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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] Kase@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Maybe it's unlikely for this to happen, but I wonder if it'd be possible for yt to go down like reddit did. Yt makes a series of bad decisions, so a lot of people move from there to similar platforms. The other services don't have much content right now, but from what I here, neither did Lemmy before the "exodus."

I get that reddit and youtube are very different types of platforms and that the whole reddit thing happened because of pretty specific circumstances, but idk, maybe something vaguely similar could happen.

[–] SoBoredAtWork@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"go down like Reddit did" ... But did Reddit "go down"? It definitely lost users and content quality dropped, but still, everyone I talk to (that isn't a total nerd like us lemmings) still uses Reddit and has no idea what Lemmy is.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was going to try and contradict you, but I guess most of the people I know well IRL are also total nerds

[–] SoBoredAtWork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I introduced my wife to Reddit (she knew of it but didn't use it until I kinda showed her how great it is (was)). Now her family and friends use it too. They all heard about the drama but didn't seem to care or understand and they all still use Reddit.

[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should refer her to Cory Doctorow's writing, namely his concept of enshittification. He's one of the most effective political communicators alive today. If anyone can get her to understand the import of the issues surrounding Reddit's Simple Jack routine, it's him.

[–] SoBoredAtWork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know the term enshitification, so maybe I've already read his stuff. I'm going to check it out more. Thanks!

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