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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For me, it was about being able to watch yt on my tv and mobile devices which are not able to block ads as easily as a desktop browser. I have a pihole on my home network, but it hasn't been able to block yt ads for a few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've been using this to automatically skip ads on my Chromecasts (youtube ads and in video segments) for the past year.

https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip

It's literally sponsor block but for all of my Chromecasts