• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    14 hours ago

    Most people using a smartphone use the default YouTube app. And that app does not have any ability to block ads. Most people don’t know they can block ads or even if they did, they don’t know how.

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      I’ve heard of enough people wanting ads too. And people complaining that they want them back after they were blocked.

      It gets harder and harder to have any faith in humanity these days.

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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      13 hours ago

      Yep. It’s becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.

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        7 hours ago

        This is kind of a sticky situation for me. While I’m pretty tech savvy, my partner is not. I’d love to have them use NewPipe. But as a NewPipe user myself, it has been very buggy lately due to YouTube changing things. I understand why it’s buggy but they would not and I think it would be more annoying than helpful.