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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here is the uBlock Origin issue tracking YouTube’s anti-adblock attempts: github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

  For your feedback to be seen and addressed, please post there, too. They’re not watching this Lemmy thread, and there won’t be any action items to come from feedback here alone.

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• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Update ublock origin filters and use firefox

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t log in to watch youtube. You’re not one of those…(spits) youtube commenters, are you? Use 3rd party frontends for your subscriptions. Some don’t even need a google account.

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  • purple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/386/

    XKCD 386

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    • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Post a link to Lemmy/Mastodon and leave your comment there

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  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was that a spit of contempt or a spit aimed at the spittoon in the corner of the ol saloon

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  • gila@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any suggestions for 3rd party frontends which recommend videos algorithmically like when you’re logged in?

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    • NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think there is any. That’s the “con” of not being tracked with no personalization.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On my phone, I’ve been using newpipe for a few years with little complaints. I can import my Google account subscriptions to it but I can’t comment or rate.

      On my home theater PC I have been watching YouTube via Kodi with a Google API for over 6 years. It works excellent and there is no ads. Although Google may at any time revoke access to the API or charge me a fee to use it. It is kinda technical to set up and requires Kodi which is a rather large package with a lot of python dependencies. So if you only want to watch YouTube and don’t want to set up a Google API or read a doc then it might not be for you.

      Others comments here mentioned freetube which looks really promising and I might try it on my laptop.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of them will recommend relevant videos but there’s no way to algorithmically recommend videos especially for you without having any information about you.

      Most content I find by searching.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why not log into YouTube? Google already tracks your browser everywhere else - including your online banking, which often you can’t access without enabling connections to google.com and gstatic.com (along with the domain you’re actually accessing, that provides 3 points of internet routing for highly effective triangulation).

    Facebook tracks you even when you’re not logged in. Maybe not logging in makes the data they collect slightly less valuable, but they’re still collecting it. At least logging in gives you access to a proper watch history.

    Saying all that, more power to you if you choose to work around it. However, if you’re going to youtube.com to watch things then there isn’t really any difference doing so logged in or logged out, for the most part.

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google already tracks your browser everywhere

      They try to track me. It’s pretty clear they’re not successful, given the lack of relevance in the ads I do see when I disable my ad blocker and also how often Google asks me to prove I’m even human at all.

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    • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To make it a bit harder for them. I’m still not fully understanding it as it didn’t affect me yet, but when they were introducing it they were calling it a “three strikes rule” or something like that. Maybe those strikes are counted against your account?

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just block all Google domains in your DNS/Firewall and have a separate browser with a different DoH resolver exclusively for online banking. You can go even further and have a separate VM or physical device for online banking only.

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• metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Congratulations, you are free.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1. Use Firefox
  2. Use UBlock Origin - Don’t add any other adblockers, turn off any adblocking features on other plugins.
  3. Any time you see this message, go to the UBO settings, under filter lists click “Purge All Caches” and then "Update all."
  4. Refresh the page.
  5. If that doesn’t work give it a few hours and try again. So far the UBO guys are updating a lot faster than Google can catch them.

  This is the one method that has been consistently working for everyone.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A properly configured No-Script and Firefox works wonders, I don’t even need an adblocker

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• eruchitanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Use Invidious/MPV/FreeTube on the computer, and Newpipe on your Android phone.

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• Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ublock Origin settings -> filters -> purge cache -> update filters.

  If that doesn’t sort it out then google updated the script recently and you need to wait for the devs to patch it, it usually takes less than an hour.

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  • nous@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I found clearings cookies for youtube to also help sometimes.

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• netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Firefox/LibreWolf + uBlock Origin will make this go away. Just like alternative frontends for YouTube like Piped or Invidious. On Desktop you can also use FreeTube, on Android I recommend LibreTube and NewPipe and on iOS there is Yattee which you can set up with this guide.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yattee is great if you don’t care about logging in.

    If you do, there are still ways to block the ads by using an ad blocker for Safari or even using a different browser such as avast, opera or brave. You may need to tweak some settings, so it’s not guaranteed to be a plug and play experience. Even if a browser works with iOS, it might not work in iPadOS, so be prepared to try lots of different things.

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      avast, opera

      You shouldn’t use these under any circumstances. Brave is not great, but it’s the best option on iOS I guess.

