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minus-squareShurimallinkfedilink0•1 year agoThird party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
minus-square@Vaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoIs there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼linkfedilink0•edit-21 year agoYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect For Android, I recommend Xtra
minus-squarePikalinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoXtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
minus-square@Vaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoI’ve been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.
minus-square@TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•1 year agoYears ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
minus-square@Vaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoYeah I looked and saw there are some Firefox add-ons that skip and mute, but I didn’t see any that black out the ads as well.
Third party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
Is there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
not for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
Please don’t leave me hanging.
You can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
Xtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
I’ve been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.
Years ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
Yeah I looked and saw there are some Firefox add-ons that skip and mute, but I didn’t see any that black out the ads as well.