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

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[–] jack@monero.town 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Piped.video and LibreTube never work for me, very unreliable.

[–] aradgus@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

for piped i just use an other host from that list and it works totaly fine https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

[–] smollittlefrog@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

In LibreTube, you can go to

Settings > Instance > Disable Piped proxy

I only ever had issues with the piped proxy, not with the app itself.

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Piped <> New pipe legacy?

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks mate

[–] TheWozardOfIz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do these work for live shows?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. I use piped through libretube and it works for live videos.

[–] ebenixo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

yea just stop opening youtube urls period. i didn't know bout libredirect thanks, there is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidioucious/ too

[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I just insanely lucky or something? I just use chrome and it hasn't complained about my adblock once, and I watch a lot of YouTube.

[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

You are probably lucky, for now. I'm pretty sure they are rolling it out in waves. Boiling the frog and all that.

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