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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Tried to dive into Piped recently, but nothing would load.

I'm only surface-level competent with computers though, so I probably fucked something up... since you've poked around multiple options, which one(s) do you recommend as the most idiot proof?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

For android, the stock newpipe from the fdroid repositories was just download and play for me. Easy and simple interface.

For Grayjay, I use the direct download .apk from their website. It's been a little more buggy because it's still new, but all in all quite stable. Less features right now, but does all the basics and has device casting to TV which Newpipe doesn't.

For my PC, Freetube. I just use the Flatpak version for Linux. I'm on Nobara for my distro currently and it's worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I gave up using Piped. It was really good when it worked but sadly most of the time it was frustrating. Takes ages to get a video going then breaks up multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

From my experience, it depends on the instance. Sometimes, one instance of Piped will not work, but another will be OKish.