YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

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  • Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

  • You can use (pi-hole)[https://pi-hole.net/] to block ads on your network, but it's a more complex set-up.

  • SmartTube

    SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

  • And if you have a TV, in my case, I use GoogleTV together with the SmartTubeNext (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext) app that you can sideload on the GoogleTV.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • revanced-manager

    💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

  • For those with Android phones use revanced https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases

  • NewPipe

    A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

  • NewPipe! https://newpipe.net/

  • odysee-api

    API server for Odysee

  • TwitchAdSolutions

  • NewPipe

    Discontinued A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality. (by polymorphicshade)

  • I use a fork of youtube pipe that support sponsor block. It's awesome ! https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • dtube

    :tv: d.tube app. A full-featured video sharing website, decentralized.

  • Idk why they don't realize most users barely have patience for 2 ads... if they're going to implement 5... I'd rather just go to another platform d.tube is an option I guess, but dunno how good it is lately. Haven't been there in a while.

  • revanced-builder

    Discontinued A NodeJS ReVanced builder

  • I agree, it'll be much more user friendly once there's a proper manager etc. I used the builder and it wasn't that bad at all, just ticked everything that seemed related to RV.

  • uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

  • replace files with empty stubs so common functionality still works but no tracking is sent (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/src/web_accessible_resources)

  • webannoyances

    Fix and remove annoying web elements such as sticky headers, floating boxes, floating videos, dickbars, social share bars and other distracting elements.

  • hide things that are not ads (see https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/ and the settings page of uBO)

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