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

Meh. My ad blocking strategy on my phone and desktop still works fine. I use Morphe (formerly Revanced), uBlock Origin on Firefox and AdGuard on my android phone.

No ads. No problem.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is morphe? What happened to revanced?

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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

So… just the video, no ads, no comments, no text at all? Please block it for me too, YouTube!

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is Noutube still working?

[–] mark100@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I just discovered it because of your question, downloaded and it works. :)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

this just makes me want to cancel my subscription more

I really need to get around to doing that. It's the one service I pay for.

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[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

AdBlocker for YouTube works.

Couple days ago I had to install it on top of uBlock Origin on friend's pc, since the latter stopped working on YouTube. Be sure to disable uBlock on YouTube.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think GrayJay already found a way around it lol

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

they vibe coded it

[–] MetalSlugX@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago

I can say that I solved this problem for me (at least in the short term, we shall see) by using a random User Agent switcher, uninstalling and reinstalling uBlock.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I still haven't seen a youtube ad in years... ho hum..

[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Wait, is it possible to side load on ios? can I distribute ipas directly?

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Does https://yout-ube.com/ still work?

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It is just another turn of the enshittification downward-spiral. There have been steps before this and there will be more to come. Maybe this will drive users away.

You can decide if you need the platform and look for alternatives - but where to? Content creators want the range and the monetization of yt. Classic lock-in.

There are alternative frontends for yt. But the content stays there.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago

The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty

jokes on them, my enhancer for youtube always disables comments

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