i tried piped for a while, but many times i tried to watch videos and they didn't start loading until i reloaded it what felt like hundreds of times. any reccomendations?

edit: Dear comrades reading this, i am not sure if it will work the same for people outside of amerikkka, but puffyan.us worked really well for me. i decided not to go with yewtu.be, as i wanted to be able to find content using my subscriptions rather than searching for topics. if that doesn't bother you, go with yewtube but puffyan worked well for me. thank you for all of the advice!

  • plinky [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    yewtu.be because its easy to remember edgeworth-shrug browser extension on pc, on phone i have two shortcuts to instances with esoteric names

  • jaemeM
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    8 months ago

    mpv can stream youtube videos using yt-dlp on the fly if you want to go ultra minimalist.

    redirect.invidious.io can be used to preface youtube video links so that it's instance agnostic.

    If you use Android, Newpipe is a must have application.

    • blakeus12 [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      thank you! i have revanced, which still works fine. i will be using redirect.

    • jaemeM
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      8 months ago

      I just discovered FreeTube because of your comment and I am already loving it. It feels so close to stock YouTube without all of the nonfree JS and algorithm shenanigans. Great mention.

      flatpak install flathub io.freetubeapp.FreeTube

      • ArsenLupin [comrade/them, he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Also you can finally have subscriptions without an account. It's great!

        Also FYI, I've had some issues (slow loading videos etc) with the release sometimes, but the nightly build always works.

  • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Do you have ublock origin? It’s extremely simple to get around it. Provided you have the most recent version and no custom filters, just go in to manage settings, find “quick fixes,” and update (press the little clock and the update now). Easy as. You will need to do this once a day, but it’s so easy I have no problem with that.

    There are video instructions on the pinned post on the ublock origin subreddit.

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    i just disable it so the video loads and then just turn it on again, and when i got to another video i dont get the youtube notice anymore and continue as usual with no ads as long i dont make another tab

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    My ublock works ok, just can't scroll down to comments. I have this in my filters:

    youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

! 2023-10-16 https://www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope
www.youtube.com##.opened
    • Targuinia [she/her]
      ·
      8 months ago

      fwiw I haven't gotten the anti adblock thing myself so I can't look, but usually they'll put just an overflow="hidden" attribute on the body tag (you can check with inspect element), so it might be possible to just reenable scrolling by removing the attribute/changing it back to overflow="scroll" with Stylus or sth

      • Awoo [she/her]
        ·
        8 months ago

        I appreciate that but honestly no scrolling is an improvement though.

          • Awoo [she/her]
            ·
            8 months ago

            It's interesting how much I catch myself trying to scroll down and then being like "why though? it'll be crap" because of this inability.

            Although I just figured out that if I fullscreen and un-fullscreen the video, scrolling works. So I basically have blocking with full functionality now.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I installed this script a few days ago in conjunction with ublock and haven't gotten a notification since.

    https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/386925-youtube-ad-cleaner-include-non-skippable-ads-works