So today I watched probably about 5 hours of youtube content and I think I only ran into about 2 ads during the entire experience I really don’t experience that many ads on youtube anymore and I have turned off my ad blockers and such explicitly for Youtube since I wanted to give at least a little bit of ad revenue to the content creators that I watched at the time that I turned it off. Yet I continuously hear that people have been having problems with too many ads and that ads are ruining the experience on youtube. How many ads do people who watch without ad blocker get on a video such that it’s seemingly ruining the experience?
I haven’t been on youtube’s official domain in ages, it is just too cancer
You should start using Invidious or Piped. My favorite instance invidious instance is yewtu.be.
Planning to move to a Tor only browser setup soon, so that’s going to be fun. I wouldn’t be able to consoom youtube content using that setup without Invidious.
Also, it works without JabbaScript, which is a huge bonus
Why? Youtube’s official domain isn’t cancer to me. I see no reason to use any external thing.
If you’re privacy aware, or use the Tor browser you’ll quickly see why it’s so cancer. The site is also bloated as fuck, and requires you to waste about ~300 mb just to watch a video
Bonus, Invidious has no ads
Just need some extensions like uBlock and it works alright.