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minus-square@Vaeril@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoIs there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
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.
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-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼linkfedilink0•edit-21 year agoYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect For Android, I recommend Xtra
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.
Is there anything that already does this? Extension or app wise?
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.
not for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
Please don’t leave me hanging.
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
You can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
I’ve been using Vaft Ublock Origin script from https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions on Twitch which works for me.