AdBlocker for YouTube works.

Couple days ago I had to install it on top of uBlock Origin on friend's pc, since the latter stopped working on YouTube. Be sure to disable uBlock on YouTube.

Careful not to cut yourself on that edge

Don't worry. My feathers keep me safe from cuts.

PBS passport and pirating everything else. I do watch some YouTube of people I subbed years ago though

Hey, I recognize your PFP and username from Nostr... Hello.

Pretty sure this does not affect Firefox as my adblocker still does the job

There's a difference between AB testing, and fraud. Charging someone a sub cost to not see ads, and then AB testing if you can get away with still showing them ads, is fraud. If they saw ads with Premium, it's a million times more likely it was an error, but I frankly just don't believe it. That's just my opinion.

uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.

Yep. Still working on mine. I also use windows 10. Dunno if that matters or not.

What is morphe? What happened to revanced?

The main issue with phones are fucking banks. Their bullshit insisting on phones having to have locked bootloader is so fucking annoying. I used phone with LineageOS but it was nightmare to work with my bank and they all do this shit to "protect the user". Yeah right.

Yes, I do use Android phone, but I used ADB AppControl and just deleted and disabled all the Google shit on it (easier on Samsung since they have their own services which I prefer over Google if I have to). I also run DNS level filtering using Hagezi Ultimate list which filters so much shit. Not ideal still, but it works.

alot of time its right wing shorts, or thirst traps videos. and this from not logging in.

Streamers host video, nebula spotify.

There has to be opportunity to push into new platforms

I do like Nebula, but I don't see that scaling up in that way.

And Spotify is basically YouTube, I don't necessarily want to see them succeed either.

Yup. That's the main thing stopping me from yeeting Google from my phone (also Samsung): the tickbox sanctity of a non-rooted phone that financial (and some other) apps require. Very frustrating.

Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT

"No way around it" always ends the same
After 2 days uBlock just works.

Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite

Love to see it

So seamless that I didn't even notice

Well hello there

I am fully aware of what odysee is. I still choose to use it because I'm a libertarian myself, and it's still a competitor to Google.

It would help a lot if more creators used it.

Mine isn't working flawlessly with this exact set up, but it's just forcing me to refresh the page every time I load a new video. Still no ads.

Gonna use this thread to shout out https://github.com/YTLitePlus/YTLitePlus
There are more than enough options for android users out there, this one is for iOS though. Tried it out this weekend on my jailbroken iPhone 6. If i read it correctly it should also be installable without a jailbreak but not that easily.
Its super cool and nowadays it feels so weird that you got the option to do such shocking things like disabling shorts or reorder the tabs, its really fun.

"Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos"

Seems like a win to me.

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

Whether or not that matters depends on how much and how you watch it.

Ads while I listen to music = annoying

I want to navigate fast to different videos on PC to find something and almost every time an ad appears on a new video = annoying

I'm watching some chill drive or walk while reading a book and a loud ad appears = annoying.

But when I just go and watch 1-3 videos before bed on my ipad? I don't care if I get those 2-4 ads, I just mute and wait those couple of seconds. I have no youtube adblockers or different clients on ipad / phone for that reason.

Works on my machine fails to account for A/B testing. Everytime someone says something's not working, they also mean it's not working on my machine/account.

I'm still waiting for them to just to implement Wildvine. It has to happen at some point.

Wait, is it possible to side load on ios? can I distribute ipas directly?

They have zero incentive to use it.

Makes no money for them, scalps what little they make from Youtube.

I suspect that if Google hadn't bought them, it would have been only a matter of time. Storage back then was hella expensive and without the ad cache, i don't know they could have afforded to grow and stay 'free'.

YouTube was pretty damned good for quite a while, even after Google purchased it.

Back in the day, when you got 1 30-second ad, or even two 30-second ads, right in the center.

Things started to go to shit around the 1 min unskippable ads.

I see. Does the crypto aspect of Odysee and its new NFT-liking owner concern you at all? If not, have you seen this video?

uBlock origin is the same code on mine or yours machine. It does not need a graphics card, nor uses some particular instuctions of the CPU.
On Firefox Stable on Flathub at the time of writing, with default settings and default lists, it will work as expected on Youtube.

Widevine

Google does not always provide the same Youtube code/challenges to you and me. That's what A/B testing is about.

Are you using other add-ons?

Is uBlock Origin working for you specifically, enabling it alone with no other add-on?

YT search is completely broken. It used to be that the first 3-4 videos were relevant and the rest were YT shorts or stuff you previously watched. Now, not even the first result is related to what I search for. I have to use Google in order to get the video I actually want. Even incognito in YT doesn't help much nowadays.

Damn, they’re really upping their game.

RSS+yt-dlp=bliss

The issue is with your ad blocker, not YouTube, though YouTube has no incentive to tell you what is going on as it would help out bots trying the same thing.

I don't like Brave but they seem to have gone to the effort of whitelisting the heartbeats, so use that for YouTube comments.

Use a vpn and albanian version of.youtube

Nope, just uBlock. If I disable uBlock before loading the page everything works fine as well, so I'm pretty sure it's uBlock.

But I'm on Linux (openSuse Tumbleweed) and have had some interesting "distro specific" bugs in recent months, so I'm chalking it up to "my OS + Firefox" and not "uBlock"

yes, that thing :)

Spite is a form of currency. lol

I recall having some firefox addon once upon a time to specifically remove youtube comments.

Have you been paying like... literally any attention to US corpo activities lately? Fraud is not only not being punished, but actively rewarded, so long as you bend the knee to Trump, which Google has.

Not with that attitude!

I am also on openSUSE Tumbleweed, but using Flatpak Firefox.
Perhaps you can try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox to see if it chinges anyting.

Invidious if you can host it yourself.

Freetube if you cannot.

Yt-dlp if all else fails.

Same content, and besides needing an occasional update when google tries to break them again, no bullshit.

Is Noutube still working?

So… just the video, no ads, no comments, no text at all? Please block it for me too, YouTube!