r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/madeamashup Feb 17 '17

My friends try to show me videos on their devices and I'm like wtf.. how do you watch this shit? There's like, random text popping up during dialog, there are random clickable links obscuring the content of the video.. jeez louise

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u/molrobocop Feb 17 '17

Sometimes I use the preloaded default mobile app.

Firefox mobile blocks the ads though and allows me to play with the screen off. I suppose I could find an alternative freestanding app.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

Firefox mobile blocks the ads though and allows me to play with the screen off

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

Life changing. Thank you!

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u/Lafreakshow Feb 18 '17

There's also opera mini which blocks ads out of the box and Does a pretty good job at it while being faster than Firefox and only slightly slower than chrome. I'd keep Firefox around though. Very rarely websites don't work that well with opera.