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Vanilla Firefox?
STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
I’d love to see PeerTube get more use, but the one issue for creators is monetization. I don’t really see a great way for creators to make a decent income through PeerTube. We all hate the ads, but… That’s where a lot of their money comes from. Without a solution to that, creators are never going to embrace it, unfortunately.
There is buycoffie site to give donation to creators. Many yt creators dont get much money from yt ads cause they get demonetisation frequently.
But do things like that actually translate into respectable revenue? I understand that there are technically ways to get paid, but they only matter to creators if they actually fill their pockets.
One shitty thing they’ve done that you can’t get around these methods is the new “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”. I’m not going to pay for premium just to prove that, but 99.9% sure that on many videos added before this was introduced they’ve degraded the base 1080p and the original is probably behind the new setting.
I hope I’m not right, but something tells me that the way it’s going, at one point they’ll only have 720p for non-premium.
Why do y’all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?
Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn’t fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.
For downloading on Android, i’d recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
What about Grayjay? Haven’t seen that mentioned.
I forgot I had it installed. Pulls yt videos without delay, without ads.
I do have a vpn so could pop off to Albania but I’m unsure of there’s less revenue for yt by using grayjay?
Pinchflat into your media server and watch them later. Done.
It’s still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
What scam? Or do you just mean the crypto stuff in general (which is fine, I’m not saying crypto isn’t a scam, just trying to understand you)?
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
Sideload https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite
Sponsorblock, Adblock, background play, skip, etc all integrated
Sideloading on ios is easy now unless your device was ever provisioned for a dev certificate. If that’s the case and it’s still active then just sign it with your own cert. if it’s no longer active you either need a fresh apple id or you need to use one of the kind of sketchy signing services. Otherwise you just use like sideloadly, altstore, side store, etc
Also there is no chromium on ios. All browsers use webkit and are basically just reskinned safari. Some heavily modify this (eg orion can run some Firefox and chrome extensions) though
YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
I don’t see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:
If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.
This is the way. Bonus points if your VPN does split tunnelling, so you don’t have to mess around turning it on and off.
It does work. Also doesnt prompt me ti signin before videos play.
Holy shit it does seem to work, just tried it on my phone with the yt app and I didn’t get a preroll ad
sigh
The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.
It has less telemetry surely?
If you absolutely have to use a Chromium browser for some reason it’s not the worst choice. But they’re pretty shady.
It’s also got a MAGA guy as the CEO though, and he’s a homophobic anti-vaxxer
Yes. Less, but not zero. You’re still tied into Google’s ecosystem. Brave is basically Chrome with a few privacy settings enabled by default.
FireFox on the other hand is completely independent from Google, and more tweakable.
Just dragndrop videos into mpv
MPV too
Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
For new videos (ones they don’t have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn’t skew the data in any way.
I wonder if it would be trivial to hack one…
Yeah I don’t get it.
YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.
