Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  FreeTube is a FOSS youtube frontend.

  FreeTube occasionally has issues on videos with preroll ads where the video fails to play because the ad won’t be fetched. This can sometimes be mitigated by running an ipv6 rotator script and blocking freetubes access to ipv4. The one I run reassigns my ipv6 address once every 5 peels to a new randomly generated valid address.

  Sometimes even this doesn’t block the ads (again causing the video to fail to play) in which case selecting the share icon from the freetube interface and clicking “open invidious link” will open a web browser pointed to whichever invidious instance is set to your default.

  The freetube folks are working on implementing DASH, which should eliminate the need for these workarounds once successful.

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  • ArcticPrincess@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you!!

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  • UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I too am intererted in your rotator script

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      github.com/ycd/ipv6-rotator

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where can I get such a rotator script?

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      github.com/ycd/ipv6-rotator

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why not just use the invidious instance directly?

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like freetube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fair enough! I do with that invidious had the “full window” option.

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