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something I'm confronted with too, visiting family
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Must be rough.
Haven't been, don't know.
What pisses me off regularly is educators playing youtube content for kids and having them listen to and/or watch a minute of ads before it starts. Some education, that.
Yep, it bugs me too. As an educator that uses YouTube because some things simply aren't available on my work computer, there's only so much I can do. I mute the ads when I can, and skip them as soon as the option becomes available. Sadly, I can't control my coworkers.
I mentioned this in a different comment on this post, but one thing I've been doing to counteract the ad-onslaught is to say, "Boo, ads" whenever they play. My kids think it's funny. One has started to imitate me.
I can see other kids (that I don't work with) reacting properly to ads. When my coworker put music from YouTube on for them on the day before Christmas break, one of the kids took it upon herself to go up to the laptop and skip the ads every time they came up. It was heart-warming in many ways.
So yeah. I can't do much, but some of us are trying.
I’m proud of y’all. My friends in high school in the 00s were the ones doing such hacking, so I can easily imagine this. Good times, good people. I’m glad to hear about other defiant, tech-savvy types out there.
Why don't you just* use yt-dlp? Or one of the YT-oriented browser addons?
*not sure how easy that is on a modern, corporate controled Windows computer, but it does not require installation.
I don’t have control over a lot of things with my work laptop, since it’s owned/controlled by the company. However, if it doesn’t require an install, then I’ll try that when I get back on Monday. We use Chromebooks (ugh), but any way I could get around ads would be a blessing. Thank you for the suggestion, I’m open to any ad-blocking options I could use.
This page has some hints.
Hmmm 🤔 All Chromebooks use Chrome as a web browser, right? Can't you just add an adblocker extension?
After a small web search, this seems to be the recommended solution:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adguard-adblocker/bgnkhhnnamicmpeenaelnjfhikgbkllg
There's also https://pie.yt/ which lets you watch yt video adfree straight from the browser. It looks OK to me, no suspicious 3rd-party scripts/requests.
i have seen teachers ask kids to install an adblocker
why not download the video beforehand?
You are seriously asking why an IT-illiterate cannot figure out how to download an adless YT video? These people just about know how to perform familiar tasks. Even installing an addon is out of the question - let alone on work computers.
yeah i guess this is probably also because of security reasons? Addons can often read all data that you input on any website ...