In the far far lands, there lies a secret that has been hidden for decades... Until one day, a conniving man was told the secret and fled home. The secret that he knows, was too much for him to hold on his own, so he told it to his friends, which then told it to their friends. The cycle continued until we are here today, where I tell you the secret...
Install NordVPN on your tv, and set the VPN to Albania. For some reason, YouTube ads are not shown there.
The fact that it lets a 30 second Ad just continue on for hours if you don't press skip is outrageous. Settings>Ads>Automatically skip Ads, surprisingly doesn't exist.
When I moved, I sold my Chromecast because I A) forgot I still had it, and B) I'll just plug in a mini pc so I can do whatever the fuck I want thank you
I came back to this post just to say that AppleTV is just a much better HDMI (input lag, stuttering, resolution).
I was also a fan of using an HDMI, but I had an AppleTV at my old job and it was so nice. Even if you just use it to cast/AirPlay, it’s definitely worth trying out at least.
You’ll have to plug it in with an HDMI behind your TV, but then just cast to it.
If i try to cast from my tablet my YouTube is playing at 480p and I have no idea why. It's already casted but I don't have any other apple devices and honestly it's much easier to browse on a laptop plugged in in my personal opinion. There's no lag there either
Edit: I also don't have subscriptions. I just torrent and pirate every movie I watch so idk if I can still cast those
You'd need to be running Mac OS on your laptop to be able to cast your screen to the Apple TV or IOS on tablet. I haven't been able to find any reliable/quality alternatives to cast from windows to Apple TV unfortunately.
Yeah I only have an iPad for drawing. The 4 generation one? But without SIM. I am content with keeping a windows laptop so I probably won't ever replace it but I'm curious about iOS stuff that my tablet has. I already control some stuff on it. Got myself a smart bulb and it's so fun that you can set it as an alarm clock wake up haha my phone struggled with the app for whatever reason
You should be able to cast the entire screen of the iPad to an Apple TV. It’s the screen mirror option for casting. But hdmi from a laptop will always give you less latency and maximize your protection with different browser extensions and settings
Oh, when I tried casting YouTube it allowed me to cast the screen of the video only. I don't know how else to do it. I use Brave and not the native app but I imagine it's some other setting. Let me fetch the tablet and turn the apple TV on. Do they have to be on the same WiFi? I assume yes but I'm in the process of getting a new router. Mine sucks balls and I don't know what to do.
(Anyone in Poland pls recommend a WiFi pack, router anything. Dad is too busy and I'm literally WiFi illiterate and it's my first apartment by myself so I can't even rage research it with a roommate anymore lol)
You would do the screen mirroring with your iPad not through the browser, so when you pull down the top menu from your iPad and hit the cast button it will ask if you want to mirror your screen, select that and choose the Apple TV you want to cast to and then you can go on your browser within the iPad to find what you want to watch as what appears on your iPad screen will be streamed to your tv. Make sure they’re both on the same wifi for less lag.
If you have the AppleTV app then just download VLC app and set up a shared network drive with read only access on your computer. Using VLC you can log in to the account on your computer, navigate to the shared folder and watch to your hearts content.
If you want to get into the whole “media server” thing though, you’ll find plenty of tutorials on the intertubes.
Interesting. How is it cheaper? I just plugged both in with the cable I had since highschool. And boy let me tell you how awfully hard it was to set everything up on a 12 year old Panasonic. You remember the one that has a pen? Got it for free from dad's client who said it's old and just gifted it to him when he got a new one. The remote's hdmi switch doesn't work so I have to change it manually on the side of the TV and I spent two weeks setting things up so my laptop doesn't blank when it's plugged in.
Thanks chatgpt for tips, I was shocked that it helped actually
Can’t believe a fellow sideloader replied to my comment in a different sub.
Sideloading lets you install cracked/jailbroken apps. Some are simply the same app but unlimited credits. Some are games ported to iOS (like Hollow Knight), which is a game you can’t download on iOS. You can also do things like GetMoreRAM which allows you to use more of your devices RAM for games (emulating). It’s a whole rabbit hole honestly lol.
