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Has anyone had any luck/difficulties with YouTube lately?
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Ok, so how do I beat it?
Config an RSS reader for the channels you follow on youtube. Watch the videos locally after downloading them. That's what I do.
How do you dl them? yt-dlp is asking to pass credentials as well.
I like command line stuff, so I use newsboat for the reader, and then yt-boat to download. yt-boat uses yt-dlp as it's backend, but I've never had a problem with yt-dlp not downloading or asking for credentials though.
Use SmartTube on Android TV and Fire TV. Cast from Brave browser on Apple TV or Roku.
I don't trust Brave, honestly
Me either, but it is effective at blocking YouTube ads on iOS for free 🤷🏼♂️
There are other paid options, and other side loading options as well. But Brave is easy and it works. I only use it for youtube.com on my iPad, so I'm personally fine with allowance for that.
Fair point. I respect your arguments. What are the actual benefits of using Brave in this scenario?
It's pretty capable of blocking a lot of YouTube and Google bullshit. You could just use it for that.
It blocks the YT ads. Watch video, cast to TV. Isn't that what your original question was? I mentioned SmartTube in my 1st reply as it's the best adblocked YT experience on a TV for sure, but it does require an Android based set top box or TV OS. If you are in an Apple ecosystem, use brave just for casting YT to TV.
Yeah I’m just Apple, and I will not be permitting my TV to ever access the internet on its own. 😕
on ios there's orion browser which is still webkit based but supports firefox extensions like ublock
unfortunately it's prolly never going to be foss, the devs said they were working on making it foss 2 years ago and they haven't done anything
Firefox focus works for me!
Wait, what are the problems with Brave?
Crypto currency built in and not open source.
I change the VPN exit to a random exit until it works again