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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] vogi@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Gonna use this thread to shout out https://github.com/YTLitePlus/YTLitePlus There are more than enough options for android users out there, this one is for iOS though. Tried it out this weekend on my jailbroken iPhone 6. If i read it correctly it should also be installable without a jailbreak but not that easily. Its super cool and nowadays it feels so weird that you got the option to do such shocking things like disabling shorts or reorder the tabs, its really fun.

[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well if this happens to me it's off to pipe pipe or new pipe again.

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 1 points 2 days ago

PipePipe hasn't worked for me in a minute. Maybe because I'm using a VPN? Not sure.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So I can still watch the video, just not read the comments that I never read anyway, and can't click the "link in the description ", which hurts creators way more than it hurts me.

Makes sense ... ?

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[–] mark100@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Had some issues a few days ago. Then the brave army of Brave browser helped quickly. The other browsers should be ok now too with addons. I do not see any problem with videos any more. Still, the dependance on Youtube is terrible, most of the vids are there and there is no serious alternative. One day, hopefully, there will be. Maybe we need to pivot and someone should come with something very new, unrestricted, moderated by community, unstoppable and with no ads. When you do not pay or do not use add blockers, watching anything is almost impossible.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

There are alternatives, but there's nothing that pays and promotes like Youtube. The content creators are in it for the cash, or at the very least wouldn't not be in it if it weren't for the cash. They can't even dual post their Youtube stuff because it would be parasitic to their YT income.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 24 points 3 days ago

I was wondering why I couldn't see descriptions and comments on seemingly random videos for the past two days. Also, it's weird because I use Ublock Origin on Firefox and it's rare that these changes actually effect Ublock Origin. It seems like it may be fixed now though, but I haven't been actively checking.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I realised a lot of my yt usage was for having something playing in the background. I've been listening to more podcasts and audiobooks instead and it's been pretty easy to cut back.

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 17 points 3 days ago

Great... Fewer humans and even more bots in the comments... That's a genius idea.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago

68% of people who responded to the poll at the link say that they are not affected. Only 10% of responders are.

Probably A/B testing.

I'm not lowering my security for Google.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

PipePipe on degoogled android lol

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