Using an alternative front end isn’t losing
Once they get rid of front ends they’ll have won
Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They finally made YouTube unusable for me even with ublock. Refreshing the filters didn’t work and told me I could only watch 3 videos.
Google was always going to win the war but I didn’t expect it to be like this.
I’m now using piped for all YouTube videos.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You are remembering to purge all caches before refreshing I hope?
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 11 months ago
Try opening your subscription page as usual with your ublock, but then right-click “open in private window” the videos you want to watch. Works for me.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish Piped worked for me, I was trying to watch a Linux tutorial in full HD to see the commands better and Piped just refused to buffer the video.
Lorgres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are other alternatives too, like invidious. The yewtu.be instance works decently well for me but limits to 720p I think. There is a list of all running instances somewhere on the github iirc. There’s other instances that allow full HD, just have a search and you should be able to find one.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Just redirect any watch page to redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=%ID% and you will get a list of instances. Can be setup with Redirector in a minute
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, I just got Redirector last night to check it out and it took me some time to figure out how to get it to work right where I have youtube.com/watch?v=* redirecting to yewtu.be/watch?v=$1 in case there is something funky going on there that causes me to need to have that redirect active.
jflorez@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What works for me is opening a new Private windows on Firefox, with ublock installed, and then login into YouTube. I do have to login every time I hope a private windows by so far I’ve been able to watch unlimited videos with an ad blocker installed
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why are you using YouTube at all if you don’t like it so much? Go use something else.
ultra@feddit.ro 11 months ago
Same here.
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I randomly stopped getting the anti-adblocking. On my gaming PC I never got them, on my laptop they went away after I disabled my adblocking for one video and then re-enabled it. Now I don’t get them at all. Did they give up on me?
simonced@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I’d love they gave up on me too…
Swarfega@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They no longer appear for me. The biggest change for me was just using uBlock Origin. Previously I also had Ghostery. If you run multiple extensions for privacy, try dropping them and only using uBlock.
FierySpectre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never got them for some reason, with just ghostery (and maybe privacybadger)