fadblock VS yattee

More information: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock/issues/157

> 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GitHub: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock (read the FAQ)

https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock

Seems to do a lot of DOM querying using a setTimeout

   if (isAd && skipLock) {

Might I suggest this little fella: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock ?

Yattee

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

it requires either public or private Piped or Invidious instaces [1].

1. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

2. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

And there won't be since Google just got caught giving Spotify a lower rate and now face anti-trust issues. That doesn't mean they don't give certain apps certain permissions. AFAIK, Apple gives Google special permission to enable VP9/AV1 formats decoding [0].

Whether you like it or not, we're heading towards a future where Apple and Google choose who wins and who loses. A good app built on merit will never be able to compete.

0. https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/FAQ

haven't heard about Yattee, curious about trying it, but: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Building-instructions

More information to be provided

:(

Seems like you can, why would you think otherwise?

https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability

A selfhosted instance of this, combined with [Yattee](https://github.com/yattee/yattee) as a client on iOS and tvOS is a pretty decent way to consume YT subscriptions with minimal exposure to algorithm and ads.

Yattee

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

You can use it both with Piped or Invidious

https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...

This seems great, and it's open source, too: https://github.com/yattee/yattee

And there's a native Mac app!

Maybe I'm just getting old, but as I was reading through the list of features this doesn't have, I just got more and more excited. My watch pattern is pretty much watching videos to solve problems or research some particular thing, and I feel like I find most of them through Google or YouTube search. The recommendations _can_ be pretty good, but there's always those clickbaity, completely unrelated ones mixed in, trying to pull me into a totally separate rabbit hole.