Blocking ads on EweTube

[Botch]

I used both Wipr and Vinegar to block ads in Safari, iirc Wipr was specialized to block video ads on EweTube.

EweTube has been especially agressive on screwing it up with this extension in place recently; when I get two ads at the beginning of even a short video, plus two more ads (usually non-skippable) every four minutes, well, I'm not going to accept that. I've been playing with a separate app called Swizztube that accesses EweTube vids a different way, but EweTube now will cause the video to not play at all, or start over as soon as the first blocked ad appears, or the video plays in a different language. I understand that I'm not paying anything for EweTube access, but I also know that they collect my viewing habits and provide my viewing/consumer preferences to companies to sell to me; I knew that going in, accepted it, and the EweTube oligarchs became billionaires with that business model; that's fine with me. But, that wasn't enough! MORE MONEY FOR MEEEE!!! Now they're trying to shove ads down my throat at every possible instance, and I'll leave EweTube before putting up with that, hence my efforts with ad blockers/Swizztube. Yes, I know I can pay Bezosebub $130/year to eliminate those ads, but since he'll still be collecting my info AND doesn't create his own content (he's merely a server service) that's a hard pass from me [/rant].

Now, the good news. Don't know how long this was around, but someone on my Mac website suggested using the "Duck Viewer" that's built into the pro-security DuckDuckGo! web browser, something I'd been meaning to experiment with for quite a while anyway. And, so far, it's been working beautifully! Swizztube had a lot of quirks, but the Duck Viewer looks exactly like the YT interface, and there haven't been any hiccups whatsoever. Recommended!

EDIT: Oh, and DuckduckGo! is on the App Store, and free.

 

[Haywood]

Now they're trying to shove ads down my throat at every possible instance, and I'll leave EweTube before putting up with that, hence my efforts with ad blockers/Swizztube. Yes, I know I can pay Bezosebub $130/year to eliminate those ads, but since he'll still be collecting my info AND doesn't create his own content (he's merely a server service) that's a hard pass from me

Not that this in any way alters your point, but YouTube is Google, not Amazon. I personally pay the pound of flesh for Premium. We watch a lot of YouTube and mostly watch it on television via Roku, Android TV, or Fire TV. That makes using things like ad blockers impractical for us. It is not cheap, but we use it more than any of our other streaming services. It also comes with YouTube Music. I don't like the TV interface for listening to music on my system, but the phone app is decent and I like the tight integration with Google Assistant.