You shouldn't present a biased take from developer drama as fact. ReVanced is fine.

considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data)

I actually pay for youtube premium

pick one

I was wondering why I couldn't see descriptions and comments on seemingly random videos for the past two days. Also, it's weird because I use Ublock Origin on Firefox and it's rare that these changes actually effect Ublock Origin. It seems like it may be fixed now though, but I haven't been actively checking.

What alternative do you recommend for watching YouTube on a PC?

Is ReVanced also dead or just ReVanced Extended? I just got an update 16 hours ago from ReVanced Manager. Seems like their website is still running
https://revanced.app/
https://github.com/ReVanced

no, it is not worth the money, I rsther pay for nebula or float plane or patreon

Great... Fewer humans and even more bots in the comments... That's a genius idea.

Move where? Vimeo?

Vimeo lays off ‘large portion’ of staff after Bending Spoons buyout

Dont let them know.... They probably never even tested on Firefox. :)

Sorry, are you saying you want youtube to be a private site that is subscription only?

Because, if you think this is a gotcha, you probably won't have a good time. And the site itself would die as creators would have no market to really target.

I think your comment is sarcasm, I was pretty clear in my statements!

One of the options laid out above: FreeTube

Why does firefox allow random people to farm all that information? That's the real problem here.

Counterpoint, it doesn’t make your experience ad free as many YouTubers have sponsored content.

These kinds of things are often A B testing to see what they can get away with - especially in countries like the US where consumer protection laws basically don't matter. It's kinda like when they raise subscription prices in one country but not another, but with showing some people in that country a certain amount of ads per watch time vs another group with a different amount of ads. They see how much they can get away with before people start complaining, and then what they can get away with before people start cancelling.

I watched a video just this morning talking about how YouTube has built-in systems for similar A B testing with video thumbnails to tell creators which gets more watch time. You give it 2 thumbnails and it randomizes which one people see, and then tracks click-through rates and watch time percentages before giving you a result of which one performs better.

I don't really get the sentiment here - what's happening is the standard development if a public good (that youtube kind of was before google purchased them) gets privatized. It's the same with communications (isn't AT&T great?), water, electricity, rail infrastructure and trains, roads - investors are never good for the public good. They're only good at lining their pockets.

Could just be because they address it rather fast.

It could also be due to chrome limiting what uBlock can do.

UBlock + Firefox seems like the ideal combo.

Somebody, please, think of the shareholders /s_

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was.......oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

I didn't say it was constant. I only said every now and again on the free trial I'd get an ad. Maybe it's because I only used it with Qutebrowser. I don't know. but I know that sometimes I would get an ad on a video.

I find getting rid of YouTube to be incredibly difficult. I use both peer-tube and odysee as much as possible, but still find myself on YouTube more than I'd like. Of course, I'm only doing YouTube through a newpipe, but it's still accessing YouTube.

Fine with me. Youtube needs some decent competition.

There's nothing to see in Peer tube

Firefox extension to fix youtube comments forever

It often makes me wonder why you tube keeps squeezing then. If the majority don't block ads it seems like it would be an acceptable loss.

At this point, I am kind of done with youtube either way. The more I go on with life the more I want to actually do things instead if passively just watch things.

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Like was already said, I'm considering cancelling YouTube Premium too but our numbers won't really matter. The reports of worsening Firefox compatibility almost some me in and I didn't even notice.

I have a family plan with my brother and cousin on it. I know they're cracking down on sharing with people who don't live together, but if they cut them I'm done. I'll figure it out. And I'm probably petty enough to comment about it on everyone's videos that I follow. (Which also won't really matter, but I'll feel better voicing the discontent.)

What’s wrong with Brave?/gen I keep seeing positive comments about it, so there must be something I don’t know.

Here's a pretty in-depth explanation. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ The article is from 2023, so I'm not sure if they've improved since then.

I’ve stopped using YouTube for the most part. Cut down a lot once they broke the search function and I could no longer find what I was looking for because every result would be flooded with random shorts and other irrelevant content.

Then, my account, which was made in either 05 or 06, got flagged as belonging to a minor and they asked me to verify my age with an ID. Why this even happened when the account itself is over 18 now, and I’m not in the US (which I thought was the only place their age verification BS was being implemented) is beyond me.

