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Invidious
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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
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Deyoutube MegaThread
Invidious
yattee
- Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
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/
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Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
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
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Welcome to the Ad-Free Internet
haven't heard about Yattee, curious about trying it, but: https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Building-instructions
More information to be provided
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As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors Ad Blocking Conference
Seems like you can, why would you think otherwise?
https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Features#availability
- YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
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Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
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.
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FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
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...
- Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
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YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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.
What are some alternatives?
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
uYou-for-YouTube - Enhance Your YouTube Experience
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
VueTube - A simple FOSS video streaming client aimed to recreate ALL features from their respective apps (and more)
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
revanced-patcher - 💉 ReVanced Patcher used to patch Android applications