PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There’s already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They’re both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don’t load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

brax,

Your link to “Piped” doesn’t work for me on mobile. I think you accidentally put some asterisks at the start of it.

rush,

weird, my formatting might be messed up

Try again in a bit, I’ve tried to fix it :)

brax,

Yeah, it’s good now 👍

MigratingtoLemmy,

I really should install LibRedirect

BenLeMan,

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I’ve been using NewPipe on my phone for a while now. Do any of these YT alternatives come with support for 1440p resolution? I noticed Invidious is capped at 1080p and sometimes struggles to maintain a stable nitrate at high resolution.

rush,

Both take resolutions and streams directly from YouTube, my guess is that it may vary a bit depending on the settings the instance host set.

stardust,

On newpipe if you go to settings > Video and audio there is an option for show higher resolutions.

BenLeMan,

Thank you for your response, but I was thinking more about the desktop implementations. Resolution is fine on my phone but I would like to max out my 37" WQHD screen.

stardust,

I haven’t found a good alternative to going directly to YouTube when it comes to resolution offerings on desktop.

yuunikki,

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    grumpyrico,

    Watching Videos without adds and keeping your data private is the point.

    Glad i can help

    yuunikki,

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    grumpyrico,

    Just get premium then … Sorry to tell ya

    yuunikki,

    As if I’d pay for YouTube

    grumpyrico,

    You’re funny

    rush,

    me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity

    rush,

    No, but subscriptions can be imported manually.

    The point is to not load tracking tech YouTube ships with as well as staying relatively anonymous.

    Iam,

    Libredirect is really nice. Question: Can it bypass the front page without being turned off, then back on for links opened in tabs etc? Can’t work out if it can.

    rush,

    The extension menu has “redirect” and “back to original” buttons (or something similar, can’t check cuz I’m on mobile rn)

    You could use this to visit the homepage and then let new tabs/videos redirect

    p000l,

    mpv and yt-dl user reporting in. What ads are we talking about?

    Churbleyimyam,

    What is your process for watching a video? For me to do it like this I currently have to copy the link, open a terminal, download the video with yt-dlp, navigate to the file, open it and then watch it. And then usually delete it. I’m curious if there is a faster or simpler way…

    gkpy,

    mpv has an integration with ytdl (and forks), which should let you just open the url and stream it directly

    akrot,

    Isn’t the speed limited though? Last time I checked it buffered for so long, the watching experience was not continuous.

    bort,

    yt-dl has a speedlimit. yt-dlp has not.

    sounddrill,

    Even vlc does this iirc

    Churbleyimyam,

    I got it working with yt-dlp. I had to reinstall mpv as a flatpak from flathub; it wouldn’t work with a package install from my repo or a flatpak from fedora. I think at least as of yesterday it needed to be a very up-to-date release. Posting in case this helps someone else.

    p000l,

    There are many browser extensions to choose from.

    jack,

    Piped.video and LibreTube never work for me, very unreliable.

    smollittlefrog,

    In LibreTube, you can go to

    
<span style="color:#323232;">Settings > Instance > Disable Piped proxy
</span>

    I only ever had issues with the piped proxy, not with the app itself.

    aradgus,

    for piped i just use an other host from that list and it works totaly fine github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

    rush,

    Piped.video is the official instance, but there’s more

    piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de have relatively high uptime and quick fixes in my experience.

    jack,

    Thanks for the hint, much better

    ebenixo,

    yea just stop opening youtube urls period. i didn’t know bout libredirect thanks, there is addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/invidioucious/ too

    Lemmling,

    Thank you! I am making a comment so I can find this thread later.

    glibg10b,

    Why not just save the post?

    Lemmling,

    I see the option now, Thanks 😄

    TheWozardOfIz,

    Do these work for live shows?

    pineapplelover,

    Yes. I use piped through libretube and it works for live videos.

    yoz,

    Thanks mate

    guyrocket,
    @guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

    Piped <> New pipe legacy?

    jlow,

    Is Libredirect working good for you? Every few month I turn it on for a couple of services (YT, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Twitchan) and turn it off after a few days because I can’t be bothered trying to find instances that work, it’s just a constant pain for me.

    rush,

    It works well, services not working is more about websites trying to block these tools, and I try to be understanding of the issues.

    jlow,

    Yeah, fair enough.

    zeroshift11,
    @zeroshift11@lemmy.world avatar

    Ad Block Plus Chrome extension still works perfectly for me.

    MomoTimeToDie,

    Am I just insanely lucky or something? I just use chrome and it hasn’t complained about my adblock once, and I watch a lot of YouTube.

    Lumun,
    @Lumun@lemmy.zip avatar

    You are probably lucky, for now. I’m pretty sure they are rolling it out in waves. Boiling the frog and all that.

    Thorny_Insight,

    They’re probably A/B testing it on only part of the users. I didn’t get it for a long time either, but when it appeared the first time it just kept showing up again and again after that.

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