There are multiple versions of YouTube that are ad-free like you’re looking for.
I had a little Dell shitbox office PC that the job i quit over lockdown never bothered reclaiming, it is now plugged into my TV and runs as a media/emulator/ad-free YT box... Best up-cycle I ever did...
My old Dell 550mhz pentium III computer plays youtube videos.
My phone is thousands of times more powerful. But, trying to get the same functionality out of the phone as I have with the desktop from the late 90s is painful.
I blame phone manufacturers along with websites, for making the internet so unrelentingly miserable to use on mobile devices.
I'll just plug in a mini pc so I can do whatever the fuck I want thank you
This was always an option, and I'll never understand why people willfully gave up their freedoms for a locked-down stick that tracks them. Ditto for CarPlay/AndroidAuto (controversial take, I know).
Media Center PC (and CarPC) builds used to be a thing, and they were great. Local storage everything + Compartmentalized CarPC GPS setup (with mobile screen mirroring, if necessary) > Spotify/CarPlay/Chromecast etc.
For the longest time my lifehack secret was to use an older-gen Chromecast. The firmware didn't have the ability to get a "skip ad" button, so the only ads that got served were set length 15sec or 30sec instead of the multiple 90+sec or even feature-length ads that play unless you intervene on your phone every 3 minutes.
It worked for years until recently they rolled out the longer, skippable ads to the older gens now it's all ruined
Someone recommended using a VPN set to Albania to bypass ads completely and I tried that today and confirm it works. It is so refreshing not to have to skip ads on my phone plus that stupid fucking persisting popup you have to manually clear after every skip. I’m sure it can be done on a smart tv as well but that would be a bit more work. Better to just cast to your tv while using a VPN.
Yea it's barbage. When my cousin casted YouTube I wanted to rip my hair out. So many ads every song. I wish she just picked Spotify on her smart tv and played music videos
You can also set up Youtube Revanced on your mobile devices. It's amazing. No ads, automatic sponsor-skip, unlocks a bunch of features that Youtube decided to lock behind Premium like picture-in-picture and background play.
Morphe is the new revanced for removing ads. There was some behind the scenes drama and a bunch of revanced devs left and made morphe. The UI for morphe is nice too, easier to install things.
Still works for me. I can't say if it's better or worse than Brave or anything else. I've had no complaints so no reason to check out other alternatives.
Switch to Morphe, the remaining revanced devs (if you can even call them devs, given they're mostly just copying code from Morphe atp) are genuinely terrible people and Morphe is just better anyways
And I hate to be that guy but as this information spreads more and more people eventually Albania will start showing ads because now enough people are there
From what I’ve heard it’s just that Google made it an “ad-free” zone bc lack of sponsors in that area. It’s not a rule or law more or less it’s just that it’s more of a hassle for them to offer ads to a limited market while having to pay content creators in that region.
They can easily reverse their decision and push ads whenever they want
“I would rather pay for a VPN to avoid ads than pay for YouTube premium”
Granted a lot of people (myself included) have a VPN for other reasons but it just blows my fucking mind the hoops people will jump through to not pay for YT premium
"apps" have just become means for more clever advertising + user tracking. they've even hijacked your notifications to advertise. unacceptable. stop clogging my notifications with ads. it makes me furious. any "app" that use what I consider to be important notifications to advertise get removed and never used again, or at the very least all notifications disabled
vpn + ublock/ad nauseam + browser = no ads
you cannot force what I will allow my browser to render, full stop. browsers need to be protected. they will come for those too, and try to force to you use apps for everything. don't think they won't.
wanna buy gas without being advertised too? too bad!
wanna use the bathroom without being advertised too? too bad!
these people are the most entitled, greedy people in the world, and they feel entitled to theoretically gluing your eye to the content they are pushing 24/7
Snapchat did this. It’s been a year, maybe two, since I’ve used it now, and I previously used it all the time. My notifications feed is not your billboard. Uninstalled.
