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YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers.
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I never have this problem using uBlock Origin.
Or mpv + yt-dlp
Just get rid of the entire shitty website. From rss reader straight to the video.
Youtube blocks vpns if you're not signed in so I need to keep changing my end point until I get an IP they don't associate with vpns to use those.
Can you explain your setup? I'm interested
Im on linux and thats all i know, so if you arent i cant help ya...
You can install mpv from your package manager. This should automatically install yt-dlp as a dependency, but probably not the latest version which is very necessary.
That means you have to get the latest version from the github https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#release-files Just take the first thing in the table.
yt-dlp | Platform-independent zipimport binary. Needs Python (recommended for Linux/BSD)
This yt-dlp file will have to go into your /home/user/.local/bin/ folder, so that it gets used instead of the outdated version installed by your OS when mpv looks for it.
That should be the basic setup. To use it you just do mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0 in your terminal, which will open that video. In my RSS reader i can define a custom browser application, so i just give it mpv as a browser, that way i dont have to open a terminal every time.
If you want to have a button that redirects youtube vids from your browser to mpv, that requires some more tinkering. If you wanna do that i can write another comment.
I'm on Debian. Which RSS reader do you use? Is there a fuzzy search for YouTube?
Im using quiterss. Its kinda old so you might miss a lot of modern features.
It only takes proper feed URLs like this https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCuNy42Y5egf07cSiHbF23wg so you gotta get the channel_id from somewhere, but you can also just import an .opml file that you exported from another RSS reader.
Im sure there are better ones but i just need keyword filtering and categories so i have somewhat basic needs.
librewolf and ublock have never failed me before
Needed to use chrome today for a site that refuses to work on firefox and got a popup uBlock Origin was removed from the chrome store. Lol
GOOGL knows that to become a long term successful company in a world of 4.50% interest rates, that P/E of 21 and dividend yield of 0.49% are barely cutting it.
They can no longer push popular platforms like YouTube as a loss leader.
Now, I kind of feel bad for them.. 😟
Fuck yo terms of service!
God I hope that youtube becomes inviable, it would break so many addictions
There's so much good content on there too, don't forget that.
the vast majority of my feed is really good and i have a bigass pile of subscriptions to channels i want to watch basically every video from because they're really good
learn to tell the algorithm to fuck off and serve you better things, don't just blithely slurp up whatever it feeds you.
Yup or just don't use the algorithm, I only ever visit my subscriptions tab and get recommendations for new content from other actual people.
My self-hosted Invidious instance is still going strong
Wow thanks for mentioning this
I'm planning to set it up. Any advice or for it work out of the box?
Invidious is switching to a new paradigm where the part that talks to YouTube will be split out into it's own service called invidious-companion. While not part of the current release, they have instructions for setting it up, and it's what I'm currently using. The only things that don't work right now are live videos and the Clipious Android TV app (the phone app works fine). If you don't need either of those things, I recommend starting with invidious-companion
Super easy fix. Go Gecko!
Said it before and i'll keep saying it. Youtube breaks my adblocker, i'm out of there
Yes, starting getting this with ublock Lite.
I've noticed if you click the button to "make an exception', and refresh the page, you can watch the video anyway. But it's possible that their server can record you doing that several times and might eventually suspend you.
Since some weeks I'm also getting an error in NewPipe/PipePipe, that my IP is temporarily blocked at YouTube - although I usually can just immediately resume and only get the error in the middle of the video like once or twice
Anyone else - and especially maybe with a solution?
Happens to me every now and then with FreeTube. Usually gets fixed with updates.
Surprisingly, haven't seen that with FreeTube
But I use my mobile client much more than FreeTube on my PC...
Hopefully we can still find a way around
Although, maybe it's time to sever the ties and just move to PeerTube - which would mean, that the will need to also produce some content
Best you can do is ask the channels you follow, to also post on PeerTube.
Although I don't really follow any specific channels, that's probably a very good approach
What's been working for me so far is just hard reloading the page, after that it seems to forget all about it so long as i'm on the same tab, though it also works just fine to keep making new tabs and hard reloading every time.
Had to whitelist them on vivaldi, dloaded freetube but cant use my account on there or multiple tabs so its not super convenient
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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