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Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If youre using a browser to watch YouTube just use Firefox with uBlock Origin. No ads

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    • CapnClenchJaw@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The duckduckgo week browser comes with its own YouTube player which is ad free.

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do people not know of ad blockers anymore

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought I had Unlock and it doesn’t work anymore

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  • tyrant@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do unlock origin on Firefox (or a Firefox fork) + sponsor block. The combination gets almost everything

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could just use uBlock Origin on FireFox and they won’t exist at all to have a need to skip anything.

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My suggestion is to not watch YouTube videos.

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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mentioned you were still interested in a button.

    How are your programming skills, and what’s your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you use Firefox, try this addon: addons.mozilla.org/…/youtube-no-disturbance/

    I’ve given up on uBlock for YT because frankly I was annoyed at having to update every two days. Silencing ads is good enough for me.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Been using uBlock for like 10 years.

      Very occasionally, like once every 2 years, youtube acts funky. I don’t even update. I just deal with it, and a day or two later it goes back to normal.

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      • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I can confirm this behavior. If there is a “race” between ad blockers and YouTube, I am not noticing it.

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Idk, it kept breaking the site for me because of the arms race between YT and adblockers.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, but that seems like over engineering a solved problem?

    And it would be rather tricky. The button would be simple; even a pair of Bluetooth headphones could do it. The tricky bit would be in figuring out how long the ad is and pressing the 10 second skip key the correct number of times and then pressing the skip ad button if required.

    Easier (and more secure) just to use an ad blocker.

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      On one hand I agree that today, the easiest solution is freetube or similar.

      However, this problem seems to become “unsolved” every other Wednesday.

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don’t remember what it was.

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  • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just use an ad blocker.

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Install KDE Connect on your PC and Phone (supported on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS), pair them together, use your phone as a media remote controller for the PC.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pay up.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OP: Can I get a button?

      Everyone in this thread: Use adblock

      This guy: GIVE GOOGLE MONEY!!!

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      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I answered the 2nd part of the question.

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, I kinda get it. I hate ads but understand that’s the “price” I pay for content. It’s also gotten invasive to the point that the Internet has gotten unusable without an adblocker, so I do that too (if there were less I’d at least try to do my part)

      That said… You do know that the skip button was put in by YouTube? Do you really never press it? Or click the microscopic x to close an ad that’s in your way? Do you also go through the trouble of actually reading all of your junk mail?

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