letsblockit
Invidious
letsblockit | Invidious | |
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61 | 422 | |
798 | 15,028 | |
4.8% | 3.6% | |
9.0 | 9.5 | |
about 10 hours ago | about 23 hours ago | |
Go | Crystal | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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letsblockit
- Shutting down the letsblock.it project and its official instance
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Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: https://letsblock.it - https://github.com/letsblockit/letsblockit/
A companion project for uBlockOrigin that curates a corpus of content blocking templates, and provides the server to create you personal list of content blocking rules. The official instance just hit 800 active lists and a lot of template suggestions have been filed recently.
The easiest way to contribute is to create new templates, fix or extend existing ones. You need to learn the uBlockOrigin syntax and how to properly target the right elements, happy to mentor! See recent PRs for examples and https://github.com/letsblockit/letsblockit/blob/main/data/fi... for documentation.
The server itself is built with Go and HTMX, it's pretty low-maintenance, but there's interesting improvements if you want to toy with it (need to open issues for these).
- Let's Block It
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Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
I use a combination of:
- https://letsblock.it/ and Ublock Origin
- The Unhook plugin for Firefox
- Blocking channels on my YouTube account when I see something inappropriate
- Adguard Home also blocks certain channels
to try to moderate the YouTube content for my kids. It's not perfect, but it does get rid of a lot of garbage (like YouTube Shorts).
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Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
You should submit these rules to https://letsblock.it ! AFAIK their distractions rules really only cover YouTube
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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube
They're horrible.
Luckily you can use ublock origin and letsblockit, or other browser plugins, to completely erase them from YouTube.
https://letsblock.it
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Ask HN: What cool software utilities have you created?
https://letsblock.it : it allows you to create your own content blocking rule list from a corpus or community-maintained templates. It allows you to hide pinterest and stackoverflow clones from search results, remove shorts and upcoming streams from youtube, and many more. The project is now two years old and sustaining a slow but steady growth with an active community.
- Let's Block It: Remove low-quality content and useless nags, focus on what matters. Make the web yours again with this collection of community-owned content filters.
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How to hide the Like count on YouTube videos? [July 2023]
See suggestions from this Github thread.
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I want help with this filter
If you have any question or suggestion, don’t hesitate to open an issue on GitHub for any question or bug, or send us an email at [email protected].
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?
hn-search - Hacker News Search
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
AdguardFilters - AdGuard Content Blocking Filters
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list - Adblock / Adblock plus filter list for blocking cookie notifications
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
webannoyances - Fix and remove annoying web elements such as sticky headers, floating boxes, floating videos, dickbars, social share bars and other distracting elements.
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
AdblockRules - My adblock rules for use in Adguard and other platforms
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
simple-translate - WebExtensions for translating text on web pages
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit