Lemmy helping Lemmy World - Youtube without Ads

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• Bebo@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had zero issues watching YouTube on Firefox with ublock origin. Not one warning received,no performance issues.

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  • Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It depends on where you live, in Europe ad blockers NEEDS to be allowed on such platforms, i would guess he lives outside and gets punished for using a more open browser

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ditto

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  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am in the U.S. and with no change on my end (Firefox w Ublock Origin) I suddenly began getting all the ads. I noticed it would only happen when I was logged into YouTube/Google though. Creating a new account solved the problem.for me with no change to the browser.

    Maybe they only roll out their Ublock bypass to select groups of users at one time. Perhaps this is part of some kind of testing?

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• Pietrasagh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s my no-ads YouTube set

  freetubeapp.io

  windows, Linux Block ads and sponsored sections, optinal invidious proxy, no YouTube login, offline subscription list

  smartyoutubetv.github.io

  Android TV, Block ads and sponsored sections, smart tv optimized, youtube login if you want to see your subscriptions

  newpipe.net

  android, Block ads, offline subscription list

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox and uBlock Origin works just fine for blocking YouTube ads. You probably have some other add-on interfering with it that triggers the adblock detection. Restore your adblocker default setting and disable other extensions for YouTube and it should work.

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• catculation@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am using firefox with uBP and didn’t noticed a single problem you mentioned. It works fine without any degraded performance or buffering even with 4k 60fps.

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• anticurrent@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  use Invidious instances with the help of privacy libredirect plugin to redirect youtube links to invidious instances. you won’t see another youtube ad again.

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• drawerair@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue.

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• Davokin@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I switched to Arch Linux as my operating system a few years ago, and here I use the FreeTube app from the AUR. It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).

  And for work (Windows) I watch YouTube via Invidious instances, e.g. yewtu.be also a third party frontend for YouTube

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).

    if I remember correctly, it scrapes the Youtube page directly by default, unless you explicitly enable Invidious proxy. only then it would be comparable to a third front-end.(since that’s when it actually uses one).

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  uBlock Origin’s ben working fine for me on Firefox, but then again i don’t consume that much youtube nor would i bother.

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• Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox, uBlock Origin, adguard DNS, sponsorblock (crowdsourced video sections with auto skip), DeArrow (crowdsourced clickbait replacement), nyancat seek/progress bar, playback speed control.

  I’ve noticed videos stopping and buffering after the first few seconds, but not always, and seemingly less so again. It was acceptable to me.

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  piped video or viewtube.io on desktop, libretube.dev on mobile.

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• folak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Piped on desktop

    • Piped

  • LibreTube and YouTube Revanced on Android

    • LibreTube
    • YouTube Revanced
    • Guide to install REvanced

  • uyou+ on iOS

    • uyou+

  • SmartTubeNext on Android TV

    • SmartTubeNext

  • youtube-webos on LG webOS

    • youtube-webos

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  • nintendoit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You missed Newpipe.

    It is one of the favourites for browsing youtube without ad blocker.

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    • folak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t see the advantage of using newpipe when you can get youtube revanced.

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  • Hammerheart@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you still need to root your phone to use vanced?

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• squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Freetube on my PC and NewPipe on my phone. The user experience isn’t as good, but no ads of any kind.

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• LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OP, treat yourself to using freetubeapp.io on desktop. It is in my opinion at least a much better experience than YT via web browser ever was.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does it support sponser block? Its kind of needed with many of the sponsers spots now pushing 2+ minutes for a 10 minute video.

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    • LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes it does! It has also implemented DeArrow for better/normal video thumbnails and titles. Here is a pic of some of the settings >> Image

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• Mindhunter@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Newpipe fork and firefox fork with ublock

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• Traister101@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Brave (yes I’m aware ya’ll don’t need to yap at me).

  Yep seriously Brave all on its own blocks YouTube ads and no performance issues (likely thanks to being Chromium based).

  To address some complaints about Brave you can uh turn that stuff off. I don’t like Crypto so I… have all of that junk disabled. Doesn’t bug me whatsoever. Opt in ads (for their stupid crypto coin) are disabled by default (or least where when I installed). And the CEO is a bad person (surprising I know)

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• Expand@lem.ur-mom.gay ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I switched my useragent for youtube only to chrome and mitigated all the issues you are having

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• BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use a self hosted invidious instance

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This works great: youtube.com/premium

  This is pretty cool too: sponsor.ajay.app

  For TV clients: github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

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• zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vivaldi with built-in ad block. Every once in a while YouTube changes something and ads get through for a couple of days. Then a Vivaldi update fixes it again quickly. I assume Vivaldi is too small a target for YouTube to care more.

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• illi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we are talking mobile LibreTube has its kinks, but overall I’m happy with it. RiMusic for YT Music. Both on Fdroid.

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• BurpBlog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The simplest thing has been to use Brave + uBlock. NewPipe doesn’t allow me to search within the same channel, so I discarded it.

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• Kor@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dont think there is an easy solution for the lacking performance, but to force yt to use a set qulity you can use the FF addon Enhancer for YouTube (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/enhancer-for-youtube/)

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• beatnixxx@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chromium with uBlock origin mostly does the trick for me. There's the usual back and forth of youtube occasionally getting ads past uBlock.

  Firefox with uBlock for everything else.

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• PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For YouTube WO ads on desktop I use Brave, on mobile I use NewPipe, everything going smooth for years.

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