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rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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

rush, (edited ) to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

You lose:

  • Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions)
  • Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations
  • Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don’t have a list of instances with their max resolutions)
  • The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate
  • probably more random stuff idk
rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

please read up on threat models. If you need that amount of privacy/security that’s fine, but many don’t.

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

It doesn’t use the APIs at all, which is also why Google can’t Cease & Desist them for not complying with API terms

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

Librewolf is Firefox configured with many privacy-related settings out of the box, uBlock Origin and it clears all data on exit by default.

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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.

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

Absolutely agreed, I would love for peertube to take off

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

Currently that is quite hard, because despite YouTube being an utterly insane business model it has prevailed so far.

I would love for an alternative, I personally really like PeerTube and the Fediverse in general, but mass adoption ain’t there yet :(

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

uBlock Origin’s default lists with both Firefox and uBO being on their latest is currently undetected. By that I mean they’ve already released fixes.

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

weird, my formatting might be messed up

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

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

No, but subscriptions can be imported manually.

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

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

why would I put a hexbear link when I’m on lemm.ee? 🤔

I’d double-check this isn’t an issue on your end, I can’t reproduce it here.

rush, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

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.

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