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Some solutions:
- Android
- iOS
- Yattee with this guide
- (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
- Web
- Desktop
- FreeTube
- (Using any of the web solutions as PWAs)
- TV
- Android TV
- Apple TV
- Yattee with this guide
Where is YouTube ReVanced?
ReVanced is definitely worth mentioning, but I’m here to tell you that GrayJay is better.
GrayJay is a YouTube/Twitch/anything update away from breaking.
Lol so is ReVanced my dude
ReVanced doesn’t use the YouTube app/website, it modifies the YouTube apk into a completely different thing. The only thing that can break ReVanced is server side changes from YouTube.
And does something make you think that Google isn’t capable of doing exactly that?
They’re updating server-side rules constantly. And EVERY app update is also accompanied by a server-side update, even if it’s small.
Ah but there’s the catch, ReVanced just depends on server side YouTube changes.
Meanwhile, GrayJay depends on app-side & server side YouTube, Twitch, etc etc.
How is that different from any of these other apps? It’s being actively developed so any update breaking can be patched.
Not mentioned, on purpose 🤫
I think people are fully misunderstanding this comment
Oh I guess I could see the other side.
I meant we don’t talk about revanced club
Ditch Chrome forever.
Just use a proper ad-blocker like uBlock Origin in combination with a browser like Firefox or LibreWolf that supports proper ad-blocking extension. Fuck this Chromium garbage that deprecated MV2 because Google is scared of adblockers. Don’t support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines and use Firefox or something even better like LibreWolf.
Did you read what the addon is about? It’s not an adblocker but is to be used in conjunction with one. All it does is circumventing the adblockerblocker. It specifically recommends being used together with uBlock.
Btw, I use FF with uBlock. But I am not everyone, so when I stumbled across this, I thought it might be helpful for some people.
And I found it ironic, that Googles own extension store contains an extension that circumvents the YouTube adblockerblocker.
I know, but uBlock has built in circumvention features, and you can add custom blocking rules or filterlists to uBO without having to install an additional extension. If the addon becomes outdated, it might start interfering with uBlock Origin. It’s best not to combine uBO with any other ad-blocking addons and just use the existing mechanisms like custom rules and filterlists to extend uBO if needed. The uBO team is constantly working on ensuring that the built in circumvention mechanism works, most of the time, the only thing a user needs to do is clear the cache and update the filterlists.
And I found it ironic, that Googles own extension store contains an extension that circumvents the YouTube adblockerblocker.
It will probably be taken down soon lol
For iOS I really like Vinegar.
Currently not working, but Firefox Focus is!
A fix for Vinegar is on the way.
Sideload uYouPlusExtra on iOS
I am aware of this option, but sideloading on iOS currently kinda sucks. You have to use AltStore which sometimes goes unmaintained for a few months, even when it’s maintained it’s kinda buggy and the Windows version almost never works for me. It’s also not available for Linux. And you have to connect your phone to a computer running AltStore every 7 days, otherwise the app will stop functioning. It’s just not a great solution and especially bad for less tech-savvy users.
You don’t have to use AltStore. I re-sign the IPA myself and install with Apple Configurator
But you still have to do it once a week, right?
If you don’t have a paid developer license yeah. But I do so I don’t have do deal with that.
I’m definitely not gonna pay Apple money to use my device that I already paid way too much money for the way I want to. But I just switched to Android (GrapheneOS to be percise) and now I don’t have to deal with any of this BS anymore.
Thank you so much for sharing Yattee and the guide.
Remember people start logging out for these services. Any day they could decided to start terminating accounts if this whole anti Adblocking campaign doesn’t get subscriber numbers up
Tangential question - what is stopping youtube from restricting access to their API for 3rd party apps like Reddit did?
SSSSSSHHHH
No, they most certainly are not.
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone the way.
Be brave, tell everyone
I was just using Chrome with ublock origin at work and didn’t see jack shit.
**as best as they can
was patchy 2 weeks ago but havnt had an issue in over a week now. we are winning so far
Nope. FF with UBO still works perfectly.
lol, good luck with that Google
I have not changed anything about my browsing habits and I spend like 12 hours a day on YT, haven’t yet seen this. Not very universal.
3 similar but different questions:
- Where do you use YouTube (phone, pc, etc)
- Where do you use YouTube (country, location)
- Where do you use YouTube (browser, app, etc)
Pc, usa, chrome
PC (ubuntu) and Android both w/ FF & uB. Have yet to see this in Canada.
But it does typically take Google a little while to remember that we’re part of the world…
My phone, my partner’s phone, home pc, my partner’s home pc, work pc, laptop, tv. Canada.
Weird. Mine works just fine on YouTube.
It has? 🤔
Nerds rejoice, we will never be defeated
I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that’s still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.
How would I go about doing the same?
As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn’t validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn’t worth it for me.
I guess they made an account via VPN?
VPN to the country of your choice, then hit the sign up page for the service your interested in.
Love how Lemmy downvotes anyone who pays for anything. Such a great place for discussion! Definitely no echo chamber here.
For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that’s just not worth it, given that YouTube isn’t the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.
Should we start legitimizing garbage?
If you consider YouTube as garbage, then it would be a no-brainer to just stop using it, instead of complaining about ads, right? And no, I couldn’t care less. I use YT maybe twice per year. It could go offline tomorros, as far as I am concerned.
Apparently everything in your world is black or white
Simple coherence.
Having a discussion about paying for things isn’t garbage. You’re just poor and salty.
Lol
Go back to your broken Linux and PeerTube lmao
Fully, you say?
$ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information [info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22 [download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There？ [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4 [download] 100% of 12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/sOh, guess not.
Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i’m too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.
Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary (“-f 22”) if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.
I use -f 22 to set a lower quality actually, because most videos on youtube are needlessly larger than my 5K monitor.
Higher resolution videos actually have better bitrates on youtube. Like if you select 4k even if your monitor is just 1080p, the video will look much better.
The video stutters for me if I do that
All the more reason just to use yt-dlp. I know it takes a tiny bit of time to set up, but it’s well worth it. I’m able to download 20-minute videos that would have otherwise buffered in less than a minute. I can simultaneously queue up a bunch of videos, and watch them with zero stuttering.
You can also put “alias y=yt-dlp” in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to “y”. Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.
Or do the same with “mpv” instead of “yt-dlp” to watch the video stream directly without downloading.
with FF and ublock i can watch yt as always. Never got the poup. But as of today, the youtube page is just blank. I can search and watch anything, but the start-page is blank. (no account)
No change for me, youtube sure is trying but ublock origin keeps fighting the good fight
No they don’t.
