You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I'm all for this post, but I feel like someone needs to ask: What features from Youtube am I losing out on by using these alternate front-ends? (instead of just continuing the cat-and-mouse game between uBlock Origin and Google while at leat preserving the same features and UI that we're already very mu ch comfortable with)

    • rush@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You lose:

      • Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions)
      • Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations
      • Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don't have a list of instances with their max resolutions)
      • The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate
      • probably more random stuff idk