Or is there a way to make it somehow auto skip? Figured out they opened Chrome instead of Firefox… Now I am interested in finding some small Bluetooth controller to skip videos in a playlist.
If youre using a browser to watch YouTube just use Firefox with uBlock Origin. No ads
And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.
The duckduckgo week browser comes with its own YouTube player which is ad free.
Do people not know of ad blockers anymore
I thought I had Unlock and it doesn’t work anymore
Guessing you are using Google Chrime as your browser. If so switch to Firefox and ublock origin works.
Oh. You are right. I didn’t realize that’s what my daughter had opened… For some reason I just assumed YouTube won the war. I would edit to resolved but I am still curious about a simple Bluetooth button controller.
Also, freetube app on pc will bypass ads and other bs
I’m planning on getting a Rii Bluetooth controller for the computer on my tv. It seems well thought out, with a keyboard and mousepad on it. It’s not a simple few buttons though.
I was thinking of one of those ring things people use for their phone.
There are one button bluetooth remotes to trigger a phones shutter. Maybe you could reuse one of those?
The war is only beginning, my friend.
Also, FWIW Ublock Lite still works and blocks YouTube ads in Chrome. But it’s also stripped of features compared to Ublock Origin in Firefox.
The answer is yes, then. I haven’t looked for existing solutions but I know bluetooth buttons exist, and you can probably even vibe-code something to do it for you based on an existing adblocker, even if that has to run a headless firefox so it can run ublock origin or something in the background and use that to tell the timestamps of the ads. You have a turing-complete machine. It can do anything.
Why? Just have it auto skip.
And you didn’t bother to look to see why. It doesn’t work on chrome, move to Firefox.
I do unlock origin on Firefox (or a Firefox fork) + sponsor block. The combination gets almost everything
Same. It works crazily well for YouTube.
Yes, but that seems like over engineering a solved problem?
And it would be rather tricky. The button would be simple; even a pair of Bluetooth headphones could do it. The tricky bit would be in figuring out how long the ad is and pressing the 10 second skip key the correct number of times and then pressing the skip ad button if required.
Easier (and more secure) just to use an ad blocker.
sounds like a case of the xy problem
You mentioned you were still interested in a button.
How are your programming skills, and what’s your current setup? Are you using a PC? Is there a specific reason you want a bluetooth button instead of, say, a USB one? Or even just using a keyboard shortcut?
How are your programming skills,
BASIC… Haha. In reality I know a little bit, enough to poke around and make a mess of things.
I want it for my toddler, trying to see if I can get it to skip a video to a new one in a playlist.
My two cents. Toddlers shouldn’t be exposed to screens that early.
Maybe look at Zigbee instead of Bluetooth. It’s meant for home automation stuff, but I think it might be easier to set up to perform an action on an input from a button.
Or you can look at Bluetooth remotes but I feel like you’d have to create custom software to take the input and perform an action.
That said, you can use ChatGPT or Claude to help you get started. It’s one of the things an LLM is good at. Tell it you’re a beginner and what you’re trying to do and it can help you through the steps of setting up and writing the basic app. Be warned, the LLM will eventually lose its way and stop making code that makes sense.
Thanks. I will take a look into that.
Or is there a way to make it somehow auto skip?
uBlock Origin and Firefox
Just use an ad blocker.
Besides the adblocker workaround, there’s also https://flathub.org/en/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube, which is a nice way to use youtube without ads
Install KDE Connect on your PC and Phone (supported on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS), pair them together, use your phone as a media remote controller for the PC.
Have you tried adblockers? They eliminate this ad problem, and you don’t even have to use a skip button.
Pay up.
OP: Can I get a button?
Everyone in this thread: Use adblock
This guy: GIVE GOOGLE MONEY!!!
I answered the 2nd part of the question.
I mean, I kinda get it. I hate ads but understand that’s the “price” I pay for content. It’s also gotten invasive to the point that the Internet has gotten unusable without an adblocker, so I do that too (if there were less I’d at least try to do my part)
That said… You do know that the skip button was put in by YouTube? Do you really never press it? Or click the microscopic x to close an ad that’s in your way? Do you also go through the trouble of actually reading all of your junk mail?