I wish there were more options for long form video sharing, since YouTube seems to be the only viable platform for it at the moment.

Why I use Newpipe on the phone, and Freetube.

I still haven't seen a youtube ad in years... ho hum..

They did successfully disable uBlock Origin for me on chrome but I found a workaround that so far seems to be sticking fine despite further updates. Still see comments and descriptions fine on youtube. Occasionally things take a little longer to load than I would expect but I'll take a longer load time on a black screen over being stuck watching dogshit ads relentlessly.

uBlock also seems to just continue to work on FireFox which also plays youtube fine.

I prefer Tubular for Android. It's a NewPipe fork to implement SponsorBlock and ReturnYoutubeDislike

I noticed one of my comments was shadowbanned, I thought it was the channel that did it. Hmm, I don't comment much on YT, I guess I won't at all now. NBD.

odysee as much as possible

Just a heads up, Odysee became bankrupt after its parent company LBRY (owned by a hyper racist and fascist ancap who was trying to politically takeover New Hampshire with a right-wing libertarian community to, among other things, revoke child-labor protection laws before being kicked off the board for his racism) did a pump'n'dump of their LBRY coin without reporting it on their taxes, which the government sued them for since it was illegal.

Odysee was then bought out by Arweave; a blockchain crypto scam company created and owned by Forward Research, which itself is owned by Sam Williams; another venture capital crypto techbro libertarian/ancap who also bought a big NFT company during the Odysee aquisition. So unfortunately, Odysee is no better than Google.

Peertube is great though.

Meh. My ad blocking strategy on my phone and desktop still works fine. I use Morphe (formerly Revanced), uBlock Origin on Firefox and AdGuard on my android phone.

No ads. No problem.

same for odysee

Libby,libraries have lots of things....for now

Revanced is dead.

Im literally using it right now...

I assume you are a hardcore "The God of Capitalism Will Provide" person but... that isn't how it works.

Youtube is an insanely expensive service to operate. That is why basically every other attempt failed miserably. Google is able to offset the cost due to their datacenter requirements as well as being able to sell those targeted ads. Even for google it is highly suspected to be a loss leader.

It is like people forgot that microsoft/azure tried to make their own twitch... and it failed horribly even though it had definitively better tech.

Freetube. Sorted.

Is there anything wrong with Nebula? Or is the issue that it acts more like a supplemental streaming service rather than a primary one? It seems like between peertube and nebula creators really could shift their user base to other systems if they worked together to bring attention to the matter as part of an organized campaign against Google.

So? Both options work great for me.

If a good alternative to Youtube is created, then I'll use that. Great.

If a good alternative to Youtube never arises, and Youtube is constantly enshittified further, that's great too. The human race deserves to suffer, so this option is also great.

I cant imagine flagging a whole account over 18 years old as attached to a minor.

I like Hoopla because of the name, but same thing.

Ublock Lite still works on Chrome. There are no custom filters and it doesn't block a lot of annoyances (like "Sign In With [brand]"), but it gets the job done for most people.

But honestly if you want have the most reliable adblocking experience, then Firefox w/Ublock Origin is still your best bet (also YouTube ReVanced for mobile and SmartTube/SmartTubeNext for TVs).

It surely doesn't help that YouTube has replaced broadcast TV for most people. You can't even go back if you wanted to because TV is all but dead these days. Not unless you don't mind 24-7/365 marathons of Ridiculousness on MTV, and nothing but reality TV and old reruns catered to 80-year-olds on the remaining channels, cause that's the only demographic left still watching TV.

I actually just realized I apparently disabled UBO for some reason on Youtube - can't imagine why - and it was actually just Brave Browser blocking everything on its own.

I got flagged as a minor, despite an old account. They would not accept my card that I pay for premium with as a valid card. It's valid enough to pay them the stupid fucks.

You can do the selfie thing, except use a 4k video of someone talking to the screen and it'll probably work. I used an Evan Edinger video, scanned that and passed fairly easily. AI probably works if you can get a high fidelity image but all the free ones are well under 1080p and just don't really register.