I refuse to use the official youtube app. Its so trash… I use newpipe and its amazing to just have all my favorite videos bookmarked locally in different lists.
If they take that away from me i will just stop using youtube.
Better start preparing for the coming exodus. Try Odysee, Peertube and Nebula and see what works for you. Once the enshittification hits critical mass, you’ll be ready to let go of that sinking ship.
Odysee
ewwwwww… 99% far right garbage, zero moderation there last time I took a look.
Yeah, there’s garbage too, but I don’t subscribe to any of that. Just watch Linux and electronics tinkering videos instead.
Try Tubular, newpipe + sponsor block combo!
I’ve never tried that one. Can you share a safe link please? Thanks!
Great! Thanks so much!
Ungoogled chromium + uBlock origin + pihole and I haven’t had any issues so far (Germany)
I hope they understand soon why we have ALL of those tweaks and adblockers. Because vanilla youtube SUCKS, Ads everywhere, not customizable and tracking even if you are paying.
Since the initial push, I have not even had to reset my ublock… stop using Chrome
And yet it still can’t figure out how to get past two adblockers at once
It’s stupid that it works, but it works
Why would you use two adblockers?
Twice the protection
Double the security
PS: Doesn’t apply to condoms.
Twice the chances of being detected
Double the attack surface
Half the performance
It really does not work like that. If you need a second adblocker to block somethings just enable the block list of the second one in the first one.
In fact just use uBlock Origin and be done with it.
Because so far, not a single YouTube update has let them get past it. Basically, I switched adblockers but forgot to uninstall the old one, then by the time I noticed, I had also noticed that the combination somehow, for some bizarre reason, ends up confusing anti adblockers to the point of not even getting “disable adblocker” messages. It’s not something involving their blacklists either because they have the same blacklist (due to the aforementioned replacing one with another then forgetting to uninstall the older one)
I have only uBlock Origin and no YouTube update has gotten past it (except the first one for a few hours), I never get “disable adblocker” messages either. Also anti adblockers are not blacklist based.
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.
If you are looking for a specific video, use DDG search, then click videos. No ad’s!
Obviously not useful if you’re just randomly browsing content.
Even more importantly, no junk “fOr YoU” or “tReNdInG” in the search.
Ads* goddammit
yes, but did you enable an adblocker? I’m just saying it will work browsing via DDG. (oh, and I’m on PC. Don’t know if this would work on a phone).
They were correcting your spelling
Ye’s
Dickheads coming to shill for YT Premium in 3… 2…
It’s actually a really great deal at the old price I’m grandfathered into and none of you can get any more.
Also if you pirate YT, Google won’t pay creators. If you watch ads, Google still won’t pay creators.
Who’s pirating YouTube? I’m just blocking content I don’t want to watch. :)
And if you want to support creators, but something from their store or send them a donation or something. Doing that once is probably more money than they’d ever get from ads you watch.
…1!
(Read as if this was as an ad from Google) (if your familer with Rodger’s Honest Ads, this was inspired by the way those are written) (if that last sentence wasn’t clear…this whole post is a mockery or /s)
Buy YouTube Premium with your hard earned money so you can feel good about a few extra pennies going towards your beloved creators. We’ll keep the rest of your precious money for ourselves to bring you new and exciting features you never asked for -
- you’ll get exclusive acess to the ever growing library of YouTube Originals, because we felt it necessary to take the “You” out of YouTube and sponsor our own content for you to enjoy.
- We’ll bring more pixels to you with real time 4K video streaming. Now you can enjoy one of the 6 channels that actually record in 4k in beautiful life like quality on your tiny phone, the 13 year old computer screen you rescued from your work dumpster or your smart 4K TV that doesn’t have a WiFi card fast enough to get all the pixels for a buttery smooth expirence.
- Next we’ll bring you Live TV straight to your eyes from across the globe. Ditch those pesky cable bills and pay for our ever growing selection of unwilling particpents as the affordability of streaming destroys traditional cable for the low monthly cost of $57.99 for the first 3 months. As a bonus, our website doesn’t bother to tell you if it includes any the other YouTube Premium features - you might just end up paying for premium twice and we have no real obligation to tell you.
- Finally, we’ve thought of the little ones with our special version of YouTube for Kids, called YouTube Kids. Here we use an advanced AI system of people who can find the report button to filter out any content we decide goes against our ever changing guidelines. We allow your children to only watch the most mind numbing, cheaply made, addicitive garbage to keep them ocupied while you do more important things than raising your child.
We know the real reason you’re here is YouTube Music. Access our huge library of every song that we haven’t been forced to take down because some studio decided they wanted their cut. We’ll entice you to spend a few more dollars than what you pay for just YouTube Music to get ad-free YouTube videos and the revolutionary ability to play music in the background on your mobile phone. That’s right, we’ve developed a method in which you can listen to music at the same you binge read cringy fanfiction novels at 3 in the morning. It’s revolutionary.
Still not convinced, lastly we added in the amazing feature called offline viewing. This will download the videos you select to your device offline in an encrypted format so hackers can’t steal them from you, allowing you to watch them anywhere, provided you have an internet connection so we can verify you downloaded the videos.
Buy YouTube Premium today, and buy it again every month, for the low price of your daughter’s medium latte macchiato coffe milkshake with extra caramel, whipped cream and a cute bright red40 cherry on top.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
That is just to true 😩. I never heard of Honest Ads before but these are hilarious!
Ha, glad you enjoyed it.
I’ve tweaked it a bit. Now featuring - improved grammar, an ending and a few more jabs at YouTube.
Lmao, because they’ve been so successful with browsers…
microG, Newpipe and brave still working like a charm…
What they don’t realize is people are also using those third party apps because they are offering much more customization than the stock YouTube app ever offers. I had free premium and still used Revanced because it’s such a godsend. There’s so much useless crap in the youtube layout.
They’ll fail so hard, can’t wait to watch this train wrack. If YouTube is gone tomorrow this is just a little inconvincing to me. Competition will pop up for every single element. Be it gaming, music or video trailer or fan made content. YouTube is stacking so high, they haven’t noticed we’re ready to replace them. Not one huge new YouTube, just small parts and people create 4-10 bookmarks to get the same content.
This is the same comment that appears on every YT update for 15 years. No, it won’t happen. YT is too big to fail and real competition is almost non-existent (due to various reasons). Some have tried, all have failed, unfortunately.
Also, I’m sure people would rather pay a monthly subscription than go to other plattforms.
I didn’t mean YouTube will die, it’s obviously too big at the moment. But they will lose a lot of users, quite a few old sites still exists as zombie without much relevance.
With “they’ll fail” I mean the CEOs who plan this, will fail, because there are alternatives. I should’ve been more precise. YouTube knows that, that’s why they added shorts, they are already bleeding users.
While I agree YouTube won’t die because of this, nothing is too big to fail.
Okay, then in exchange can I get a UI that doesn’t suck?
YouTube’s Youtube crackdown now includes third-party apps
I hope the YouTube Kodi plugin stays working, otherwise I’ll have to write a script to download all latest videos in my subscription to my home server.
I still use FreeTube for desktop and no ads here :)
