Seriously launched the app (by accident today) and what is this? They’re trying to play the victim from the big bad ad blockers saying all they’re doing is trying to show an ad at the beginning of video, and then I see all of this crap.

This was after a non-skippable ad at the beginning followed by a totally real “survey” that it wanted me to fill out, one interruption so far in the content, and now three ads on the screen. That’s 45% of the screen dedicated to ads. Freaking ridiculous. “But please turn off your ad blocker”.

  • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    If you’re on a rooted Android, ReVanced is a great option. It patches the YT app to behave like Premium, removes a lot of annoyances and integrates SponsorBlock and the Dislike API.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      You don’t at all need to root your phone to run ReVanced. You can easily patch and install without root.

      • lichtmetzger@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah, so that’s probably only needed when you use the rename app feature? Because it complained about microG missing after launching the YT app with the default patch selection so I had to use the mount installation method, which requires root (I think).

        Good to know!

        • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It’s been a while before I had to reinstall. I think the MicroG .APK is maybe is installed separately from ReVanced?? Sorry I can’t remember. But yeah you haven’t ever needed root to use it.