The day they “win” is the day YouTube is dead to me
Same, will just read books instead (if nothing on alternative platforms)
On android use a firefox fork with ublock I’m sure there is an equvalent on ios as well. It’s much easier than playing whack-a-mole with an app.
Try Unwatched
It even have sponsorblock built in.
Bonus
Vinegar works really well on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
$1.99?
No thanks. But thanks though.
It’s an Apple app so be thankful it’s not $29.99. I’m not endorsing the price and haven’t even had an iPhone in years but it did work well, even on such a locked down platform
Ok bud
Does the ublock addon also do the cat and mouse game with Google when google patches ad blocking with ublock?
As of recently the offical block list doesn’t because they gave up but there are many others maintained by folks that still do.
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This reminds me of the guy who uploaded his entire collection of DBZ to PornHub because they could give a rats ass about copyright infringment.
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I always check pornhub “for science” ;)
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youtube/google is spending more time, money and reputation (not that it cares about reputation since its the only player in the game) trying to defeat adblockers, than it would have ever spent on just moderating its platform to make sure its not airing scams, malicious misinformation, frauds, hoaxes, outright porn, and all the other nasty shit that piss people off about the advertising.
cause thats really all this comes down to. no one likes ads, but they’d be a lot more tolerable if google fucking policed what they showed so people didnt get fucking AI nudifying ads on kids videos, or if they just didnt air 2 hour long prageru videos about why the white race is superior and why blacks should be happy whites “elevated” them with slavery.
but they’d rather force us to see that shit, than put in the slightest effort of moderating themselves
Some of us don’t base their buying off of stupid ads. Why can’t we just be left alone. At this point I’m just basing on if I have any money left after going to the gas pump.
That’s not the point. Youtube doesn’t want to sell you anything. They want to sell you to the companies that want to sell you something. Doesn’t matter if you buy anything, as long as you give them some attention.
Newpipe’s been relatively solid for me on Android. I think I have more subscriptions there than on Youtube at this point.
Yep, Newpipe and PipePipe which is a fork of Newpipe are both working just fine for me.
What differentiates PipePipe? I really liked Tubular, which was NewPipe+SponsorBlock, but it quit getting updates
Just quit YouTube. Just part of degoogling. When I finally get all my auth off of Google I’ll finish it and go to graphene.
any good alternatives? I know of curiosity stream etc but not another site where anyone can upload.
Peertube is the fediverse alternative. It’s cool but not a ton of traction right now
this is cool, thanks! I’ll upload my own youtube videos to it. :D
I tried curiosity stream but ended up not liking it. Since 90% of what I watch is educational or infotainment I’ve gone with a sub to nebula, as most creators I was following on YT are there. Note there is no upvoter/down vote or commenting of any kind there.
Not the alternative one would be usually looking for, but Glomble is a neat place to share videos
You’ll come crawling back
Lol whatever.
I use an app called freetube
If your having issues with ad blockers then this might be worth a try
Yeah , I love a good ad blocker / sponsor block / privacy frontend but they all feel like duck tape on a sinking boat. At some point we have to move away from these centralized platforms but the enshitification hasn’t outweighed the lion’s share of content / creators on these platforms to a tipping point for the majority. Ad blocks let you mitigate the enshitification so you can stay on these platforms longer - in many cases this is required so not knocking it, I do it as well. My hope is that as these companies continue to go after ad blocks users will finally jump ship in mass as they are forced to confront the lovecraftian nightmare that is any of these platforms without an ad block.
so thats I why I welcome that new chinese entry - bilibili. I think it will give yoube good competition.
I would just repost shit there from youtubeI certainly agree that more options will help - but, I would love to see a more federate / user powered, owned option take YouTube’s place not just Youtube #2. it feels like a centralized option will just corrupt over time no matter the intentions and we will just be repeating the same mistakes but perhaps the economics of Video hosting / streaming at scale require something like this … I am not sure how the economics of something like peer tube scale but I would love to see us all learn from our mistake and not just make it again. But … maybe I am just idealistic and not grounded in reality.
Been using Morphe for over a year now with no issues. Smarttube also still works fine on my tv.
Freetube is a third party youtube client that usually works, but they are also in a cat and mouse game with youtube blocking.
Pichai, you fucking banchode.
Oh, yes, uBlock Lite and a bunch of other plugins killing off intrusive ads can’t still be beat.
I use premium and even then it’s getting shitty. The UI sucks now and I get so many crap gen AI videos that aren’t my subscriptions. I keep intending to run invidious, I should do that today
That’s why I’m using the nouTube app, I can watch my videos peacefully and it doesn’t have those annoying shortsyoutube :P
I scrolled down the comments curious about what other third party apps there were and I was really surprised.
The only app I was aware of was Revanced, and I’m not sure if the other apps are new and popping up because YouTube keeps giving more attention to them or if I was just unaware.
