dvdnet62@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoYouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blockedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square238fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareShurimal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThird party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
minus-squareVaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoIs there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agonot for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoXtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
minus-squareVaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoI’ve been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect For Android, I recommend Xtra
minus-squareTheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYears ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
minus-squareVaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoYeah I looked and saw there are some Firefox add-ons that skip and mute, but I didn’t see any that black out the ads as well.
Third party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
Is there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
not for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
Please don’t leave me hanging.
Xtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
I’ve been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.
You can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
Years ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
Yeah I looked and saw there are some Firefox add-ons that skip and mute, but I didn’t see any that black out the ads as well.