And that’s why I use mpv and yt-dlp, folks.
The more bullshit like this I read about YouTube the more I despite them. I already use GrayJay on mobile and I’m using ublock Origin + ublock Matrix on Librewolf to control cookie usage on desktop. So far I’ve been able escape the video player block by clearing cache.
I’m just waiting for the day they “force” me onto another frontend.
Then your uBlock Origin filters aren’t working properly. See this thread for instructions on how to purge and update your filters to block YouTube’s ads and YouTube’s adblocker blocker.
im using librewolf too. i keep seeing the adblocker active warning instead of a video, in the video-box on youtube Plays just fine in private window though…
User Agent String: A browser’s way of lying about what it is, in order to not trigger some server’s arcane content filtering system.
User Agents should be optional. The whole idea of the Internet was that the server should respond the same way to the same request regardless of the client’s qualities.
There are qualities that are useful for having different responses, like supported language, whether the browser accepts gzipped content, etc.
Fuck that shit.
- You can do language codes in the URL to serve different versions of content
- If your browser can do TLS then it should be able to handle gzip content or alternatively if the internet didn’t allow cookies and scripting in your browser then it would have been safe to use TLSs built in compression
Check out the Gemini protocol if you want to see that a lot of HTTP spec stuff is completely unnecessary
Joke is on them, i only ever use NewPipe (or freetube on desktop)
I’ve been trying to get ReVanced working on WSA and it force closes at start.
Going to give newpipe a try, thanks!
yeah its installed! I even downloaded the specific version of youtube the patcher wants, IDK what I’m doing wrong
Do I need to patch on my phone and then use that apk on the PC?
Rumble ftw!
