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At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Now It's gone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So does brave

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

But so does Librewolf

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[–] [email protected] 76 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Well, down the list we go...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

We're friends?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

👉👈

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago

we’re all friends here

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