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At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 172 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[–] [email protected] 86 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We're friends?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

👉👈

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

we’re all friends here

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well, down the list we go...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Don't forget Smarttube

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From everything I've read, it seems they didn't actually reduce quality and it's just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Now It's gone

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