• PeachMan@lemmy.world
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        ReVanced is definitely worth mentioning, but I’m here to tell you that GrayJay is better.

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          GrayJay is a YouTube/Twitch/anything update away from breaking.

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              ReVanced doesn’t use the YouTube app/website, it modifies the YouTube apk into a completely different thing. The only thing that can break ReVanced is server side changes from YouTube.

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                And does something make you think that Google isn’t capable of doing exactly that?

                They’re updating server-side rules constantly. And EVERY app update is also accompanied by a server-side update, even if it’s small.

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                  Ah but there’s the catch, ReVanced just depends on server side YouTube changes.

                  Meanwhile, GrayJay depends on app-side & server side YouTube, Twitch, etc etc.

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      Remember people start logging out for these services. Any day they could decided to start terminating accounts if this whole anti Adblocking campaign doesn’t get subscriber numbers up

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      Tangential question - what is stopping youtube from restricting access to their API for 3rd party apps like Reddit did?

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        I am aware of this option, but sideloading on iOS currently kinda sucks. You have to use AltStore which sometimes goes unmaintained for a few months, even when it’s maintained it’s kinda buggy and the Windows version almost never works for me. It’s also not available for Linux. And you have to connect your phone to a computer running AltStore every 7 days, otherwise the app will stop functioning. It’s just not a great solution and especially bad for less tech-savvy users.

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          You don’t have to use AltStore. I re-sign the IPA myself and install with Apple Configurator

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    Ya know, I’ve seen a lot of posts regarding Elon Musk spam in this community, and calls to “ban” them, yet every week we get gloom and doom posts like this when some new subset of the world starts seeing this shit. I’d really like to see a pinned message about the fix, which is…

    1. Install Firefox or a derivative, and add the uBlock Origin extension.

    If you visit YouTube and see the pop-up, the page isn’t loading the video content, or it just seems to be acting strange, do the following:

    1. Click on the uBlock Origin brown shield in your extensions.
    2. Click the three little gears icon to enter the settings.
    3. Make sure you’re in the Filter lists section from the top and click the Purge all caches button below it.
    4. Click the Update now button.
    5. Wait until the filter update completes.
    6. Refresh the tab(s) that YouTube is in.
    7. Press play.

    I literally have no other installed add-ons for ad blocking, anymore. Only uBlock Origin. Any time I see the message or YouTube starts acting up, I just repeat those 7 steps above for any YouTube tab that was already open, and viola, the video plays. It has simplified so many issues for me and reduced the number of adblock extensions I need to run.

    I definitely plan on donating this holiday season to their team, probably the biggest share of the pie between the FOSS apps I enjoy and appreciate. Should uBlock Origin ever fail, I’ll just stop going to YouTube.

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    Intrusive and sneaky ads like the ones on YouTube should be heavily regulated if not illegal.

    Edit: especially ads louder than the average content volume, repetitive jingles designed to get stuck in your head, billboards, and ads thrown in the middle of the video you’re watching

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      It’s pretty random whether you get the message or not. Some of my friends, including me, straight up cannot watch youtube on their website half of the time anymore, because it full blocks us. It’s not just an annoying message, videos actually just don’t play. But I only get it on some days. I think the message only pops up if you’ve been watching for more than like an hour straight. Then again, some of my friends have never seen the message. Who knows. Just more weird big tech server bullshit. Like how twitter’s api works 15% of the time (for me).

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        Purge cache and refresh does the trick if you have problems with the firefox+ublock combination. Or you have some other active extensions which prevents ublock from doing its thing.

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        Been watching for 3h straight and still no pop or problem with videos but when time eventually come I’ll try to setup UBO filter or using 3rd party frontend

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      I’m daily using uBlock Origin (with Firefox) on Windows, and ReVanced on Android, and have experienced zero indications that Google is at war with ad blockers. These two are fucking fantastic and highly recommended. I don’t expect it to last forever, but bravo to these devs and contributors.

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      Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.

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        Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.

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          Right?

          I have two tabs open…one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they’re promoting…the other is YouTube.

          The promotional site’s uBlock counter is at 4.

          YouTube’s is at…139.

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            Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.

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              I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.

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                Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about 1.5 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!

                Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.

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                Wow I haven’t even looked for all time blocks! I’ll have to look…

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              Yup, I left youtube up on my laptop all day today and this is ublocks total. It’s fucking crazy that some people don’t bother with adblockers

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      It does on mine, sometimes, so I clear cache, update uBlock, restart Firefox. In general it blocks them again

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      Or mine on Vivaldi. It was showing me the notice the other week, but seems to have stopped now. Either they are now time limiting youtube before the ad blocking thing comes back, or uBlock upped the ante.

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        Your uBlock probably updated. uBlock has pretty much been able to successfully block YouTube’s adblocker block since YouTube started blocking adblockers, so long as you kept the filters updated.

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      uBlock Origin is reliably blocking the blocker blocker for me at this time, though a few popups got through a couple weeks ago.

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      Brave for iOS (sorry firefox gang I appreciate you guys) is working fine for me. I had some issues with both Firefox/uB and Brave on windows getting the pop-ups.

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    I wish I could donate to ublock origin so badly. I never even saw the popup.

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    I get there’s a heap of people on here who’ve somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they’re definitely becoming more prevalent.

    I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

    At some point I’ll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

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      LibreWolf (Fork of Firefox without the crap like Pocket or Sponsored sites) is great too. It also comes preinstalled with uBlock Origin. It’s what I recommend to everyone.

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          LibreWolf also makes significant privacy and security improvements by applying certain settings from Arkenfox user.js and from the Tor Browser. Sure, I can debloat and harden Firefox myself, but all of that is already done on LibreWolf, so that’s what I recommend to new users, as they like to stick to the default settings.

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            Yeah its fair enough, but it’s easier to just use FF for me, I don’t care if they want some anonymous usage statistics and trying to be fully private online is a fools errand. Base FF is good enough imo.

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              It’s not just Mozilla telemetry that LibreWolf protects you against, it also prevents random websites from fingerprinting you and the preinstalled uBlock Origin blocks trackers and all of that shit

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            I’m also on Librewolf, but most people are not all that tech-savvy, so basic Firefox is better for them just because it has auto-update.

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              I keep forgetting that Windows doesn’t have a proper package manager. From a software architecture point of view, an application shouldn’t be responsible for updates, this should be handled by the operating system or a specific component of it, the package manager (which Windows doesn’t have, at least not by default).

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    Fully, you say?

    $ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
    [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
    [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage
    [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON
    [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON
    [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information
    [info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
    [download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There? [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4
    [download] 100% of   12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/s
    

    Oh, guess not.

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      Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i’m too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.

      Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary (“-f 22”) if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.

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        I use -f 22 to set a lower quality actually, because most videos on youtube are needlessly larger than my 5K monitor.

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          Higher resolution videos actually have better bitrates on youtube. Like if you select 4k even if your monitor is just 1080p, the video will look much better.

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    Nooo. YouTube thinks it’s fully blocking ad blockers. In reality nothing’s changed.