YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

1. SponsorBlock

   1 919 11,237 9.3 TypeScript

   Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

   

   During this debacle I did discover SponsorBlock - https://sponsor.ajay.app/

   This is different from YouTube platform ad-blocking, instead it is crowd-sourced auto-skip of in-video sponsorship messages etc. Quite configurable, really appreciating it so far.

2. Civic Auth

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   Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

   

3. uBlock

   2 3,020 52,888 9.8 JavaScript

   uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

   

   Install a better browser too. Use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

   https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

4. invidious-linker

   3 3 17 4.0 JavaScript

   Chrome extension to watch YouTube videos ad-free

   

   In addition to better adblockers, I also learned how to use them better. For example, to update ublock origin's filter lists (which I now do every few days), click the chrome addon icon -> cog icon -> 'update'.

   Also there are sites that give you exactly the same youtube videos, but without ads (and with improved privacy).

   One such site is called 'invidious'. I made a very basic chrome addon that places the invidious link right next to the actual (youtube) link, so now if youtube blocks me, it's only ctrl + click to watch the same video ad-free. https://github.com/stevecondylios/invidious-linker#invidious...

5. fadblock

   4 12 2,422 4.4 CSS

   Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

   

   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.

6. Piped

   5 239 8,900 9.6 Vue

   An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

   

7. uYouPlus

   6 815 7,776 9.2 Logos

   Discontinued uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

   

8. revanced-manager

   7 1,006 20,681 9.1 Dart

   💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

   

   [7] https://revanced.app

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. uYouPlusExtra

    8 10 1,149 10.0 Logos

    Discontinued uYouEnhanced is an expanded version of uYou+ (made by @qnblackcat) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users! [Moved to: https://github.com/arichorn/uYouEnhanced]

11. yattee

    9 94 2,917 9.3 Swift

    Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

    

12. dev-manager-desktop

    10 27 1,609 8.9 TypeScript

    Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV

    

    [10] https://github.com/webosbrew/dev-manager-desktop

13. libredirect

    11 2 2,427 10.0 JavaScript

    Discontinued A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends [Moved to: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension]

    

    I wonder why nobody posted it here.

    LibRedirect: A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

    https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

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