I just keep hitting next until I get a good ad 💪

What's an ad?

Never heard of these "Ads"

Their sacrifice is our gain, if everyone was on Adblockers all the tech companies would make sure to block all Adblockers, even harder than what they are trying right now

Having to use my TV to watch YouTube recently instead of my PC until I can get a new cooler for my CPU, I can confidently say "yes."

Only on my TV, where my family watches youtube through our PS4. Old kids shows and taskmaster and the like. It’s incredibly obnoxious— ads play when you open the video, and if you want to simply restart it move to the correct place it’ll play the ads again, and the ads can be 60 seconds long each time. They also pop these unskippable ads up at the most obnoxious moments in the videos.

The “next ad” button often does bring the time-to-skip down by ten seconds or so, at least. Still obnoxious. But I’m not sure about a better way to access YouTube and Disney+ and Prime Video etc etc on the tv from one device, and, well, I have a 4 year old, so doing without is not much of an option.

Do you need to ask?

oh didnt realize that was an option - where they have those?

I thought those TV have pretty low refresh rates.

What would that matter depending on exactly what you're using to provide content to your tv. I have two smart tvs, I don't use the smart aspect of them. I use streaming sticks on both of them. You don't have to purchase a commercial TV for that. In fact a lot of commercial TVs still have all the streaming connectivity capabilities as well. I know this because I installed them regularly as menu boards in many many sites. You never required to connect any TV to the internet. You never required to connect any system to the internet. But like I said it's going to matter what you're using to actually get content to your tv.

Every time they push some right wing bullshit into my feed, I would downvote it and laugh at how it only had 100 or so likes while every other video in the feel had thousands. Then they got rid of the downvote button. I think the fascists whined about getting ratio'd even if the number wasn't posted. It is only a matter of time before they stop showing the number of likes to hide their lack of support.

Newpipe still working well.

Ublock on Firefox is great.