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MrSoup lemmy.zip MrSoup@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-03-21
#152 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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NuXCOM_90Percent lemmy.zip NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-20
#153 · Quote Reply

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.

Careful not to cut yourself on that edge

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I_Jedi lemmy.today I_Jedi@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-11-03
#154 · Quote Reply

Careful not to cut yourself on that edge

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

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PalmTreeIsBestTree lemmy.world PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#155 · Quote Reply

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.

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

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rustinmyeye lemmy.ml rustinmyeye@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-11-22
#156 · Quote Reply

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.

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

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REDACTED infosec.pub REDACTED@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-02-05
#157 · Quote Reply

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

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iamthetot piefed.ca iamthetot@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-01-08
#158 · Quote Reply

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...

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.

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#159 · Quote Reply

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

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daannii lemmy.world daannii@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-08
#160 · Quote Reply

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.

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Threeme2189 sh.itjust.works Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-30
#161 · Quote Reply

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.

What is morphe? What happened to revanced?

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RejZoR lemmy.ml RejZoR@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-02-09
#162 · Quote Reply

Don't forget the phone. Almost everyone with a smartphone is either an Apple or Google user via it, and everyone seems to forget that.

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.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#163 · Quote Reply

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...

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

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Squizzy lemmy.world Squizzy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#164 · Quote Reply

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

Streamers host video, nebula spotify.

There has to be opportunity to push into new platforms

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tb_ lemmy.world tb_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-09
#165 · Quote Reply

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.

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Brewchin lemmy.world Brewchin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-19
#166 · Quote Reply

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 Samsun...

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.

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Stitch0815 feddit.org Stitch0815@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
#167 · Quote Reply

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

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

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𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him) lemmy.world glitchdx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-20
#168 · Quote Reply

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

So seamless that I didn't even notice

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shortwavesurfer lemmy.zip shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-01-08
#169 · Quote Reply

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

Well hello there

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shortwavesurfer lemmy.zip shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-01-08
#170 · Quote Reply

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 ...

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.

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shortwavesurfer lemmy.zip shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-01-08
#171 · Quote Reply

There's nothing to see in Peer tube

It would help a lot if more creators used it.

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LordPassionFruit lemmy.ca LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-05
#172 · Quote Reply

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

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.

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vogi piefed.social vogi@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-07
#173 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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chasteinsect programming.dev chasteinsect@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-05-06
#174 · (edited) Quote Reply

"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.

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chasteinsect programming.dev chasteinsect@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-05-06
#175 · (edited) Quote Reply

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...

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.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#176 · Quote Reply

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

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.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#177 · Quote Reply

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

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

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blaggle42 lemmy.today blaggle42@lemmy.today
Joined: 2024-12-11
#178 · Quote Reply

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

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#179 · Quote Reply

It would help a lot if more creators used it.

They have zero incentive to use it.

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

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#180 · Quote Reply

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.

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.

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CafeFrog lemmy.cafe CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2024-11-11
#181 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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?

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#182 · Quote Reply

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.

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.

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#183 · Quote Reply

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

Widevine

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#184 · Quote Reply

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.

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

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#185 · Quote Reply

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.

Are you using other add-ons?

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#186 · Quote Reply

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

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

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coolfission lemmy.world coolfission@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#187 · Quote Reply

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...

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.

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FreddiesLantern leminal.space FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-09-19
#188 · Quote Reply

"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.

Damn, they’re really upping their game.

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0x0 lemmy.zip 0x0@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-04-04
#189 · Quote Reply

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.

RSS+yt-dlp=bliss

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FG_3479 lemmy.world FG_3479@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-21
#190 · Quote Reply

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.

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.

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ReallyCoolDude lemmy.ml ReallyCoolDude@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-01-18
#191 · Quote Reply

Use a vpn and albanian version of.youtube

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LordPassionFruit lemmy.ca LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-05
#192 · Quote Reply

Are you using other add-ons?

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"

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#193 · Quote Reply

Widevine

yes, that thing :)

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SocialMediaRefugee lemmy.world SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#194 · Quote Reply

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

Spite is a form of currency. lol

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Rawrosaurus lemmy.dbzer0.com Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-26
#195 · Quote Reply

So my adblocker now also removes youtube comments? That's more of a feature than a hurdle!

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

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qaeta lemmy.ca qaeta@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-27
#196 · Quote Reply

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.

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.

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Venia Silente lemmy.dbzer0.com veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-09
#197 · Quote Reply

There's nothing to see in Peer tube

Not with that attitude!

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Kilgore Trout feddit.it kilgore_trout@feddit.it
Joined: 2022-06-21
#198 · Quote Reply

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"

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.

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Zwrt lemmy.sdf.org Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2025-02-28
#199 · Quote Reply

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.

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Mrkawfee feddit.uk Mrkawfee@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-08-01
#200 · Quote Reply

Is Noutube still working?

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zerofk lemmy.zip zerofk@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#201 · Quote Reply

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

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