Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

• 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.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My YouTube redirect rule is a bit more complex, but works for all shorts, youtu.be and regular youtube links and it supports time stamps and videos that are part of a playlist.

    Set the rule to regular expression, use this one

    (?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?v=|shorts\/)|youtu\.be\/)([^&?\/]+[&?]?.*)

    and redirect to https://%yourinstanceofchoice%/watch?v=$1

    Enjoy!

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    • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, what I was trying to do with Redirector is have it so I can search and browse videos on YouTube, but when I click on something that I want to watch, it forwards me to the same video on YewTu.be instead.

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s exactly what this is doing. It captures all youtube.com/watch, youtube.com/shorts and youtu.be/ pages and redirects then to the same page on invidious. Just replace %yourinstanceofchoice% with yewtu.be.

        If you don’t open videos you want to watch in a new tab, you also have to go to Advanced Options in your rule and tick “HistoryState” else it will bypass the redirect.

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