…any tricks to block youtube ads on a work computer that absolutely can’t have anything installed on it?
Youtube and music.youtube are a good source of music at work, so far the best I got it to to skip forward then back until ads stop. Works, but requires active input.
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you’re network is, but it’d be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I’ve got 3 raspberry pi’s I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they’re searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that’s an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It’s annoying they’re so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn’t say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
Sorry, no idea how to fix that, short of spending money. But if you ever end up considering doing that, I’d like to suggest buying music rather than paying for a subscription like YouTube premium or Spotify etc.
…any tricks to block youtube ads on a work computer that absolutely can’t have anything installed on it?
Youtube and music.youtube are a good source of music at work, so far the best I got it to to skip forward then back until ads stop. Works, but requires active input.
It’s easiest to bring your own player or RaspberryPi and listen locally.
But if you absolutely insist on streaming to your work PC you can always run a VM in your browser: https://dev.to/dchif/run-a-virtual-machine-in-your-browser-2kjk
Download the music at home with yt-dlp, put it on USB and bring the USB to work.
Can you sneak in a raspberry pi? Maybe install pihole, eblocker, adguard home, or technitium on it and point your PC DNS settings to it? Requires hooking up another device on the work network, idk how locked down you’re network is, but it’d be sweet if you could do that.
I run everything at work. I’ve got 3 raspberry pi’s I run for redundancy and block ads for everyone at work. Occasionally, one of our teams complain because they’re searching a product on Google and clicking the top link that’s an ad, so I just whitelist their PCs from blocking. It’s annoying they’re so set in their ways, like find another link that doesn’t say sponsored, but oh well. Best of luck.
Sorry, no idea how to fix that, short of spending money. But if you ever end up considering doing that, I’d like to suggest buying music rather than paying for a subscription like YouTube premium or Spotify etc.