The Windows Phone user agent bypasses YouTube's annoying anti-ad-blocker pop-up.

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    77·
    11 months ago

    This article feels like a large language model generated article.

    TLDR: use a user agent switcher

    Other advice: use Firefox from f Droid, or Mull and install U-Block origin. Use new pipe, or libretube to avoid ads as well

    • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been using revanced on android and have got no problems with youtubes enshitiication anthics, it even has sponsorblock for skipping sponsor in videos, it plays in the background in a small window while i browse lemmy. Only set back might be that its a little hard to install, since you need the patcher, a manager called micro g, and a very specific version of youtube that cannot be get from the playstore and the patcing is a little more complex that it should, but its worth every second of it once its done.

    • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Now there’s grayjay as well, which is a universal media streaming client that respects your privacy.

      • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Is that android phone only? I mean it would be cool to have it both on desktop and android tv…

          • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Well, I know the solution exists, but it hardly counts as a desktop app. I’d prefer something native (esp. for linux).

            • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              11 months ago

              Yea, nit the easiest/simplest approach. Something native would be better.

              I already run WSA for other stuff, so it’s already there, and Android apps appear just like other apps.

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I just switched a few days ago from NewPipe to PipePipe. As far as I can tell it functions the same but has more features. I didn’t care for LibreTube at all.

    • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
      54·
      11 months ago

      this so much. people are so allergic to firefox for some reason that they are using windows fucking phone.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        The article isn’t about people using a Windows phone, the article is about people setting their user agent to Windows phone, and then Google not trying to do the ad blocking on them.