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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable (blog.google)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 6 months ago (34 children)

On your TV?

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It astonishes me that the shield is still the best of the streaming boxes after all these years.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    its still very capable, but best depends. iirc there are certain audio formats the shield doesnt support.

    i personally would love a new shield using ~switch 2 soc just so i can move emulation/lower end pc onto it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What format does the shield not support that other boxes do support?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I went to go look it up for my old setup, turns out its mainly for the older models, as the codecs are only supported on the newer revisions of the shield tv.

    though with the shield tv, one of the missing things that would be nice to have would be AV1 support (as Nvidia only supported AV1 starting with Ampere based gpus)

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (18 children)

    I mean there are ways, like pihole, but I like the simple option of a really long hdmi cable that I use to plug my computer into the TV, so I never have to use any of the shitty built in TV apps.

    Edit: not pihole, apparently.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    pihole hasn't worked for years to block youtube ads, no?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You’re correct. Pihole works at the DNS level. Since YouTube hosts their ads on the same servers that host their videos, blocking the ads with DNS would also block the videos. Which I guess it technically works to block YT ads, but that’s a little like saying “set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    What, it works for me? Put on an 8 hour video while doing chores and had ads every 5 minutes. Filled with rage I installed pihole and no more ads.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    I would love to run a long hdmi cable from my pc to my tv, but I have rabbits and they like the spicy hay

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Look for an armored HDMI cable. They are wrapped in a steel jacket. Conduit is also an option.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Conduit is probably the best option, I just haven’t done anything with it yet. And I might have to convince partner to cut some holes in the wall to make that work. I’ll eventually figure it out.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    So I was watching Forrest Gump and he’s running through the jungles of Viet Nam. All of a sudden he stops running. And I know that’s not right because he hasn’t rescued “him” yet.

    Turns out my jerk face rabbit chewed through the Ethernet cable.

    Rabbits do love that spicy hay.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    And we love them even with their destructive habits. I love my two babies 😊

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    When he was still with us, we loved our jerk face too.

    Rabbit Tax:

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I have this thing called a DisplayPort cable. So yes, uBlock origin on my TV.

    Edit: I'm realizing this might be coming across really shitty, but i promise I'm just intending some tongue-in-cheek dry joking.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I have a script that takes a YT URL on my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to my Jellyfin folder so I can watch on my Apple TV on The Big Telly.

    Fuck adverts.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I use an Apple TV, but I assume it’s the same as any other streaming box or appropriate smart TV.

    The absolute piece-of-piss way to block all YouTube ads on it is to install a VPN like Proton, choose a relevant country (easily googleable), and there will be no ads whatsoever in YouTube.

    Google doesn’t serve ads on YouTube in a handful of countries.

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