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• NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Freetube has been the most headache free experience for me, since I don’t need to worry about getting my account banned if YouTube doesn’t like Adblock or having to fiddle with ublock. It allows importing of your feed too.

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Go into developer tools, Ctrl-Shift-P, search for “Clear” and then select “Clear Site Data”.

  Reload the page. Presto… it’s been a week now and I haven’t seen that message.

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• hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are people doing to get this message? I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in so long I can’t remember.

  • Don’t use the official app, use something like NewPipe or the equivalent on iPhone, on desktop use Firefox with uBlock origin (go into settings and enable filters at your leisure)

  • Get a VPN that has adblocking built in (I use Mullvad, I honestly don’t know how effective it is because I have other adblocking as well on top)

  • if you want to get fancy with your home network, use AdGuard on a raspberry pi or docker or whatever works best for you

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re AB-testing it. Not everyone is getting these notifcations. I do on Firefox + uBlock Origin but it goes away for a while after I update the filters. I just need to do that several times a day

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    • Hirosum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ive been using a combination of ublock origin and privacy badger. Set badger to strict blocking of any tracking from youtube and i have not seen an ad or adblock popup in a week or two now

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve never seen it despite doing nothing special beyond my normal ad blocking… it’s a partial rollout I think.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah, though I’ve heard about it for weeks at this point only this morning I got the first pop-up, and it’s still the one I can just ignore

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  • uvok@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Download Videos with yt-dlp and watch them locally. Works perfectly so far

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    • hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      One day they find a way to inject ads into the downloaded file, don’t worry.

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or just use Piped, Invidious or FreeTube. LibreTube or NewPipe on Android, Yattee with this guide on iOS.

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    • jack@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or just stream directly with mpv

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube is trash these days. Did a few searches earlier and got nothing but shorts. Absolute garbage results.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hate how they recommend unrelated videos in your search results. And then repeat videos lower down in the results that were already at the top.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are also easily blocked with the ublock element picker.

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• jack@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How often will we have to see this post again

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Until everyone knows about proper browsers, adblockers and private frontends.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    until everyone has a chance to become one of the 10,000

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• astronought@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you tried disabling your ad blocker or paying for YouTube premium?

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    have you seen their prices?

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    • dalingrin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes I have and I think they’re fair. $14/mo for Youtube + Youtube Music vs $11/mo for Spotify.

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    • astronought@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does YouTube not deserve to charge for the goods and services they provide?

      There are alot of services I choose to not pay and thus I don’t consume their services.

      It’s all good to decide it’s not worth it and not pay, but that doesn’t automatically give people the rights to use the product in a way it’s not intended.

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    • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      God forbid content creators get paid

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, I have not

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  • MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    NOOOOO, LEAVE THE MASSIVE CORPORATION ALONE!!! PLEASE PEOPLE, PAY GOOGLE YOUR MONEY, THEY ARE BARELY SCRAPING BY!!!

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  find something else. theres always the high seas

  youtube is kinda dead to me, i wish people would stop posting links sourced there

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  • hiddengoat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the high seas are totally known for having short form videos on various subjects from a number of independent creators.

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    • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the content is from Youtube, I think it’s fine to post that link - there are plugins to rewrite to something else if you use it, but for those who have paid/functioning ad blockers Youtube is most likely to work well.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and this is the reason youtube will continue to fuck everyone over.

      you all lack convitction to actually stand up and not use a service thats fuckinng you over. yeah, youre going to lose some content from some providers, so tell them. but fucking stand up for yourselves, you do not have to use youtube.

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• scripthook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  for your Desktop download FreeTube. A private YouTube client that’s also ad free :)

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LibreTube is great for Android and Yattee with this guide for iOS.

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    • Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s also Grayjay now, that includes plugins fkr other platforms too

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  • Brutticus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ive been having trouble with freetube, the videos just try to load indefinitely.

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• flying_monkies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ncognito mode
  Don't log in

  Youtube works fine in that mode with ad blockers. If you want to be logged in, uBlock typically updates within an hour or two of any google change. This message has the github link with info

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• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is your setup?

  What have you tried?

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  • loxo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Firefox + ublock. Just did “purge all caches” and “update now” with ublock and I can watch again thankfully.

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    • FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, problem solved?

