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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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[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Google can pull the plug on the database whenever they want, just like Reddit or Twitter did with third party apps.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, they can, like any other company or organization can. But they can't remove the humans producing. That means the humans will just go anywhere else. Youtube is a standalone product that they probalby want to keep as I think it pays for itself with that amount of ads.