Still having 0 problems on Firefox with just Ublock Origin and adguard. Hopefully it stays that way
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Are you logged in? Cause if not you don't get these popups.
Yes I am. I even got the pop-ups for a couple days a week ago, but I just closed the pop ups and resumed the videos with no ads
I got those popups while not even being logged in at some points, but just purging the cache on uBlock filters seems to work.
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The irony of this post being behind a paywall
This is a dumb take. Being behind a paywall means it's not controlled by Google and its ad network.
Are these webpages and people just supposed to work for free?
Is hosting YouTube infrastructure free?
I pay for YouTube and I think people need to stop complaining so much about ads if they're not willing to support the infrastructure or the creators they likely watch hours and hours of content from.
I also think Google is charging too much and should decouple music from videos, but that's another subject.
I also pay for YouTube. I just don't normally bring it up because it usually results in a lot of rather unpleasant replies.
It's fascinating, really.
Google gets a lot of hate for being a data collection behemoth. The whole "if you aren't paying, you are the product" thing. And rightfully so.
And pirates love to say that if companies would just charge a reasonable rate for an easy-to-use service, then they would just pay instead of pirating.
But when it comes to YouTube, a lot of people seem to want to have it both ways.
404 media in particular do great work. They're all defectors from Motherboard (vice) and I think supporting them is both worthwhile and worth it.
No pop-ups on NewPipe x Sponsorblock.
ublock origin works
NewPipe is a third party app, hence you don't get any popups. Doesn't mean YT can't do anything to stop you tho
Could they really do anything though? Newpipe directly scrapes the content, after all
My only issue with it is that it's slightly outdated, so I run BraveNewPipe: https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe/tree/v0.25.2-2.1.4
(It implements the same features while also adding support for some extra platforms)
It made me switch to Freetube
So far a Firefox workaround seems to be copying the URL into a fresh private browser window.
It may not be enough to matter, but a not-insignificant number of users will simply abandon YouTube if this keeps up.
Allready done. 😃 Some puts a YouTube link, I just scroll past. Can't be that important if it's on boobtube
Is…is boobtube a thing?
It sounds like it should be a thing
Modern day adaptation of a much older term.
Note: don't look up boobtube at work lol
Well well well, today I learned!
ROFL! I haven’t heard boobtube since the 70s! 😂
Trust me. I'm that old. 🤣
a not-insignificant number of users will simply abandon YouTube if this keeps up.
I regetfully disagree. I think very few people will leave the platform and that the additional revenue generated from those that use adblockers but allow YouTube ads will easily cover the difference of those that do.
I don't say this to discourage boycotting. Fuck google, do it if you want to!
FreeTube works fantastic on desktop. No ads and instant playback and high quality. Amazing app.
I second this, I use freetube and I love it
Piped.video (on Firefox) works fine for me
Piped is so slow for me, I'm not sure if it's a me issue or a host issue. I finally spun up viewtube to test it out since running my own piped instance seemed cumbersome.
Same here. I tried loading the same 13-second video on Piped and YouTube. YouTube played it instantly. Piped took several seconds (probably longer than the video lasted) to start playing.
To be fair, Piped serves as a proxy, you're not getting the content served directly from YouTubes' servers
Yeah it works file for 720/1080p and no captions.
@JRepin, best combination is uBO + this one
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker