YouTube - I'm out...

alarmguy said:
Who has time to watch all this TV? I guess that is a hobby?
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YT has an incredibly high amount of educational content. If you have a hobby that is normal, there will be content there to help/guide/inspire you with it.

My line of work requires constant education, learning new skills and technology. If you don't, you don't get hired anymore. YT has lots of videos for this. I've spent many days of my life all added up, learning on YT.
 
hemioiler said:
YT has an incredibly high amount of educational content. If you have a hobby that is normal, there will be content there to help/guide/inspire you with it.

My line of work requires constant education, learning new skills and technology. If you don't, you don't get hired anymore. YT has lots of videos for this. I've spent many days of my life all added up, learning on YT.
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I get that but I dont think that is what the OP is talking about nor the majority of the posts I am reading.

I watch you tube videos for certain things when I need a reference for something but not for TV type programming. These posts seem to be not about learning and if you read the OP it to me doesnt seem like anything other then TV type programming.
Do you pay for no ads? I can see that maybe as a learning environment but do you also for enjoyment watch You Tube instead of more traditional Roku type player apps?

For entertainment I would not use anything related to google and completely disagree with Alphabet's corporate model. (aka google)
 
alarmguy said:
I get that but I dont think that is what the OP is talking about nor the majority of the posts I am reading.

I watch you tube videos for certain things when I need a reference for something but not for TV type programming. These posts seem to be not about learning and if you read the OP it to me doesnt seem like anything other then TV type programming.
Do you pay for no ads? I can see that maybe as a learning environment but do you also for enjoyment watch You Tube instead of more traditional Roku type player apps?

For entertainment I would not use anything related to google and completely disagree with Alphabet's corporate model. (aka google)
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I get what you're saying but it's not all that black and white for me. I don't watch movies on YT, I think that's all paid content anyway. But what about truck reviews, towing reviews etc., I find that both educational if I'm researching a truck, and also entertainment when I'm watching a truck I'll never purchase (like a 1 ton diesel towing review).

Some of that content you just don't get anywhere else.
 
Bottom_Feeder said:
That isn't what I said.

To not acknowledge that there is an absurd amount of crap mixed in with decent YouTube programming is being disingenuous.
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If it looks like click bait it is ignored except from certain channels. Sure there is tons of bad stuff on YouTube, If you continually avoid the junk it quits coming up IME.
 
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vavavroom said:
Ad blockers work fine on AdTube on the PC but not on mobile devices. Someone suggested Opera but Opera fir mobile is built on the Apple Web Kit and isn't really Opera. Ad blockers seem to have little or no effect on ads on Opera for mobile.
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On Android devices you can use Newpipe. It's a YouTube client without the ads.
 
hemioiler said:
I get what you're saying but it's not all that black and white for me. I don't watch movies on YT, I think that's all paid content anyway. But what about truck reviews, towing reviews etc., I find that both educational if I'm researching a truck, and also entertainment when I'm watching a truck I'll never purchase (like a 1 ton diesel towing review).

Some of that content you just don't get anywhere else.
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With YouTube Premium movies are enjoyable again. I have watched 10 or so movies in the last year. Most recently the original Patton.
 
alarmguy said:
DO you log out of Facebook when you are done with it or do you just close the browser?
Not sure if it matters but I log out of everything including BITOG. For all you know the info came from this site.
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No I don't. You have a point. I figured it was gmail scarfing up everything.
 
Pablo said:
Ok how about this

YouTube through a Roku on a TV monitor. How to block those ads?
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With difficulty. You would need to be savvy enough to know how to redirect ad requests to Roku's hard-coded DNS servers through a device running on your network that sends the ad requests nowhere. You need the know-how and a fancy home router that can do this, of which I have neither.

There are other ways with resetting the Roku and using VPN tricks of which I'm not familiar.

In this case, probably just pay for YouTube.
 
Bottom_Feeder said:
With difficulty. You would need to be savvy enough to know how to redirect ad requests to Roku's hard-coded DNS servers through a device running on your network that sends the ad requests nowhere. You need the know-how and a fancy home router that can do this, of which I have neither.

There are other ways with resetting the Roku and using VPN tricks of which I'm not familiar.

In this case, probably just pay for YouTube.
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All routers are capable of defining the DNS servers that are used by everything on the network. As long as you are not using an ISP supplied router this is not difficult to set-up, just enter the DNS server IP addresses that you want to use. There are free ad-blocking DNS servers available like AdGuard DNS, but I don't know if this technique will work on Roku and I don't know if this will counteract the YouTube ads.
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
 
wag123 said:
All routers are capable of defining the DNS servers that are used by everything on the network. As long as you are not using an ISP supplied router this is not difficult to set-up, just enter the DNS server IP addresses that you want to use. There are free ad-blocking DNS servers available like AdGuard DNS, but I don't know if this technique will work on Roku and I don't know if this will counteract the YouTube ads.
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
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Roku devices get IP and default gateway info from your network but they use their own hardcoded DNS servers to keep people from doing exactly this.

Put your favorite ad-blocking DNS servers into your router's DHCP configuration to give out and your Roku still won't use them.

EDIT: And I can't seem to find what they used to use, but apparently Roku uses Google's DNS now. (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
 
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CKN said:
Everything on the Internet should be for free. Creators shouldn't get paid (by ads)) and just support the "common cause" for those of us that have nothing better to do!
I shouldn't have to put up with adds on my 130 (whew) channels!
Unbelievable.....................
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Your medication has clearly run out…

Get a refill ASAP :LOL:

In all seriousness… I agree with you.

I don’t mind ads but so much…

Matthew Posa Outdoor Adventure has ads.. .

But I really like his videos and he does a great job… I’m glad he gets decent money for his great channel and videos.

And Hobo Shoestring ….

That money has helped his life… IMMENSELY…

He never had a settled home.. Now he has a very, very nice apartment… That makes me very happy for him.

He definitely needed that.

Let him get that ad money…
 
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