Origin
extension installed I've not seen any YT ads for years.

Checking in Safari, where I have 1block installed, that also seems not
to show any ads.

The Brave browser is also good at blocking ads, especially on iOS where
browser addons don't work.

Theo

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Am 12.06.24 um 18:30 schrieb Jörg Lorenz:

Am 12.06.24 um 10:28 schrieb Peter James:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >> of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >> service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

Use Firefox with this add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-for-youtube/

It is free.

Cheer, Jörg

Sorry from my side: Seems not to work anymore.

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Am 12.06.24 um 10:28 schrieb Peter James:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

Use Firefox with this add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-for-youtube/

It is free.

Cheer, Jörg

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"Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!"

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Am 12.06.24 um 18:32 schrieb Jörg Lorenz:

Am 12.06.24 um 18:30 schrieb Jörg Lorenz:

Am 12.06.24 um 10:28 schrieb Peter James:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort
of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >>> service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

Use Firefox with this add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-for-youtube/

It is free.

Cheer, Jörg

Sorry from my side: Seems not to work anymore.

Next turn: I reinstalled the extension and it worked again ...

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"Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!"

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On 12 Jun 2024 at 17:48:10 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12 Jun 2024 at 09:28:44 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >> of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >> service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

I want to thank the group for all of the tips. I am amazed how well they seem to work. This NG and its followers are the bees knees!
Peter

On the down side, looks like adblocking is about to get substantially
harder.

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072

"SponsorBlock (@sponsorblock@fosstodon.org) (@SponsorBlock) on X
YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This
means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream."

Hey ho. What else would you expect from the world's largest ad company.

Cheers - Jaimie
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-- Steven Brust

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On 12 Jun 2024 11:14:11 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

On 12 Jun 2024 at 09:28:44 BST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >> of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >> service.

That's poor advice, VPN usage is basically completely orthogonal to YT
ads. A VPN *could* include DNS based adblocking, but that doesn't work
for YT ads that are served from the same content servers as the videos
are.

Followed by various other pieces of software.

I use Firefox as my default browser, and with the uBlock Origin
extension installed I've not seen any YT ads for years.

Oh.

That could explain why *I* never see any, too. :)

Though some of the nice, Sciency videos I otherwise rather like do
have a twenty-minute advert for the content makers' "sponsors" slapped
into the middle of the video, usually just when it is getting
interesting. I am not entirely fond of that nasty trick.

Checking in Safari, where I have 1block installed, that also seems not
to show any ads.

Thanks, I'll think about adding something like that to the Safari I
never use. :)

J.

Cheers - Jaimie

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On 12 Jun 2024 08:28:44 GMT, Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying >the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

The Opera browser has its own, in-built VPN. Some other browsers also
do.
J.

Is this correct?
Peter

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On 12 Jun 2024 08:28:44 GMT, Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

That should not matter. Browsers are supposed to be OS and platform
agnostic. ""Supposed to be". Your choice of browser matters a lot more
than your choice of OS and machine when asking questions about a
website.

Mostly. Sort of.

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying >the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

"Adverts"? "Advertisements"? In YouTube?

Really? Now there's a thing I've never seen.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

No.

VPN's are for watching USAlia-only videos outside the 48-states. Or Non-USAlien videos *inside* them.

They are anti-regionalisation devices. They also sort of, kind of, in
a small way, semi-anonymise your browsing a little.

For killing advertisements, you want Ublock running inside Firefox.
Or any other advert-blocker. There are lots of them.

"Tools", "Add-ons and Themes" and search for advert blockers.

Other browsers also have add-ons that sometimes work.

Firefox also has "Adblock Plus" and "AdGuard", among others. I've
never seen anyone suggest that adding them together is a bad move. Not
yet.

Is this correct?

Not entirely, sorry.

Oh, and we're advised to not trust VPN's that are free. Or ones based
in USAlia. If you do use one, check CNet's advice on them. Also other
people's.

Not my advice as I don't use one.

J.

Peter

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:37:51 +0200, Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net>
wrote:

Am 12.06.24 um 18:32 schrieb Jörg Lorenz:

Am 12.06.24 um 18:30 schrieb Jörg Lorenz:

Am 12.06.24 um 10:28 schrieb Peter James:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort
of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >>>> service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

Is this correct?
Peter

Use Firefox with this add on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-for-youtube/

It is free.

Cheer, Jörg

Sorry from my side: Seems not to work anymore.

Next turn: I reinstalled the extension and it worked again ...

Sorry.

J.

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John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

Though some of the nice, Sciency videos I otherwise rather like do
have a twenty-minute advert for the content makers' "sponsors" slapped
into the middle of the video, usually just when it is getting
interesting. I am not entirely fond of that nasty trick.

SponsorBlock:
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
should deal with that (assuming somebody has already marked the sponsor segment)

Theo

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John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On 12 Jun 2024 08:28:44 GMT, Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote:

I am running a MacBook Air with OS X 14.1.2

I use YouTube quite a lot and the adverts are driving me nuts. Short of paying
the exorbitant fee, can anyone advise me of the ease of installing some sort >of software that would strip the adverts out of the videos.

I have searched Google and most of the advice starts with installing a VPN >service. Followed by various other pieces of software.

The Opera browser has its own, in-built VPN. Some other browsers also
do.

If you aren't paying for a VPN, somebody is offering to carry your traffic
for free. That isn't cheap[*]. You have to question what they get out of
it, and whether that's in your interests or theirs.

[*] although a lot cheaper than the £10/month some of the big name VPN providers charge. They make a lot of profit, mostly through marketing
things to people which they don't actually need.

Theo

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On 12 Jun 2024 22:33:35 +0100 (BST), Theo
<theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

Though some of the nice, Sciency videos I otherwise rather like do
have a twenty-minute advert for the content makers' "sponsors" slapped
into the middle of the video, usually just when it is getting
interesting. I am not entirely fond of that nasty trick.

SponsorBlock:
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
should deal with that (assuming somebody has already marked the sponsor >segment)

Cool. Thank you.

I should have known that someone would have done this. :)

J

Theo

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