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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rush@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You've never uploaded a video to YouTube have you? Their creator tools are actually incredible and their stats are a good way to tune their videos. Of course you shouldn't completely rely on them.

Also it isn't just the content. I rather use YouTube over Odysse, even if it's the same content. It's such a better experience, especially on mobile. Odysee is on the level YouTube was 10 years ago.

Also making a free video streaming site isn't really profitable. I don't know if YouTube still isn't profitable, but I've read reports from 2015 that it still wasn't profitable.

It makes sense that they now try to push things that make them money. They wouldn't push ads so hard if they weren't desperate.