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[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 44 points 3 days ago (15 children)

If you're on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I use Firefox on Linux Mint, none of this happens and if it does you fix it by copy pasting a code on the settings of ublock

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 180 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Well I guess I'll be mozying over to Rumble now.

20 minutes later

Turns out Jews are aliens directing the Democratic Party and Hollywood to sacrifice babies for adrenochrome. Why is the lamestream media not talking about this???

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 97 points 4 days ago (9 children)

right wing: "JEWS ARE EVIL"

Also, right wing: "Jews in Israel are fighting a rightious war against evil Gazans"

🤨

[–] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don't give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get 'raptured.'

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[–] mudmaniac@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Grayjay by futo just released a desktop app.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 121 points 4 days ago (20 children)

i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists-->uBlock filters-->uncheck the "ublock filters - quickfixes" box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

ad blocker detector blocker in filter list go brrr

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (9 children)

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 72 points 4 days ago (13 children)

I kinda miss when places would host their own videos instead of relying on youtube, but that's the problem of a centralized internet, the majority of people won't want to leave yt/ig/fb/tiktok/twitter/reddit in order to watch or read whatever you posted.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago

aggressively refreshes ublock patch list

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 75 points 4 days ago (12 children)

The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane. It's like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 64 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It’s not that bizarre. They don’t have to serve you the content without showing you the ads that make the platform profitable. The freedom goes both ways. I use an ad blocker too, but I don’t think that YouTube is really doing anything wrong here. (Other than possibly ruining their own platform, but that’s their problem that they’re making for themselves.)

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[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 48 points 4 days ago (86 children)

Good joke, YouTube.

Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we've had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don't want and subscribe to services we don't need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Frellwit@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

From the uBO subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2024_08_16_ubo/m31kbkw/

There was just an update to Quick fixes. Please test if it works for you.

  1. Click Here to update the list.
  2. If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
  3. Close all previously opened YT tabs and try in a new one.

Just a reminder: Please always treat disabling lists as a last resort/temporary solution type of thing. Without that list, you won't be receiving important filter updates and will likely encounter ads after a while. So don't keep it disabled forever - verify that it's still necessary (daily?).

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact, it seems this ban is IP based. (they're still testing in waves with a subset of overall users)

I switched to a new IP with my VPN, and while still signed in to the same YouTube account on the same video without ever clearing my cache or cookies, the block disappeared.

Genius work from the developers over at YouTube.

[–] humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

If the garbage takes itself out, I won't complain. YT doesn't see how the cable companies dying is the exact same future it is racing to emulate.

[–] Frost752@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Eat shit, Youtube!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I've landed on that page a couple of times. I'm just waiting to be blocked.

I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

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[–] don@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

AdGuard pro, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and Untrap for YouTube. I only rarely ever see a brief part of a sponsor ad, and never see YouTube’s own ads.

Untrap lets you modify nearly anything about YouTube like even removing the view count and channel avatars, among many other options.

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