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

• SponsorBlock

  904 8,735 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.

• uBlock

  2,992 43,007 9.9 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...

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• invidious-linker

  2 17 4.6 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...

• fadblock

  12 2,336 6.9 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.

• Piped

  235 7,484 9.9 Vue

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

  

• uYouPlus

  815 6,621 9.2 Logos

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

• revanced-manager

  1,001 15,608 9.7 Dart

  💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

  

[7] https://revanced.app

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• uYouPlusExtra

  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]

• yattee

  91 2,206 9.6 Swift

  Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

  

• dev-manager-desktop

  27 887 9.0 TypeScript

  Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV

  

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

• libredirect

  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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