Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?
firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.
Or Newpipe
or Revanced
or Freetube.
Or uYou on iOS
Or SmartTube on android TV
You don’t have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?
You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.
I do sometimes find stuff I wanna watch when browsing through YouTube though, and the uYou app is really good. Even allows me to stream up to 4K and screen off etc.
Yattee is so much slower than uYOU. You can also go to any instance url on safari browser and add it to the homescreen and use inviduous as a webapp. But neither one works as good as uYOU when I’m out on the road.
Even more of a pain for me because I am on Linux so have to spin up my Windows 11 VM just to use altstore.
Also:
If you have access to an Apple dev account this is avoidable.
There’s also Yattee for iOS on the App Store. It uses an Invidious instance and I guess because the piracy isn’t part of the app itself it passes the rules? There are plenty of public instances. It also has SponsorBlock built in.
Here’s the app: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yattee/id1595136629
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yeah, FF with ublock, sponsorblock and return dislike on PC works fine.
revanced on mobile works perfectly as well.
youtube can stick it up their ass.
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Try Firefox
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NewPipe x SponsorBlock
Or Revanced - Sponsorblock is one of the packages you can patch into it.
If you’re experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription
Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.
I stopped watching videos on YouTube and instead started to use mpv since it allows me to watch the video at a higher resolution without burning my PC
Unpopular opinion but…who fucking cares? Youtube with ublock origin takes like 3 extra fucking seconds to load. 3 second delay is still worlds better than a 30+ second unskippable add. It’s not a big deal…
I set my user agent to a google bot. Everything works other than steam chat.
User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me
What do you switch to?
I changed mine to macos safari. Latest version of both. No delay.
I’m glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.
I <3 invidious. Was traveling recently and didn’t have access to my home invidious instance and WOW, yt sucks without it.
I use Twingate to access my home network externally. NetworkChuck has a good video on how it works and how to set up.
I use tailscale. Too easy to setup
YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it’s what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
Agreed, Invidious is so much lighter than YouTube that I’ve had sucess watching on onion instances via Tor.
Invidious has a bug where it doesn’t update as frequently as it’s supposed to. I’ve had this issue on both my self hosted and public instances. I’m thinking about switching to freetube. Always hear about it but never tried it
Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.
People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
What exactly doesn’t work?
Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.
Hmmm, I’m not seeing these problems at all. It’s probably worth reporting
I’m sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.
Make sure you’re not using other ad blockers/privacy tools in addition to uBlock Origin.
I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case
Working at a college its always shocking finding out a lot of the youth don’t know ad blocking at least. Volunteering after my shift to help with tutoring or other help they will try to show me a youtube video even on their personal laptop. Every start of a semester its something that leaves me shaking my head.
I don’t really like the term “echo chamber,” but that sort of thing makes me realize I’m really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about such things.
I remember one time this kid asked me, “What’s Chromium? I have this app called ‘Chromium’ but I don’t know what it’s for,” so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it’s an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled “Chromium.”
So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn’t have the problems they’re having
I feel the same.
Idk, I don’t use ublock but ever since this last wave of allegations of throttling adblock users I’ve been getting videos just refusing to load any of the beginning of the vid after the first couple seconds. It’ll play the last 3/4ths though.
I don’t remember the exact name of my adblock but it’s not ublock origin
Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.
That’s a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn’t on google but the extensions themselves.
Source?
I have post history of going through their JS, this is a Google-sucks thing, full stop.
uBO Dev already shared it in the twitter thread but here you go
https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1725604837
and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?
Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)
FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.
I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.
That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.
OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.
I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.
Same here. uBO + Firefox
If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me
But brave is based con Chrome.V8
use NewPipe if you’re on Android
I’m quite satisfied with GrayJay app.
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