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Invidious
fadblock | Invidious | |
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12 | 422 | |
2,356 | 15,061 | |
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6.9 | 9.5 | |
19 days ago | 5 days ago | |
CSS | Crystal | |
- | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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fadblock
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New owner of FadBlock extension added malicious code
More information: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock/issues/157
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YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockers
> https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
I'm trying out alternatives fadblock seems to work well enough so far, but this is enshitification.
If it comes to it I'll migrate over to using yt-dlp or disregard YT entirely and find somewhere else. I believe others feel similarly. Ads are not acceptable to me.
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A (better) alternative to ublock or other content intercepting adblockers, Fadblock
Fortunately, nothing breeds innovation like war, and a new type of adblocker has been born, Fadblock. Fadblock does not block ads from loading, like uBlock, but rather tricks youtube into thinking they've been played, and it does so in a very clever fashion - by playing them... at 10,000x speed (with no audio). This effectively skips ads and the video loads instantaneously.
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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
It's definitely pretty tricky to try and even come up with statistics.
ublock was having issues early on, that required a laundry list of things to do to make sure youtube couldn't detect that something was up. I don't know if this has changed or not.
So rather than troubleshoot, what I did was turn it off on yotube, and install https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock, which isn't 100% perfect like the original ublock experience, but has been very durable against google's efforts.
Google may or may not believe they were successful in my case, depending on what they are looking for.
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge
This thing seems to work pretty well: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
Instead of actually blocking the ad elements, it just auto-forwards the videos to the end once loaded. Slightly jankier, but much harder to detect.
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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
This all seems over-complicated.
Why not just use fadblock?
https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
It doesn't need to be updated in this cat and mouse game. it just skips the ads in milliseconds and you don't even notice them.
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Quitting Youtube
GitHub: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock (read the FAQ)
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A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Firefox
https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
Seems to do a lot of DOM querying using a setTimeout
if (isAd && skipLock) {
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YouTube banned me for using AdBlock
Might I suggest this little fella: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock ?
- FOUND AN UNDETECTABLE YT ADBLOCKER
Invidious
- Google Broke Invidious Again
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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
Youtube seems to be doing some A/B testing with the comment system which has made proxies like Invidious and yt-dlp/Newpipe unable to load comments. There is a patch for Invidious [1] which solves this problem but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem.
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576
- YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
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Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files
Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624
Could anybody explain it to me?
- Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos
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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
Use a Youtube proxy like Invidious [1], problem solved and you get to subscribe to channels without telling the Beast about your interests. Add Sponsorblock (which supports Invidious) to get rid of any in-stream advertising which remains and you'll be transported back to those hallowed times of yore when men were men, women were women and advertising was something you found in newspapers. Youtube will try to make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2].
[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
Going to drop this here for others who haven't heard of it https://invidious.io/
Now, how do we fix this? YouTube's ad model sucks. Their algorithm sucks. Their front page sucks. They've captured a bunch of creators though so often YouTube is the only place you can find someone.
I want those creators to benefit from me viewing their videos. I want the fact that I view a video and like it to help other people find that video in their recommendations. I want an algorithm that shows me things that are interesting and relevant not one that promotes the spammiest and most ad heavy videos that barely have anything to do with my watch history.
Having an alternative front end is nice but I don't want to rob YouTube of the money they spend on hosting the videos.
So, how do we do this?
Peer to peer fails when there is little interest in something or when most people leech and it sucks for archiving old content.
Hosting it all in one place is super expensive and hard for a small group to manage without turning into YouTube.
Maybe we could find a way for the creators to host their own content and get paid when people view it while being part of a large federated network for easy discoverability?
Please list any projects you know of, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who would be willing to contribute or donate.
- Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
- YouTube is trying to block Invidious
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Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)
Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
What are some alternatives?
uAssets - Resources for uBlock Origin, uMatrix: static filter lists, ready-to-use rulesets, etc.
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
BetterTweetDeck - A browser extension to improve TweetDeck with a lot of features
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
firefox-css - My firefox 🦊 browser config
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
libredirect - A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends [Moved to: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension]
AdguardBrowserExtension - AdGuard browser extension
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit