Pretty much the subject line. uBO has successfully blocked the nag screen enough times that I can’t play anything at this point. No preview loads, and the play button serves no function. I’d really prefer not to have to find content on YT, copy the URL and use Piped/Invidious, but this ongoing escalation is steeling my resolve to screw Google.
-No issues on Firefox+ubo on desktop. -Revanced for mobile (android) -Snarttubenext for tv. Amazon fire TV and any android box.
Been using Freetube, and I even get watch history on it without needing to enable a “use my watch history for advertising” setting. No issues so far, but I don’t watch in higher resolutions so no idea if that would cause any issues.
Someone else already mentioned LibRedirect, I have that setup to link to Freetube.
Freetube is so amazing, I’m never going back.
I always watch in 1080p and there have been no issues for me so far at all. I love Freetube.
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Revanced hasn’t had any issues throughout this. I only watch YouTube on Android anyway.
(doesn’t help for desktop use, but it’s an option and maintains all of YouTubes native functionality + premium features)
No problems yet with Firefox + uBO
https://libredirect.github.io/download.html works great for automating link redirects to alternative sites.
This looks promising. Just the fact that it autopings the list of servers on demand solves much of my Invidious frustration.
If you don’t mind the impossibility to login, check out Freetube.
For Android, you may use NewPipe, LibreTube or Youtube Vanced.
I’m using FreeTube and NewPipe to view now. Yewt.ube is working on iOS devices in Safari with 1Blocker. Firefox and uBO is my last option if I happen to click a link that opens automatically.
I’ve had on and off problems with YT. On days where uBO is behind, I right click and open in private window. It’s a shitty workaround, but it works.
This ad blocking tug-of-war game is absolutely fascinating in so many ways. One cannot help but be entertained by the two sets of opposing engineers fighting each other for technological dominance
I love it
No problems with YouTube Premium.
Its just not that you want to pay a company that sold your data and stuffed ads down your throat. Like, at all. Will they still track you using Premium? I am totally certain.
Google doesn’t sell user data. They sell advertising space and use that data for targeted advertising.
I’ve bought genuinely useful stuff from targeted ads. I’m the problem.
Use Brave Browser instead. I haven’t had any issues at all watching YT using Brave.
There are a multitude of reasons to recommend against using Brave.
Personally I refuse to install it because the CEO and creator, Brendan Eich, unapologetically donates to right wing and anti-gay establishments. Many people refuse to use it because it games the users and advertisers with a proprietary cryptocurrency that isn’t actually useful for anything except making money for Brave. Others refuse to use it because in 2020 Brave was caught adding their own affiliate codes and tracking data to websites in the url bar, even ones that were typed in by hand. That was eventually rolled back but it didn’t help me trust them any.
Vivaldi is a better browser option, in my opinion.
Pretty much every CEO of every company is right wing. Several prominent Democrats are right-wing in their politics, and will still get the backing of the party regardless. That’s what happens when all you elect are capitalists.
I do not care about shitcoins either way.
I’ve never heard of Vivaldi. Does the adblock work?
Yep, most of them aren’t anti-gay maybe.
But they’re all 100% anti-union, anti-social welfare, anti-tax, pro-inequality, pro-monopoly, and anti-democracy. Kristal Ball called them “woke pinkertons”.
It’s true.
That’s why I scratch my head a little whenever someone tells me I can’t use a certain product. For instance, it’s impossible for me to use a computer that, at some level, hasn’t been sourced from an oppressed labor force.
The society I live in is impossible to exist in if I abstain from everything I need due to negative political connotations.
I do what I can to effect better outcomes in my own small sphere, but asking someone to forego any problematic associations in their consumption is like asking someone not to breathe.
Freetube pointing to a local instance of Invidious.
