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Youtube addfree is now running ads

Open sinbad-007 opened this issue 2 years ago • 13 comments
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sinbad-007 avatar Aug 03 '23 13:08 sinbad-007

Cannot confirm this. I don't know how the app works, but over a year I have been able to watch YT without ads. Apparently, the "backend" updates itself, because when you go to About it tells you a fresh build version, but the latest release on GitHub is 0.3.1

0x09AF avatar Aug 13 '23 17:08 0x09AF

I confirm. A few days ago YouTube returned with advertising. I don't know how but they managed to insert the ads during the video, although the original version is not installed but this one (ads free) is installed..

cambiass avatar Dec 11 '23 07:12 cambiass

I have WebOS 5.5 circa 2018, the only ads I see is on the home screen taking 75% of the whole screen and in the search results autoplaying muted. No ads for me in the video stream yet

0x09AF avatar Dec 11 '23 17:12 0x09AF

I cannot confirm this either. I have LG C3 OLED

ElPumpo avatar Dec 19 '23 19:12 ElPumpo

partially confirmed ads back on homepage no ads in the video

dtadptvl avatar Dec 22 '23 13:12 dtadptvl

Have you tried the release candidate?

throwaway96 avatar Feb 05 '24 23:02 throwaway96

The app was running ad-free for me for months until maybe a week ago, now there are ads in-video regularly. TV is LG UQ7050 WebOS version 03.34.00

SirH3nry avatar Feb 18 '24 18:02 SirH3nry

Can confirm this. Just tried to play a video and a 30 seconds ad played before the video.

The video I played has been playing now for 10 minutes without ads in the middle, only the ad that played at the beginning.

The app worked flawlessly for almost a year until today

Kanoola9 avatar Feb 19 '24 21:02 Kanoola9

Recently started getting pre-roll ads as well.

KannaHayabusa avatar Feb 22 '24 14:02 KannaHayabusa

Does this happen in 0.3.2? What about 0.3.3-rc2?

throwaway96 avatar Apr 01 '24 01:04 throwaway96

same for me since one day after 1 month running fine. Ads come back. 0.3.3. Installa /desinstall/install again same issue.

Goffer458 avatar Apr 10 '24 17:04 Goffer458

I can confirm I am seeing ads too

cmccrowe avatar Apr 26 '24 05:04 cmccrowe

try https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos/releases/tag/v0.3.4

jospezial avatar Apr 29 '24 01:04 jospezial