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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably a good sign it is doing something useful if YouTube thinks it is an adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possible solutions: invidious.io and piped.yt

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Piped is good but I’m finding I’m having to instance hop a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect that's a growing pain. Same reason it happened on Lemmy, especially right after the reddit API changes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems to me YT is just blocking the instances so they have to move their servers constantly. Big or small instances, both get blocked every few days. Thankfully there are enough instances, so you can always hop. But it does require more intervention than Invidious, which doesn’t proxy your requests to Google.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=zOg8DVY9pwM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point, Google can have YouTube I’m out

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'll just use [insert other popular video sharing platform here] instead. Oh wait, there aren't any...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There isn't [other popular media sharing platform] because we keep hanging on to the same thing over and over again. No chance given to any other platform. This is true for all, myself included. (Maybe Peertube?)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So... If I understood the video correctly, Google YouTube just hard-blocked Google Chrome browser (and soft-blocked Chromium-based browsers) because they're trying to block adblockers? They're making this so much harder than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Workarround by MS, switch the UA of your browser to Windows Mobile https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/10/windows-phone-user-agent-allows-you-to-block-youtube-ads-as-a-temporary-workaround/

Another (better) one is to use an userscript

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker

You also can watch YT on desktop with the SMplayer, sandboxed in the search results in Andisearch or in the Vivaldi Feedreader without ads, if you don't like to switch continuosly between front-end instances.

A lot of channels from YT are also in Odysee

More FuckYT scripts https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=youtube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I don't see ads on YT, but neither do I see any adblock warning. Looks like I'm striking the right balance.