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try Piped, Invidious and FreeTube. These will always work, no matter what’s going on with your browser or adblock.

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YouTube updates their adblocking detection algorithm few times a day so you need to keep updating ublock few times a day too. However you don’t need to update the entire filter list. Find the one that says “quick fixes”, click the clock icon after it and then the update button on the top. So far this has worked for me. Previously I was getting that pop-up several times a day and now I’ve went almost a week without. Also if you’re using firefox, as you should, make sure you disable the enhanced tracking protection for YouTube (shield icon at the address bar before www.youtube.com…)

      Yesterday after not updating the filters for a while I got the “video player will be blocked after 3 videos” pop-up, but after updating the filters I haven’t seen that one again either and the player haven’t been blocked either.

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• TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unpopular opinion: You could just pay for the services you are using. It’s a private platform and it’s not necessary for your survival. You shouldn’t feel entitled to get anything but the most necessary things for free. If anything, getting free things is a privilege.

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  • TheDrunkard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not unpopular, it’s just that on Lemmy and in tech circles, it’s not cool to pay for things. Cool people steal content they have no rights to because they like doing crime and not having consequences. I’m a carpenter, and I work hard for a living, so I value work and my ethics are to reward others for their work. Pirates don’t see the world that way, no matter what bullshit they spew about how horrible a company is or how it doesn’t deserve to be paid. Your not alone, but it might seem that way on Lemmy.

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  • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s for that reason that I think pay for sites should be the norm as from what I’m informed video sharing sites like YouTube are a very unprofitable business model and even with the ads YouTube is not breaking even it’s only a loss that Google can afford and YouTube brings attention to other Google services while yes we have parts of the web where even when you pay you still get ads and that’s wrong

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Re-evaluate your life decisions and ask yourself how you got to 2023 without learning how to block ads.

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  • DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OP is literally in this position because they are blocking ads

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OP is literally in this position because they’re not blocking ads effectively.

      I get that I’m somewhat biased, in that it hasn’t affected me so much. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t valid for me to point out the rift in experiences.

      Software is supposed to work for the user; it’s supposed to make things easier. Somewhere along the way that philosophy has been twisted into the software working for the publisher, at the expense of the user. The very acceptance of that premise is the problem - let alone the acceptance of viewing ads.

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  • QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Desktop alternative: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc#readme

    You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
    Put yt-dlp.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
    Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
    You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
    Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp/youtube-dl, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.

    Also (desktop & app): https://www.vlchelp.com/play-youtube-videos-vlc-media-player/

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• Zima@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  acquire a new hobbie. hopefully something that is hard to monetize.

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  • xintrik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like working on cars. Oh wait…

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• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Use a different service or allow ads, maybeperhaps?

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• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a compromise until the adblockers come more consistently out on top, I installed Youtube Ad Auto-skipper. It automatically triggers "skip ad" the moment it becomes clickable. There's a Chrome version too, I believe.

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• Platinwing@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Take a look at Freetube, if you dont like it there ate many different frontends out there, but some can be a bit complicated to set up.

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Strange, it seems you can watch it, hey you can even watch it without ads, but you’re not willing to. I wouldn’t use the word “can’t” anymore, you don’t seem to understand it’s meaning.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just use a proper OS/Browser/Blocker combination. I have yet to see a YT ad on any of my PCs, and so far I did not get any kind of warning from them. It just works.

  And I know how annoying those YT ads are from my phone…

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  • Rouxibeau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just caught my first today using Firefox with ublock origin. They’re coming for us all.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When they go full throttle, idk how places like schools are going to mitigate.

    Once ads are in classrooms on a platform like YouTube you’d be able to target those accounts and give them ads for, well, anything. At school, during lessons.

    Our govt really needs to step in and regulate the tech giants.

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• Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Leave YouTube I suppose

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you still want to use your subscriptions and such, and are okay with an extra click, right click the video instead of opening it and hit open in new private window (in Firefox, but Id assume similar features in other browsers also work, since we’re just trying to quickly open it in a rab where you aren’t logged in). For some reason, the anti-adblock seems to be account based currently, so you can keep using adblockers like ublock origin just as before if you aren’t logged in. At the time of writing at least.

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• AnokLola@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just use Adguard, please.

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• kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Use MPV. “mpv youtube-link” still works on command line

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  • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or FreeTube.

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