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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834

If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.

Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't see any mention of the YouTube adblock trick, so from the vid:

Copy YouTube URL. Paste it in Bing and search. Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit and click on the thumbnail for the video you searched. It will then play, still in Bing, with no ads.

So if you're on a work or government or w/e computer that doesn't allow installing adblock extensions, there ya go. No downloads or anything, just YouTube and Bing.

 

...this is the first time I've ever had any interest in using Bing, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is this lengthy process preferable to using ublock on Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

It isn't. But there are situations where that isn't an option, like being on a work or government computer where downloading firefox or installing an extension will get you fired. When that's the case, YouTube+Bing is a "good enough"/"better than nothing" option.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit

Ah. Still some ads then.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

But you’re not forced to actually wait through them like on YT - you can just scroll past.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a chance duckduckgo does something similar, but sadly I can't check at the moment.

Leaving a comment so I remember to try it later—unless anyone reading is willing to do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, it's basically just a Bing wrapper.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does indeed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you.

Whenever using this trick, I'd suggest using DDG instead of Bing if possible.