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YouTube insists that a 90-sec, unskippable ad format 'isn't something we are testing' — but furious users say 'they very much exist' (www.techradar.com)
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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Searching that turns up information about how my particular TV OS (WebOS) has no way of getting around Youtube ads. Not every smart TV runs Android.

And no, a pihole won't do it, either. I've tried.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Tried a pi-hole here for Roku, ads stopped loading when I stopped running pi-hole