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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 11 months ago by whfsdude@dmv.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 72 points 11 months ago (8 children)

They finally made YouTube unusable for me even with ublock. Refreshing the filters didn't work and told me I could only watch 3 videos.

Google was always going to win the war but I didn't expect it to be like this.

I'm now using piped for all YouTube videos.

[–] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I randomly stopped getting the anti-adblocking. On my gaming PC I never got them, on my laptop they went away after I disabled my adblocking for one video and then re-enabled it. Now I don't get them at all. Did they give up on me?

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd love they gave up on me too...

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They no longer appear for me. The biggest change for me was just using uBlock Origin. Previously I also had Ghostery. If you run multiple extensions for privacy, try dropping them and only using uBlock.

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Never got them for some reason, with just ghostery (and maybe privacybadger)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Using an alternative front end isn’t losing

Once they get rid of front ends and you go back they’ll have won

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

You are remembering to purge all caches before refreshing I hope?

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Try opening your subscription page as usual with your ublock, but then right-click "open in private window" the videos you want to watch. Works for me.

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish Piped worked for me, I was trying to watch a Linux tutorial in full HD to see the commands better and Piped just refused to buffer the video.

[–] Lorgres@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are other alternatives too, like invidious. The yewtu.be instance works decently well for me but limits to 720p I think. There is a list of all running instances somewhere on the github iirc. There's other instances that allow full HD, just have a search and you should be able to find one.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just redirect any watch page to https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=%ID% and you will get a list of instances. Can be setup with Redirector in a minute

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well, I just got Redirector last night to check it out and it took me some time to figure out how to get it to work right where I have https://youtube.com/watch?v=* redirecting to https://yewtu.be/watch?v=$1 in case there is something funky going on there that causes me to need to have that redirect active.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My YouTube redirect rule is a bit more complex, but works for all shorts, youtu.be and regular youtube links and it supports time stamps and videos that are part of a playlist.

Set the rule to regular expression, use this one

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?v=|shorts\/)|youtu\.be\/)([^&?\/]+[&?]?.*)

remove the two "amp;" at the end (Lemmy formatting is bad, it replaces an ampersand with & even if you tell it not to...) and redirect to https://%yourinstanceofchoice%/watch?v=$1

Enjoy!

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay, what I was trying to do with Redirector is have it so I can search and browse videos on YouTube, but when I click on something that I want to watch, it forwards me to the same video on YewTu.be instead.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's exactly what this is doing. It captures all youtube.com/watch, youtube.com/shorts and youtu.be/ pages and redirects then to the same page on invidious. Just replace %yourinstanceofchoice% with yewtu.be.

If you don't open videos you want to watch in a new tab, you also have to go to Advanced Options in your rule and tick "HistoryState" else it will bypass the redirect.

This should work for you:

[–] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

What works for me is opening a new Private windows on Firefox, with ublock installed, and then login into YouTube. I do have to login every time I hope a private windows by so far I’ve been able to watch unlimited videos with an ad blocker installed

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 1 points 11 months ago

Same here.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

Why are you using YouTube at all if you don't like it so much? Go use something else.