If they manage to kill ReVanced I’m done with YouTube. I’ll subscribe to Nebula or something.
There’s other alternatives to vanced as well. Not at many bells and whistles, but still better than Google.
Use Invidious! No ads, no username required, no reporting to YouTube, Sponsorblock can be used, and you still get unlimited access to YouTube’s content. There are dozens of instances, but inv.tux pizza usually works for me.
I know that Nebula has exclusive infotainment, but sometimes I just want to watch people be bad at video games.
I feel like this might be blasphemous around here, but I actually like being logged in and getting tailored algorithmic suggestions on YouTube. Unlike most people it seems to know my interests pretty well.
I had one warhammer video autoplay and now all of my recomendations and autoplayed videos are warhammer videos. I have no interest in warhammer.
Same. I really like my newpipe, but the sheer amount of unfiltered fuckface influencer bullshit videos ‘currently trending’ on it’s frontpage is more disgusting than any algorithmic youtube bubble will ever be.
Most Invidious instances allow you to sign up for an account on the instance to subscribe to people and track your history. Alternatively, I use the FreeTube app on computers I control for “watching TV”. It can track and transfer your subscriptions and history locally if you choose to use those features.
I still get recommended videos next to watched ones from both services. For those who see that as a negative, I think FreeTube allows you to hide any YouTube elements you don’t want to see.
Checking this out based on your recommendation and I already like it. Simple, no bullshit, and is similar to use to something like NewPipe but for desktops.
yeah i found it this morning entirely because of the ad block thing (i actually don’t ad block YT because i want to support creators, but i hate that now that’s not a choice, so i’m making the last remaining choice available)
Thankfully it isn’t hard to remove with ublock origin. Just enter Element picker mode and select the pop up to remove it. Then do the same for the greyed out background & it’ll work normally.
The element is called #opened (you’ll see it pop up in the text box when you select the right one). The only downside I’ve seen so far is that you can scroll down to the comments while you have a video open in full screen. Although I guess that’s kinda cool
can scroll down to the comments while you have a video open in full screen
That was allready a thing for years now. I thought it was a feather they implemented.
When I tried this the damn ad blocker message thing is unable to be closed and blacks out the whole video instead of being a pop-up. The only way to play is to disable ghostery and ublock. I’m super pissed.
I haven’t used Ghostery in ages as I had heard it was funded by ad agencies to harvest data.
But are you using Ublock Origin? They have instructions on how to fix this. Someone posted this in the Technology community I think?
Basically, update it. You might need to lose Ghostery, but load up Ublock Matrix if you want more script control. Not sure what that’ll do with YouBoob as I’ve not tried yet.
Also, there is yt-dlp. You can just download your videos. No ads from yt.
Edit: Here is the post
Cliqz International GmbH, a privacy focused company whose software has been merged into both Brave and Firefox with Ghostery and Ghostery Dawn being their only live products.
Ghostery was owned by Evidon, Inc., an enterprise marketing analytics and compliance company. Not an ad agency.
Ghostery has been open source it’s entire history and never sold you data. Unlike Steam.
I was on YouTube today and didn’t see this. I have ublock origin, though
I have yet to get this. Everybody’s talking about it.
Am I the chosen one?
My friends mentioned getting it like 4-5hrs ago, while I was on YouTube myself. It wasn’t appearing for me.
Then a couple hours ago, it finally popped-up for me. Right now, you can click through it or just reload the page and it goes away.
I think all of us are using uBlock Origin. And we’re using various browsers.
Purge cache and update filters. I trust the sacred process. I’m sure if it isn’t already filtered out, it will be by morning.
They’re slowly rolling it out to all users. It’s not yet a full deployment.
If ads weren’t riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious…
Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer
Hey, remember when you could see more than a single line of text of an article on mobile? Me neither.
Yeah, just a second ago. Probably, something to do with Firefox. Anyway, articles these days are becoming superficial. What could be said in a few words takes an entire paragraph for some reason. Writer’s skills are on a downward trend recently. Not liking it
Yeah you have to make it longer…can’t place 15 ads on a text with one paragraph
I especially love the cases where I want to check if and when series xy continues “get the Release Date of Series XY season 5” And then there is a wall of text that summarizes season 1-4 and how everybody is waiting for season 5 to then say that the date is not out yet…
Hey motherfucker, did you know you can go AD FREE with YouTube™ premium? Look, it’s P R E M I U M. and it will only cost you $9.99 a month (plus any data we choose to siphon from you, aaaaaaand you have to be subjected to our shit-ass suggestions that you will almost certainly not be interested in, because fuck you in your stupid content sucking mouth)
Yeah honestly not sure why so many people have been complaining about them. They’re pretty much always relevant to the content that I like watching.