user friendly
Member
Its honestly the best way to watch on the livingroom tv. Besides the ads or cost of premium.
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falconhoof
Member
YouTube Ad Revenue Rises 11% In Q1, Flirting With $10 Billion Mark
YouTube ad revenue rose 11% in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2025, flirting with the $10 billion mark.
deadline.com
The more they tighten the screws the more they extract. It just can't go wrong.
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
Man, while Revanced works well on Android, on PC it's a whole different thing...
The buffering before each video has become insufferable to the point where I actually start watching the same videos on my phone.
I'm using Edge with Ublocker btw
The buffering before each video has become insufferable to the point where I actually start watching the same videos on my phone.
I'm using Edge with Ublocker btw
Grildon Tundy
Member
Brave browser on PC and Android is undefeated thus far.
Bojji
Member
But you still have this buffering for a few seconds.
Grildon Tundy
Member
I haven't noticed. I'll watch YouTube on my work laptop, and it seems like they boot up at the same pace. Except work lappy has ads.
LyricalShrike
Member
winjer
Gold Member
With Brave and Ublock Origin (not lite) it works perfectly. No buffering.
Bojji
Member
Does ublock provide benefits over standard brave blocker? I always thought that there could be some incompatibilities.
They basically force users to buy it with shitty experience. The part i "love" the most is that after commercials, player disables subtitles 50% of the time - this shit drives me crazy on tv.
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winjer
Gold Member
Brave uses some of the lists that Ublock Origin has by default. And you can add more lists to either.
For example has all the blocking lists, most edited for all ad blockers.
FilterLists | Subscriptions for uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, AdGuard, ...
FilterLists is the independent, comprehensive directory of filter and host lists for advertisements, trackers, malware, and annoyances. By Collin M. Barrett.
Ublock Origin has advantage for advanced users. It can block 3rd party scripts and frame, globally or by site.
Blocking mode
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock
github.com
It has a great element blocker, that can be use to block annoying things that are not in the lists you use.
It can also be used to alter or edit code on sites, for example, I use it to improve youtube, such as increasing the number of thumbnails per row:
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row, #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6 !important
youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer, html:style(--ytd-rich-grid-posts-per-row: 6 !important
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mr wodao
Neo Member
This is just more confirmation that tech corpos are turning the internet into legacy media-only now with less regulation and a stronger parasocial element! Fun...
(BTW revanced has adblockers, obviously, but also the keyword filters are useful for hiding doomer/video essay slop. If you're tired of the current state of youtube i cannot recommend it enough.)
(BTW revanced has adblockers, obviously, but also the keyword filters are useful for hiding doomer/video essay slop. If you're tired of the current state of youtube i cannot recommend it enough.)
Spyxos
Member
Sometimes it is there, but usually it just loads normally.
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
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winjer
Gold Member
They fucked something up, I see this on brave now (when opening browser that had youtube tabs)
Even ctrl+F5 doesn't work, I have to launch videos from main youtube page again.
Are you using Brave's adblocker. Or something else?
Bojji
Member
Yep, videos work at random now.
winjer
Gold Member
Try Ublock Origin
Release 1.71.0 · gorhill/uBlock
Commits to master since this release Commits since last release To install the stable build: Firefox: Review pending Chromium: Install from the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
github.com
Bojji
Member
Try Ublock Origin
Release 1.71.0 · gorhill/uBlock
Commits to master since this release Commits since last release To install the stable build: Firefox: Review pending Chromium: Install from the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...
Seems to work fine, thanks.
nightfly
Member
I also use YT music which is nice.
RCX
Member
And that's fine too. Their product is only useful to me in the way I currently use it. If that changes then it's on to a thousand other things I could be doing with my time. everybody wins.
kevboard
Member
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Yeah, about that feeling.
HRK69
Member
Only on porn sites for some reason
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Well tranny always a surprise.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
YT ads skippable no problem.
I have a combo of these Chrome apps which works wonders on ads, sponsorblock and auto-playing videos on any site
Ublock Origin Lite
Sponsor Block for YT
Turn off the Lights (I just use it for disabling auto-play videos)
In the past for auto play videos there would be various HTML video blockers, but sometimes when Chrome updates they become unusable. Maybe there's new ones by now. I just use Turn off the Lights
I have a combo of these Chrome apps which works wonders on ads, sponsorblock and auto-playing videos on any site
Ublock Origin Lite
Sponsor Block for YT
Turn off the Lights (I just use it for disabling auto-play videos)
In the past for auto play videos there would be various HTML video blockers, but sometimes when Chrome updates they become unusable. Maybe there's new ones by now. I just use Turn off the Lights
winjer
Gold Member
This is also a must have for youtube.
Automatically skipping sponsored ads is so good.
Bojji
Member
+ YT no translation and dislike counter. Essential stuff.
falling into hell
Member
I watched a youtube video yesterday and had ads playing every two minutes. They were all skipable but still, it's better to download videos instead of watching them online.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Often when I skip ahead in a Youtube video it will play an ad.
Oops went too far. Click on the playbar to rewind a few min earlier, again right into another ad.
Maybe it's time I start paying for Youtube .
Oops went too far. Click on the playbar to rewind a few min earlier, again right into another ad.
Maybe it's time I start paying for Youtube .
YCoCg
Member
SmartTube TV
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I just renewed my Premium. It's $15.99 now. Ugh. Still worth it for me since I use it daily.
Jinxed
Member
thanks i'll try that!
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
Hey man, I've been meaning to ask, is morphe better than Revanced and if so, how ?
I've already put an ad free YT client on my LG TV, but, regarding an Android box now (Google 4K TV streamer), what would the best option be ?
Thanks
kevboard
Member
pretty sure Morphe is just a different fork of the same thing.
not sure if there are meaningful differences
Wolzard
Member
You can have the functionality of two of these extensions with this one, Improve YouTube. It allows you to radically change the layout and add various features.
'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos) - Chrome Web Store
YouTube, tidy & smart? Supercharge YouTube! Give it strong features, filter only the videos you want & exactly the look you like
chromewebstore.google.com
HarryKS
Member
I've never used revanced. From second hand info, found out the revanced team fell out with the project lead and they developed Morphe and from all the feedback, it's better.
It's the only one I've been using.
Best option sounds like it'd be smart tube.
winjer
Gold Member
This is new? Whenever I watch full screen on my phone, it keeps popping up.
Extremely annoying. It appears every 4–5 minutes.
I guess it's time to look for an alternative app.
HRK69
Member
Time to switch. Thanks.
I should've done it years ago, but apps like these always feel temporary to me.