Delete this, YouTube will catch on and block this workaround.

Edit: disregard. Here is a custom GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey userscript to automatically do this for you:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         YouTube to Embed Redirect (Desktop & Mobile)
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.1
// @description  Redirects YouTube video URLs (desktop and mobile) to their embed version.
// @author       BaroqueInMind
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v*
// @match        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Extract the video ID from the URL
    const videoId = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('v');

    if (videoId) {
        // Redirect to the embed URL
        window.location.href = `https://www.youtube.com/embed/$%7BvideoId%7D`;
    }
})();

You use Arch, btw

People don’t want to deal with the heavy costs and load of hosting their own content. That’s unfortunately the sacrifice. Google is big enough to house it all, whereas, we’d probably see content from a creator last for a finite amount of time before they end up having to close up shop or beg for donations.

Let’s help grow Peertube, then.

Centralisation and large scale has it’s benefits. There were also many problems with everybody hosting their stuff by themselves. Enshittification is results of private companies having to go profit first (and google being google of course), not so much because they are the only game in town. Being the monopoly merely enables the shitting on users for profit. I see youtube and many google services more like internet’s utilities that are privately owned and that is causing problems, not that they have gotten so big.

Also self-hosted video often has really shitty players.

I didn’t screencap it but today on YT I was given a modal that said I was using an adblocker (ublock) and I have three more videos before they require premium. I changed VPN locations and stopped getting the message.

Yup, I use ublock origin and have never had issues on YT.

Yep, used the reddit solution.

Yea this is also what I had to do to get things moving again.

Huh, I was able to just close the pop-up and play the video as normal.

Fuck reddit, this solution did not work for me. All YouTube videos stop buffering after 59 seconds. Only fixes i have found is with either making a custom userscript or disabling ublock from working on YouTube by whitelisting the entire domain.

Rip chrome. It just killed ublock for me yesterday

Awesome.

The day FireFox and UBlock Origin stop working with eachother completely. Might be the day I just uninstall all of my browsers and use my PC more personally than before.

I find the adblock yt prompt only shows now when I try to open two tabs of YouTube. Second tab has this message but the first plays fine. I think ublock probably deployed a half fix already

Only one of my three computers was having this problem, but this solution worked for me as well. Thanks for sharing it here!

I just gave it 15 minutes and they started working again.

Freetube ftw

I just checked a bunch of random videos, ff with uBlock, none of them displayed this message.

There is a fix for ublock, go into the ublock provided lists and disable the quick fixes list

This is not a post about phones…

I think that’s probably because ublock fixed the filters while u were doing this.

I’m just so tired of ads nowadays, ads for cars i can’t afford, ads for crap i’m never going to buy, ads for the supermarket i’m going to no matter if they have some discount…it’s all useless and a waste of my time and invasion on my peace.

I bought the devices, i pay for the internet connection and i pay the rent on this house, i decide what makes it inside my house.

I don’t need this funny clip my supermarket made to market overpriced holiday food 46 times a day that lasts 60 seconds and is only funny the first time i see it. I’m not going to buy a tiny christmas cake that barely feeds a child for €15, realistically it’s value to me is €1,50 compared to my wage and amount of food i get in return. I’m buying store brand m&m’s and a loaf of bread like i do all year.

If you can’t keep existing without shoveling truckloads of ads into my face, then go bankrupt…i don’t give a damn. You’re not worth €16 a month to me either or whatever the price is nowadays. Just fuck off i’ll get my entertainment elsewhere, heck i might dust off that ps4 and buy used dvd’s for 25 cents a piece.

Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

• creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
• disk space to store it
• bandwidth to send it around the world
• compute to transcode it and process it
• real estate and security for the premises
• power for the datacenter
• ac to cool the servers
• wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
• wages of devs for the app
• yes, profits for the company

Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.

The ads on ESPN are the worst. 30 second ad to see a 20 second clip. Disrespectful.

Nobody forces you to watch YouTube.

But the venn diagram of the group of people who take voluntary surveys and the group you want to advertise to have no overlap.

The problem with ads is that we’re barely removed from the era of all ads being malicious trojans if you clicked one. All ads are still malicious, just less insidious. They’ll silo you off into an echo chamber rather than brick your computer. Some will still brick your computer though.

I block ads because I don’t want to see ads, but I don’t want to see ads because I don’t trust any of them. Until they fix that, they’ll stay blocked. I don’t care if you’re Google or some boutique website, I’ll block them all.

Your last suggestion is basically what YouTube premium offers. I don’t think I would personally watch ads voluntarily, but I’ve seen similar systems in some games. Smite (at least used to) let you watch ads to get gems that you can use to buy cosmetics.