Tuesday, February 14, 2023

STOP! Don’t use the popular YouTube App.

 STOP! Don’t use the popular YouTube App.

The popular YouTube App usually is one of the pre-installed apps on your smartphone, and even if it is not, you’ll most likely go to the app store and then download the YouTube app just like almost everyone else. So, just don’t do it! When you use the YouTube app no matter what you search for to watch and listen to you’ll be stuck having to suffer through unwanted ads. Before during and after whatever content you want to enjoy.

There is another way to watch videos or listen to new music without suffering through all of the YouTube ads, and that is, don’t use the YouTube app at all!

Instead, download from the app store, the Brave browser, and load YouTube through this and you’ll be able to watch and listen to whatever you want without seeing any ads at all.

Brave is the smartest choice for blocking ads. This browser was built specifically as an ad-free alternative to Chrome and has built-in ad-blocking abilities and anti-tracking tech. It also uses secure HTTPS almost everywhere on the internet. With no ads being loaded, that means a faster browsing experience compared to most other browsers.

I’m not saying you should ditch Chrome altogether, instead try using different browsers for different things. I use Brave strictly for running YouTube videos and music, but I still like Chrome for searching for information as needed.

Brave recently began a new opt-in ad service where you can allow online ads, and will even pay users who choose to view a small number of ads at regular intervals while they browse. Brave hopes the new system will change the way online advertising works, but web pages in the Brave browser will still be ad-free, even if you decide to get periodic ads, but I wouldn't do it if I were you. That would just defeat the whole purpose of using Brave at all. Fortunately, that is a choice that you are able to make. Mine is set at no ads at all 100%, and this works just fine for me.

Other alternative ad-free browsers include Opera and Firefox, but we don’t need to go overboard here and use too many browsers. I still highly recommend downloading and installing the Brave browser from the app store on your phone and run YouTube through that and you’ll enjoy all of what YouTube has to offer without any ads at all.


I would also recommend doing the same for your desktop PC and use Brave there as well.


Good Luck!


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