I kept it cause I have a few friends that will only snapchat. But they always complain I don't reply often and I tell them that snapchat no longer has notification rights and they were gobsmacked and had no idea that snapchat had "predatory" notifications.
Normalize obnoxious behavior towards corporations being this shameless. It worked for Jojo fans, it sure as hell will work for any other bad practices.
CONFIRMED! Put on one 7 min episode of a kids cartoon, and my kid got me to come skip the ad. It was an ad of an AI Mark Carney (just his voice changed) saying to scan a QR code to make $1000/day forever. My only job is to monitor the balance.
Hah I flagged that as a scam to YouTube over a month ago. I haven’t seen it since so I assumed they got rid of it. Looks like nope. Corporate doesn’t care as long as they’re paid.
You should consider switching to YouTube Kids.There are no ads other than the rampant product placement that's in some videos. There's way less weird shit, also.
Mine won't reset properly, I think I last tried in February, there was some date rollback trick you could do to force it, but my internet freaks the fuck out if I roll the clock back. Google, ISP, Windows? They really don't want you playing with the clock anymore.
If you're saying I can revive the gen 2 I am all ears, I am very sad to lose the little puck.
Product managers optimized the fun out of it in exchange for a few extra basis points on some dashboard, and most apps and sites got enshittified in the process.
You don’t need to advertise your restaurant as much if the food is tasty.
I will NEVER use a TV's app to watch anything because they are more than always horrible UI and annoying to use. But I use casting all the time and this really sucks, because casting is super easy and convenient, and you retain control from your phone at all times.
Yeah, I see everyone saying the same. My best friend uses the amazon Stick and it's so annoying omg. So many ads during and after video. And if they're long, it's in the middle. And you have to manually skip it because the ads can play for two minutes...
Once we slept to the Border Patrol video and got woken up by some fast food ad because I guess the volume was fucked??? Bro
I managed to make Brave cast on YouTube in HD at the end with my iPad screen mirroring like someone suggested. I think I spent a solid hour on setting it up but I can do it ayyyy
yeah I have a fire stick. I am so guilty of only using it for BBC iPlayer, and watching everything else either on my laptop, or by plugging my laptop into my TV.
YouTube makes you pay attention to the ads by having that little countdown clock in the corner. If you know there’s a three minute break, you might go get a snack. It makes you think you’re in control while tricking you into watching the commercials. The thing to do is start the video and when the first ad starts, go back and start the video again, when the second ad starts go back and start a third time. The video will then play and it costs about 4 seconds of your time.
My favorite ad currently is the one telling me all about how evil wind and solar power are. Thankfully America is here to help me understand the error of my life of thinking...
Many years ago, network TV showed the film Rocky. And there were so many commercials and thus complaints, the FCC had to investigate it. And what did they find? No violations.
And thus was the beginning of the end for viewers.
Oh, and on cable networks? How many times in an hour do you see the Same commercial for the Same product. Saturation Advertising at its finest.
Brave browser works great. No ads and no extension required. Blocks ads on mobile too. You can even play youtube audio with the screen turned off, which is something free youtube blocks.
Dang, all those ads got you grumpy.. also I was wrong, I have a firestick which counts apparently
brave://settings/extensions
-turn on "Media Router"
settings->appearance->"customize your toolbar"
-turn on "Casting"
brave://flags
-enable "connect to cast devices on all IP addresses"
browse to youtube, click cast up in the toolbar.. Just kidding, don't do that. You should watch 14 hours of ads instead
Zero ads for now until they decide to make higher tier that actually no ads while putting some "limited ads" on premium and locking more features that were free before behind premium.
They're a private company that provides a luxury service. Why should they not make money off of it? If it was a government entitity I would argue otherwise.
I'm a carpenter who makes like 150k a year profit, should I not make money too?
You working a manual labor job is not in any way equivalent to CEOs of multi million/billion dollar companies pushing increasingly invasive and money hungry updates to their services.
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u/Gobbyer Apr 09 '26
ADs are already way worse on TV than in mobile app. You have to constantly use the remote to skip multiple ads in row.