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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

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106 points ambigious7777 | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
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loloquwowndueo ◴[18 May 25 12:17 UTC] No.44020788[source]▶
The ridiculous amount of ads is what’s made me basically not use YouTube unless I really really need to.

On my computer I have an ad blocker which makes it more tolerable but then there’s the added friction of “ugh I have to go start the computer and sit down yadda yadda”.

I could pay for a mobile ad blocker so I could watch crap on my phone. But then again - it is mostly crap so why bother. Perfectly fine with less YouTube in my life.

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netsharc ◴[18 May 25 12:26 UTC] No.44020853[source]▶
If it's Android, you can install NewPipe.

For my Kodi box that is connected to a 24" monitor in my bedroom, the Youtube plugin used to work, but it got slower and slower. I've now created a PHP wrapper to yt-dlp, I load the webpage (hosted on my NAS) on my phone, paste the video URL, click download, and a while later the video is an MP4 video stored on my NAS, ready to view on Kodi.

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1. 201984 ◴[18 May 25 12:29 UTC] No.44020876[source]▶
On Android, you can also use Firefox with uBlock Origin.