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-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-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect For Android, I recommend Xtra
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-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.
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.
You can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
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.
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.