Or is there a way to make it somehow auto skip?
Besides the adblocker workaround, there’s also https://flathub.org/en/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube, which is a nice way to use youtube without ads
I do unlock origin on Firefox (or a Firefox fork) + sponsor block. The combination gets almost everything
Same. It works crazily well for YouTube.
I use a dedicated video player instead of a browser. Quite a few desktop and mobile video players can directly play YT videos if you just feed them a URL.
If youre using a browser to watch YouTube just use Firefox with uBlock Origin. No ads
And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.
The duckduckgo week browser comes with its own YouTube player which is ad free.
Do people not know of ad blockers anymore
I thought I had Unlock and it doesn’t work anymore
And you didn’t bother to look to see why. It doesn’t work on chrome, move to Firefox.
Guessing you are using Google Chrime as your browser. If so switch to Firefox and ublock origin works.
Oh. You are right. I didn’t realize that’s what my daughter had opened… For some reason I just assumed YouTube won the war. I would edit to resolved but I am still curious about a simple Bluetooth button controller.
Why? Just have it auto skip.
Better touch tool might be one approach to mapping a Bluetooth button
There are one button bluetooth remotes to trigger a phones shutter. Maybe you could reuse one of those?
Also, freetube app on pc will bypass ads and other bs
I’m planning on getting a Rii Bluetooth controller for the computer on my tv. It seems well thought out, with a keyboard and mousepad on it. It’s not a simple few buttons though.
I was thinking of one of those ring things people use for their phone.
You could just use uBlock Origin on FireFox and they won’t exist at all to have a need to skip anything.
You mentioned you were still interested in a button.
How are your programming skills, and what’s your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?
How are your programming skills,
BASIC… Haha. In reality I know a little bit, enough to poke around and make a mess of things.
I want it for my toddler, trying to see if I can get it to skip a video to a new one in a playlist.
Yes, but that seems like over engineering a solved problem?
And it would be rather tricky. The button would be simple; even a pair of Bluetooth headphones could do it. The tricky bit would be in figuring out how long the ad is and pressing the 10 second skip key the correct number of times and then pressing the skip ad button if required.
Easier (and more secure) just to use an ad blocker.
On one hand I agree that today, the easiest solution is freetube or similar.
However, this problem seems to become “unsolved” every other Wednesday.
I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don’t remember what it was.
If you use Firefox, try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-disturbance/
I’ve given up on uBlock for YT because frankly I was annoyed at having to update every two days (and whitelisting channels never seemed to work). Silencing ads is good enough for me.
Been using uBlock for like 10 years.
Very occasionally, like once every 2 years, youtube acts funky. I don’t even update. I just deal with it, and a day or two later it goes back to normal.
I can confirm this behavior. If there is a “race” between ad blockers and YouTube, I am not noticing it.
Idk, it kept breaking the site for me because of the arms race between YT and adblockers.
Something is off with your setup then, the past breakage was a few years ago, it’s working fine since. Do you have any other extension installed that could be detected? And you were using uBlock Origin?
It’s entirely possible that there was some interaction between addons that I was unable to find back then but I’m fine with how it’s working now and uBlock Origin (yes, that one) is working fine otherwise so I honestly can’t be bothered to tinker with it.
My suggestion is to not watch YouTube videos.
Just use an ad blocker.
Install KDE Connect on your PC and Phone (supported on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS), pair them together, use your phone as a media remote controller for the PC.
Pay up.
OP: Can I get a button?
Everyone in this thread: Use adblock
This guy: GIVE GOOGLE MONEY!!!
I answered the 2nd part of the question.
I mean, I kinda get it. I hate ads but understand that’s the “price” I pay for content. It’s also gotten invasive to the point that the Internet has gotten unusable without an adblocker, so I do that too (if there were less I’d at least try to do my part)
That said… You do know that the skip button was put in by YouTube? Do you really never press it? Or click the microscopic x to close an ad that’s in your way? Do you also go through the trouble of actually reading all of your junk mail?
