What absolute wankers! In case anyone's adblock goes south, here are some YouTube alternatives:
For Watching YouTube
For Uploading
- PeerTube
- Idk, make a video blog or something.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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For Android:
Newpipe or Tubular (Newpipe X Sponsorblock fork)
VueTube (still under development, the team is working slow because it's pretty small, they have a few time to spend on it and they need devs, it's a complete FOSS alternative to Vanced, and will have most of its features including optional Google log in with interactions)
If you need to login and have a full YouTube experience: Revancedapp
LibreTube is very good as well.
I tried it and I still prefer Newpipe, but it's cool to have a lot of alternatives for everyone!
Relevant Tumblr post
youtube.com##+js(set,yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set,ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set,Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
Here it is in text format so ya'll don't have to type it out. I haven't verified that it works but by the looks of it it just makes the Adblock sensor report a false negative. [edit, fixed some spacings that sneaked it's way into the filter upon copying it earlier.]
The one thing the Reddit exodus has taught me, is that I'm almost eager for a reason to ditch my social media and either find something new or simply take back that time and do something more fulfilling anyway.
I'm so much happier not being constantly blasted with advertisements, that now when I have to go back on insta or FB for whatever reason, I can't stand more than 30 seconds before I nope back off.
Looking forward to axing YouTube from my life next.
I am 43 and I remember growing up, people in the early days of the internet were calling people in my age group (late genx/early millenial) a generation that will be "impossible to advertise to." For me, it's rang very true. I can't think of a single time I ever saw an ad for anything and it made me want to spend money on a product or service. But I guess that hasn't been the norm, or ads would be dead.
block scripts with uMatrix. a little finer grained. if they block me, oh well. still won't watch ads
uBlock can do everything that uMatrix can do it just has a different interface, so there’s no need to use the deprecated uMatrix
Not paying youtube a cent until they remove all the transphobes and quit blasting people with their shit ass bigoted content. I'll pirate and ad block just to spite them every step of the way. Make your bed with fascists, lay in it.
I'm sure there's a way to get around it, and if there isn't, then I just won't be using YouTube anymore. I survived before it existed. I'm getting tired of these companies' bullshit.
mpv is not a crime!
PeerTube's turn now :)
Youtube is a prime example of why monopolies are bad
Decentralize! FEDERATE EVERYTHING!
As much as I dislike ads, "Company wants to make revenue from its product" is not a prime example of why monopolies are bad.
Youtube has done a lot more bad shit than push ads everywhere
I already have enough content to watch between Peertube and Odysee. Youtube is dead to me.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Odysee yet
I signed up to Odysee the other day to upload a video. It was too hard and I gave up.
You need to be confirmed to upload. Their options were:
- Do a test transaction ($1 to CC). Broken, not available at this time.
- Pay some money (CC transaction). Also broken (I checked my bank history to make sure the money didn't get taken anyway. I would have been happy to pay a few dollars to host a video, I know it's not trivial)
- Join their discord and say "Hi" to the verif bot. The bot said "message me with details of your IRL public social media accounts". I don't have those.
Nope nope nope. Made an account on Vimeo and uploaded there instead. Everything worked.
Maybe I'm just not the target audience? Bigger barriers to entry might only let the more profitable people pass? Not sure.
mmh, i wonder if google/youtube is gonna learn anything from reddit. If not i guess we'll see another migrations in the ~~near~~ future.
Youtube is much harder to migrate from. It has a loooot of data. Where else can I upgrade 60 minutes of 4k gopro footage for free?
Youtube is much harder to migrate from
yeah, i agree, even with alternatives like peertube but since hosting of video data is more expensive it might take longer for reliable instances to appear, but ... the unfriendlier the youtube enviroment becomes, the more likely it will be that people will look for and create alternatives. Guess that at least means there is some hope for the future, even if that might be farther away.
Lemmy youtube when?
Right now the #1 alternative is Odysee. While Odysee itself is a centralized company its just as open sourced front end for the decentralized LBRY block chain.
As of now Odysee has far more videos, features, and download speeds then any other YouTube alternative.
If you're interested in supporting an alternative I reccomend downloading the "watch on odysee" extension which redirects YouTube videos that areavailible on Odysee, to Odysee. (Firefox) (Chrome)
Odysee is a right wing cesspool with no moderation: https://thelinuxexp.com/Im-leaving-odysee/
TIL refusing to remove content you disagree with = right wing cesspool.
Just like YouTube is a left wing cesspool with cancel culture?
I guess you have to pick your poison.
Personally I can't think of a single traditional value worth preserving and I've got nothing worth conserving - given the pollution of the right that modern day corruption has completed, I'll stick to the lesser, at least until I can't dodge advertising anymore.
I think you're going by the English meaning of "conservative". The word is badly chosen, because I don't think they really are traditionalists. Probably "capitalist" would be a better fit. And paradoxically there are many things I find the "progressives" want to do which are in fact regressive. It's a bit confusing and I think names should be changed to something else if it were up to me. Words have power, and words like "progressive" and "woke" have positive connotations while "conservative" has negative connotation which is sad; they don't even apply anymore to the groups or ideas they represent.
Yes, you're right about the English definition - talking politics is difficult in a global forum because of these strange idiosyncrasies.
I do try to use the language flatly, avoiding emotive words where possible. It's interesting you say that "woke" has positive connotations, as I think the Republican🇺🇲 and Conservative🇬🇧 crowds have been using that word as something approaching a slur!
When I say "conservatism" I am strictly referring to the definition in the dictionary or the wiki. I feel like the UK Tory party is definitely following a more anarcho-capitalist expression of the ideology, but their trans exclusionary rhetoric does have the air of "traditional" CoE values around it. In the states, the creeping in of a Christian flavoured version of Sharia law is an interesting development under a lib president, as I would consider this an expression of conservatism.
Personally, I think the connotations that the term conservatism has earned over the last hundred years are well earned, especially as the core values of conservatism seem to be somewhat nebulous. Ultimately we can only judge by the totally flawed implementation of the system that we have - just as we have judged Communism to be a totally unworkable and flawed system by studying the facist regimes of Russia and China as examples - despite the similarities between communism and what the USSR/CCP were/are being almost nil; though this is probably what you were driving at with your closing statement! 😅