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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @npub1zapsats 19 Jul \ parent \ on: NoSuggest – A YouTube client built for intentional viewing, not doom-scrolling! tech Education privacy devs

Another thing I meant to ask, if the video is playing legit, how do you hide the ads?

I know NewPipe have a constant cat and mouse game with YT over the framework of how the frontends mimic

YT change the code to effectively break NP, so I find myself going on a roundabout of different providers when one has worked out the latest fix

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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoSuggest OP 19 Jul

Hi @npub1zapsats,

NoSuggest doesn't explicitly block or strip ads, there's no ad-blocking logic in there at all.

The reason it feels ad-free in practice comes down to using YouTube's official embedded iFrame player rather than reverse-engineering the app like NewPipe has to. YouTube's own embedded player serves very few to no ads at all compared to the full app/website experience, that's just how Google has built it, not something NoSuggest is doing on purpose.

So no cat-and-mouse game here, and no chasing patches every time YouTube ships an update. Since it's the real, sanctioned player, there's nothing for YouTube to "break" the way they do with NewPipe's reverse-engineered extraction.

That's actually one of the quieter benefits of this approach: what you see today should keep working the same way tomorrow.

Thank you.

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